A corean PMP manufacturer. Showing their latest 4.3″ 480×272 PMP with backlit blue buttons in the style of a Motorola Razr. The representative is also talking about the next generation Texas Instruments chip which playsback full HD 1080p DivX, support WiMax and Wifi. They say they will launch such a device with a 800×480 touch-screen, with a browser and other software in November. November is only 2 months away, so it is to be seen. But getting some information about the next generation Texas Instruments PMP chip is very interesting. Maxian is the only corean PMP manufacturer I know which also supports WMV DRM Playsforsure. Though I donät knopw if they also support subscription WMV, at least itäs not DVD resolution for now.

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Talking about the Panasonic HD Plasma and LCD screens. The new Full HD versus the old 720p or 768p screens.

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Some business men in suits representing different companies, standing and answering questions about why they support Blu-ray. There is also some part of the presentation that is about the Playstation 3.

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Ambient light and even ambient wind effects. Introduces some new standard for embedding that kind of ambient stuff to happen in video games and for movies. They support Blueraz and were showing some 50GB dual-layer blueray movies.

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Watch also the complete press conference: complete press conference in WMV (57min) (The complete conference in WMV is hosted by the official IFA video site)

Also a whole bunch of 1080p LCD tvs from 37inch up to 65 inch. They have sold 10 million LCD TVs already, and say that they plan to sell many more.

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Watch also the complete press conference: complete press conference in WMV (52min) (The complete conference in WMV is hosted by the official IFA video site)

LG are showing some nice new strategy for 1080p LCD and plasma, with built-in DVR.

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A Panasonic representative is showing me their latest DVC Pro HD camera that shoots 1920×1080i and 720p50 in 100mbit/s. The World Cup will be filmed with these cameras and broadcasted in 720p on some HD channels. Then he also shows me the next generation consumer HD camera from Panasonic with SD card memory and the new Panasonic 7,4 megapixel XLR camera.

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It’s the second biggest big LCD TV screen manufacturer from Taiwan. I am being filmed by the press lady because she could not find anyone at the stand who could talk on video. At that booth I got some information about price difference between 720p “HD Ready” and 1080p Full HD, supposedly the price difference is only something like 10 or 20$. Probably, just after the world cup, the big brands will change all the “HD Ready” screens out with Full HD LCD screens for approximately the same price. So my recommendation is to not buy “HD Ready” LCD, rather look for the availabillity of Full HD screens for reasonable prices, or get a 1000$ “HD Ready” projector for the World Cup to be your temporary semi-HD screen solution, as the 1080p projectors might take longer to be available to consumers, and while most available HD content is 720p anyways. Even though the videos from my site are in “HD Ready” 720p, it’s best to have a Full HD screen that is more future proof. I could for example some day re-encode all my videos from the HDV 1080i source and re-release them as 1080p in a higher bitrate.

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High Definition videoconferencing system, sends a 720p h264 feed over a standard 1,5mbit/s two-way connection. This is the first high definition video-conferencing that I have experienced, it is really awesome! I cannot wait to have this in my living room with a nice HDTV and that everyone in my family and friends would have the same. It is definately interesting to talk with someone in HD on a big screen, so look forward to having this in your living room and finding it usefull to stay connected and have long conversations like this with family and friends who are far away.

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H264 high definition video-on-demand players, browser interface and a very interesting network PVR service.

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