Sanyo is one of the leaders for 720p projectors with their Z3, Z4 and Z5. This is Sanyo’s first 1080p projector which features the latest 3LCD technologies for one of the best quality 1080p projections available, and this Z2000 will be available at a competitive price below 2790€.
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Mitsubishi-Electric decided to remove the upscaling mechanism in the HC4900 to make it the worlds cheapest 3LCD based 1080p projector to be released at below $2000. So if you have got a DVD player and set-top-box that already upscales decently to 1080p, you wouldn’t need to have a built-in upscaler in the projector even though Mitsubishi-Electric’s upscaler called HQV shows impressive video when I saw a demonstration last year of a Star Wars DVD which looked nearly as good as the HDDVD version when upscaled.
JVC has their D-ILA technology which they use in their projectors and rear-projection TVs, and which they claim provides superior quality. Still JVC seems to be positionned well over DLP and 3LCD in terms of price. They also are launching a 1000-something dollar 1920×1080 interlaced 27mbit/s Mpeg2 hard drive based camcorder.
The Virtual PC. This is a quite amazing concept, that could combine a quite compact computer and laser projector system with a camera, positionned on a table, reflected on a retractable mirror could provide the most compact portable large screen computer interface.
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Talking to the marketing representative about the launch of the new 1080p Full HD LCD line. And showing some of the new features from the new Sharp LCD panel factory, providing better contrast, resolution, refresh rate and more. Also showing their new 1080p DLP projector.
Ran Levy, is a journalist from Israel writing for AV Magasine. He explains what the Color gamut means, which Samsung claims provides the best of, and he tells us some top secret information that has for next weeks Cedia show in Denver USA. Supposedly all the manufacturers including Sony, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Epson will all show their new cheaper 1080p projectors. For the home cinema in full HD ready format, for the HD content that is going to come from the introduction of Blueray and HDDVD.
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