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Ultra-Vision Director's series
Four-model line (2 LCDs) under limited distribution to A/V specialty dealers and
installers, feature three HDMI inputs, 3 component video inputs,
ATSC/NTSC/CableCARD tuning, TV Guide On Screen electronic program guides,
IEEE-1394 inputs, extended color reproduction capabilities.
42” 42HDX99 $3,500, TTM Aug 06, 1024x1080, Alternate Lighting of Surfaces
(ALiS) technology using one addressed electrode in between each pixel, smallest
pixel pitch in the industry for plasma, power efficiency, 17 percent brighter than last
year, consumes 16 percent less electricity.
55” 55HDX99 $5,300, TTM Aug 06, 1365 by 768.
Sep 06 (CEDIA)
Hitachi demo what they called “full HD” prototypes expected to become available in
2-3Q07, which will be produced at their third FHP plasma factory in Kyushu, Japan,
in October when it opens to meet 200,000 units per month.
Director Series
42” 1920x1080i, 3,000:1 CR
60” 1920x1080p, 5,000:1 CR
Another 50” model was said to be planned for 2007.
Current UltraVision models:
42” 42HDS69 $2,100
42” 42HX99
Both 1024x1080i, Alternate Lighting of Surfaces (ALiS) technology for 1080i.
CES 2007
Hitachi introduced a $2,500 50-inches '1080' plasma (but with a catch, see below):
401 Series
1080p PictureMaster IV video processor, 3xHDMI
Simplay certified inputs,
42” P42H401 $N/A, TTM Apr 07
50” P50H401 $2500, TTM Feb 07 (picture)
55” P55H401 $N/A, TTM Jul 07
Features Alternate Lighting of Surfaces (ALiS)
technology, called "HD 1,080", however, it only has
1,280 pixels horizontally out of the 1,920 of the 1080i/p standard, netting only 1.3
million pixels of the 2+ million of the 1080 format.
According to Bill Whalen, senior product marketing manager of Hitachi “AliS uses
interlacing techniques because we are sharing electrodes between the vertical pixels,
and by addressing them very rapidly we are firing each cell from above, below and
behind; we have over 1,300 patents in plasma technology, we have kind of locked
up the ability to share those electrodes."
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