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Formats Reconciliation The reconciliation efforts to unify the two competing formats gained strength at CES 2005, the efforts were lead by Toshiba (HD DVD) and Sony (Blu-ray). Unfortunately, the efforts failed shortly after, and the two formats were left heading to a market war. The history of CE has demonstrated many times that market wars are not good for establishing formats or standards, much less for consumers. Phillips indicated that the war of formats is driven by the goal of collecting future royalties for the standard patents of the adopted format. Additionally, computer companies would produce PCs with drives that go along with the format they support, Blu-ray on Dell PCs for example. Regarding plants for disc reproduction, when the formats where not even released, it was estimated at $150,000 the cost for adapting an existing DVD plant to been able to produce HD DVDs, while it would cost about $3 million for the adaptation of the same plant to produce Blu-ray discs. Sony responded by saying: “Blu-ray costs would quickly come down and the difference between costs of the two formats would be minimal.” According to Shina Abe, who runs the Panasonic replication task for Blu-ray, a test was made to measure the time it takes to produce a Blu-ray disc at a Panasonic plant in CA. It took about 4.5 seconds, and the expectation is to reduce that time to 3.5 seconds per disc. Regarding combo lasers, a HD DVD single pickup with objective lens was reported to be able to hold 3 lasers (CD, DVD, and HD DVD), while Blu-ray objective lens are more complicated and more costly to implement in a similar feature, but it would still possible to make the combo pickup. Check the Universal Player chapter below. In 2006, Toshiba declared they would “still like to develop a unified format for advanced optical DVD discs, but two competing -- and incompatible -- products are likely to hit the market at first”. "We have not given up on a unified format. We would like to seek ways for unifying the standards if opportunities arise," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told an annual shareholders' meeting. Associations of the Formats Sep 06 Sun Microsystems, the developer of the Java environment employed in Blu-ray, announced their association with the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and became a member of the board of directors, joining more than 170 companies already belonging to the association, among which are Apple, Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Pioneer, Royal Philips, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, TDK, Thomson, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television and Warner Bros. Entertainment. The company declared plans to include Blu-ray technology into its Java platform and offer its interactive capabilities to the format’s movies, games, or other content. 220
Formats - Companies Support In Jan 06, iSuppli published the following summary table that shows the manufacturer and studio support to both formats, I updated that table on Feb 07, as follows: Blu-Ray and HD DVD Participants Standard Equipment and Components Content and Software Blu-Ray Apple Buena Vista Home Entertainment BenQ Dell Hitachi Mitsubishi Panasonic Philips Pioneer Plextor Samsung Sharp Sony TDK Thomson Eagle Rock Entertainment Electronic Arts (Games) Fox Film Entertainment LIONSGATE MGM Miramax Sony BMG Music Entertainment Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Sony PlayStation Twentieth Century Fox Universal Music Group Vivendi Universal (Games) Walt Disney Home Entertainment Both HP Paramount Sanyo (components) Warner Bros LG (Multi-format) HD DVD Acer Bandai Visual (animation) Canon Fujitsu Funai Intel Kenwood NEC Niveus Genius Product, Inc. HBO Home Video Microsoft Xbox New Line Home Entertainment Studio Canal The Weinstein Company Universal Studios Home Entertainment Toshiba Original Source: iSuppli Corp. January 2006 , with my corrections and additions dated Feb 07 221
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HDTV Technology Review - 2007 Consu
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When applicable, a brief background
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picture of the H/DTV industry. Addi
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The Technologies LCD vs. CRT in Eur
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According to some industry estimate
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Manufacturers had argued that the 5
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Chapter 2 - DTV Standards For other
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x.v.YCC x.v.YCC is a technology est
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Chapter 3 - Satellite, Cable, Broad
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Dish Network (EchoStar) CES 2007 Ec
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“DOCSIS 3.0 and wideband technolo
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Cable companies did not implement C
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those products are not yet availabl
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FCC’s Media Bureau denied the wai
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Chapter 4 - Internet Protocol TV (I
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IPTV is being implemented in differ
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Samsung had fallen behind South Kor
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Samsung declared that they were exp
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SED has been delayed a few times si
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JVC Consult the 2006 HDTV Technolog
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CES 2006 CRT Slim Fit with only 16
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Thomson (RCA) Consult the 2006 HDTV
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lur and ghosting known in LCD, 30,0
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Sharp, Marantz, etc., at prices now
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Digital Projection International FP
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PlayBig line, TTM Feb 06 IN72 $1,20
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HDMI, 2 component, Gennum video pro
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52” WD-52631 $2800 57” WD-57731
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HDT100 $3500, 720p, 0.8 inch chip,
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for installation and future upgrade
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EP770 EP771 EP910 EP7150 HD3000 HD7
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Dec 06 The company announced that i
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56” HL-S5679W $4,200, TTM Apr 06,
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Sharp FP For models: DT-100, portab
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Special video adjustments: Dynamic
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SIM2 introduced the Home Cinema “
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cadence detection, ‘Anyplace’ 2
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RGB 1 x 5 BNC (R,G,B,H,V), 1 x DVI-
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Vision 50 available with the ultima
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Chapter 7 - Liquid Crystal on Silic
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RPTV 720p series TTM Mar 06, 3 x 0.
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an advanced 10-bit 3D Y/C separatio
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Using a front fan intake and exhaus
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Screen Size: Approx. 60in to 200in
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http://www.omtdisplay.com/Minien.ht
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accurate blacks and helps to delive
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PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080 $5,000, T
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lamp-life (in Low mode), HDMI and D
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FP For the PLV-Z4, please consult t
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HISENSE One of China’s top five e
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The panel has 3xHDMI inputs accepti
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CES 2007 LG announced a reduction o
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Sep 06 Panasonic’s announced pric
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103” TH-103PZ600U $70,000, 1920x1
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motion artifacts of 1080i and incre
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esolutions, including 1080p 24, 30
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Director's Series 32” 32HLX99 $2,
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displays. Clear Motion Drive uses a
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In 2006, LG made a demonstration of
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increasing the brightness by adding
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Models employ Mitsubishi's Full Spe
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time, reduce motion blur, improve c
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Sep 06 CEDIA Two 1080p panels were
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Samsung announced that LCD panels c
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CES 2007 Sanyo introduced an outdoo
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Analysis for the Hi-Def DVD Adopter
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I have tested the 3 Blu-ray output
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A 4-8 year component analog DTVs sh
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A Different View of Hi-Def DVD Boot
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HQV SD RANDOM NOISE REDUCTION: Rand
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Video Processors Algolith DragonFly
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its own analog audio, IR remote con
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Both capable of 1080i or 720P HD op
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CES 2007 Apr 07 Sony introduced thr
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Alternate Scanning: (also known as
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Component Video: Analog component v
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This format has been adopted as the
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The Pro Logic format concept helped
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in the U.S. All integrated DTVs hav
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us as its standard 1394. Sony trade
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LFE (Low Frequency Effects): ‘.1
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RCA-type Jacks: Standard connection
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Virtually any mid-line A/V Receiver
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laserdisc, VHS, and DVD. The ATSC D
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