IFA home A/V galoreHands on with new TVs from SonyAfter Sony's press conference at IFA, we took a quick look around the company's booth and snapped some of the new Bravia TVs expected to be delivered throughout the UK by this holiday season.The most interesting product is the ZX1, a 9.9mm-thick LED "backlit" LCD TV, which takes a new approach to TV design, and means that there's plenty of scope to reduce the depth of the TV. This is achieved by having the backlight at the side and using some clever and top-secret jiggery pokery to diffuse and distribute the light. The announcement that Sony would be producing a "Motionflow" 200Hz television in the near future, called the Z4500, was an interesting one, too. Here in Berlin there's a huge and mysterious advertisement on the side of the Sony Center claiming that "everything would be clear". In reality, we don't see much of an advantage to 200Hz over 100Hz, especially given the magic number is 120Hz anyway--because this is the rate to properly do 5:5 pull down frame rate conversion. Philips goes LED and rehashes Aurea lineupThe Dutch company is going head on against Sony with its own 8mm-thick concept LCD TV. But since it's pretty much a prototype, let's take a closer look at some of its upcoming flat panels debuted in IFA. At the top of the echelon is the 2,000,000:1 dynamic contrast 42PFL9803, a 42-incher LED backlit model with a motion-enhanced 100Hz engine and its Ambilight technology.And then, there is the streamlined 42PES001 which joins the ranks of the existing ultra-thins with a petite 38mm-thick chassis. This employs an external media box and has a single interface cable which carries power, audio and video to the panel. Lastly, there's also a fresh development for its existing Aurea range, upgraded with a judder-free 100Hz processing and offering a stepped-up 30,000:1 contrast. Source: Engadget. |
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