LG will release its 32PC5RV 32 inch plasma TV in Brazil this month. The company will also release it to 27 countries by November. It is claimed as the smallest and slimmest plasma TV in the world. The 32PC5RV features an aspect ratio of 16:9 and an amazing response time of 0.001ms. Pricing info is still unknown.
The latest ‘sources’ are claiming that there’s a new Xbox on its way with a built-in HD-DVD drive. But there’s more. It’s a collaboration with Toshiba, and will feature dual HDTV tuners, an Electronic Programme Guide for digital television and a Zune dock. Of course, that last one is only useful if they ever launch the Zune in the UK. Ho hum.
Gateway recently introduced the Gateway 30-inch LCD monitor (XHD3000), the world’s first “Quad HD” display, delivering more than four times the resolution of standard 720p high definition, claimed the company. The new monitor is ideal for the high-end gaming market, music and video production and editing, graphic and 3D design as well as offices running demanding media applications, said Gateway. The company is offering the new model at US$1,699.99.The 30-inch monitor features a resolution of 2560×1600 and uses the Silicon Optix Realta HQV video processor. In addition, the new model’s range of inputs include HDMI, single-link/dual-link DVI-D, VGA, component, s-video and composite interfaces.
On the very same day that the president of Matsushita Electric, the parent company of Panasonic, proclaimed at the CEATEC electronics show in Chiba that the format war for high-definition recorders was already over in Japan and customers there had already overwhelmingly chosen Blu-ray, Toshiba showed a prototype of an HD DVD recorder capable of burning up to two hours of 4 Mbps MPEG-4 high-definition video. That video is apparently being burned using a red laser — not blue — to an ordinary DVD-R, DVD-RW, or DVD-RAM disc.