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-David

The glasses fit over your regular glasses and the display here at CEDIA EXPO is a favorite among attendees. Lots of wows in this area.

This is going to be a must-have by many people in their home theaters, I'm betting.

We are already amazed at some of the items on display and you can count on us to bring you daily updates and interviews with the actual installers here, to find out what they think are the hot new items for 2008.

Some of the videos may be posted before they are actually finished being loaded at VIMEO, which is the best quality for online video embedding, so please be patient. They will be online shortly if they aren't yet.

A CEDIA (Custom Electronic & Design Instalation Association) é uma associação americana especializada em design e instalação de home-theaters, customizações e automações eletrônicas de ambientes. É talvez a maior associação hoje em dia no mundo, e esteve presente pela primeira vez no Brasil no final do mês de abril, para ministrar treinamentos para profissionais e instaladores brasileiros.

Uma atitude muito positiva para o setor, proporcionado pela parceria com a revista Home Theater. Foi a primeira vez um encontro deste tipo aconteceu no Brasil, mas pelo visto outros eventos irão ocorrer.

Nas URLs abaixo todos podem ficar por dentro do que rolou, ou do que ainda está pra rolar:

http://www.htexpress.com.br/ed99/cedia.php
http://www.dhworkshop.com.br/cedia/

Site da CEDIA: http://www.cedia.net/

Peter D'Antonio was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. He received his B.S. degree from St. John's University in 1963 and his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in 1967. Dr. D'Antonio has specialized in a wide variety of scientific disciplines including spectroscopy, x-ray and electron diffraction, electron microscopy, software development, and architectural acoustics. In 1996, Dr. D'Antonio retired after 29 years of research in diffraction physics at the Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC. During his scientific career, Dr. D'Antonio published widely and was a member of the internationally renowned Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, headed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Jerome Karle. As a musician and recording engineer, Dr. D'Antonio maintained a separate concurrent career in the music industry. In 1974, he established the current standard for modern recording studio design at Underground Sound Recording Studio, Largo, Maryland, where he pioneered the development of the reflection-free zone (RFZ) concept and the reflection-phase grating (RPG) diffusor system. Dr. D'Antonio is president of RPG Diffusor Systems, Inc., which was founded in 1983 to carry out basic research in room acoustics and to develop designs and innovative number-theoretic architectural surfaces, to enhance the acoustics of critical listening and performance environments. Dr. D'Antonio has significantly expanded the acoustical palette of design ingredients by creating and implementing a wide range of novel number-theoretic and fractal devices, for which he holds many trademarks and patents. He has lectured extensively on architectural acoustics and his designs and diffusor systems have been used in over a thousand recording, broadcast, educational, performing and residential listening applications all over the world. Dr. D'Antonio has published numerous scientific articles in technical journals and magazines and his research is referenced in many acoustical texts. He currently serves as Chairman of the AES Subcommittee on Acoustic's Working Group SC-04-02 for the "Characterization of Acoustical Materials"; is a member of the ISO/TC 43/SC 2/WG25 Working Group for the "Measurement of the random-incidence scattering coefficient of surfaces"; and has served as adjunct professor of acoustics at the Cleveland Institute of Music for the past ten years. His current research interests include surface shape optimization, performance acoustics and diffusion and scattering coefficient measurement methodology. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the Audio Engineering Society, a member of CEDIA and Institute of Noise Control Engineering.

Samsung also showcased the HPS-6373 plasma TV: a 63″ model but limited to only 1366 x 768 resolution but with a demanding price of $7,999 and a MAP of $6,999. 60-some-odd-inches and you can’t even get 1080p. No thanks. If I had to pick, I would spend $2000 extra to get the LNS-5797. I just read that I would save that much in a year if I stopped drinking at Starbucks everyday.

Source: Twice

SIM2 HT-5000

The SIM2 HT-5000 3-chip 1080p front projector has a resolution of 1920 x 1080, uses TI’s 0.95″ 1080p DarkChip3 DMD chips, and has a contrast ratio that exceeds 5000:1.

Source: Yahoo! Finance, SIM2

Sharp LC-52D62U

Both LC-46D62U and LC-52D62U have an improved contrast ratio of 10000:1 and faster response times of 4ms. The 46″ has a MSRP of $3499 and the 52″ $4799. The case design of these three units are nothing new and I am slowly getting a bit bored by them. As in my previous post about stands, I wish these CE brands would make the stands a bit more sturdy in general so they do not tip over accidentally. I am really looking forward to a 42″ Full HD LCD TV with LED backlights for $1999 in the near future.

Source: Gizmodo, LCD TV Buying Guide

With some concern over large TVs tipping over, I would like to see CE companies come out with stand designs that are not only functional and sexy, but also sturdy/solid.

Source: Gizmodo

The 60PC1D uses LGE’s XD Engine to improve the video images by upscaling lower resolution content to almost HD levels. In general, the XD Engine enhances the brightness, contrast, detail and color of the video source.

HD-DVR, that’s what we’ve been waiting for! Why would CE companies pair a nice HDTV with a SD-DVR? That was just non-sense to me. LGE is on the right track by pairing HD with HD. The only qualm I have with the 60″ 60PC1D is the resolution. 1366 x 768? Can’t we get to 1920 x 1080 resolution at these very large sizes?

Source: Gizmodo, AudioTronic, Barretts