The screen will be recognized tonight at a pre-game ceremony in the stadium, when Mitsubishi's massive Diamond Vision display will receive a certificate describing its record. The display is actually four screens: a pair of 72-by-160-foot main screens, and a pair of 29-by-51-foot end-zone screens. It offers a total viewing area of over 11,000 feet, and weighs over 600 tons.
— Will Greenwald
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Did you have one of the new $7,000 Mitsubishi on your shopping list for the weekend? Might want to hurry before they sell out. Might be a while before they're re-stocked.
Mitsubishi just issued this statement: MDEA has temporarily suspended production of LASERVUE televisions due to a problem with manufacturing equipment used to produce LASERVUE TVs. Mitsubishi Electric engineers are taking the necessary action to ensure that we resume production as quickly as possible, while maintaining the highest standards for product quality and reliability. MDEA expects that production should resume by early 2009.
Go get one now, before they're all gone. --Leslie Shapiro
Crunch Gear
Everyone goes on and on about how a TV looks. How often does anyone mention how it sounds? Like, never! You know that some people are spending a fortune on a new TV, but completely ignoring their sound system. There are plenty of great sound systems on the market, but many consumers just use the built-in speakers on the TV. (Makes the recording engineer in my shiver!)
Mitsubishi is changing all of that.
Mitsubishi has a line of TVs with Integrated Sound Projectors -- a built-in soundbar with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, with no extra wires, speakers or confusion to set up.
From Mits: The iSP reproduces Dolby® Digital 5.1 channel surround sound from a single speaker cabinet positioned below the TV screen. The iSP enclosure houses a 16-speaker array that creates a 5.1 channel sound field. Through the use of an advanced algorithm, the iSP delays the sound at varying intervals to each of the 16 speakers. As a result, the speaker array generates 5.1 distinct sound beams that are focused directly and indirectly to the listener. The subwoofer or LFE channel is also available as an output of the TV for easy connection to an external powered subwoofer.
The video specs are good too:
Back in Spring, John Sciacca discussed Mitsubishi's new LaserVue HDTVs. Mitsubishi officially showed off its new screens a few months ago, but while it was happy to show off the TV's technical attributes, it was reticent to offer any specific pricing information. Finally, at CEDIA 2008, Mitsubishi has finally revealed the number to match the funky screen.
In case you've forgotten, the LaserVue is a laser-based HDTV. Instead of using LCDs or plasma, it uses an array of red, green, and blue lasers to project its image onto the screen. According to Mitsubishi, it delivers a color gamut over 200% NTSC standard, and consumes less than 200 watts (significantly less than LCD and plasma screens). The company even claims that it can run indefinitely, without the light source "burning out" or otherwise dimming (a problem faced by all LCD and plasma screens and projectors). Impressive claims, but I'll have to see some test results myself before I can believe it.
The 65" Mitsubishi LaserVue will retail for $6,999, putting it on equal ground with most 60-inch-or-larger flat panels, and significantly cheaper than upcoming high-end models like the $10,000 65" Pioneer Kuro. If Mitsubishi's claims about color hold up, we could be looking at a real contender in the big-screen market. The 65" LaserVie starts shipping at the end of September to Mitsubishi's Select Diamond retailers, and will see a wider release around the end of October. Mitsubishi has plans for a 73" LaserVue, but it hasn't announced pricing or a release date yet.
Mitsubishi is showing off a prototype of a 40mm-thin LCD TV, but the real deal should be ready to roll this fall. Specs for the prototype are slim, but the TV does have a 1920 x 1080p resolution. Display size, luminance and contrast ratio hasn't been revealed yet.
The prototype and product line will start at 40 inches.
How do they get the TV so thin, and what new technology is used for this new model?
WHDI. Remember that acronym. Consider having it tattooed across your chest, or at least shaved into your head. It stands for Wireless High-Definition Interface. Developed by AMIMON, and embraced by more and more electronics manufacturers, WHDI lets you wirelessly connect HDTV devices.
The latest company to jump into the bitstream is Mitsubishi. As early as this fall, in Japan, it will offer a TV with an AMIMON wireless link inside, along with an external HDTV receiver that will connect to the display using WHDI. The system will be part of Mitsubishi's new HDTV Living Fit line.
What's so cool about WHDI?
Mitsubishi is making some big splashes in the HDTV pool. They just announced some exciting news, which includes 3-D DLP packages with new screen sizes. But, perhaps the most exciting news is in the LCD line.
Mitsubishi is releasing two new sets: the LT-46149 is the 46-inch model with a suggested retail price of $3,299, and the LT-52159 in the 52-inch version, retailing for $3,699. What's so exciting about another LCD television?
Mitsubishi's LaserVue rear-projection 1080p DLP television was a knock-out at the Consumer Electronics Show last January. We were genuinely blown away by the vivid color and sharp detail of this prototype screen. But, we wondered, when would it ever see retailers' shelves? The answer, we now learn, is soon.
Lasers make everything better. At least, that's what Mitsubishi hopes consumers will think when they see the company's new laser-powered HDTVs in stores this summer.
The company announced Monday that its laser sets, now officially dubbed LaserVue, will be available by the third quarter of 2008. It didn't offer many specific details about the new line, but if what Mitsubishi showed off at the Consumer Electronics Show in January is any indication, the sets will be big (think in the 50-inch and over range) and thick (these are more like DLP sets than LCDs).
A beautifully framed HDTV hanging on a living room wall is a lot like a work of art. It isn't that much of a stretch, then, to consider displaying works of art on an HDTV in the living room.
That's the idea behind GalleryPlayer's partnership with Mitsubishi, which allows owners of certain Mitsubishi LCDs and DLPs to purchase and download high-resolution images to be displayed on the TV set like a screen saver.
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