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High Definition Blog uses a lot of words to state the obvious.

Faroudja 1080p projector/processor reviewed

Tom Norton at Ultimate AV has a terribly detailed review of the new $40,000 Faroudja DILA1080pHD and DVP1080, some new high-end projection equipment with advanced 1080p scaling.

1080P signage from Sharp

The folks over at HD Beat are drooling over this new Sharp 45-inch LCD (list $9500) intended for retail use. "You totally caught some bitchin' signage, dude!"

New Brillian 65 inch 1080P LcOS RPTV platform

Although they seem to be unable to keep it straight whether they're making a product for a "Media Server" or Microsoft's "Media Center", OEM Brillian has a spiffy new LcOS (MSRP $8000) for all you HDTV companies out there:

"The 6580iFB was engineered specifically for custom home theater and ProAV applications," said Rainer Kuhn, Brillian vice president of sales and product marketing. "Its combination of a true six-megapixel light engine, 12-bit grayscale per color channel performance, professional-grade video processing, custom calibration software, and support for home automation/corporate AV control systems make it unlike any other HDTV in the market."

"We conducted a detailed review of the Brillian 6580iFB set and, to state it simply, it performed outstandingly. The best 1080p HDTVs at its price point that we've ever seen," said Dr. Raymond Soneira, president, DisplayMate Technologies Corp.

FireWire over your coaxial cable

TechWeb alerts us to the 1394 Trade Association (in other words, the FireWire People) attempting to remain relevant by developing a method of transmitting an HD digital video signal over analog coaxial cable.

We all sure thought we'd see FireWire as THE cable standard for digital TV by now, didn't we? You have the studios to blame, who didn't want to see pristine copies of digital broadcasts hacked into so easily, and have been holding up the process for years.

The 1394 over coax standard will start at FireWire 400 speeds but is "upgradeable to 800 Mbps". (Hmmm, 1080P anyone?) HDBlog chimes in as well.

And for y'all that don't know, 1394 was developed in-house by Apple in the early 90s.

Wobbly new 1080P HP HDTV

HDBlog seems awfully enthusiastic about Sound & Vision's review of the Hewlett-Packard MD6580n, a 1080P DLP HDTV that, despite its native 1080P input support, uses "wobulation" to interpolate 1920 pixels from a 960 pixel panel.

Count me out, especially with TI's new wobulation-free DLP chips coming out soon.

Now, that is an amp

Sony's new ginormous integrated multi-channel amplifier, the big, bad TA-DA9100ES, offers HDMI with 1080P output. Alas, it's only in Japan for the moment. (The better to hook up Blu-Ray players with, my dear.)

New Aquos 1080P LCD HDTVs

The penny-pinchers at Engadget gripe about Sharp's new line of all-1080P Aquos LCDs. But we know our readership can afford only the finest things in life.

Panasonic vs Canon HD Smackdown!

We're not quite sure about the outcome, but Mike Curtis describes the brewing pixel-count war between the HVX-200 and the XL H1 by way of a reader report from Resfest.

Which one will give the best (compromised) 1080P image?

Canon 1080P SED prototype

Over at the phenomenally popular Canon Expo, Canon is showing off a 1080P TV which Engadget describes as such:

It was kind of crazy, when the screen went black it was like the whole panel disappeared.

Kind of crazy indeed.

The HVX-200 at Resfest NYC

William Sperruzi over at Zeroes and Ones shares his immediate thoughts after yesterday's demo of the new Panasonic HD camcorder at Resfest NYC:

Let me just say this, from an editors point-of-view, this is great! No more tape! Just lock and load. Footage on the drive. No more tedious log and capture. Just capture.

The Panasonic-Resfest demo is coming soon to a city near you.

Sony PS3 - 1080P?

Word has it that the graphics chip in next year's Playstation 3, the "RSX Reality Synthesizer" from Nvidia will be 1080P-capable.

SXRD at CEDIA

HDTV Magazine's Ed Milbourn chimes in about Sony's SXRD technology at the ol' Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association show.

Alas, XL H1 isn't 1080P

Ryan Block at Engadget lets this rip:

...for the record, Canon's director of marketing sounded like they really did want to do 1080p, but they couldn't hack sourcing the CCD components necessary.

Well, there's always the XL H2.

Update: Projectdesign Projectors are true 1080P

The bros over at HDBlog give us an update on those Projectiondesign projectors:

Projection Design’s Model Three 1080 DLP projector, a single-chip design, offers a full 1920 x 1080 resolution without wobulation. A bona-fide authentic 1080p DLP chip sits in there.

So there you go.

New Epson 1080P displays

Widescreen Review posts a press release from Epson about their new 1080P projection displays.

1080P at Cedia 2005

1080P naysayer Peter Putnam at HDTV Expert confronts the brave new world of 1080P at this month's Cedia:

If you are starting to figure out that the rush to 1080p has more to do with maintaining price margins than it does with content availability or image quality, you win first prize!

Although I don't agree with Peter's poopooing of 'P, here is where he shares his own personal theory about the meaninglessness of 1080P. Of course, many people in the old line of TV hardware tech (like Peter) don't quite understand how software scaling and interpolation (not to mention all-digital technology like the upcoming Apple HD video download service) is going to make 1080P very, very relevant.

1080i Samsung Blu-Ray Behemoth

Sure, it's not 1080P (as far as we can read Korean), but this Samsung hard-drive, wi-fi, and Blu-Ray monstrosity gives us a sweet, sweet taste of things to come.

Interview with Inshon CEO

Taiwanese DLP maker Inshon's president tells DigiTimes why there are no 1080P DLP RPTVs.

Canon XL H1 is almost 1080P

Canon's new HDV camera is 1080i, but with an in-camera pulldown for "24F" appearance. Will be interesting to compare 24F footage from this camera versus 24P footage from the Panasonic HVX-200 on the same 1080P monitor.

NEC TVs ain't 1080P

HD Beat schools us on the lies of NEC's sucka marketing department.

Panasonic HVX-200 camera is 1080P?

Mike Curtis over at HD For Indies has an unconfirmed report on the upcoming and unfinalized Panasonic HD prosumer camera, the HVX-200 (which is the successor to the wildly popular 24P SD DV camera, the DVX-100).
Anyway, here's the juicy rumor:

Panasonic has not decided on the final CCD chip to be used in the
HVX-200. Likely they will be HSP (High Sensitivity Picture) chips of
2.2 million pixels per chip. That would mean full HD quality 1920x1080.

Yowza.

Projectdesign 1080P projector

As Engadget notes, Norwegian video projector concern projectiondesign just released the "world's first true HDTV 1080p single chip DLP™ front projector", the Action! model three 1080. Accept no substitutes.

Awaiting word on the price.