Too much new stuff not enough $$$
kingkip
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Times in electronics right now are pretty amazing. All sorts of new technologies right around the corner.
Diplay technologies that look cool:
SED should rival the best plasma and lcd flat panels and provide way better black levels and color saturation.
Platlight LEDs will eliminate the color wheels on RPTVs and provide nearly limitless (20000+ hours) without degredation of a lamp. Now if only they can figure out how to convert that to front projectors.
Mistubishi is beta testing laser technology for their DLP RPs. The colors should be able to reflect the entire visual range. Again no lamp to burn out.
Digital is finally starting to look like an option for amplification in higher end HT and audio applications. Cheaper, cooler running, more powerful, smaller and less costly than traditional technologies. One can only hope that the SQ is up there as well. Seems like very soon it will be.
Wireless HD video is just around the corner as well. Say goodbye to HDMI cabling problems. Right now they can send a very lossless 1080i signal. I won't miss running cables through the ceiling.
AVRs are starting to look more and more like HTPCs and modular add-ons look to be the way of the future. Hopefully soon they will also start seriously adding in video scaling/upconverting. I know many of you will say that many already perform that function, but I am talking about performance on par with a separate scalar. That should keep the AVR as the centerpiece of many HTs.
What do you guys think about this stuff? I, for one, am excited and a little confused. It seems like it is harder than ever to make a decision to buy now or wait just a bit longer for the new technology to come out.
Turns out, as usual, that I need more cash.
Diplay technologies that look cool:
SED should rival the best plasma and lcd flat panels and provide way better black levels and color saturation.
Platlight LEDs will eliminate the color wheels on RPTVs and provide nearly limitless (20000+ hours) without degredation of a lamp. Now if only they can figure out how to convert that to front projectors.
Mistubishi is beta testing laser technology for their DLP RPs. The colors should be able to reflect the entire visual range. Again no lamp to burn out.
Digital is finally starting to look like an option for amplification in higher end HT and audio applications. Cheaper, cooler running, more powerful, smaller and less costly than traditional technologies. One can only hope that the SQ is up there as well. Seems like very soon it will be.
Wireless HD video is just around the corner as well. Say goodbye to HDMI cabling problems. Right now they can send a very lossless 1080i signal. I won't miss running cables through the ceiling.
AVRs are starting to look more and more like HTPCs and modular add-ons look to be the way of the future. Hopefully soon they will also start seriously adding in video scaling/upconverting. I know many of you will say that many already perform that function, but I am talking about performance on par with a separate scalar. That should keep the AVR as the centerpiece of many HTs.
What do you guys think about this stuff? I, for one, am excited and a little confused. It seems like it is harder than ever to make a decision to buy now or wait just a bit longer for the new technology to come out.
Turns out, as usual, that I need more cash.
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I was looking into SED's for a lil bit. I was talking to the owner of a store and he said it should rival CRT quality but much thinner. I might be wrong or things might've changed
Cool stuff though
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