If you're a lazy ass consumer (the very best kind), bent on pulling a device out of the box, plugging it into a wall, and never messing with another bit of "setup" again, you're certainly not alone. In fact, most folks never lift a finger to calibrate their displays, plug better speakers in, or place those speakers in actually advantageous spots. To that end,
Mitsubishi is debuting its new LT-46149 and LT-52149 LCDs with integrated 16-speaker sound projectors. Similar to the
sound bars offered up by many home audio manufacturers, the "Integrated Sound Projector" (iSP) is designed to bounce sound off walls and around the room to give the illusion of surround sound. The perk of TV integration is an easy to use room configuration on-screen tool to specify your room's dimensions, couch placement and preferred sweet spot size. At the end of the day, your sound is all coming from one spot, so directionality isn't going to quite match a for-realsie surround sound setup, and the system we listened to was a little sharp in the high end, but it's certainly a unique and appealing offering from Mitsu to the everyman TV watcher. The TV itself is CableCard ready, can support sound over HDMI and PCM inputs, and offers Mitsu's 120Hz film dejuddering -- that rather awkwardly makes your favorite films look like they were shot by a TV news crew. The 46-inch and 52-inch LCDs will sell for $3,299 and $3,699, respectively.
posted June 30th 2008 12:01AM
I can get by on virtual surround. Just add a subwoofer output on that TV, if it doesn't have one already.
I can get by on virtual surround. Just add a subwoofer output on that TV, if it doesn't have one already.
"or place those speakers in actually advantageous spots."
No kidding. Recently went to a friends house where they had all 5 speakers in their 5.1 system placed on top of the TV. I guess it won't sound bad, but it sure won't sound good.
You read my mind AJ. All it needs is a sub and I'll be happy. I like the idea of just pluging in my Tivo, Apple TV, Blu-ray, and video game systems directly into my tv and not having to think about adding an audio mixer with all of its speaker wire into the equation.
Just think of how much easier it will make setting up a Harmony Remote.
ohh come on do you guys even know how to take pictures...what you always have is blurry or with flash glare...get it straight guys
This sounds like a really decent solution, I'm impressed that there's actually some software in the television itself that is responsible for the speaker aiming.
But am I missing an info link somewhere? 120Hz is nice, what about the rest of the TV specs?
ehhh as cool as "virtual surround sound" is ... im an old school, audiophile maniac kinda guy ... i like to stick to my true 5.1 speaker setup =]
but dam. and extra 16 speakers to my 5.1 would make music and movies sound hell of louder.
it aint music unless you can feeeeeellllll it .... right?... riiiighhhttttt :P
oh my, that GUI looks pretty darn cool. Can't wait till I get a chance to play around w/ it...
Think this is the 1 Ltd surround solution as used by Yamaha in the YSP range - see links:
www.1limited.com/tech/sp/index.html
www.1limited.com
having speakers right next to eachother diminished sound quality and clarity to specific locales in the sound area...any interference between multiple waves diminished the sound.
http://www.antonine-education.co.uk/Physics_A2/Module_4/Topic_6/Interference.gif
I believe Mitsubishi's 120hz TVs don't actually interpolate the motion(like Samsung's or Sony's TV), they simply reduce motion blur.
So there will be no "your favorite films look like they were shot by a TV news crew"
Now there is no excuse to buy fancy external speakers :(
Damn double posts!!!
Now there is no excuse to buy fancy external speakers :(
BTW the consumer may not be lazy just simplistic. Many find huge recivers and external speakers linked with wire ugly (personally it turns me on).
I have a MITS 65" RPTV now - the picture looks great but I will probably never buy another MITS TV again because of bad parts. They have had issues for many years with bad capacitors on their daughter boards causing the PC not to turn on. The daughter board costs between $250 and $400 (plus service) and you have to take your TV apart just to replace it.
My TV had this issue as several of my friends with various MITS TVs. We've all called Mits and they know on the phone exactly what the issue is and tell you what the replacement part is but they ship you the part for free let alone pay for the service.
I ended up finding what capacitors needed replacing and fixed my TV relatively cheaply but that doesn't negate the issue MITS makes defective TVs and doesn't support them. If their TVs were cars they would be recalled by even the crappiest of manufacturers and the issue would be taken care of. Apparently Mits just doesn't care about repeat customers or have any feelings of responsibility to their current customers.