JVC planning 1080p LCD TV for the fall. And they intro'd four other LCD TVs today
By Peter Rojas 
posted July 11th 2005 4:35PM
posted July 11th 2005 4:35PM
JVC started shipping four new HDMI-compatible high-def HDTV's today (the 26-inch LT-26X776, the 32-inch LT-32X776 [pictured at right], the 37-inch LT-37X776 and the 40-inch LT-40X776) but the real news buried deep within their press release is that this fall they're going to introduce the LT-40FH96, a 40-inch 1080p LCD TV with dual HDMI inputs, an ATSC tuner, a CableCARD slot, and a CompactFlash memory card slot.
I'm looking to have to upgrade my current HDTV set and this line has everything that I'm looking for:
1080p (my current set displays 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i natively but everything at 1080p would be OK with me)
HDMIx2 (better than 1, maybe split-screen for PS3?)
CableCARD Slot
ATSC tuner built-in
I only whish the price was lower (of course). I may have to stick with RPTVs and also try waiting a year after HD-DVD/Blu-Ray hits to hopefully get the features above at a lower price tag.
Sweet, glad to see it has an ATSC tuner. I get all of my HDTV off the air.
What is the point of the CompactFlash slot?
Yeah yeah but does this thing fit into a coffee cup holder????
"going to introduce the LT-40FH96, a 40-inch 1080p LCD TV with dual HDMI inputs" Sweeeet!!! Can you say perfect PS3 (um, Playstation 3) monitor?
"What is the point of the CompactFlash slot?"
So people can view their digital photos directly on the TV. CF by itself seems a bit odd, though; maybe it's a multi-card reader.
1080p LCD TV's are really nothing special, generally. They're really basically just LCD computer monitors with tuners. The Apple Cinema Display I'm working on right now is fully 1080p capable, for example (it's 1920x1200 at I believe 60hz). The problem is LCD's have inherent limitations that affect their picture quality (black level, contrast, ghosting) that other technologies don't have. Of course, it all depends on what your priorities are - but just for kicks I went and checked out TV's over the weekend and all of the LCD TV's looked washed-out compared to the plasma, DLP and CRT sets.
True 1080p plasma is probably really where it's at, but the prices on those will stay ridiculous for a while. 1080p DLP will probably be more reasonable, and will get you a better picture than LCD (albeit in a larger cabinet).
Yikes, pricey. For that cash I can pick up a Toshiba Cinema Series 34" widescreen tube and a full 5.1 home theater system ($1000 for the TV and another $1000 for the HTS). Sure it's a tube, but the picture quality is absolutely ridiculous and a lot better than LCD and any but the latest and most expensive plasmas...
So is this true and full 1900*1080? If so, and assuming it doen't cost like 15,000 USD, I'll definitely be picking one of these up when it comes out.
Nice. I'm not buying for myself until CableCard 2 is available, but this will make a great PC monitor for public data display applications (airports, corporate lobbies, etc.).
This is a bad purchase. Why? Because your 720p content is going to look like CRAP on this.
720 -> 1080 is a fractional scale.. so unless you're going to watch your 720p content in a little window, it's going to look awful.
Sweet. Yet another manufacturer supporting 1080p in anticipation of all that Blu-Ray and PS3 goodness. Now the question is, which satellite provider (or the Baby Bells through IPtv) will offer 1080p as a competitive incentive? As for CableCard 2.0, can't someone make an adapter dongle that attaches through FireWire that the card could be plugged into and allow *legacy* devices to be controlled by it? That is, for the TVs and DVRs that have the foresight to include a FireWire port...
sean -
nonsense. a friend has the sharp 45" LCD and its scaler is awesome. 720p looks great.
"...each based on a 1366 x 768 WXGA panel." IOW (unless I am missing something), this is the same thing manufacturers have been offering for years. 1366*768!=1920*1080.
Ignore me (like you aren't already ;-), I just read the rest of the article.
Interestingly enough in a recent interview describing some features of the Xbox360, Jeff Henshaw [Executive Producer for Xbox Digital Entertainment at Microsoft] said, while answering a question about sony's claims of 1080p capabilities with the PS3:
"The total number of 1080p-capable TVs on the planet today is ... zero. There are none. Sony has got a dual ... I want to make sure I say this right, because it's science fiction. They had dual HDMI outputs off the back of the console."
[http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xbox360_inside.asp]
Sucks to be him.
"The total number of 1080p-capable TVs on the planet today is ... zero. There are none. Sony has got a dual ... I want to make sure I say this right, because it's science fiction. They had dual HDMI outputs off the back of the console."
Jesus, what a tool! There are quite a few 1080p sets on sale *right now*. This one, for example: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-libXwzzxCz3/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=153650&I=610DV3750
As I said before, 1080p is very, very easy to do in an LCD TV. There's nothing exotic about 1920x1080 resolution on an LCD anymore, and there's no such thing as an interlaced LCD screen. Jeff Henshaw is just a complete moron if this is what he thinks.
There are even 1080p DLP sets out there now, like this one: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000913048957/
Not to mention 1080p plasmas: http://engadget.com/entry/1234000347042141/
Even ignoring that, though, in terms of game consoles, anybody can take a PS3 and hook it up to their PC LCD monitor of choice with an HDMI-DVI converter (all HDMI is is DVI with an extra audio signal that you can just split off). I don't even think you need a dual-link connection for this; I'm running 1920x1200 progressive at work with a single-link DVI connection. So I have no idea what this idiot is talking about.
I have been very excited about the new 1080p DLP sets, but after more research it turns out the current models will not accept 1080p on their HDMI ports and nobody is transmitting at 1080p due to some lack of standards. Just because it says 1080p doesn't mean that's what you get. Apparently there is a great deal of debate about 1080p because of frame rates, or frequency. Current bandwidth, including HDMI, can do 25 or 30 hz, but not 60 hz. We may need to wait for HDMI "B", yes it's in the spec., or a dual link which may be why there are two HDMI outputs on a PS3. It looks to me like we need to wait for Blu-Ray or HD-DVD to come out before we will know what we need. However, that may not solve the problem because those are just HD disk specs. It looks like the hardware side is still left up to the manufacturers. They might create 720p HDMI players before they tackle 1080p. I would think the industry would want to differentiate from broadcast with 1080p, but they might just settle thinking the "Extra Features" on discs will make them sell.
Just about every mistake that has been said has been sorted out by someone. Except one, there are lcd monitors that can support interlaced display. I saw one in a bestbuy that had a variety of refresh rates and resolutions, including those that allowed for interlacing. I don't know how this technically works, (could it be halving framerate and interlacing frames that would otherwise be progressive?) That last sentence was a wild guess so if I'm wrong I'm not surprised. But, I do know that it could show interlaced programs.