LG high-def components, some old and some new
By Kevin C. Tofel 
posted Jan 6th 2006 2:34PM
posted Jan 6th 2006 2:34PM
With all of the
CES pre-announcements, LG doesn't have much thunder left to wield in the HD component area. Of course, LG is talkin' up
their BD199 Blue-Ray player for later this year, just in time for some actual Blu-Ray movies, of course. The timely news
is really in LG's home theater area with a flat speaker home-theater system and a wireless- and XM-ready upconverting
DVD player. The LH-T755 has flat speakers combined with 700 watts of output plus a 1080i upconverting DVD player. Watch
for it in Q1, followed by the LH-T9654 in April. This unit offers 1080i upconversion (via HDMI) on the five-disc DVD
player that cuts the audio cord with available 2.4GHz wireless speakers.
We want 1080p. When will the TVs accept 1080p? Isn't the spec completed by now?
Here here. We want 1080p and we want it over HDCP-free component cables.
No, I want it digitally, not analog, which component cables are. Frankly, I couldn't care less if it's HDCP-free or not, as I'm not planning to copy anything.
As consumers, we are being put in a difficult situation in the format war between blue-ray and hd-dvd. I'd like to suggest that we all boycott the new equipment until a single format is created. Maybe we should even wait until the holographic disks are out which are much faster and contain more data.