LG high-def components, some old and some new

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.

[Nobuyuki Idei @ Jan 6th 2006 3:17PM]

We want 1080p. When will the TVs accept 1080p? Isn't the spec completed by now?

[Chris Coyier @ Jan 6th 2006 4:58PM]

Here here. We want 1080p and we want it over HDCP-free component cables.

[Nobuyuki Idei @ Jan 6th 2006 5:57PM]

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.

[Mark Bretl @ Jan 7th 2006 4:01PM]

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.