Hitachi's "world's thinnest" LCD TVs: Wooo UT-series with UWB wireless

At this point, we've certainly seen thinner LCDs announced by Sharp, Samsung, and LG.Philips. However, Hitachi is first -- the world's first -- to roll their relative 35-mm (1.37-inch) fatties out for production. The Wooo UT series announced this morning in Japan features a pair of 1080p sets measuring 42- or 37-inches with a lowly 32-incher throttling things back to a 1,366 x 768 pixel resolution. All feature just a single HDMI input, D-Sub 15 analog-in for your legacy PC, at least a 450cd/m2 brightness, 178-degree viewing angle, and 120Hz IPS panel wrapped in a bezel just 35-mm thick. So why just a single HDMI you rightly ask? Well, Hitachi has moved the tuner into an external Wooo Station box with 3x HDMI inputs (among others), SD slot, removable iVDR-S storage, LAN and optional ¥90,000 ($785) UWB module for up to 9-meters of wireless delivery. The V-42 is expected in early April, the V-37 by February, and V-32 in mid-December with prices of ¥430,000 ($3,753), ¥330,000 ($2,880), and ¥230,000 ($2,007), respectively.

[Via Impress]

[Fank @ Oct 23rd 2007 2:28AM]

....

Wooo??

[Alex Johnson @ Oct 23rd 2007 2:43AM]

freakin awsome

[monkfishbandana @ Oct 23rd 2007 2:54AM]

Awesome, but Hitachi are just one extra 'wooo' away from a lawsuit from Audi.

[deniz @ Oct 23rd 2007 3:00AM]

for a second there i thought the title said "woot series"

[Jroen @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:27AM]

Whooooot ! :)

[Jamar0303 @ Oct 23rd 2007 4:59AM]

Man, I want one. Keeping the tuner and TV separate will help a lot when you have a mess of stuff to plug in.

[Willen @ Oct 23rd 2007 6:26AM]

My experience is that most people don't like having separate tuner units. It's one more thing to find a space for. Although if you are wall mounting the unit, it reduces the number of cables to hide down to one or two.

[Sam @ Oct 23rd 2007 10:13AM]

@Willen

It should reduce the cables to hide down to one (power) since the separate tuner is wireless.

[Maff @ Oct 23rd 2007 9:24AM]

'lowly' 32in? I'd have this set yesterday, it's so coool!!!11