Kicking off an expected repeat flood of 3DTV info over the next few days (Samsung and Panasonic both have events scheduled over the next couple of days) Sony has revealed pricing and shipping information for its new televisions and related accessories in Japan. The new sets share that sweet/ominous monolithic style of the already available NX800 series (also announced today in Japan, along with fellow 2D-only HX700 LCD and DVR-packing BX30H televisions,) with the edge-lit LED LX900 bringing the entire 3D package. With IR emitter built in and two pairs of RealD active shutter glasses, all you'll need to add is a source to the 60-, 51-, 46- and 40-inch models, ranging in price from ¥580,000 ($6,444) to ¥290,000 ($3,222.) Even if the TDG-BR100 / TDG-BR50 3D glasses (also available as an accessory for ¥12,000 ($133) or so) aren't on your face this WiFi-connected abyss of entertainment will look back into you, using face tracking to detect if someone is sitting too close and warn them to move back, as well as dimming and eventually turning off the screen if you leave the room or simply looked away from the TV for an extended period.
Want to get the full 3D effect with the LED backlit HX900 and edge-lit HX800? Expect to purchase the glasses and TMR-BR100 IR emitter (¥5,000 or $55) separately, or just live a 2D lifestyle and know the 3D is there if you ever want to upgrade. Feel free to wander through Sony Japan's machine-translated website for more specs and prices of these June & July scheduled displays or alternatively, wait a little while, enjoy the trailer embedded after the break, and we should get some find out U.S.-specific details soon that will likely be considerably easier on the wallet.
It humours me that corporations often use beautiful models to promote their products (to appeal to us geeks) who most likely would have absolutely no interest in technology whatsoever.
Sony's 2010 TVs do look gorgeous, their best looking Bravias ever. I'm interested to see how the picture quality stacks up.
@Darren Pillans They look bored because there absolutely nothing good to watch on Japanese Television...unless you like watching people play board games or old men broil fish in HD.
3Dtv = FAIL 1. there isn't enough content 2. you need $150 3D glasses. For a family of 4, that's an additional $600. Oh you want to watch it with your friends, sorry that's another $150 for each friend. 3. a lot of people just purchased their first LCD or Plasma TV and probably aren't ready to dish out for yet another, more expensive TV.
People said iPhone = fail...and what now? 3d will fail, it hasn't arrieved in homes yet, so hold your verdits.. 3d gonna be optional or opposite so if you don't like 3d or glasses no one force you to put on... it is a shame when people become that negatives... The tv looks damn pretty - and most of the people agree on that... Sony has a style like apple and unlike Microsoft etc.
3D on a TV seems pointless much better to go for a projector and passive glasses. Thats why I think Sony announcement of their new RGB Laser Light Source Module is far more interesting.
Sony is willing to manufacture and loose a billion or two...so when they release their dirt cheap oleds..that look like this...they will be raking up the cash
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posted March 9th 2010 3:23AM
But where are the hot chinese girls in the pic?
@segers909
Sony = Japanese
@segers909
None needed. This TV is full of hotness!
I love how even when they put those 3D glasses on beautiful models, they still can't make them look good on anyone, at anytime. Just simply stupid.
@mtnDewFTW Yes because when you're wearing the glasses, you have to worry that everyone else in your home is watching you instead of the TV.
Idiot.
@Extinction
Not to mention the 15 minutes of looking like a fool trying to find your pair that have fallen down the couch and then probably need charging anyway.
@Extinction wow bro, cool it with the tude.
That makes my bub bubs bounce!
@pickleJar
YAY! I'm not the only one who watches tim and eric!
@reiththestud
there's not many of us =( this may be the entire viewership = [
Just look at that beauty !
@analogx Tell me about it. The glossy lipstick is a nice touch.
@analogx
Sony sure knows how to make drool-worthy TVs!
LED backlit screens, 3D...whatever it is, they're just stalling until OLED becomes affordable; I'll wait until then, thank you very much.
@jubjub See you in 2018
@jubjub yer gonna be waiting a long time. didn't we read that folks like sony were basically putting oled on hold as too cost prohibitive.
That is a freakin nice looking TV!
She does not look excited. They should have her nearly slipping off the chair so that I'll want to buy one to impress a similar girl. Marketing fail.
3D? I am not Impressed ...... it seems like Companys think EVERYONE and their grandma wants to have a HUGE Home cinema,....
Hm..how come it release later than Canada and USA?
i checked out the x8000 the reflection of the panel extremely reflective it will frustrate many (well me for sure) when watching movie
nice tv... but no i'm not wearing 3D glasses
3D sucks on LCDs, will pass.
This looks absolutely stunning. A poor man's BeoVision. I think I need to get one.
Wow. The design is so dope.
Call me in 10 years when the prices come down, Sony.
I'll put on the chunkiest 3d glasses possible for this TV
This is downright sexy,
but how does it perform when compared with plasma?
That TV is so sexy I want to whisper sweet nothings in its HDMI port.
What is this obsession with 3D? Please, I'm perfectly happy with what we get now.
till there is 50 inch SUPER AMOLED display. I'll hold-out
The model must be thinking, " These glasses suck ."
Will 3D make 2D TVs cheaper?
Looks awesome - nice and modern, sleek etc, but where are the speakers?
@chiefy
Good question.
I hope Sony's 2010 LCDs don't sound as horrid as Samsung's 2009 edge-lit models do.
Some of us DO like just sitting down and watching/hearing the TV on it's own sometimes.
Those models couldn't look more bored.
It humours me that corporations often use beautiful models to promote their products (to appeal to us geeks) who most likely would have absolutely no interest in technology whatsoever.
Sony's 2010 TVs do look gorgeous, their best looking Bravias ever. I'm interested to see how the picture quality stacks up.
@Darren Pillans
They look bored because there absolutely nothing good to watch on Japanese Television...unless you like watching people play board games or old men broil fish in HD.
3Dtv = FAIL
1. there isn't enough content
2. you need $150 3D glasses. For a family of 4, that's an additional $600. Oh you want to watch it with your friends, sorry that's another $150 for each friend.
3. a lot of people just purchased their first LCD or Plasma TV and probably aren't ready to dish out for yet another, more expensive TV.
Sorry, it's a little too soon.
Those glasses are ugly so I'll just wait till Ray-ban makes 3D glasses that actually look good.
That's one sexy bitch, the TV I mean.
People said iPhone = fail...and what now? 3d will fail, it hasn't arrieved in homes yet, so hold your verdits.. 3d gonna be optional or opposite so if you don't like 3d or glasses no one force you to put on... it is a shame when people become that negatives... The tv looks damn pretty - and most of the people agree on that... Sony has a style like apple and unlike Microsoft etc.
@quarkist iPhone deserves to fail. Apps that get pulled after purchase. Who the frick frack do Apple think they are.
That have to be the MOST beautiful TV I've seen in a long time would love to get one. But the 3D glasses WAY TOO MUCH 150$ COM ON.
The solid forming is cool !
However, 3D seems for the chroma to fall.
The survival of the fittest?
3D on a TV seems pointless much better to go for a projector and passive
glasses. Thats why I think Sony announcement of their new RGB Laser
Light Source Module is far more interesting.
The Commercial is SUPER HOT so is the TV. SUPER SUPER SEXY!
Now this is what i want in an screen,a futuristic looking one!
Nice looking TV. Why are they Sony still producing LED when OLED is superior.
Sony if you switched to OLED you "COULD" potentially manufacturer more and it would be cheaper in volume.
I think Sony are not committed to OLED.
Wouldn't you like a 3D OLED?
Sony is willing to manufacture and loose a billion or two...so when they release their dirt cheap oleds..that look like this...they will be raking up the cash
http://us.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?mo=auction&auction=25368241&from=googlebase
Vizio VF552XVT 55" LCD LED HDTV 2,000,000:1,240Hz SPS
TruLED™ with Smart Dimming, 240Hz SPS, REAL 2,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio,
$1899 +
or sony for $6000
So now that we know that Sony invented the black slab thing from 2001: A Space Odyssey does that mean that Japan is the next ones to land on the Moon.