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Yamaha's YSP-1100 Digital Sound Projector {Engadget}
Sep 20th 2006 8:37PM Pioneer showed something similar to this a few years ago at either CEDIA or CES, I don't remember which. The CEDIA Expo sure has grown up. This was my 9th CEDIA Expo, either as an exhibitor or as an attendee. There was, as usual, some really great stuff, and the quality of the booth girls wasn't bad either! If they can just get the Blu Ray / HD-DVD debacle all figured out, we'll have some fantastic source material for all the 1080p displays that are available. Video servers have really come into their own, as most of the projector manufacturers were using them for their demo material. Constant height displays using anamorphic lenses and video scalers, once strictly a tweak for high end home theater maniacs, is getting to be more mainstream, as at least five projector manufacturers and Stewart Filmscreen showed anamorphic systems. They'll still set you back the price of a decent dirt bike though. There is a CEDIA Expo 2006 report, with photos and reviews, here:
http://www.1touchmovie.com/CEDIA_Expo_2006.html
Commercial skipping to cost $8 billion in TV ads this year? {Engadget}
May 5th 2006 8:48PM Sounds like Jupiter did some funky research! It's pure anecdotal evidence, but everyone I know or do business with (I'm in the custom audio / video business, so I see alot of PVR installations) that has a TiVO or other DVR skips commercials. Definitely far higher than 53%. In addition, they also watch more TV than they otherwise would. In most cases they watch TV for at least the same amount of time, but see more programming. If companies were more creative, they could use this to their advantage. Maybe they could do even more product placement and sponsorships, like we see on sports and reality?? shows. Some firm should come up with a way to capitalize on this trend, not eliminate it.
