Philips gives Cinema 21:9 HDTV a price and release date
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 20th 2009 6:04PM
posted Feb 20th 2009 6:04PM
[Via Register Hardware]
posted Feb 20th 2009 6:04PM
The percentage of sales people that recommend Samsung HDTVs.
Salespeople are also becoming less likely to recommend LCD sets over plasma sets, which goes against the industry trend.
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And that is a LOT of money...like 1080p projector, nice screen, and curtains.
Note to self: Must resist buying, strange but increasingly appealing, not even true 2.39, TV-Set. Full-HD Projector with variable screen much more feasible... Must resist buy...
Is it just me or is that guy wankin it?
It's not just you. It's probably both of you.
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no, he's not touching himself at all.
Thank you for your post.
I cried.
i dont care the price!
wen im married and i have my own games room..
i want this tv in ther!!
i want the cinema experience.. im sure the price will drop in what... 3-4 yrs??
btw my 1st ever post :D
i luv engadget its 1 of the websites i HAVE to browse as soon as i hav logged onto the net. :D
There aren't any game consoles that support this aspect ratio, and probably only a rare few PC games that would look right.
Now if I only had a house with 360 degrees of ocean views...
Cool idea, but...
* Aren't there 16:9 screens of the same width that you could get for a much lower price?
* What about 4:3 content? There's no way it could look watchable.
* What about 16:9 content that fills the screen? As far as I know, there's no "anamorphic" cinema widescreen, so the black bars of cinema-ratio movies are stored in a 16:9 picture. (I could be wrong though.) Either way, all Blu-ray players output 16:9 signals. So this means the TV will have to assume everything is meant to be cropped.
* They had damn-well better be using 1920 horizontal pixels (maybe 1920x824) so we don't have to scale the HD picture.
The screen has a native resolution of 2560x1080, which means you can watch your 16:9 and 1.85:1 1080p content without scaling. For 2.35:1 content at 1080p, it currently needs to upscale from about 1920x810 to 2560x1080.
Hopefully there will some day be a 64:27 aspect ratio extension to encode movies anamorphically on 1080p, then it would only have to be horizontally upscaled from 1920x1080 to 2560x1080.
Some idiot will buy this and put everything in stretch-o-vision.
ha ha ha
that sounds like something my parents would do. Watch 4:3 stretched on this thing.
Imagine how fat the heads would be during the news...
I bet they market this to people who have more money than brains.
Paris Hilton will watch her home mades on this before releasing it.
Maybe this is good if you mostly watch Cinemascope or similar ultra wide movies. With regular HDTV, you're going to crop the image or deal with pillar boxing. I hope this doesn't get widely accepted in the market. I'm not going to put up with a new broadcast standard any time soon.
Why are Mfg sending their goodies first and some cases "only" to European and Asian continents? What wrong with folks in North American getting the likes of Cinema 21:9 or 2:39? 16:9 with black bars doesn't work for me.
Man oh man. Isn't that a thing of beauty. Almost makes me want to add it to TVS TELEVISIONS inventory, but that's a lot of frito's to give up.