I believe the sides are not part of the bezel, but detachable speakers.

As far as I am aware, the PS3 is region free when it comes to games, but NOT blu-ray and DVD.

I wonder what the lag/response time is on that screen... :o

Believe it or not, but content DO exist, both on disc and TV that do not have 5.1 audio... ;)

The main reason for EU DVD players and BD players supporting both PAL and NTSC is that Europe for some weird reason shares DVD Region 2 with Japan, which uses NTSC, not PAL.

By making players compatible with PAL and NTSC, costs can be saved by making key components for players aimed at both markets in one production run. Why additional costs was not saved by also making US players in the same go is beyond me, though.

The reason very few people in the US is aware of this is the fact that the interest in the US for Europoean movies is way, way smaller than the interest in Europe for American movies.

@Jyncus,
So what this "source" is concluding is that if a movies production budget is subtracted from the revenue, you get the profit..?

How much do you figure was spent worldwide on marketing The Dark Knight..? I don't think 2-300 mill. USD is unrealistic, and very likely more - subtract that from the "profit" mentioned in your link, and TDK is pretty close to just break even.

Let it go, John...
I don't know how many times I have pointed out in the comment section of "news" like this at EngHD, that it makes no sense to diss conference room/data projectors for not having home theater specs.

I often wonder why EHD keeps bothering posting stories like these...

This projector is obviously not for hometheater use, so why should it have specs like a HT projector..? This is not supposed to be a "fun" projector, but one made for professionals who need these exact kinds of features for specific applications.

So basically, this is a 4:3 data projector designed with large auditoriums and ambient light in mind, whereas PLV-1080HD is a 16:9 hometheater projecter designed for use in a lightcontrolled environment in a normal sized living room or dedicated screening/media room.

I fail to see the point in comparing the two.

One of the first posters mentioned what is for me the key benefit of a hybrid disc, but noone seemed to notice: The fact that this will play on all players in a household, not just the BD player in the living-/mediaroom.

I have an 8 year old daughter with a heavy addiction to animated movies like the Disney classics, Shrek, Ice Age and everything Pixar.

Now, I happen to like the same movies, but even though I would love to have these on Blu-ray, I still buy them on DVD, knowing that my daughter will watch them far more often than I will - either in her own room, in the car or on my laptop somewhere else. None of these are BD equipped, and are not likely to be for quite some time yet.

So for these (family oriented) kinds of titles, I - and I suspect a lot of other families with kids - are stuck with DVD until either a hybrid disc is actually marketed, or all drives in the household are BD compatible.