Tomorrow, 8 November 2008 saying the day will be “at Coulommiers, more TV.” More than analog TV of course. The town of 20,000 inhabitants serves as a pilot until 4 February 2009 before the elimination of analog signals in France by 2011. It’s not about making cheese, you might say. But it’s a real challenge, which is moving the United States, not without difficulty. In France, Secretary of State for the Digital Economy Eric Besson has just presented the timetable for the extinction of posts that will TSF that 100% of the French will be on TNT at 30 November 2011.
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New Toshiba 40XF355D LCD TV which is claimed as the thinnest LCD TV in the market by Toshiba. This new LCD TV is 23mm thin and coming with 1,920×1, 080 resolutions, but all of that I feel that this is a very delicate gadget and for those who have naughty children messing the whole pace up. Toshiba is offering trio HDMI ports to fulfill all your high definition requirements, and also providing inbuilt TV tuner card altogether with Toshiba’s picture processing proprietary algorithm. Toshiba had decide to launch it with a price tag of £1,197 in Europe. But i must say this is what that makes your living room sophisticated.

Bollywood hot celebrity Katrina Kaif lately unveiled Philips Diamond Ambilight TV in Mumbai. This one-of-its kind diamond-encrusted ambilight TV in India is designed together with the New York based jewelry company A. Link. This 42-inch HDTV features 225 carats of close to 2,250 individual diamonds is fixed perfectly in floral patterns around the edges of the frame. Retailed at$150,000, this TV claims to be the most expensive TV globally.

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LG Electronics has lately unveiled a unique all-in-one chocolate home theater sound system in Korean market. The HT972TR comes packed with an integrated CD/DVD player with a total power of 1000W channeled in five-speakers and subwoofers with 155W and 255 W respectively.

Its vertical design invites eyeballs with a USP of having touch screen buttons ob its face, giving it a resemblance of the navigation buttons on the LG Chocolate cell phone. It has the capability of handling of videos to the Full HD 1080p resolution and has an integrated ports viz. HDMI and USB Plus (Music, Photo & Movie Support). The powerful system can play MP3 and WMA audio files, JPEG images and DivX videos, from DVD±RW, DVD±R, DVD (PAL/NTSC), CD-R and CD-RW.

Accessible on VSM technology (Virtual Sound Matrix/three-dimensional sound), the system can widen the novel 5.1 to imitate a 10.1 channel configuration, thereby offering a wonderful experience of watching your favorite flick or beating to the flow of latest album.

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Sony presents micro sized high-performance speakers, measuring 43 x 43mm in front panel size at the company’s exhibition in Tokyo.

The tiny speakers are being designed and developed to complement the home theater sound system comprising of four tiny speakers and a super woofer. The speaker is expected to hit the Tokyo market on 20 October.

Another invention by Samsung! This time they are geared to beat all the high-definition players by offering-the BD-UP5000, their first-ever Duo HD player.

Competent to play both Blu-ray and HD DVD at 1080p at between 24 and 60fps, the player beats the first HD player offering by LG-the BH100 as it is attuned with both BD Java and Hdi unlike LG. It also supports Dolby Digital 7.1, Digital Plus and True HD. The built-in Hollywood Quality Video system offers a theater experience at par.

The BD-UP5000 player will hit the UK market in Q4. Other expected third generation Blu-ray players include the BD-P2400 at top-end, BD-P1400 (at entry-level) and the HT-BD2 (world’s first Blu-ray home cinema system). These three products would be available for sale by the end of October.

Via TechDigest