CES 2011 - Sony introduce 27 new LCD HDTVs

[Shin-Ra]

I could probably stretch to £1500 but I was hoping to get something earlier in the year and there's no guarantee they'll actually do a 40" and for that price.



I like the flat minimal stand. Yum.

There's two pairs of glasses in the Euro (HX920) package:

· Intelligent Peak LED for dramatic contrast
· Motionflow XR 800 for smooth, clear action
· High quality 2D and 3D viewing with X-Reality PRO
· 2 pairs of 3D glasses and a camera & microphone for Skype™ supplied

http://presscentre.sony.eu/content/d...7&NewsAreaId=2

[saprano]

What about the glassless TV i saw on CNET?

[Maximus]

Prototype. Not available for general sale until 2012.

There were 4 sets. A 56" 4K, 52" 2K, 46" 2K and a 24.5" 2K OLED set which is not going to be available until late in 2012.

In other general news Sony have signed a deal with LG Display for 19", 22" and 26" LCD screens, so they can invest their money into OLED development to get 30k hour half life in > 40" sizes available by the end of 2012.

[FT-86]

I synced for the HX929, seems like a tv to end all tvs. Thats just my opinion.

[saprano]

Originally Posted by FT-86

I synced for the HX929, seems like a tv to end all tvs. Thats just my opinion.

Yet because of the prices of sony TV's, samsung will come in first yet again.

EDIT- anybody have a link to the sony conference?

[Maximus]

No they won't. Samsung TVs are losing their competitive edge, especially when it comes to pricing, they are now being hamstrung by the same issues as Sony 5 or 6 years ago. They have got too big and lost focus. Their high end stuff is all edge lit and more expensive than Sony's high end. At least in Europe and I think in the US as well for 2011.

[saprano]

Maby so, but the mind share that sony had, and to some extent still has, samsung took away. All you see now is the average joe/jane buying samsung TV's. Pricing had alot to do with that. Not to mention the Toc designs. Don't know about this year. But im sure those same people are gonna flock to those new framless designs samsung are doing. We'll see.

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by Maximus

Only because reviewers are biased towards plasma and continue to ignore the obvious rising blacks in all Panasonic plasma TVs from the last 2 years.

The HX909 was easily the best TV of last year, but somehow Cnet and other reviewers 'found' issues just like they did with the now legendary XBR8 or Samsung's 3 year old B-series with direct LED local dimming. All whilst ignoring rising blacks in the so-called best TVs of last year.

The VT25 was unanaimously voted the best TV of 2010 by executives and senior engineers from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), National Association of TV Broadcasters (NAB), and manufacturers including LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, all of whom chose which set to send to the shootout to represent their best.

The LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony reps all voted for the VT25 as having the best picture.

It only takes moving one cushion over from centre on your couch to "find" issues with the XBR8. Incredible black levels with nothing on the screen, but blooming, uneven lighting and poor off-axis viewing angles are not made-up by reviewers. Those same reviewers also noted that only the Kuro had better dead centre performance than the XBR8, so it's not like the set was being brushed off by any means. Home Theater Mag gave it an amazing review, just like every other site did.

Look, you can get me on Big Pharma and Big Food's plan to kill off 5.5 billion humans by removing all nutrients from our genetically modified food and putting all healthy vitamins and minerals under prescription at hundreds of times the cost as they are now through the slow implementation of Codex Alimentarius , but that all reviewers, calibrators and consumers are blind to some magical Sony set being "easily" better than any other set on the market, sorry you'll have to provide a bit more data than "hey, those guys are all biased". There isn't some big conspiracy against Sony TV's.

You suggest that "nothing else will come close" to Sony's set this year: there is nothing much from previous years to support that claim that's all.

[PS3-Playb3yond]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

I could probably stretch to £1500 but I was hoping to get something earlier in the year and there's no guarantee they'll actually do a 40" and for that price.

[Show spoiler]

I like the flat minimal stand. Yum.

There's two pairs of glasses in the Euro (HX920) package:


http://presscentre.sony.eu/content/d...7&NewsAreaId=2

That does look good. How much will it be in $?