Pioneer Receives Endless Accolades for Inventive New Technology Including Coveted Product of the Year Awards

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. is honored to announce a long list of accolades presented at the Consumer Electronics Show for the company’s groundbreaking home and mobile entertainment technologies. In some cases, this is Pioneer®’s second year in a row being recognized as the product of the year. These awards emphasize Pioneer’s role as a technology manufacturer that has a passion for technology that brings great entertainment to life for consumers, sacrificing nothing in order to deliver the best.

After creating a new category in navigation, Pioneer’s AVIC-F500BT also known as the AVIC-LINC, was recognized as CNET Best of CES Finalist. This marked another milestone in navigation history as Pioneer introduced the world’s first hybrid navigation system combining the power of an in-dash device with the convenience of a portable system. Designed to integrate with virtually any factory audio system, the AVIC-F500BT allows consumers to add unparalleled navigation features and extended entertainment capabilities without modifying existing car stereos. Furthermore, the AVIC-F500BT will offer advanced voice technology for control of Apple iPod® music players and Bluetooth® enabled cellular phones

In addition to the mobile entertainment awards, an extensive series of awards recognize Pioneer’s KURO line of flat panel displays. With deep blacks, vivid colors and nearly three-dimensional picture quality, this line is widely known as the best televisions on the market today.

The Pioneer KURO PDP-6010FD was named Flat Panel of the Year and Product of the Year by Ultimate AV.com, marking the second year Pioneer has received this award.

The Elite® KURO PRO-110FD was also awarded Sound & Vision Magazine’s Video Product of the Year and Product of the Year, also for the second time. This product was a CEA Innovations Honoree.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, Pioneer displayed several working concept models under the code name Project KURO, showing the future of form and function for flat panel displays. The Advanced Design Concept Model was recognized for its 9MM thin design as a CNET Best of CES Finalist.

Additional awards garnered by KURO displays include:

• J.D. Power Award for Highest Customer Satisfaction for HDTVs in 50″ - 65″
• Wired — Platinum Award for best advertisement campaign (via readership survey)
• Popular Science – “Best of What’s New” Grand Award for Home Entertainment
• Perfect Vision (not Playback Magazine) — Editor’s Choice for Best Plasma
• Computer Shopper — Hot 100 Technologies of 2007

It is fitting, with the company’s heritage in quality audio, that Pioneer’s flagship receiver, that the Elite SC-09TX, was also recognized as a CEA Innovations Honoree. This sophisticated powerhouse sets the benchmark for multi-channel sound in 1080p home theaters with pristine reproduction of emerging high resolution audio and high definition video formats.

Philips launches distinctive new and fashionable look for entertainment

Philips has unveiled the Design Collection, a refreshingly distinctive new look for its latest range of consumer lifestyle entertainment products. Using materials that blend effortlessly into modern interiors. the Design Collection* enhances emotions as evoked by stunning design and immersive audio and visual content creating the ultimate in fashionable entertainment for the home. 

Inspired by a desire to lead with emotion and readdress the dominance of technology and masculinity in home entertainment products, the new Design Collection seeks to create a better balance between function, emotion and technology. The minimalist design signature combines rounded curves with pure materials and light, creating a harmonious, luxury feel which blends effortlessly into its surroundings.

* Products featuring Philips’ new design identity include:
Flat TV (7000, 5000 and 3000 ranges)
Home theater system (9810, 8150, 8140, 7500, 6515, 3300-3500 range
Wireless Audio Center (7500)
Blu Ray disc player (7200)
Digital video player (DVP 5900 range, 4100)
Hard disc recorder (HDR 3800)
Wireless audio system (WAS6050)
Go Gear MP3 and MP4 players (SA43, SA65, SA52BT, and SA52 ranges)
Music Center (MCi500H)

“Design is about experience and consumers want products that combine purity and beauty and trigger their emotions,” said Stefano Marzano, CEO and Chief Creative Director at Philips Design. “We have created a collection that transforms the consumer’s space and enhances their entertainment experience, resulting in a Design Collection that is thoroughly distinctive in today’s cluttered consumer electronics world.”

Uniqueness and differentiation

Developed by the award-winning Philips Design, the innovation inspiring the new Design Collection was driven by research revealing that consumers are looking for products with more emotional value - products that have more personal meaning and contribute to the harmony of their environment. “Consumers are frustrated and confused by the so-called “sea of similarity”, where all products look alike – masculine, technical and monotonous. They want outstanding products that are advanced and beautiful,” said Andrea Ragnetti, CEO of Philips Consumer Lifestyle Sector. “We want to help simplify their lives through unique and highly differentiated design by creating experiences, seducing the senses and bringing emotion into the world of technology”.

Products will be available in the first half of 2008. For more information about the new Design Collection

Sony introduces the next generation of Televisions, now with OLED flatpanel

A Sony innovation, 10 years in the making.

Every once in a while, a new technology emerges that changes everything. At just 3mm thin, Sony has developed an unbelievably thin TV - while advancing image quality to levels that no other TV can match. This technology is called OLED.

What is OLED?
 
Organic Light Emitting Diode, or OLED, is a technology that uses carbon-based organic material in a process that converts electric energy into light. This light is used to illuminate the screen and produce the most astounding results ever seen on a television.

What makes OLED so special?
Incredible 3mm thinness.
OLED emits light and does not require a backlight-realizing a new TV form of approximately 3mm at its thinnest point.

Exquisite shades of black.
An unparalleled 1,000,000 : 1 contrast ratio. OLED’s light-emitting structure prevents light emission when reproducing shades of black: OLED technology reproduces very deep blacks and can control all the phases of light emission, expressing colors and subtleties that conventional displays cannot match.

Fast-moving objects are smoother than ever.
Sports never looked better. Spontaneous control of the light emitted from the organic material layer reproduces smooth yet natural images of fast-moving action.

High peak brightness reproduces picture glow.
Sony’s unique Super Top Emission technology achieves efficient light emission from the organic materials and high peak brightness. As a result, OLED technology faithfully reproduces light flow such as sunlight reflection and fireworks.

Vivid, natural color reproduction.
Sony’s proprietary organic materials, the “Super Top Emission” micro-cavity structure and the embedded color filter’s color extracting technology reproduces high-purity and vivid colors.

Low power consumption.
The OLED display consumes less electricity compared to conventional displays because OLED’s light-emitting structure does not require a separate light source and can be powered using very low voltages.

Panasonic sets new worldrecord and show off 150 inch Plasma TV

Yes its true, Panasonic has once again shown what they are capable of, this time they have designed the biggest screen ever! Not many people will have the room for it, but if there’s a chance you will make the room as soon as you have earned and saved the money to buy it.

Its 1.9m tall and as big as 3×3 50″ Plasma TVs. Resolution is 4096 x 2160 which give you a total pixelcount of 8.84 million. This resolution is called ultra-large advanced high definition (there you go), and the screen can be split in two so you can watch two NFL games at the same time (this is the greatest feature), alternative it can be used in conference rooms where people normally fall asleep when they are watching a powerpoint presentation as the room has to be dark in order to lighten the room up, with this Plasma TV all the light can be switched on and everybody can still see whats going on. Another way of using it could be in the airport showing all the departures and arrivals, and if there’s a delay it could show a small live recording from the plane so you could see why it was delayed. Another way could be to use it on a catwalk, so you could see how the Vitoria Secrets underwear would actually look like in a bedroom. The possibilities are unlimited with this one, unfortunately price and availability is not public yet so we will have to wait some time, meanwhile we will start making savings for it.

Smaller Panasonic Plasma screens can be seen here : Panasonic Plasma

PANASONIC INCORPORATES THX CERTIFICATION IN ITS 2008 PZ800 VIERA HD PLASMA TELEVISION SERIES 46-58 Inch

 

Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company unveiled its first THX Certified* Display series of 1080p full HD VIERA Plasma televisions today at the Consumer Electronics Show. The PZ800 series, consisting of the 42-inch class TH-42PZ800, the 46-inch class TH-46PZ800, the 50-inch class TH-50PZ800 and the 58-inch class TH-58PZ800, meets the THX Certified Display specifications, signifying the highest standards of performance and quality. The PZ800 series will be available in the Spring of 2008. Leveraging its expertise in the cinema, post-production and consumer electronics markets, THX ensures that certified televisions will perform to rigorous standards outlined by the THX Certified Display program. THX certification ensures that high definition (HD) and standard definition content are presented with the correct color, luminance levels and video processing capabilities, regardless of the display technology. In addition, each THX Certified display will feature a proprietary video setting, THX Movie Mode, to recreate the cinema experience of movies on DVD, Blu-ray, HD-DVD and broadcast television in the home. THX Movie mode sets the display’s gamma, luminance, color temperature and other settings to match the levels found in the professional post-production studio where movies are produced.  “The THX Certified Display program provides manufacturers a means to differentiate products from competitive offerings and Panasonic is extremely proud that the quality of our Plasma HDTVs meets the rigorous standards necessary for THX Certification and that Panasonic is among the first major consumer electronics companies to achieve certification in the Plasma TV category,” said Dennis Eppel, Vice President, Panasonic Display Products Company. “THX is the gold standard in audio and video and it’s very satisfying to have our televisions’ quality certified by THX. Panasonic and THX share a dedication to creating and providing superior performance, resulting in superior entertainment.” THX works closely with display manufacturers from early design concepts to product rollout. Displays are sent to THX laboratories from the prototype stage, where they run through a series of THX performance tests, including front-of-screen testing and video signal processing analysis. These tests ensure that each display can present all HD and standard definition content to the maximum resolution with correct color and luminance levels.  In addition to the THX Certification, the 2008 PZ800 VIERA series of HD 1080p Plasmas features an improved native contrast ratio of 30,000:1; Game Mode; VIERA Link; a PC Input, four HDMI connections and an all-new-one-sheet- of-glass design concept.While we are waiting for these new models to hit the stores, you can find other models here : Panasonic Plasma HD TV

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