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Not content to leave its recently-announced V4500 LCDs to fend for itself in the European market, Sony has brought backup in the order of the X4500 and W4500 Bravia models. The X4500 sequence is accessible in 40-, 46- and 55-inch sizes and characteristics a “floating” design which might compliment the optional colored speaker covers fairly nicely, thank you. Meh — we are myself more and more enthusiastic on the locally-dimming LED backlight, DLNA substantiation and the sheer large amount of of speakers packed to the cabinet (eight on the 55-inch model, six on the tinier ones). We’re too odd to see Sony’s “IB Reduction” in effect, combined amidst interlaced backlight dimming who promises to decrease motion blur without introducing flicker. The W4500 chain appears similar to a modest phase decreased the Bravia ladder and is out there in 40-, 46- and 52-inch sizes. The W4500 string as well has DLNA and LED backlighting in IB Reduction, but no talk about of local-dimming.

EDIT: The W4500 examples do not undergo an LED backlight.
Ultimate picture quality. Ultimate looks.
Introducing the economy of the art BRAVIA™ X4500 and W4500 series

Aug 12, 2008

BRAVIA™ X4500 series
* Full HD 1080p
* Graceful floating design amid translucent frame
* Best-ever clarity, colour, contrast and definition among BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 PRO
* Rich, deep colours, astronomical contrast and come down electricity consumption based on what i read in new RGB Dynamic LED backlight (46, 55-inch)
* Smoother, brighter fast-moving action surrounded by Motionflow PRO100Hz technology (46, 55-inch)
* Enjoy digital music and photos according to networked DLNA devices

BRAVIA™ W4500 series
* Full HD 1080p
* Innovative styling inspired by new ‘draw the LINE’ design concept
* Superb clarity, colour and contrast investing in BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2
* Smoother, better fast-moving action thanks to Motionflow 100Hz amidst Image Blur Reduction technology
* Enjoy digital music and photos based on what i read in networked DLNA devices

12th August 2008 - Whether you are to the newest movies on Blu-ray™ Disc, nail-biting PLAYSTATION®3 games or sparkling HD broadcasts, there is a mouthwatering opportunity of BRAVIA™ televisions for major viewers who clamor the closing entertainment experience.

“The quality blend of advanced technology and most major design of both the BRAVIA™ X4500 and slim speaker systems, instigate this lendees can now view crystal-clear images in on atmospheric sound without compromising on the seem and feel of this home”, explained George Damigos, General Manager, Marketing, TV Marketing Europe.

“Together surrounded by the feature-packed W4500 series, these kinds of two new BRAVIA™ price points serve the ensured peak of Sony innovation in bringing you the best-looking pictures and an unmatched housing theatre experience.”

BRAVIA™ X4500 series: the exceptionally persist word for critical real estate theatre fans

The stunning flagship of the BRAVIA™ range, the top-of-the-range X4500 string represents the really endure word in unmatched picture worth and breathtaking design.

Available in 3 rating sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 55-inch), it is packed in on state-of-the-art Sony technologies to deliver Full HD 1080p pictures and dynamic sound who effortlessly surpass everything you have observed before. With no lessened as opposed to 4x HDMI ports for connection investing in a wide array of HD sources, the X4500 string is the closing option for discerning structure cinema enthusiasts who clamor an uncompromised theatrical experience.

Thanks to a valuable new ‘floating’ design, the exquisite seems of the X4500 chain are guarded to take over your service before the TV is significantly turned on. In addition to the handed out sterling silver speaker covers, there is a opportunity of optional speaker covers (Ruby Red or Obsidian Black), permitting for you customise the X4500 string to complement and develop your customized leading space.

To get the ensured highest quality out of your favourite movies, TV broadcasts and games, Sony’s new BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 PRO filters, cleans and optimises image information before it is displayed on the Full HD 1080p LCD panel. As perfectly as falling picture noise, currently powerful processor widens colour span and smooths motion additonally increasing contrast for deep, cinematic blacks.

For incredible consequences through any picture source desire DVD, the latest-generation DRC (Digital Reality Creation) 3.0 shoots up the resolution employing advanced up-conversion-technology to stream a Full HD 1080p picture. This ensures detail-packed images overly take comprehensive advantage of the highly detailed 1920×1080 panel.

A real cinematic suffer in your own residence demands rich colours and true, deep blacks. For the above all second ever, 46-inch and 55-inch X4500 sequence cases feature an energy-efficient RGB Dynamic LED backlight the current momentarily dims in dark the public of the picture, falling indistinct leakage for boosted contrast and deeper blacks. Clusters of red, purple and green LEDs submit a wider palette of colours as opposed to average grey LED backlights. The result is stunning reproduction of Blu-ray Disc™, DVD and TV broadcast sources, only as the director intended.

46- and 55-inch examples excel amid smooth, lifelike reproduction of sports and a good deal more fast-moving action. Motionflow PRO 100Hz technology intelligently creates surplus frames, putting in them to the hint at and doubling the displayed frame rate. In addition, ‘backlight blinking’ successively switches off horizontal backlight characteristics of the frame investing in every frame. This substantially comes down picture blur without the fatiguing ‘flicker’ affect of average brown frame insertion systems. The 40-inch display size ideal furthermore characteristics new IB Reduction. This ‘cleans’ previous frames before new frame insertion for a more clever image that much amidst decreased motion blur.

Along amidst the W4500 series, the X4500 line is the initial BRAVIA™ television such a connects seamlessly in on opposite networked devices via DLNA in your home. It’s easy to access, share and enjoy digital photos and music in on a good amount of certified devices almost the piece of real estate – fancy VAIO Blu-ray Disc™ PCs and !no! compatible media devices.

You can in addition view your pictures by putting in a USB Memory stick to the USB include on the half of the TV or by directly connecting your Cyber-shot™ or further digital cameras to your BRAVIA™. Enjoying your detail-packed photos in Picture Frame Mode on a 40 inch or a good deal perfect score is planning to bid your memories returning to life.

The final BRAVIA™ entertainment suffer is wound up by an innovative audio process providing 6 chief speakers and 2 woofer speakers on the 55X4500 and 4 primary and 2 woofer speakers on 40X4500 / 46X4500.

Surround effects can be optimised for sports, make a home music concerts or movies, or customised for maximum enjoyment of any sort of programme. The combination of the ultra-thin order investing in the largest technology of the finger speaker and make it easier for woofer produces a really crisp sound grade without fluctuating the style and design of the TV1.

BRAVIA™ W4500 series: exciting images surrounded by any HD source

Whether you are to sports, gaming or whole TV viewing, the BRAVIA™ W4500 sequence delivers extraordinary picture and sound superiority to get the essentially top out of your favourite HD sources.

Available in 3 rating sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 52-inch), the set characteristics effortlessly new seems inspired by Sony’s audacious ‘Draw the Line’ design concept. Sharing the majority of of the same picture ideas as its X4500 sibling, the BRAVIA™ W4500 chain is packed investing in present Sony technology for the best-looking Full HD pictures you have regularly seen.

BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 processing guarantees sharp clarity, colour, contrast and definition, additonally Motionflow 100Hz technology carries on fast-moving action crisp and clear. In addition, new IB Reduction ‘cleans’ first frames before new frame insertion for a more intelligent image amidst ebbed blur.

The W4500 chain moreover lets you enjoy multimedia content of a good amount of devices on your residential structure network too validation the DLNA standard.

Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun reads the present afternoon the present Sony plans to turn over its 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV in Europe in 2009. That dovetails nicely amid a two-week old statement by a Sony representative who said, “I’d be really surprised if their hasn’t arrived in the UK by 2009.” Us too, in the wake of all, it is carried on on be purchased in Japan from the time December of 2007 and was just recently caught slumming the big box outlets in the US. It just turns out expected then, the current Sony can ramp generation to the rate which by 2009 properties would balance the minimal, European clamor for a $2,500-ish TV measuring clearly 11-inches — million:1 contrast or not. Still, it is all a bit late if you ask us (you did right?) seeing as how Sony plans to be giving medium to extensive OLED panels as the beginning of as April 2009.

It’s not all DreamColor laptops for HP at SIGGRAPH today — the company’s sequence of performance desktop monitors got a miniature ideal as well. The new 24-inch LP2475w (pictured) records 102 per cent of the NTSC color gamut every where in 1920 x 1200 pixels, additonally the 22-inch LP2275w lights up 92 per cent throughout 1680 x 1050 pixels, and both sport 1000:1 contrast ratios, extra-bright panels and adjustable stands. The LP2275w is out now and the LP247w is planning to try to be like afterward period — HP alleges pricing will be able to be between $459 and $649 at retail. There’s as well a new calibration kit for title&wshyp;holders of the DreamColor LP2480zx, that is to be had now if you are a Window user amongst a necessary eye and an further $349; a Mac version am able to be out subsequently month.

We’re going through a hard instant buying stoked around the entire 16:9 trend: the industry adoption sum and shopper embrace is uncannily similar to 16:10, that leads us fear particular would&wshyp;be heretofore unknown aspect ratio this can hit the scene in a few ages and attractiveness cash directly out of our wallets for unneeded upgrades. Phew, it was favorably to get the present off our chest. All of this naturally does not unkind we will not be severly jealous as Asia, Europe and Latin America get to eat up these types of new 18.5-inch 16:9 LCDs of BenQ, the high-end E900HD (pictured) and the straightforward G900HD, additonally us North Americans suffer to sit on hand staring at our way-too-tall LCDs. BenQ as well snubbed us on which 21.5-inch E2200HDA, so we are commencing to come to find a penchant here. These new says run a 1366 x 768 resolution, and feature an energy-saving backlight system, 10:000:1 dynamic ratios, 5ms response times, additonally the E900HD propositions aesthetic improvements, speakers and a headphone jack. No market values recently yet, but such when and if be out their month.

Sammy already gave us a heads-up that its Touch of Color LCD HDTVs would be widely available in May, and although it has issued no separate release to inform Earthlings that these things are available for purchase, here’s the notice you’ve been dying to receive. As of right now, both the 650- and 750-series sets are in stock and available to procure from a wide variety of resellers, and if you’re curious as to whether or not either family is worth your time, you can get a hint from our review of the LN52A650 right here.

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Rolling around jacking up innocents and tossing Molotov cocktails is pretty enthralling on your vanilla 46-inch HDTV, but can you even imagine the rush of swiping a hot dog, burning out in someone else’s whip and then snagging a new pair of kicks on this? Researchers (and gamers, obviously) down at UC San Diego have re-engineered their middleware to enable such masterpieces as this to be played on the big monolithic HIPerSpace screen, and needless to say, we can’t imagine much real work getting done with this new functionality coming to light. Head on down to the gallery to see what you’re missing — science, research and 4.0 GPAs are such beautiful things.

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Interestingly enough, the last time we heard the phrase “High Bright,” Runco was showcasing a prototype set meant to work and play in the great outdoors. Now, however, Samsung’s looking to one-up that endeavor by actually shipping a High Bright DID panel later this month. The 46-inch unit is said to posses 1,500 nits of brightness, a contrast ratio of 3,000:1, 16.7 million colors, 178-degree viewing angles and a screen resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels. Sammy claims that it’s around three times brighter than a typical LCD TV, and aside from remaining visible outside (you know, for pool parties and digital signage applications), it was designed to be tiled together to create “video walls.” No word on what sets these panels will find their way into, but we wouldn’t count on ‘em coming cheap.

[Via SlashGear]

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Ruh roh. Research firm DisplaySearch has just unleashed a new report that takes an in-depth look at the ultrathin XEL-1, and it ended up finding a video lifetime barely half of what Sony promises. Apparently the company ran a couple of Sony’s OLED TVs for 1,000 hours, after which it found that blue luminance degraded by 12-percent, the red by 7-percent and the green by 8-percent. Extrapolating the data it gathered, it estimated that the unit would lose half of its brightness in 17,000 hours — Sony says you can expect 30,000. Of course, Sony is still standing by its numbers, and even we can see that DisplaySearch’s methods aren’t perfectly scientific, but if you were honestly expecting to watch this thing for the next decade (and not a year less), you may want to hit the read link and snoop around.

[Via Yahoo, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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We got to plant our eyeballs on Pioneer’s second-gen KURO plasma display (bottom center), along with all that other new gear Pioneer released today. While all by its lonesome the new flagship display is no doubt impressive, when stacked up against the competition it becomes quite clear that this new KURO is the one to beat. Granted, this was Pioneer’s own setup designed to make us believe precisely that, but we certainly did find the new display notably blacker than its predecessor, and quite a lot better than the competing offerings Pioneer had on display. The new KURO projector was also quite impressive, and we even got treated to the much-improved start times of Pioneer’s new Blu-ray players.

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Over in Japan, Sony has just launched a fairly well-spec’d digiframe that’s certainly worthy of attention. The VGF-CP1 packs a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution panel, multicard reader / USB port, 100MB of free internal memory (85MB for pictures, 15MB for music), support for still images / MP3s / WAV files and built-in 802.11b/g WiFi. Aside from showing off your recent vacation snaps, the unit can also display the current time, check in with your favorite RSS feeds and keep you up to speed with the latest weather forecasts. No telling if this thing will ever see US soil, but those parked in Tokyo can grab it on May 17th for around ¥30,000 ($258).

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