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Interested in obtaining Panasonic’s 1-inch thick first-with-WirelessHD Z1 series 1080p plasma — before this summer? Hope you’ve got a good connect in Japan, because this baby is touching down April 20, complete with YouTube and 2.4GHz remote. Thanks to the slim 40,000:1 contrast ratio NeoPDP panel and ability to work without the usual assortment of cables it was born for stylish wall mounting in your appropriately adorned apartment as pictured above. Throw in half the power consumption of last year’s PZ800 model and you’ve got a very attractive package. Checking in with ¥700,000 (about $7,835) 54-inch, ¥600,000 (about $6,715) 50-inch, and ¥550,000 ( about $6,156) 46-inch models our jealousy extends far across the Pacific, but until these get a U.S. ship date and pricetag, your closest look lies within our CES gallery.

[Via AV Watch]

Filed under: Displays, HDTV

Panasonic Z1 plasmas bring WirelessHD to Japan first originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just nabbed a 55-inch 1080p Vizio XVT for Chrismakwanzika and feeling good about yourself? Consider a return, because the specs on the new models are here and the list is long. Music, 1080p movies (MPEG-2, h.264 & WMV9) or pics from a USB drive? The whole line has that with Vizio’s Multi-media hookup, while LED backlighting, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and 5 HDMI ports are kept exclusive to the $1,999 55-inch VF551XVT1A. 42- and 47-inch models share the 240Hz motion technology that’s become so popular with their larger relative, but only rock 50,000:1 contrast and 4 HDMI jacks for $1,099 and $1,399 respectively. 32- and 37-inch aficionados can expect 120Hz refresh rates for $749 and $999 respectively when they ship in the fall, while the rest of the pack are summer babies. Of course, by then you’d probably want to wait for a Connected HDTV….we love this time of year.

Continue reading Vizio presents 240Hz, LED backlit updates to the XVT series

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Vizio presents 240Hz, LED backlit updates to the XVT series originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Following an annual tradition, Sony has loosed several new HDR-series camcorders. Stop carrying that silly GPS dongle, as the HDR-XR520V (240GB of storage), HDR-XR500V and HDR-XR200V (both 120GB) pack one onboard along with NAVTEQ maps to geotag photos and videos alike, automatically detect time zone, highlight current map location and possibly save your life during an extended walk through the woods. The 520 and 500 are Sony’s first with back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor, providing twice the low light performance of previous models. Smile Shutter, Dolby Digital 5.1 sound recording and 3.2-inch touch panel LCDs are standard across the line, including the low end HDR-XR100 (80GB) model. They start shipping in March for between $1,500 and $750 along with three new SD cams but — c’mon.

Filed under: CES, Digital Cameras, GPS, HDTV

Sony shows off GPS packing 1080p camcorders originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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