CEDIA 2007 - Day 2: Sony's Booth Tour, LG's new HD-DVD/BD Player, JVC and more

JVC HD100 in Action

The big showdown at this year's CEDIA is Sony vs. JVC and their new 1080p projectors. Both are giants in the LCoS world and both are competing in very similar spaces. We saw the DLA-RS2 yesterday at JVC's press conference, and today we got another look at the DLA-HD100 which you may remember is identical to the RS2, simply targeted at consumers vs. high end installers.

JVC confirmed that availability for both projectors should be in November at a price somewhere south of $8K. JVC's reps did refer to the HD100/RS2s being shown off as prototypes and that specs weren't finalized yet, but we should hopefully know what the final projector specs will be by the end of this month if JVC will stick to November as the release date.

We also asked JVC to confirm its no-internet sales policy with the HD100/RS2 and were told that the two will be handled much in the same way that the HD1/RS1 were sold. JVC can't guarantee that you won't be able to find one online but the idea is to keep these projectors as fairly high end and obviously help protect its dealer network.

The HD100 was just as impressive as the RS2 from yesterday, but once again it's virtually impossible to draw any conclusions about its ability to compete with the new Sony projectors.