CEDIA 2007 - Day 2: 1080p Projector Roundup, High Def Players & Ferrari Sound
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on September 7, 2007 3:21 AM EST- Posted in
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Meridian Teams up with Ferrari to Bring Aural Perfection
Meridian Audio showed off its new F80 transportable sound system at the press conference today. This system, developed in conjunction with Ferrari, offers surprisingly clear and large sound out of a compact 2.1 speaker single-unit setup. The F80 easily filled the entire press room (about 40 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 15 feet high) with phenomenal sound (and real bass). It features a CD/DVD player, AM/FM radio, analog and digital audio inputs, iPod input (iPod docking cable sold separately), and S-Video and composite outputs. It's also available in 5 official Ferrari colors. We were honestly ready to buy one until the price was announced: $2,999. At 14.3lbs it's also deceptively heavy.
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zemane - Saturday, September 8, 2007 - link
I don't know much about projectors but, is it too difficult to manufacture a native 2.35:1 projector? This way only 16:9 and 4:3 movies would have black bars on each side. Imagine, a true 2538x1080 image... :-)Fluppeteer - Monday, September 10, 2007 - link
Well, there are 4K projectors, if you've got the input and the money. (Or you can just run two SXGA projectors on their sides, overlapping.)This is the first I've heard of the anamorphic business. I'm confused: given that there's no more data available to add pixels, why digitally scale up (removing some high frequency information in the process, unless there's something exceptionally clever going on) to fill the 1080 pixels of the image, then stick an additional anamorphic (expensive and complicated, and probably not quite as high quality as a "normal" lens) lens in front of the existing optical elements? What does this gain you that sticking a bog standard wide angle lens on the front of the projector (and putting a couple of bits of cardboard over the borders if your projector has a poor black point) doesn't?
It just sounds like a really complicated and expensive way of making the image worse. Am I missing something?
Guuts - Friday, September 7, 2007 - link
The last (bottom-most) picture on Page 7 appears to be upside down.BigToque - Friday, September 7, 2007 - link
The projector could also be upside down and attached to a ceiling mount.