[inky blacks]

Besides Samsung and Panasonic, will any 08 model RPTVs have long lasting light sources?


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[walford]

Since the 2007 models have only recently started shipping I think you will have to wait till the 2008 Consumers Electronic Show (CES2008) the first week in Las Vegas the first week of January to find out.

 

[inky blacks]

I thought new models came out in the Fall?


Will Toshiba be selling the same old bulb technology in the Fall? How can they hope to expect to compete with Samsung?


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[walford]

The new models get shown to the dealers in January and they are all normally all out by August in order to be in the stores before football season starts. Sometimes a vendor will realease some in early November that they could not get out by August but which they did announce the previous January that they were coming and they want to get them out for the Holiday Buying Season.

I beleive that the Sony XBR3s will come out this fall just like the XBR2s did last fall and I believe one vendor (I forgot which) will have a laser DLP out by the holiday season.

You can probabaly google on

CES 2007 HDTV

and find some reviews of the products that were announced this past January.

 

[Ron Jones]

Late last summer or early fall (2006) Mits demo'ed a DLP RPTV with a laser diode light engine that was claimed to be a step beyond LED light engines and they said the production model will go on sale for the Xmas shopping season of 2007. I haven't heard anything new on this in the past several months, but Mits may still be on track to begin shipping in the 4th quarter of this year.

 

[koan]



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Originally Posted by inky blacks /forum/post/0


Will Toshiba be selling the same old bulb technology in the Fall? How can they hope to expect to compete with Samsung?

My guess is Toshiba will either abandon their rear projection line in 2008 or intoduce models with a non-bulb technology. It likely won't happen in the fall; the 2007 models became available in early April. But Toshiba did it without fanfare - no press release, and no Cinema Series (MX) models.

 

[inky blacks]

I suppose no one is making CRT based RPTVs anymore. Is that correct?


I found allot of stuff about plasmas with 100,000 to 1 contrast ratios coming out, but no firm dates on laser based RPTVs other than Mitsubishi's general research. I would hope Toshiba would step up to the plate and compete with Samsung and Panasonic on RPTVs. I think they could make a better product at a lower price.


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