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Last we left Mitsubishi’s cool gadgets LaserVue 1080p rear-projection monster, we had size and shape, but price was a mystery. The mystery was solved today, as BitStream discovered the massive HDTV gadgets will set you back $7,000 when it ships later this month. There’s still no pricing info for the 73-inch LaserVue, which was also revealed in June.

The 7k figure is comparable to what manufacturers are asking for similarly sized HDTVs in the space, but this one has frickin’ laser beams. And unlike military lasers, these create a feast foryour eyes, instead

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[IFA 2008] Philips Essence is the name you have given this new range of Philips, now with a single model, 42PES0001 of 42 inches. This is the screen thinner Philips, with only 39 millimeters thick. Apart from its thickness, its main features are fantastic, 2ms response time, Full HD resolution, 100Hz and a dynamic contrast 66000:1.

Includes DLNA allowing other devices to wirelessly connect and share information easily, without compatibility problems and also a tuner cable and digital gizmo design terrestrial telelevision. With 3 HDMI ports, two 15W speakers that can be removed to connect audio gadget equipment and a better remote control thin.

The instrument can be seen next to the screen is a hub connections, where you can connect any device to TV and to avoid being all cables from the screen in this hub there is only one, everything is for aesthetics. It was put up for sale this September miso by around 2500 euros.

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Panasonic from Japan has released two sets of new screens, PZ800 series and ZR900. The series ZR900 come in sizes 42, 46 and 50 inches, with the novelty of including a hard drive to 1TB to save your favorite programs. In addition you can access via YouTube own screen and watch any video, is not that the quality of YouTube videos is spectacular for a screen capable of playing video in 1080p, but good…

The range PZ800 has only two sizes, 58 and 65 inches, these are plasma with a 30000:1 contrast, Viera Link, 4-port HDMI, 1080p resolution, but without hard disk. All models include DTT tuner.

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Pope dockstation Dock is a new iPod, created by the signing Krell as the companion Kid Dock, which is embedded in its upper part. The father takes the child until the departure of 150 watts and carries an enormous power supply, plus four isolated stereo channels. One solution for audiófilos which costs a total of $ 4,000 (2,550 euros), 1,500 and 2,500 for the child to the father. But Pope Dock is a poorly chosen name, too similar to the bloody Haitian dictator.

Following the unexpected beat of HD DVD, Toshiba exposed last month that it will be attempting to kick Blu-ray’s butt - again - by placing a individual chip in its original DVD players that will upscale DVD video into HD video to rival that of Blu-ray.

This month we get an original logo and speculation that Toshiba will be adding Internet ability to the original DVD players - and DVD movie disc content - too. The “DVD Download and DL” logo has been approved by the DVD Forum Steering Committee but we have no real information on what it will actually do. Will it make a difference in the never-ending HD spat?

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