The Philips Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D TV stole the show when it was unveiled at IFA last year. Philips’ first super widescreen telly was striking enough, but with LED backlighting, a new frame and 3D support, has it ascended to home cinema heaven? Let’s see what the experts thought in our Philips Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D TV review roundup.
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LG 3D TV tech has taken a leap and the company is showing off a new technique for chucking images at our eyes at CES 2011. LG Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology sounds silly but has some serious potential to eliminate flicker and blur which are the two major complaints 3D glasses wearers tend to have with current shutter glass technology. According to LG, FPR technology will be able to use unpowered, polarised passive 3D glasses with curved lenses or made as clip-ons for your current glasses. The LG 3D TV technology is apparently already being considered by Philips and Toshiba as well as LG itself. The other good news is that 3D TV using the FPR tech should be cheaper to manufacture than current solutions. We’ll hunt down more detail on LG 3D TV tech at CES 2011 as soon as our team of intrepid reporters can get some.
Philips is offering a new service from tomorrow for customers to customise one of its 7000 series TVs, which are available in 32″ or 42″. For an extra £50 you can pick from a range of tastefully titled colours including “satin champagne” (cream) or “velvet purple” (purple). Not only that, for those particularly obsessed with matching their home furnishings there are also three finishes for the remote control. The Philips 7000 series costs with the added colour, frame and stand choices on top costs from £749, and once you’ve chosen your design, it will take three weeks for Philips to deliver.
Out 14 Oct | from £749 | Philips
The Philips GoGear Muse we spotted at CES has got its UK pricing. It’s available in 8GB, 12GB, and 32GB models, and has a MicroSD slot on top of that. It’s priced at £100 for the 8GB version, £130 for the 16GB, and £180 for the 32GB. The GoGear Muse is also packing a Micro SD slot and HDMI output, and its touchscreen clocks in at 3.2”, plus Philips’ FullSound, which upmixes MP3 compression to render it closer to the original. It supports FLAC and APE lossless files, as well as standard formats, plus MPEG4, WMV9 and RMVB video.
Out now | from £100 | Philips
The IFA news is still coming in thick and fast, so take a quick break from what you’re doing and grab all of it you missed so far this morning here in the lunchtime lowdown!
UPDATE: The Philips Cinema 21:9 Platinum Series 3D TV will be out in the UK this month for around £3,500, we’ve confirmed with the company.
The Philips Cinema 21:9 Platinum Series 3D TV has just been outed at IFA, and as you might have guessed from the name, it’s a rather wide TV that doles out movies in stereoscopic view for you. Want one? Check out the pics here.
We know it’s been hard to get back into the swing of things after a Bank Holiday, so we’re here to make it a little easier with a nice roundup of all the morning’s gadget news for you. Read on for it all in the lunchtime lowdown!
Here it is: the Philips GoGear Connect Android PMP we were told was coming back in February, just in time to go head to head against a new iPod touch. A 3.2-inch touchscreen, camera, microSD slot and unusually for an Android media player, support for Google’s core Android apps. Can the Philips GoGear Connect Android PMP cope against a rumoured iPod touch with a Retina Display? We’ll find out for you when we go hands on with it at IFA later this week.