And some more philips

OK they are still making this a 100 Hz instead of 200 or even 240 Hz but that is the only minor thing of this LED TV (so you can easy upgrade since you can sell this to yourself and family as a energy saver) . Ok and probably the price. However it's still the one I want agains my white wall. The 3rd generation of the Aurea TV's. According to again Engadget they claim:



Showing off the latest in LED edge-lighting. This third generation set features the same transparent Active Frame now sporting 250 LEDs with a promise of "exact" Ambilight color matching" with what you see on the screen. The result, according to Philips and our own experience with Ambilight over the years, is a more immersive viewing experience -- or maybe the experience is just peculiar, we can never be too sure.

The set still features the same, albeit tweaked, motion sensitive remote control and adds Net TV for quick access to content from YouTube, eBay, TomTom and more depending upon your location.

As to the display, well, it's still 42-inches by the looks of things, with a Full HD (1920x1080) resolution, 100Hz refresh, and snappy 2-ms response as before. The box itself feature an integrated DVB-T/DVB-C/CI+ HDTV receiver, 5x HDMI 1.3a EasyLink inputs, WiFi, Ethernet, and a DLNA-compliant network link for accessing media off your PC. Coming soon, that's when.

Now just let's hope the DLNA client is a serious good one with a nice and snappy interface so it might even be able to replace the mediacenter in the living room (just have to add the tuners then to the home server for the pvr part)

Update:

From the IFA leaflet as distributed by Philips:

Net TV with Wi-Fi
Experience a rich selection of online services with Net TV. Enjoy movies, pictures, infotainment and other online content directly on your TV whenever you like. Simply connect your TV directly to your home network through either the integrated Wi-Fi wireless or ethernet connections, and navigate and select what you want to watch with the TV remote control. The Philips menu gives you access to popular Net TV services fitted for your TV screen.

LED TV
No compromises! Stunning picture quality. Stunning design. Low energy use. With LED TV

Picture/Display
•Aspect ratio: Widescreen
•Brightness: 450 cd/m²
•Dynamic screen contrast: 80000:1
•Response time (typical): 2 (BEW equiv.) ms
•Viewing angle: 176º (H) / 176º (V)
•Diagonal screen size: 40 inch / 102 cm
•Panel resolution: 1920x1080p
•Picture enhancement: Perfect Pixel HD Engine, Perfect Natural Motion, Perfect Contrast, Perfect Colors, 3/2 - 2/2 motion pull down, 3D Combfilter, Active Control + Light sensor, 100Hz Clear LCD, Digital Noise Reduction, Dynamic contrast enhancement, Luminance Transient Improver, Progressive Scan, 2D/3D noise reduction, 1080p 24/25/30Hz processing, 1080p 50/60Hz processing, LED backlight Display
•Screen enhancement: Anti-Reflection coated screen
•Color processing: 2250 trillion colors 17bit RGB
Ambilight
•Ambilight Features: Ambilight Spectra, Auto adaptive to video content, Lounge light mode
•Dimming Function: Manual and via Light Sensor
•Ambilight light system: LED wide color
Supported Display Resolution
•Computer formats
Resolution
Refresh rate
640 x 480
60Hz
800 x 600
60Hz
1024 x 768
60Hz
1280 x 1024
60Hz
1360 x 768
60Hz
1600 x 1200
60Hz
1920 x 1080
60Hz
•Video formats
Resolution
Refresh rate
480i
60Hz
480p
60Hz
576i
50Hz
576p
50Hz
720p
50, 60Hz
1080i
50, 60Hz
1080p
24, 25, 30, 50, 60Hz

and another one in the 3D format war

After Sony Philips is now jumping into this. They already had some great 3D displays but I was under the impression they sold this business to LG. However they are back in the race according to this engadget story (click the link for the engadget gallery)

Philips 56-inch 21:9 3D TV's future is so bright we had to wear shades

by Thomas Ricker posted Sep 3rd 2009 at 7:30AM

If you haven't noticed, 3D is going to be big in 2010. Not at Philips though, at least not yet. Instead of charging in to the market like Sony, Philips is willing to hedge its bets and wait on consumer demand. Consumers, of course, are waiting for content. And hey, maybe everybody's wrong and quad-HD will be the next big thing to drive TV sales. Regardless, Philips wants everyone to know that its technology is ready when you are so its got a 3D prototype Blu-ray player and stunning 3D version of its 56-inch Cinema 21:9 TV here at IFA in Berlin. While the idea of watching movies in 3D sounds like a novelty, the idea of gaming in 3D is downright compelling -- awkward passive polarized glasses be damned!

Just got my Streamium:)

I'm in a buzz program and that's a pretty cool thing since I get the opportunity to play around with some pretty nice things and buzz about it. More information on this buzz program can be found here.


So here is my buzz on this streamium (philips streamium network music player NP2500). Basically I like to see my media integrted in the house. Just 1 central location to strore all my pictures, music and video including recorded TV and then be able to play this everywhere in the house. This is why I'm having a mediacenter with a homeserver for backups.


When I got the opportunity to buzz this product I smiled when signing up since this fits perfectly in my vision on the digital lifestyle.

After opening the box my first impression was "Whoooo this looks great and fits in any (living)room". Obviously I did not read any manual but just started installing. Put the installation CD in my mediacenter (since this is the central media storage) and the whole installation of the server part was an easy job. It installls Twonky Media and the server side is ready (ok, I just found out the regular UPnP could have done the trick as well)

Then turning on the device and follow the on screen instructions. Everybody can do this again even without a manual (but with their security codefor their wireless network and it might be a bit more complicated if your wireless setup is not a pretty strightforward one).

So time to listen to music from the media store and internet Radio and this sounded great but here there was a set back. Browsing took ages. ok I admit I have a lot of music but this to me was pretty disappointing and when browsing a large library (or massive list of internet radio stations) the system is a bit unresponsive.

Let's hope this is because the player will do do background stuff in the beginning (built a list or something like that) and speed will be better if this is completed. I also shall try it agin if I put it wired to the network.

Another thing is that this is a seperate device and there is a tendency to built this into receivers (Denon, Yamaha etc). On the other hand, in the bedroom I now just have this with a set of JBL speakers (so it matches the design of the streamium since this absolutely great)

In general my first impression is pretty positive but have to play with it a bit more. I think I will keep this post updated by giving replies to my own post


Update:

ok, played around with it a bit and really love it. Figured out that the standard UPnP works better in my network than the twonky media server so streaming from the mediacenter goes really nice.

So far a great device for a room where a small mediaplayer with some simple speakers (I have the JBL creature II in black which is a perfect match)

Sound is very good

The only con is still the speed of browing the music collection. Still will try to wire it up with the built in ethernet connection and see if that goes better than wireless