Mitsubishi Electric Digital Television presented their annual "line show" for the press who cover consumer electronics. The event this year fell on the 7th of April and was held at the elegantly appointed Hyatt Huntington Beach Resort and Conference Center in Orange County, California. It was tough duty but I was there for you! The Mitsubishi dealers gathered the following day for the same presentation.

Our afternoon led off with a brief economic report: "We will end this year with $31 billion in global sales," said Cayce Blanchard, VP of Corporate Communications. "The company," she emphasized," is in good financial health." Indeed, they posted a nifty $819 million net profit (Gee, just inching ahead of HDTV Magazine!!)

Following on the heals of that report a "simulated" broadcast of the new MTV HD channel was cued up-a channel which Mitsubishi is co-sponsoring. It's clearly not your grandfather's TV any more. Nor will pops admit to watching the bare midriff programming. This set maker is out to win a younger crowd...

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Hi Dale,

If I remember correctly I originally subscribed to this publication shortly before buying my Tosh 65H80 in Oct 2000.

Regardless of the fact that my big bulky CRT box is not sexy in todays world, LCOS/D-ILA are the only (on the shelf) technologies that can approach the CRT's PQ capabilities albeit at presently significantly higher prices.

Is it impossible to dream that the BIG players might introduce an 80" CRT with perhaps 9" guns and all the latest digital connections.

Before they disapeared completely, last month I bought my wife a crt 30" Panny with HDMI input for $940 Cdn taxincl and after being properly ISF'd heard my friend who had payed half again for a similarly sized Daytek from Costco (which can't be Isf'd) lament the superior PQ of the Panny.

Anyway, I cant help but put much of the blame on the Movie Studios. If they started to produce more films with better stories we could shift the focus from the box we watch it on to the content.

Peter M.