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Rodolfo scores another 5-Star Rating! .....
In addition to sharing his extensive knowledge and
experience with TIPS Subscribers, even in the
midst of compiling his reknown, and exhaustive,
Annual Report - an incredibly time-consuming feat
in itself! - his sage counseling clearly shows the
importance of applying "wisdom" to knowledge.
Rodolfo's admonition: "... not to enter in a
knowledge competition with any sales person that
has already (given) you negative signs regarding
not being open to learn..." demonstrates a
remarkable personal restraint. It is a
magnificent illustration of "character-strength"
which derives from Wisdom.
Who among us, when confronted by this
"all-too-familiar" example of today's "Electronics
Retail Sales Associates," would not be more
inclined to exhibit the more dramatic reaction of
"engagement"?
To do so, while for the most part quite
justified - in contesting the continuing, rampant
spread of "Mis/Dis-Information" concerning the
basic elements of Digital-HDTV, (as well as, "The
Digital TV Transition") would most likely prove a
futile exercise.
Rodolfo - I salute you - for your dedication in
the pursuit of "Quality" as a tireless advocate
for HDTV;
but even more, for your selfless willingness to
share, instruct, teach, explain. For bringing
enlightenment
to many who stumble in the darkness. For
counseling in wisdom, rather than standing aloof
in your knowledge... For lighting a candle ...
when many only curse the darkness!
Thanks Rodolfo!
Bob C
[email protected]
http://HDTVInfoPort.com
HDTV Demystified!
----- Original Message -----
From: Rodolfo La Maestra
To: HDTV Magazine
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: My choice
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Michael,
Sony company announcements could run from March to
June depending of the year, but the products
would most probably not become available until
CEDIA (September), at least, sometimes even later.
In other words, you are facing a minimum waiting
of 9 months from now to actually see a new set at
a
place you can order, however, the announcement in
Spring would give you at least an advance notice
and will reveal if the specs interest you for the
waiting, but getting the set is another issue.
Most other major companies do the same, although I
have seen Samsung doing it 3 times in a year,
imagine a cycle as short as 4 months
discontinuation periods.
I would suggest you not to enter in a knowledge
competition with any sales person that has already
giving you negative signs regarding not being open
to learn, it could become nasty because they
usually do not like to be challenged in the sales
floor when other customers come in and out the
area around your conversation.
But they still could perform a service to you if
you want to buy, and make sure you just wisely
control the verbal exchanges to leave all the bad
weed information out of your ears, it could be
confusing if you do not.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra
-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine
On Behalf
Of
Michael Iantosca
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:06 AM
To: HDTV Magazine
Subject: Re: My choice
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Hi Rodolfo,
Thank you so much for very detailed analysis. I
think I am going to return
my HP and wait for a few months until I hear what
is going on with Sony's
1080P inputs.
Is Sony's spring announcement usually in March?
I guess I will wheel by big 65" monster Mitz RPTV
back into the family room
for another few months - my wife is going to love
that - she was loving the
new HP and extra floor space it freed up.
I am going to Tweeter to see the Sony running on
the test loop and ask the
salesman to take a look at the owners manual so he
can see the 1080i
limitation for himself.
Thanks again
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine
On Behalf
Of
Rodolfo La Maestra
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:03 PM
To: HDTV Magazine
Subject: Re: My choice
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Michael,
Your question can not be responded with a flat YES
or NO. You know what you
want, and you deserve analysis when the info is
not 100% disclosed, so here
I go:
Sony declared at CES that they will announce the
details of how these sets
will be replaced at their usual spring official
company news release. 1080p
acceptance was discussed as an important issue, we
talked long, but I never
was given the green light for official write-ups,
so I do not want to create
a snow ball that will eventually hit in my nose.
Additionally I am still analyzing new material on
all manufacturers, and I
got burn before with advancing too early, I do not
want to make mistakes.
Besides, documents are very tricky, in some cases
these "key features" are
sitting as "relatively unimportant" couple of
words on a corner of 500-words
company papers.
Sony has never been easy to anticipate, but one
thing is clear, they want to
have a complete 1080p loop of Blu-ray player/PS3
and capable display device.
They do have the Ruby front projector suited with
1080p inputs, and the
Qualia 004 (upgradeable when you sell the car).
Without doing a dedicated lab test to actually see
what version of the HDMI
chip they used (not what the AVS forum says they
used), and without getting
down to the absolute true if their design after
the HDMI receiver is able or
not to work with high enough bandwidth to handle
1080p 60fps, we have to
trust what Sony declares, and that is NO.
Due to lack of time, I am not planning to do with
Sony what I did with
Brillian. I did it with them because they were
unique (as HP) on the
1080p60fps input feature in their first
generation, and also because they
were LCoS (you have to have a lot of guts to bet
your house on building a
company around LCoS, considering the withdrawals
over the last couple of
years, including Intel, Philips, Mitsubishi, etc).
So they deserved all my
attention, and they had it, good people.
I wrote it also because people that know better
deserve to have the full
true of it, not only a line on a spec pdf that
some times is inaccurate,
although unfortunately accurate in your Sony case.
Regarding what you were told at the stores, they
USUALLY do not know more
than the basic features.
Try to stretch them a bit and they do not even
take the time to research
well to find the correct answer for you.
Do not take wrong, there are many good sales
people out there that read and
invest personal time on knowing better for their
customers, but I feel sorry
for consumers in that those sales people are the
exception, even after 8
years of HDTV on the stores.
I was told by Sony that they can not even disclose
if the replacement line
will be the slim line they introduced at the show;
it is possible, but at
least I know they are considering the importance
of 1080p.
Now, let us analyze this from another corner:
One thing that is giving a lot of clue is that
their Blu-ray player is
UPCONVERTING everything to 1080p 60fps, now you
tell me, what sort of
benefit a Sony consumer could see on having
something like that on a hi-end
player when the same company produce only display
devices that can not
receive it? We will know "officially" soon, but
they are very reserved as
usual.
Regarding upgrades, they do it with a $30K
projector (if you want to pay
another $3K), would they do it for a $4000 RPPT?
Uhhm, this is so difficult
to guess !!
I would not count with a freebie upgrade of
1080p/60ps on DVI/HDMI inputs on
their $4K current sets, I doubt they would have
implemented the current sets
with just software limitations and the HW is
actually in place, if they
would have done that, they would have declared
that a software upgrade for
that feature will become available long time ago,
and certainly if I would
be Sony I would have announced that the minute the
sets were released as a
future-proof sales speech nobody else could beat.
I do not see them sending service technicians to
each home to change HW and
SW for just 1080p inputs, although who knows, and
here is the final part of
the analysis:
They are willing to loose money on PS3s that would
sell for half the price
of the stand-alone player, the upgrade TV move
might be a good back up plan
strategy to facilitate the dominance of Blu-ray,
in other words: "give
consumers also 1080p input capabilities on their
sets before they switch to
HD DVD in despair", a feature that Toshiba HD DVD
ignores blatantly on their
first version.
Actions like this could help tilt the balance in
the middle of a war that
could last a year before one of them calls it
quits, the first version could
be the one that decides format dominance, Toshiba
HD DVD made its first move
without 1080p outputs, and their TVs do not even
support 1080p inputs as
well, and will not in 2006, as yet announced.
What I meant is an strategy could be "give ALL of
the Sony display owners
1080p inputs on current sets and Blu-ray would
have gained an immediate
large supporting crowd of existing and future Sony
owners, not to mention
hard-core PS3 gamers on all ages."
We will have to wait a bit until they make their
next move to hint the
direction for their Spring announcement.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra
-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine
On Behalf
Of
Michael Iantosca
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:05 PM
To: HDTV Magazine
Subject: Re: My choice
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I have had the 65" HP for about 3 weeks now and I
am wafting for a
replacement set which should come on Monday. The
screen has black specks
which look like dirt somewhere in the projection
path. I a hoping for a good
set on Monday. If it isn't I will returning it for
a full refund and waiting
for the Sony KDS-R60XBR1 with 1080P inputs.
An interesting thing - I spoke with Tweeter Etc.
today about the Sony and
they told me it accepts 1080P on HDMI1 (not 2). He
also told me that Sony
had sent a 1080P demo loop to display on the TV.
So then I called Sony Style and asked them to
confirm and they told me both
accept 1080P. The person I spoke too I knew was
clueless.
So I downloaded the PDF version of the owners
manual from Amazon.com and
looked in the specs section - it clearly states
the HDMI inputs only accept
up to 1080i
Does anyone know when the Sony will truly accept
1080P or if there will be
an upgrade kit for the current sets?
Thanks
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine
On Behalf
Of Dr
Robert A Fowkes
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:15 AM
To: HDTV Magazine
Subject: Re: My choice
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At 07:05 PM 1/24/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Robert,
>Good for you!!! I hope the replacement set is
>ok, but I agree with you
>in that I would wait for the SXRD with a 1080P
>input if the HP
>replacement set is bad.
Bob,
I'm happy to report that the replacement HP
MD5880n arrived late yesterday
and my initial impressions are that it is working
just fine! Not only does
it not exhibit the major problems my original set
had, but it also appears
to be free of the relatively minor issues being
talked about on the various
message boards on the internet. No pincushioning
problems, no hiss from the
speakers, no noisy color wheel, etc. While my
fingers are still crossed I'm
pleased to be seeing some great pictures from all
my HD Dish channels. Some
of the stations (Equator, DiscoveryHD and even
HDNews) look stunning. The picture far surpasses
my Panasonic 37"
Plasma and the 720p Runco on the large (110")
Stewart Screen. As good as HD
looks on the latter two sources, the HP truly
looks like a window to the
world, if you get my analogy.
Over the next few days I'll be rewiring my
complete setup in the HT to
incorporate my new DVDO iScan VP30. While I
purchased this mainly to use as
a distribution hub for all my video sources (I
still prefer to pass all
audio through my Lexicon MC-8 as this avoids any
HDMI audio issues) I'm
planning on feeding 1080p to my new HP and 720p
into my Runco. I'm anxious to see how all the
source material
looks when fed into each unit at it's native
resolution. Without the 1080p
input capability on the HP I wouldn't have been
able to use this approach.
Finally, even though I'm and "old guy" I still
consider myself a gamer so
the 1080p input ability of the HP is attractive in
that regard as well. I'm
taking delivery of a new laptop with DVI output
(Dell M170) and I look
forward to also using the HP as a computer monitor
at times as well.
Bring on Blu-ray!
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