Briefly - Sherwood, NAD, HD-DVD 4 Notebooks, CEDIA
HDMI is making big inroads. Sherwood America yesterday announced the introduction of HDMI-Link, an AV switcher and video format converter to be used in a separate Sherwood unit to be sold with their receivers. Two HDMI inputs can be switched, with an HDMI output going to an HDTV. The cool thing about this unit is that it can convert component video into HDCP compliant digital HDMI video.
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NAD’s new Master Series M15 Surround Sound Processor can do HDMI switching, according to a recent press release. It has two HDMI inputs and one HDMI output. The unit also upconverts composite and S-Video to component video, but not to the digital HDMI.
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Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) has announced that they will begin sampling an HD-DVD drive for notebooks by the end of 2005. The TS-L802A supports reading of HD-DVD’s, and recording of all CD/DVD formats.
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At CEDIA 2005 Parasound showed off their universal disc player, the NewClassic D 200 ($1500). It supports DVD, DVD-Audio, and SACD. It also upconverts video to 480p, 720, or 1080i through its HDMI output.
Anthem’s new D2 processor can convert composite and S-Video to both component and HDMI! Another cool HDMI transcoding. The D2 can also convert all sources to 1080p using its Gennum GF9350 VXP image processor.
The article linked below continues with lots of other great CEDIA news, so don’t miss it.
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