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my home cinema setup: Canton Ergo series loudspeakers
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Canton Ergo Series
I use Canton Ergo speakers in a 7:1 speaker setup. It use 4 surround speakers:
- Surround Left/Right are Ergo 601,
- Surround Rear Left/Right are Ergo 607 DC ,
The other three are normal
- Left/Right are Ergo 609 DC,
- Center is a Ergo 605 CM,
- The subwoofer is a Ergo AS 650 SC.
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Panasonic PT-AE3000 Home Theater Projector
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- Published on Monday, 20 October 2008 00:00
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With 2499$ MRP, 60000:1 contrast ratio - this projector is going to set a new trend in 1080p projector market. For all of you still looking for good reasons to buy it or not, projectorcentral.com has put an interesting review online
My current projector (PT900AE) is still working after 2122 hours... hope it will last till the AE3000 reach Switzerland.
An interesting thread at AVS forums, and the specifications are available as PDF HERE
Blu-ray discs collection
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- Published on Sunday, 03 August 2008 00:00
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My list of BLU-RAY is growing.
48 titles
Will try to keep that list up to date, especially for all my friends that
come by and enjoy seeing movies in my home cinema.
| En-Fr-De | Mission: Impossible II Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Richard Roxburgh, Brendan Gleeson, William Mapother, Mathew Wilkinson,
| En-Fr-De | Mission: Impossible Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dale Dye, Ion Caramitru,
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| En-Fr-De | Mission: Impossible III Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Keri Russell, Simon Pegg, Laurence Fishburne,
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| En-Fr | Fantastic Four Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, David Parker, Maria Menounos,
| En-Fr | Kung fu Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Kwok-Kwan Chan, Siu-Lung Leung, Kai Man Tin, Hak On Fung,
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| En-Fr-De | Planet of the Apes Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Giamatti, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kris Kristofferson, Luke Eberl,
| En-Fr | Ratatouille Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Peter Sohn, Brad Garrett, Will Arnett, James Remar,
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| En-Fr | Into the Blue Paul Walker, Scott Caan, Josh Brolin, Tyson Beckford, Javon Frazer, Peter R.V. Bowleg Jr.,
| En-Fr | Happy Feet Carlos Alazraqui, Jeffrey Garcia, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Daily,
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| En-Fr | Spider-Man 3 Tobey Maguire, James Franco, Topher Grace, Rosemary Harris, James Cromwell, Dylan Baker,
| En-Fr-De | Hellboy Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Karel Roden, Doug Jones, Ladislav Beran, Corey Johnson,
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| En-Fr | Spider-Man 2 Tobey Maguire, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, Donna Murphy, Dylan Baker, Vanessa Ferlito,
| En-Fr-Sp | Spider-Man Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Cliff Robertson, J.K. Simmons, Gerry Becker, Jack Betts,
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| En-Fr-De | AVP: Alien vs. Predator Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Colin Salmon, Joseph Rye, Carsten Norgaard, Petr Jákl,
| En-Fr | AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem Steven Pasquale, John Ortiz, Ariel Gade, Sam Trammell, David Paetkau, Ian Whyte, |
| En-Fr | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Jack Davenport, Lee Arenberg, Damian O'Hare, Angus Barnett,
| En-Fr | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Lee Arenberg, Kevin McNally, Stellan Skarsgård,
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| En-Fr | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, Mackenzie Crook, David Bailie,
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| En-Fr-De | Big Fish Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Guillaume, Matthew McGrory, Missi Pyle,
| En-Fr-De | Troy Julian Glover, Nathan Jones, Jacob Smith, John Shrapnel, Diane Kruger, Orlando Bloom,
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| De-En | Underworld: Evolution Kate Beckinsale, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Steven Mackintosh, Brian Steele, John Mann,
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| En-Fr-De | Hitman Timothy Olyphant, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Offei, Eriq Ebouaney, James Faulkner,
| En-Fr | King Arthur Clive Owen, Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Ray Stevenson, Stephen Dillane, Til Schweiger,
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| En-Fr-Arabic | Surf's Up Shia LaBeouf, Zooey Deschanel, James Woods, Mario Cantone, Rob Machado, Ash Brannon,
| En-Fr | Kingdom of Heaven Martin Hancock, Nathalie Cox, Jouko Ahola, Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom, Kevin McKidd,
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| En-Fr-De | 300 Gerard Butler, Dominic West, Vincent Regan, Tom Wisdom, Andrew Tiernan, Giovani Cimmino,
| En-Fr-It | Live Free or Die Hard Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Cliff Curtis, Andrew Friedman, Yorgo Constantine, Chris Palermo,
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| En-Fr-Sp | Blood Diamond Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Arnold Vosloo, Benu Mabhena, David Harewood, Jimi Mistry,
| En-Fr | Tears of the Sun Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Johnny Messner, Charles Ingram, Chad Smith, Malick Bowens,
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| En-Fr | The Island Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi, Ethan Phillips, Noa Tishby, Troy Blendell,
| En-Fr | I, Robot Will Smith, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood, Chi McBride, Fiona Hogan, Terry Chen,
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| En-Fr | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Ming-Na, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin, James Woods, Jean Simmons, Alec Baldwin,
| En-Fr | Pearl Harbor Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Greg Zola, Jaime King,
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| En-Fr-De | Atonement Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn, James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Felix von Simson, Alfie Allen,
| En-Fr-De | 300 Gerard Butler, Dominic West, Vincent Regan, Tom Wisdom, Andrew Tiernan, Giovani Cimmino,
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| En-Fr-De | Beowulf Robin Wright Penn, Paul Baker, Rod D. Harbour, Sonje Fortag, Charlotte Salt, Greg Ellis,
| En-Fr-De | Good Luck Chuck Connor Price, Mackenzie Mowat, Caroline Ford, Chelan Simmons, Natalie Morris, Chang Tseng,
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| En-Fr-De | Transformers Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Rachael Taylor, Jon Voight, Michael O'Neill, Julie White,
| En-Fr-De | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Kevin Dunn, Isabel Lucas, Matthew Marsden, |
| WALL·E Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, MacInTalk, Kathy Najimy, Kim Kopf, Elissa Knight, | En-Fr | "Planet Earth" David Attenborough
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| En-Fr-De | The Prestige Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Rebecca Hall, Samantha Mahurin, Andy Serkis, Jim Piddock, | Monsters, Inc. John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, James Coburn, Bob Peterson, Frank Oz, Steve Susskind, | |
| En-Fr | X-Men Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Ray Park, Bruce Davison, | En-Fr | X2 Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Bruce Davison, |
| En-Fr | X-Men: The Last Stand Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Rebecca Romijn, Aaron Stanford, | En-Fr | |
| En-Fr-De-It | The Bourne Identity Matt Damon, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Gabriel Mann, Josh Hamilton, Orso Maria Guerrini, | En-Fr-De | The Bourne Ultimatum Matt Damon, David Strathairn, Paddy Considine, Albert Finney, Tom Gallop, Daniel Brühl, |
| En-Fr-De-It | The Bourne Supremacy Matt Damon, Brian Cox, Karl Urban, Joan Allen, Tom Gallop, Ethan Sandler, | En-Fr-De-It | |
| The Matrix Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Gloria Foster, Marcus Chong, Matt Doran, Anthony Ray Parker, | The Matrix Reloaded Ray Anthony, Andy Arness, Helmut Bakaitis, Don Battee, Daniel Bernhardt, Ian Bliss, | ||
| The Matrix Revolutions Mary Alice, Helmut Bakaitis, Francine Bell, Rachel Blackman, Ian Bliss, Zeke Castelli, | |||
PT-AE3000 1080p home cinema projector announced
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it look like that I have found my next projector...except if Sanyo come with a better offering for less than 2000 CHF of course :-) or www.projectorecentral.com do not give a positive review (that I doubt)
PT-AE900 720p projector is now 3 years old and has more than 1980 hours lamp usage (on a max 3000 hours)...
PANASONIC LAUNCHES NEW 1080p FULL HIGH-DEFINITION LCD HOME THEATER PROJECTOR
New PT-AE3000 Provides A Bright and Dynamic Wide screen Home Viewing Experience with Crisp Motion Images Via Frame Creation Technology
DENVER – CEDIA Expo – Sept. 3, 2008 – Panasonic Projector Systems Company, Unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced today the debut of its newest LCD home theater projector, the PT-AE3000. With full high-definition 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) native resolution, the PT-AE3000 gives home theater enthusiasts a higher level of picture quality entertainment, producing crisp and clear images through new state-of-the-art projection technology.
As an evolution of its award winning predecessor, the PT-AE2000, the PT-AE3000 delivers a captivating 1,600 lumen brightness and powerful 60,000:1 contrast ratio. To achieve sharp and detailed reproduction of fast moving motion images, Panasonic has developed and equipped the PT-AE3000 with new Frame Creation Technology optimized for large screen viewing. And for easy adjustment to different widescreen movie formats like 21:9 or 16:9, the projector is also upgraded with a Lens Memory Load feature which is capable of memorizing and restoring zoom/focus positions for multiple aspect ratio flexibility.
Higher Picture Quality with Brightness Upgrade
The dramatic increase in the contrast-ratio and dynamic range was made possible by the newly engineered Pure Contrast Plate technology that effectively blocks unwanted light from the path of projection. In addition, the polarization filter system surrounding the Pure Contrast Plates has been redesigned to achieve the PT-AE3000's higher level of brightness.
Together with a host of carefully engineered Panasonic technologies including the high precision optical lens unit, Dynamic Iris and Smooth Screen technology, the PT-AE3000 truly distinguishes itself against its competition and as a projector solution that home theater enthusiasts will thoroughly enjoy.
Crisp and Clear Details for In-Motion Images
The PT-AE3000 now incorporates a Frame Creation technology that interpolates an additional frame by analyzing the characteristics of two adjacent frames, creating sharp and clear images of fast moving scenes in sports and action movies, especially for large screen viewing. For crisp motion images with high resolution, users may set their frame count preference to 120 frames/1 sec from 60 frames/1 sec for 60Hz video signal input, while 24frames/sec (24p) signals are quadrupled to 96frames/1sec by interpolating three additional frames to allow natural frame-to-frame transitions.
The new and advanced Detail Clarity Processor V2.0 allows the projectors' digital processing engine to extract information of the low, mid, high, and even the super-high frequency components. The ability to apply these different degrees of sharpness permits the PT-AE3000 to reproduce natural, lifelike images with exceptional clarity and three-dimensionality to the smallest details.
The PT-AE3000 comes equipped with professional-level features that let users personalize the images they see on the screen. First, the projector's Split Adjust mode allows users to split the screen into two halves; one to make picture adjustments and one to see those adjustments as a baseline reference. Second, the PT-AE3000's waveform monitor-seen mostly on professional video and film equipment-measures the level of brightness output from a given video signal source. This feature also automatically verifies that the source device is outputting at full dynamic range, and quickly makes adjustments to optimize it for the home theater setting. Users can easily see a graphical representation of any changes made to the unit's color settings.
Ease of Set-up and Use
Many movies come in aspects that are even wider than the projector's 16:9 aspect ratio to match the image size 21:9 seen at movie theaters. More and more projector customers are using the 21:9 wide screens to mirror the movie theater experience. The PT-AE3000 enables users to pre-set three different zoom/focus positions and enables easy recall of those positions with the Lens Memory Load function.
Initial set-up and installation are quick and simple, as the 2.0x zoom can cast a 120-inch diagonal image from as short as 3.6 meters (about 11 feet) to 7 meters (24 feet) from the screen. The projector's lens shift capability enables 100 percent vertical adjustment and 40 percent horizontal adjustment so that viewers can suspend the projector either close to the ceiling or on wall mounts. The lens-centered design and maintenance features such as the replaceable side filter and top lamp, make the projector easy to install and maintain.
The projector is also equipped with an abundant selection of connections; including three HDMI 1.3 inputs and two component input terminals. The three HDMI 1.3 inputs are all Deep Color and x.v.Color compliant. The Deep Color supports 10 bit (over 1.07 billion) and 12 bit (over 68.7 billion) color depths for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations between colors, while the x.v.Color compliance realizes accurate reproduction of actual, true-to-life images.
Eco-Friendly Intelligence
In addition to its outstanding features, the new PT-AE3000 is also an ecologically conscious product. The intelligent power management system within the projector reduces the lamp power to the exact required level of brightness depending on what content is displayed. Other than in scenes where full brightness is required, the lamp intelligently determines the necessary power output by analyzing more than 3 billion different image patterns. This advanced analysis process reduces the main power consumption by as much as 10 percent when the dynamic iris function is in operation, thus saving energy.
Other ecological considerations include an off-timer that reduces wasteful power consumption, as well as an extremely low standby power consumption of 0.08 W[1], which is the lowest in its class.[2]
The Panasonic PT-AE3000 LCD home theater projector will be made in Japan, available starting in October 2008 to authorized presentation systems dealers with an MSRP of $3,499.
To learn more about this projector, please visit http://www.panasonic.com/projectors or http://panasonic.net/pavc/projector/
Lamp-Free DLP Projector coming late 2008
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I've probably found my next projector, if only price is right...
Texas Instruments DLP® Products Demonstrates Innovation Leadership with New Prototypes Including Lamp-Free
Projector DLP unveils the world's first 3-D Front Projector and shows the first DLP Pico chipset product
Texas Instruments at InfoComm DLP® Products introduced the industry's first home theater lamp-free projector
that utilizes a PhlatLight™ LED light source and a BrilliantColor™ chipset. This technology demo delivers a superior
1080p picture for which DLP technology is known, while eliminating maintenance costs such as lamp replacements
and filter changes required by some competing projector products. Multiple DLP customers have plans to develop
DLP lamp-free LED-based projectors, including Optoma, with units expected to ship in late 2008. Similar to the
deployment of DLP Product's now popular BrilliantColor technology, the solid-state, lamp-free innovation will first
be incorporated into home theater units and proliferate through corporate and education product lines thereafter.
Benefits of Lamp-free projectors
- LED are coming from Luminus (120'000 hours lifetime or 13 years!),
- With DLP chipset, more light can reach the screen resulting in a 50% increase in color gamut range producing more
than 200 trillion colors! - Contrast ratio expected in excess of 500,000:1.
- 30% lower power usage
- No cooling or FAN, no dust and cleaning required
- hundreds of euro in savings from lamp purchases.
Visit http://www.luminus.com/ and http://www.dlp.com/
