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Author: Big Cheese, Technology News Bytes
Published: Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008

LG LHT888 Home Theater System
Originally previewed at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, LG’s newest home theater audio system features enhanced sound quality and touch sensing controls. The system offers a slim and elegant form, wireless rear speakers that eliminate the need to run wires throughout the room, 700w 5.1-channel DVD receiver, 1080p up-scaling via HDMI, USB Media Plus as well as LG SimpLink multi-device control (HDMI-CEC) and playback compatibility with MP3, JPEG and MPEG file formats. Suggested retail price is $649.95.

Sony Organic LED
Sony’s OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TV, the XEL-1, is truly the next big thing in television technology. It boasts a three-millimeter thin panel and offers unparalleled picture quality with amazing contrast, outstanding brightness, exceptional color reproduction, and a rapid response time. OLED technology can completely turn off pixels when reproducing black, resulting in more outstanding dark scene detail and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. OLED also creates unmatched color expression and detail and enables rapid response times for smooth and natural reproduction of fast moving images like those found in sports and action movies.
The XEL-1 features the latest connectivity options including two HDMI inputs, a digital tuner, and a memory stick media slot for viewing high-resolution photos. Suggested retail price is $2,499.99.

Sanyo Xacti HD 1010
Like the Xacti HD1 before it, Sanyo’s new Xacti HD 1010 ($800; July) offers small-bodied HD (this time in 1080i) recording. It features face detection for up to 12 people at a time, a 300fps slow-motion video mode, a 10x optical zoom lens, image stabilization, and a 2.7” LCD. Video is stored on SD or SDHC cards, and the HD 1010 also takes 4-megamixel still photos. It’s an HD powerhouse that fits in your pocket. Suggested retail price is $800.00.

Exilim Pro EX-F1
Honored as one of the top 20 products at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, this model incorporates a high speed CMOS sensor and a high speed LSI processor. With this model, Casio achieved an ultra-high speed 60 frames per second (fps) burst rate for still images, together with 1,200 fps high speed movie recording that captures movement faster that the eye can see for ultra-sow motion replay. Moreover, the new model can record movies at full high-definition. Suggested retail price is $999.99.

D-Box Home Gaming Chair GP-100
This system propels you deeper into the game, responding in real time to all your maneuvers at the controls and to all the action on screen. Miles beyond any home gaming systems on the market, this system creates total realism and even captures the surge up to two Gs of acceleration. Your interactive experience is intensified like you’re right inside the game. Lunar Racing Championship brings you behind the wheel of a racecar. You feel all the acceleration, the swerves, road surfaces, skids, and every other movement imaginable. Meanwhile, Microsoft Flight Sim puts you at the cockpit controls of a flight simulator. It’s the true-to-life motion and sensations of engine pitch, vibration, rough turbulence, and collisions that take you inside the action. Suggested retail price is $15,000.