Shaun
June 28th 03, 04:07 AM
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 02:06:43 GMT, "SAR I" > wrote:
>Met with a VP from Philips today who informed me of the following:
No Sir, that's an screen actors guild card ! Another back booth
meeting at CES ?!
>1. Plasma is being phased out and will be unavailable from any Philips
>division by 2005 due to customer disatisfaction.
>2. Philips is the largest supplier of LCD panels in the world, and is
>currently supplying Sony theirs in an attempt to bring production even
>higher and prices even lower.
>
>3. Philips is going to grow its LCD and LCOS technology in 2004.
>
>4. The Hughes DTV/Tivo/HD box has officially been delayed until January.
>This will record HDTV, contrary to reports you may have read.
>
>5. This same box will receive its local HD content over-the-air and not via
>DTV as I reported earlier (sorry). The box will record this OTA HD signal
>which is very good news.
>
>6. This box also will have a completely integrated program guide for cable,
>HD, and DTV programming making it a simple one-remote affair.
Like every other guide in an HD receiver, yawn...big news Scotty !
When you buy your first HD receiver you'll realize that.
>Met with a VP from Philips today who informed me of the following:
No Sir, that's an screen actors guild card ! Another back booth
meeting at CES ?!
>1. Plasma is being phased out and will be unavailable from any Philips
>division by 2005 due to customer disatisfaction.
>2. Philips is the largest supplier of LCD panels in the world, and is
>currently supplying Sony theirs in an attempt to bring production even
>higher and prices even lower.
>
>3. Philips is going to grow its LCD and LCOS technology in 2004.
>
>4. The Hughes DTV/Tivo/HD box has officially been delayed until January.
>This will record HDTV, contrary to reports you may have read.
>
>5. This same box will receive its local HD content over-the-air and not via
>DTV as I reported earlier (sorry). The box will record this OTA HD signal
>which is very good news.
>
>6. This box also will have a completely integrated program guide for cable,
>HD, and DTV programming making it a simple one-remote affair.
Like every other guide in an HD receiver, yawn...big news Scotty !
When you buy your first HD receiver you'll realize that.