Hitachi Ultravision 42HDS69 42" Plasma HDTV

Hitachi Ultravision 42HDS69 42

Hitachi Ultravision 42HDS69 42" Plasma HDTV
Manufacturer: Hitachi
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Product Description
Get the most out of your high-definition plasma television purchase with the 42-inch Hitachi 42HDS69, which offers a wealth of advanced technological features that will ensure superior picture and audio performance for years to come. Its blend of refined aesthetics is ideal for any home while its fully high-definition display--with 1080 vertical lines of interlaced resolution--provides stunningly vivid and colorful entertainment. The set's built-in ATSC (DTV) tuner pulls HD signals (480p/720p/1080i) right from the airwaves, and its QAM tuner is fully compatible with unscrambled HDTV cable reception. The set's CableCARD port means the set will also receive digital cable television systems services directly from a compatible cable operator without requiring a bulky, external cable box. A standard analog NTSC tuner receives standard-definition (SD) programming. It comes with a manual swivel tabletop stand.

Plasma display technology offers the widest viewing angle of any type of television. The wide viewing angle makes plasma the ultimate choice for wall mounted television. Plasma television performance is also exceptional for producing high quality images of fast motion content, like sports programming.

Hitachi's original ALiS (Alternate Lighting of Surfaces) technology minimizes the barriers between picture elements or pixels to deliver a smoother, more film-like picture. Using more than one million pixels, ALiS can reproduce more detail than any plasma in its class. ALiS is also unique in that it is designed to match closely to the 1080i HDTV system for a sharp, smooth and seamless image.

This set's video is powered by the PictureMaster HD III processing technology, which features third-generation 1080p processing and new histogram processing for enhanced contrast, sharpness, and color for a clearer, sharper picture. It also offers extended color capabilities to reproduce the purest reds, greens and blues, a maximum 16-bit/281 trillion color capability, and a 16 percent brighter panel.

The 4 MB, 10-bit digital 3D Y/C comb filter separates brightness and color signals better in 3D domain to eliminate cross-color, cross-luminance and dot-crawl distortion. It performs field-by-field comparisons of the television image to accurately separate the color from the black-and-white information and remove both horizontally and vertically hanging dots, as well as dot crawl, resulting in a razor sharp image. This set also performs automatic 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture.

The 42HDS69 has a 1024 x 1080-pixel resolution, three color temperature settings, four-step black enhancement, multiple aspect ratio formats (four HD, six SD), and split-screen/picture-in-picture functionality. The anti-reflective, high-contrast screen effectively absorbs ambient room light, reducing reflections and producing richer blacks, vibrant color and increased detail in shadows and highlights. Other convenience features include on/sleep timers, closed caption decoder, V-Chip parental controls, several screensavers, and three-language on-screen display (English, French, Spanish).

It has a three-way, 36-watt speaker system that can produce simulated surround sound and a bass boost. The set can also be used as a center-channel speaker in a full surround sound system. It includes the following video and audio connections:

Composite A/V: 4 rear, 1 side
S-Video: 2 rear
Component Video: 2 rear, 1 side
HDMI: 2 rear, 1 side
RF: 1
Digital audio output: 1 optical

Tech Talk
HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).

What's in the Box
Plasma TV, remote control (with batteries), manual swivel tabletop stand, printed operating instructions
Product Description
The Hitachi UltraVision 42 Plasma HDTV produces a superior picture. It utilizes the most advanced plasma technologies to produce a truly cinematic home viewing experience. Innovative Wide Aperture Pixel technology maximizes the pixel aperture to deliver a smooth film-like image. The exclusive 1080P III Video Processor reduces video noise to a minimum, recreating the smooth curves and high fidelity image of film. Utilizing a state-of-the-art HDMI connection, the 42HDS69 produces higher quality digital images. Overall, it's a blend of refined aesthetics and original technologies that is ideal for any home. Pure HDTV Blue 68 billion color capability Dynamic Contrast Automatic 3 - 2 film processing 4 HD aspect modes, 6 SD aspect modes 1080i/720p/480p/480i compatible HDTV(ATSC) and NTSC tuner Digital cable ready (QAM) 4-step black enhancement 10-bit digital 4MB 3D Y/C Comb Filter MTS Stereo/SAP with dbx Simulated Surround Bass Boost CableCARD compatible 3 HDMI and 3 Component inputs (2 rear, 1 side) Inputs/Outputs - Wideband Component Video (2 rear, 1 side), AV inputs (4 rear, 1 side), RF in, Center Channel in, Optical Digital out, Fixed/Variable out 36-watt 3-Way Speaker System Mute & soft mute functions On/sleep timers TV-as-Center Speaker (L/Mono) Closed Caption decoder Parental Locks (V-Chip) Anti-reflective glass screen Manual swivel tabletop stand Preprogrammed remote control Color - Silver Unit Dimensions(Monitor With Stand - HxWxD) - 28-1/8 x 44-5/8 x 14-1/2

Average customer rating: 3.0

Excellent laptop for the price
The Worst Computer Ever
Very good machine, solid and fast

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Compaq Presario V6110US 15.4" Notebook PC (AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-50, 512 MB RAM, 100 GB Hard Drive, LightScribe Drive)

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Office
Product Group: Personal Computer
Binding: Personal Computers
ASIN: B000INWYYE

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Amazon.com Product Description

Take your digital life on the road with the HP Compaq Presario V6110US notebook PC, a great choice for a desktop replacement for your mobile office. It features a centerpiece 15.4-inch high-definition BrightView LCD with a widescreen aspect ratio. It's also a multi-media workhorse, with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 video/graphics card (up to 128 MB of shared video RAM), Windows Media Center operating system, HP's Photosmart Premier image editing/management software, and a LightScribe DVD/CD that can label discs after they're burned. Optimized for mobile performance, this 6.6-pound notebook is powered by the 1.6 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 dual-core processor, which offers 64-bit computing capability and higher throughput for simultaneous computing tasks. Other features include an 100 GB hard drive, 512 MB of installed DDR2 RAM (2 GB maximum), integrated 54g Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g), and an ExpressCard 34/54 slot. This is a Windows Vista capable PC.

The Basics
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Hard Drive: The 100 GB hard drive (5400 RPM) is slightly above average in size for notebook PCs, and it's roomy enough to store business productivity applications, all your important documents and presentations, and a good-sized digital audio and video library. This SATA hard drive also quickens the pace with a higher speed transfer of data--akin to FireWire and USB 2.0.

Processor: The 1.6 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 processor offers a dual-core architecture, which delivers additional computing resources to help expand your PC's capabilities by providing higher throughput and simultaneous computing--increasing your performance by up to 80 percent. You'll be able to perform multiple tasks such as digital rendering and gaming all while running virus scan or other background tasks seamlessly thanks to the innovative Direct Connect Architecture. And it's designed to handle simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing with no degradation in performance. You'll enjoy long battery life thanks to the AMD PowerNow! power management technology, which delivers performance on demand and can extend system battery life up to 65 percent. And the AMD Digital Media XPress technology delivers stellar multimedia performance and playback on digital entertainment such as games, streaming video and audio, DVDs, and music.

Each processing core has a 256 KB L2 cache (for a 512 KB total), and this processor can deliver up to a 1600 MHz system bus for lightning quick computing reflexes. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will deliver better overall performance.)

Memory: The 512 MB of installed RAM is enough to get you started, but you'll want to add more RAM to handle today's demanding multimedia and productivity suites. It has a 2 GB maximum RAM capacity.

CD/DVD Drive: Offering the latest in DVD writing technology, the multiformat DVD/CD drive is compatible with writing both DVD+ and DVD- disc formats as well as dual-layer (DL) DVD+/-R discs, which can store up to 8.5 GB of data. It features 4x DVD-R DL Write Once, 2.4x DVD+R DL Write Once, 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD+RW, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD-RW, 16x DVD-ROM, 40x CD-R, 24x CD-RW, and 40x CD-ROM speeds.

This LightScribe DVD+/-RW drive lets you laser-etch silkscreen quality text and images on to CDs and DVDs . Your software, PC and discs work together for a no-hassle way to burn just the labels you want. After you burn content, just flip the disc over, reinsert and burn your label--anything from a simple title to a full-disc work of art.

Keyboard & Mouse: This notebook has a full-sized 101-key keyboard and touchpad with four-way scroll zone on/off button and dedicated vertical scroll up/down pad. </ul> Screen, Graphics and Sound
The 15.4-inch LCD offers a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The widescreen display gives increases the width of the notebook's display while giving the computer the form factor of a smaller computer, so it takes up less space on your desk or in your briefcase. Video is powered by an integrated Nvidia GeForce 6150 graphics/video card with up to 128 MB of shared video memory. It features NVidia's PureVideo technology--which provides great picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for video content--and full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 for stunningly realistic cinematic effects for all DirectX-compatible applications. It also offers an integrated audio card and built-in Altec Lansing speakers.

Connectivity and Expansion Slots
This notebook has an integrated 54g wireless LAN that's fully compatible with 802.11b/g wireless networks. Be ready for the next generation of faster, lighter security, storage, wireless, and networking PC Card expansion products with the ExpressCard/54 slot. You get a basic offering of connectivity options, which does not include FireWire: <ul>

2 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a wide range of peripherals--from digital cameras to MP3 players

1 VGA monitor port

1 S-Video port for connecting to a TV

1 ExpressCard 54/34

1 headphone jack and 1 microphone jack

1 notebook expansion port

1 consumer IR (infrared) </ul> It also has an integrated 56K modem (V.90) and an RJ-45 LAN network port (for a 10/100 Ethernet connection to networks and DSL/cable modems).

Preloaded System and Software
The pre-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is essentially Windows XP Professional Edition with a variety of tools to help you to create, organize, and enjoy digital media ranging from music to home movies to photo slide shows. It also comes preloaded with Microsoft Works (for working with word processing and spreadsheet documents), Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006 (with 60 days of LiveUpdate), Encarta Encyclopedia Plus, Quicken New User Edition 2006, PC Recovery, Microsoft Money 2006, Sonic DigitalMedia Plus, Muvee AutoProducer DVD Edition, Vongo, and HP Photosmart Premier for digital image editing and organizing.

Dimensions and Weight
This notebook measures 14.05 x 10.12 x 1.56 inches (WxHxD) and weighs 6.6 pounds.

Power
This notebook is powered by a 6-cell rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which offers up to 2 hours of battery life (dependent upon computing conditions).

What's in the Box
This package contains the Compaq Presario V6110US notebook PC, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and operating instructions. It is backed by a limited warranty for parts and labor for one year from date of purchase as well as technical telephone assistance for one year. Software is also covered for 30 days from date of purchase.

Product Description

This attractive, sleek Compaq Presario V6000 Notebook PC series gives you no-compromise power at a great price. It offers all the performance of a desktop PC, but with complete mobility.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent laptop for the price.......2007-06-10

This laptop is an excellent value for the price. It looks sleek and the processor is fast enough for everyday uses.

Another important factor is this laptop runs XP, very important if you are looking for a stable OS while Vista is still new. The installed Windows XP Media Center edition is a version of XP Pro SP2. It is also Vista ready if you choose to upgrade someday.

Pros and cons:
+ large an clear (wide) screen
+ DVD burner
+ sleek finish
+ Windows XP
- No bluetooth, mic, webcam
- could use more RAM

The Worst Computer Ever.......2007-05-11

I was too poor to pay for an expensive computer and too impatient to wait for a Dell to be delivered, so I bought a Compaq Presario. It was one of the worst choices I've ever made. The computer is slow, slow, slow--and right after the guarantee expired, everything that could go wrong, did. First, my keyboard started having trouble, and one entire line of the keyboard died: so I had no `9,' `o,' `l' or periods.

Then the computer stopped charging. First I thought it was the charger, so I got a new one. Nothing. Then I was told it was the battery. I got a new one. Still not working. So now I have a computer that has no power, all my information is stuck in my dead laptop, and I have made a resolution to never, ever, buy any product from Compaq.

Very good machine, solid and fast.......2007-03-09

I bought this computer as an act of despair when I came to the US late in January and found that the all the retailers had their laptop shelves empty, waiting for the impending arrival of Vista equipped machines. Having no enthusiasm with the new OS, I looked in Amazon as a last ditch attempt to procure one with Win XP still installed. I got the Compaq Presario V6110US.
The machine itself is a very good one. Cute, sturdy, with a well integrated hardware and a bright, sharp screen. I have found no problems or incompatibilities with its components or with the accessories I plug in (No hang ups, no blue screens of death, just plug and play). It connects on LAN and wireless perfectly. Good speed, even with number crunching applications. By the way, this computer comes with 512mb of memory and occupies the two available memory sockets with 256mb dimms. If you want to upgrade, you will need to discard one or both of the original memory banks. Something I didn't like was that it came crammed with preinstalled shovelware of little or doubtful usefulness, at least for me. I needed to uninstall it at the risk of disabling a vital application.
In resume, this is a very good machine and I'm very pleased with it. I just wish its battery could last longer.

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