Sharp Mebius PC-TX32 HTPC Desktops / Sharp Posted by zmcnulty on Jun 09, 2005 - 12:35 PM |
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Sharp has a new type of Mebius on the horizon -- the home theater version. The "Mebius PC-TX32" includes a 32" LCD, doubles as a hybrid recorder, and appears to offer all sorts of nifty HTPC functionality. More details inside. Sharp announced the "Mebius PC-TX32J" three-in-one LCD TV/DVD recorder with internal hard drive/desktop PC, and will release it in late June. It is Open Price, but estimates put it around 330,000 yen. The PC-TX32J is an AV center PC that uses an AV-style case for the machine itself and provides a 32" LCD TV as a display. It uses a Celeron D 335 processor (2.8GHz), 512MB of DDR SDRAM, a 250GB hard drive, and has a DVD Super Multi drive with dual layer support. Not only does the display itself have its own TV tuner for viewing TV without powering up the computer, but the computer has a TV tuner PCI card. This offers refined TV playback with high quality circuitry, allowing for now only rich watching of TV but recording as well. The included 32" LCD TV has a response rate of 12ms, brightness of 500cd/m2, and a contrast ratio of 800:1...and is named the "Kameyama Panel" (a panel produced at Sharp's Kameyama Plant in Mie Prefecture's Kameyama City). The "Brightness Sensor" allows for optimal brightness adjustments depending on the viewing environment, while the "Image Quality Preset Mode" can automatically adjust image quality depending on video source (such as TV, DVD, or Movie). The TV itself offers a 3D Y/C filter, noise reduction, ghost reduction, and other such image quality refinement tools. The display of different screens has been improved versus the multi-screen function of previous models, where this model supports "TV in PC" to allow for a small TV screen inside of a PC screen, or "PC in TV" offering just the opposite. The remote controller also has been improved versus AV PCs, offering a button to go directly to the program guide, directly to the recording list, giving the entire setup a seamless feel not normally achievable through similar setups.
Inspired by: http://www.itmedia.co.jp/pcupdate/articles/0506/09/news007.html [1] Press Release: http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/050609-b.html [2] |
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This article is from TechJapan http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=991 Links in this article [1] http://www.itmedia.co.jp/pcupdate/articles/0506/09/news007.html [2] http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/050609-b.html |
