LCD TV and Home Entertainment Development
Gone are the days of the old Cathode Ray Tube television, separate Video Cassette Recorder, Freeview set top box and Cinema Surround Sound systems. Then of course you still needed your separate stereo also to play your CD’s. This resulted in a mass of audio and video cables along with many scart leads. When the original DVD player only came along this added more leads to the mess. The development of the modern home entertainment system has been centred on digital recording and broadcast, high definition picture quality and digital surround sound. Today’s systems are all centred on the modern LCD TV. Because of their slim line widescreen design, built in Freeview decoder and high quality sound they have ensured the modern living room has much more space, with many choosing to mount them on the wall.
With innovators such as Toshiba constantly striving to improve the home entertainment experience the use of powerful integrated processors has meant that old DVD recordings can now be viewed in near high definition quality. A good example is the new Toshiba Regza LCD TV series. Built in multiple HDMI connections enable this TV to be connected to HDDVD or Blu-ray players which provide the highest standard Full HD 1080 picture quality while it can also ‘upscale’ the picture of a standard DVD player to almost HD quality. The quality of the sound also means that these players mean that a separate CD player is no longer needed. With built in Freeview this TV is all that is needed.