Captain’s Log: Star Date CEDIA 2006 - Spent $600K & Cablecards Still Won’t Communicate With Transporter

September 22nd, 2006 Davis Posted in Movies, TV |

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The Home Theater blog has done a great job of covering developments at CEDIA all week long, but the highlight for me has been their link to the CEDIA electronic lifestyle awards. This is a list of 19 of the best home theater set ups out there and features photos and details of what the ultimate home theater fans are buying, when money is no object. These set ups range on the low end at $40,000 and on the high end will cost upwards of $600,000 for home theater enthusiasts. The prices may be out of this world, but the electronic gadgetry is very impressive.

While the amazing Death Star home theater isn’t featured on the list, there is a Star Trek replica home theater. One thing that really surprised me about the list was the number of high end digital projectors that were being used instead of big screen TVs. I’ve only seen a couple of digital projectors in the real world and have never been all that impressed with the quality. While the projectors I’ve seen have been on the low end, I’m still skeptical that a projector can replicate HDTV in the same way that a flat screen TV can. On the other hand, even if you were willing to spend the $45,000 on Samsung’s very sexy new plasma, it would still only give you 102 inches of screen. While this would likely be plenty for most people, it’s still a little bit short of my dream TV experience.