The huge success of iPods has pressured other players' in the local market, including Taiwan's Micro-Star International Co (微星), Japan's Sony Corp, South Korea's MPIO and Singapore's Creative Technology Ltd.īut it seems that the tough MP3 player war has failed to deter newcomers from trying their luck, as both ( 飛行網) and ViewSonic International Corp ( 優派) unveiled their first slew of MP3 players last month. The latest example was when the Chrysler Group announced early this month that starting this spring, most of the Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles to be introduced this year will come with an optional integration support for iPods through the car's audio system. The iPod economy continues to flourish with accessories made specifically for iPods including fashion cases, headphones, armbands, speaker systems and car integration kits. On a Sunday morning last September, hordes of fans lined up as early as 9am in front of the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store ( 新光三越) in Taipei's Xinyi District, when Apple launched its iPod Nano.Īll 100 units of the gadget were snapped up shortly after the sale began at 3:30pm. This is especially true of the successful Apple iPod series and iTunes online music store, as local consumers have not escaped from the global iPod craze either. "To outwit rivals in the MP3 player market, vendors not only need to come up with gadgets with unique designs and fashionable related peripherals, they should also bear in mind that offering online digital music platforms will be the key to bringing in extra revenue," it said. It was a smart move for BenQ to avoid the stiff MP3 player competition, and instead devote more resources to the development and marketing of its new MP3 player handsets, said the Taipei-based research house. "BenQ is most probably banking on the potential of upcoming handsets bundled with an MP3 player feature, which might replace current pure MP3 players with storage of 1GB and less," said a research note released by the Topology Research Institute ( 拓墣產業研究所). This rolloff did not appear to affect the quality of the Pioneer’s color on real program sources.The Joybee series from BenQ were once the top-selling MP3 players in the local market. At the highest burst frequency, the horizontal chroma resolution was satisfactory, but the vertical chroma resolution at the same maximum frequency was poor. But the chroma (color) response was more limited. The luma response was first class up to the limit of our resolution test patterns. And it handled our HD deinterlacing tests (1080i-to-1080p), both film- and video-based, as flawlessly as any display I’ve tested. (The upconversion on Pioneer’s own DV-79AVi universal DVD player was superior on these tests.) But the set’s performance was acceptable on my standard assortment of real-world 480i test material. The Pioneer’s 480i-to-1080p upconversion of standard-def sources showed a mixed performance, with some jaggies on dedicated test patterns and an inconsistent lock on 3:2 pulldown. It’s very close to the ATSC color standard (the black triangle), apart from a slightly desaturated green. In addition, the white triangle in the pie-shaped CIE chart, above, shows the set’s color space in the Color Space 2 setting (Pure mode). Post calibration, the result deviates from nearly perfect compliance only at the darkest end of the brightness range, below 30 IRE. The pre-calibration result is for the Mid-Low Color Temp setting. The Color Tracking charts above show how closely a display adheres to the D65 standard white point the tighter the overlap of the three primary colors, the better the result. ![]() In comparison, the window-pattern contrast ratio of the PDP-6010 (Pioneer’s non-Elite 60-inch model reviewed at ) measured 9,295:1 (37.18 ft-L peak white, 0.004 ft-L video black).Įven without the use of the ISF CCC setup feature, the PRO-150FD calibrated extremely well. All plasmas dim their output, to remain within the capabilities of their power supplies, as the average picture brightness level increases. Even the full-screen white contrast ratio measured 18,220:1 (18.22 ft-L peak white, 0.001 ft-L video black). Using a window pattern, I measured a peak contrast ratio of 44,160:1 (that’s not a typo) with an astonishing black level of 0.001 foot-lamberts-the minimum sensitivity of our lab-grade Minolta light meter. HT Labs Measures: Pioneer KURO PRO-150FD Plasma HDTVĬontrast Ratio: Full-On/Full Off 44,160:1Īll of the measurements were taken in the Pure mode, adjusted for the most accurate picture.
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