Yesterday we banged on at length about a trend towards building more stuff into TVs over 2009, I believe there’s also going to be a minor trend towards taking things out as well! In other words, there seems to be more and more interest from manufacturers in taking tuners and AV connections out of the TV screen and putting them instead into external tuner/switching boxes.
Pioneer has already done this with its KRP-500A and KRP-600A plasma screens, as has Philips with its recently reviewed Essence wall-hanging TV. To give you just a few other examples, Sony’s about to do the same thing with its 40ZX1 TV, too; Hitachi’s external tuner boxes for its Ultra-Thin TVs are due any moment; and JVC has a new external tuner box TV, the 42WX70, due to launch in March.
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