Belkin’s house of HDTV
On Friday I was invited to have a poke around Belkin’s promotional HDTV-Ready house and chat to one of their technical experts.Given that Belkin doesn’t make its own HD TVs, HD DVD or Blu-ray players, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Well, it turns out that Belkin has launched a large, new range of Home Cinema accessories, called Pure AV, which have been redesigned from the ground up to serve the HD era.
The basic elements of the range are fancy interconnects like HDMI and DVI cables but alongside that you can get some pretty powerful surge protectors and power consoles (pictured above). The idea is that not only do you protect your wealth of very expensive equipment from a potential soul-destroying lightning strike but you can also clean up your High Definition pictures by giving ‘clean’ power to all of your HD kit.
Everything I was shown was, needless to say, pretty impressive and if Belkin is proved correct then it looks like HDTV may bring ‘videophilia’ into the mainstream. Certainly it looks like you can lose a lot of your HDTV’s potential simply by relying on cheap, out-of-the-box cables.
Belkin also had an interesting gadget on show called the RazorVision. You plug it in between your video source and TV (it is compatible with DVI and HDMI) and it provides intelligent contrast adjustments to the picture as it passes through. Again, on Belkin’s demo rig it looked great, but give me a few days to try it out myself and I’ll let you know how it goes.
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