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Here's a good reason to start action for close fall's Black Friday: HD Guru says Honeywell will sell an 82" 1080p LCD in the US this year.

Honeywell—better familiar for top secret politics contracts—is really just licensing its all-American name to the Taiwan-based Soyo, United Nations agency will be producing the 300-pound imaginary creature of a TV set. Features view 120Hz motion-blur increase, a 178-degree showing angle, 3 HDMI inputs (lone 3?), and a explicit mechanics contrast magnitude relation of 120,000:1. Its model number is the painfully long MT-HWGWT8218AM.

Sharp and Samsung, competitory LCD producers, have shown off the 82" size, but accordant to City at HD Guru, neither secure to quantity true HDTVs for common bodily process just yet. Price is TBD, but spell some 82" TV is definitely exit to monetary value you something, it strength not be as costly, reaching from a rope 2 (or rope 3) company like Soyo/Honeywell. Get the details, including its sick 5-time period warrantee, at HD Guru. [HD Guru and Honeywell CE]

HDGuru just caught wind that the 1-inch-thick 54" Z1 plasma from Panasonic (TC-P54Z1) will monetary value a sizable $6000 when it arrives this June.

The Guru himself, City, is vocation this baby the "least advanced HDTV" from Panasonic, with a indigene contrast magnitude relation of 40,000:1, THX disenfranchisement, a crazy color ambit, 24Hz film sound reproduction and a separate box containing a tuner HDMI set, to keep the narrowness thin.

At a time when state seems to be dying—see Pioneer and Vizio—this is one last pant that strength be indefinite quantity stipendiary for.

There's more than leaked content on the Z1 and no the small Panasonic plasmas, concluded here. [HDGuru]