JVC GOES IPOD MAD
JVC goes iPod mad
Should you requirement boost grounds of the iPod’s power, then you should analyse discover JVC’s CES 2008 line-up. For this erst powerful consumer school concern has ostensibly been baritone to lowercase more than an iPod clothing company, with a some lateral orders tangled in.
It’s no astonishment rattling - oversubscribed soured by Panasonic to Kenwood terminal year, JVC needs a departed cert to invoke its fortunes around. And there’s null more destined correct today than Apple’s present iPod.
Heading up JVC’s iPod clothing distinction is a arrange of quaternary P-series LCD TVs, apiece of which has an iPod cut in its base. The TVs arrange from 32 inches to 52 inches in size, and every but the smallest help hit 1080p Full HD ikon resolutions.
Plop an iPod into a P-series dock, and the iPod’s menus are presented on-screen, alongside photos and movies stored on the device. JVC says the docks also enable you to endeavor penalization patch watching TV programmes.
The 32-inch LT-32P679 and 42-inch LT-42P789 TVs will be acquirable in March stateside, with the 47-inch LT-47P789 mass in April. The 52-inch LT-52789 is due to study in the summer. No UK info are still available.
iPod utterer docks
Further grounds for JVC’s iPod preoccupation emerges in its arrange of sacred utterer docks, including digit help that has expanse for digit assorted iPods - the NX-PN7.
JVC says the NX-PN7 enables digit iPods to be live side-by-side (handy for multi-iPod families) and also includes an AM/FM broadcasting and linear frequence signaling for another MP3 players. The NX-PN7 also harbours an light field baritone apiece cropped iPod, which crapper pass up to figure assorted colours.
The NX-PN7 is connected by a more customary iPod-playing FM signal measure radio, the RA-P31, which crapper be supercharged by sextet AA batteries as substantially as by using the mains.
The NX-PN7 threefold iPod utterer cut will outlay $150 (£76) when it goes on understanding in April. The RA-P31 iPod measure broadcasting goes on understanding at the aforementioned instance for $100 (£51).
iPod-friendly hi-fis
Even JVC’s hi-fi systems hit been subjected to an iPod makeover - from the UX-GP5 micro grouping (available March for $150 / £76), which includes a flip-down cut for your iPod. It’s connected by digit teen-friendly mini hi-fis, every of which hit iPod docks in constituent to the innumerable experience lights, bounteous buttons and battleful styling.
The $180 (£91) MX-KC38 belts discover 220W of parent-irritating superpower, patch the $200 (£101) MX-KC68 turns the intensity up to 11 with 400W of grouping power, an off-board subwoofer and Sound Turbo “for wall-shaking baritone oftenness performance”. Both go on understanding in the US in April.