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Meridian Shows HD Processor and Projector, and High-End Installation Speakers (1/6/2006)

Stand E7, CEDIA UK Expo 2006

Showing the fruits of its development tie-up with Faroudja announced last summer, Meridian is now shipping two brand new high-end digital video projector/processor combinations called 'MF1 and 'MF2.

Both the flagship D-ILA1080MF1 projector and its more affordable stablemate, the D-ILA1080MF2 are 'full spec HD' devices employing three 1920x1080 chips for smooth, flicker-free high resolution images with no visible grid. Meridian calibrates each projector individually in its UK factory using proprietary firmware, techniques and optical equipment employed in a newly-constructed calibration laboratory at the company's Huntingdon facility. The partnering video processor for these native 1080p D-ILA projectors is Meridian's Faroudja DVP1080MF, containing the entire suite of Faroudja's patented technologies for colour reproduction and motion adaptive de-interlacing with DCDi and 3:2 pulldown, upconverting standard analogue and digital inputs to a high-resolution, HDCP-compliant 1080p signal transmitted via DVI-D to the projector(s). Meridian boasts 'cinema-quality pictures with film-like authenticity' from these projector/processor combinations, with professional-standard greyscale reproduction, superior colour performance with true D65 colour temperature, and near-perfect white field uniformity to provide optimal picture reproduction from projector to projector.

Also new from Meridian is a series of high-end installation speakers, designed to deliver high fidelity sound in rooms where the use of free-standing loudspeakers is impossible or inappropriate. Over two years in development, the 300 Series of in-wall and on-wall loudspeakers are available with or without crossovers, the active models being driven by an accompanying active crossover unit called G41. G41 is an eight channel power amplifier (8 x 100W into 8 Ohms) with modular active crossovers, configured via cards supplied with each speaker. Typical for Meridian, attention to detail is evident in the G41's amplifiers having a negative output impedance, to help minimise the adverse effect of the typically long runs of speaker cables that are inevitable in custom installations. A rear-panel selector switch provides two settings: 'short' (less than 10 metres) and 'long'. Further attention to detail is shown by the fact that the in-wall models are available with white cloth grilles and surface grilles for painting, or they are available in 'flush mount' versions - without grilles - facilitating custom wall surface treatments in bespoke custom installations.

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