| * Purpose
These prizes were established with the aim of helping promote
the home entertainment industry in which visual and sound technologies
play a central role. Products embodying outstanding performance,
technology and concept are selected every year from all digital
audio & visual related products of both domestic and foreign
origins manufactured for home entertainment purposes and distributed
in Japan.
* Eligible products
Eligible candidates for the prix are consumer products as listed
below which were produced and distributed in the Japanese market
by manufacturers or importers. Nominated products, whether already
or soon to be on the market, should comply with the purpose
of these prizes. Unreleased new products shall be eligible if
due to be made public by November 17 of this year or put on
the market by the end of this year. No existing products already
awarded a "Visual (Video) Grand Prix" shall be eligible.
* Product Genres
Display
CRT type TVs(wide screen TVs and high definition & multi-scan
monitors), projection TVs, flat TVs(plasma, liquid crystal) |
Large screen hometheater
Projectors(CRT,LCD,D-ILA,DLP,SXRD),screen
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DVD players
DVD players,SACD Universal players |
Digital recorders
Digital Hi-Vision video decks,DVD recorders(including HDD
or VHS hybrid models),HDD recorders,digital videocameras(DV,DVD,MPEG)and
digital still cameras |
Media
Tapes (DV,D-VHS) ,Disks (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM,
Blu-ray) |
Sound
easy home theater systems, speakers systems and subwoofers,multi-channel
sound systems(AV amplifiers & processors, multichannel
amplifiers etc.) |
Home entertainment personal computers
AV personal computers, DVD drives,video boards,sound boards,MPEG2
encoders,media players(streaming,DVD video,MPEG video etc.),software
DVD players
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Hometheater accessories & broadcasting
products
cables,insulator,boards,racks,speaker stands,video printers,digital
tuners,antennas,screens
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* Prizes
After the winner of Grand Prix 2005 is selected from each of
the above genres, products qualified for the following prizes
will also be selected:
*Visual Grand Prix Gold
Prize/Silver Prize/Bronze Prize, Special Jury Prize, Special
Prize
*Home Theater Prize/Hometheater
Accessory Prize
*Software of the Year Prize
* A panel of judges
Critics affiliated with "AV Review" magazine
and leading distributors nationwide
Chairman/Tomohiro Kaiyama
Judges/Hajime Aida, Tsutomu Asano, Chitake Inoue, Hirotsugu
Saito, Kazuo Masuda, Ryoichi Matsuyama, Tadashi Yamanouchi,
Iori Yoshida, Masanori Hayasi, Takaya Murase and Shintaro Ohashi
* Screening method
From a list of nominees from manufacturers and importers,
the winners of genre-specific Grand Prix 2005, three major prizes,
special prizes and other prizes will be selected on the basis
of evaluation by leading distributors nationwide and the consensus
or poll of judges.
* Date of screening
October 25, 2004(Mon)
* Announcement
"AV Review No.119" issued on November 17, 2004
"Hometheater phile Vol.27"issued on December
20,2004
the special edition of "Best Compo 2005" issued
in late January 2005
the December issue of "Senka 21" issued on
November 25, 2004
and "Phile-web"
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