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Visual Grand Prix
was launched to promote the home entertainment industry, which
primarily involves sound and images. The selections made serve
as guidelines for users, helping them to select excellent products.
Major shops and makers consider Visual Grand Prix to be highly
influential at the actual point of sale.
Among the domestically-marketed digital AV products manufactured
in Japan and abroad, Visual Grand Prix focuses on those designed
for home entertainment purposes and selects products that embody
superior performance, technologies, and concepts. |
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| Any products that
satisfy each of the following requirements are included in the
screening process: |
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Audiovisual home theater-related consumer
products sold in Japan by the manufacturer or distributor |
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All products self-appointed by the manufacturer
or distributor |
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All products that go on sale on or after
the date of the Visual Grand Prix 2005 screening, which
have not been selected previously in the Visual Grand-Prix
2005 (except for the Golden Long-Run Prize) |
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Display
CRT
type TVs, projection TVs, flat TVs(plasma, liquid crystal) |
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Hometheater
Projectors,screen,hometheater systems |
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Digital players
DVD
players,HD players |
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Digital recorders
digital
Hi-Vision video decks,DVD recorders(including HDD or VHS
hybrid models),HDD recorders,digital video cameras,digital
still cameras |
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Media
tapes,discs |
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Sound
speakers
systems and subwoofers,multi-channel sound systems(AV
amplifiers & processors, multichannel amplifiers etc.) |
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Hometheater accessories
cables,insulator,boards,racks,speaker stands,antennas
etc. |
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| After the winner
of Grand Prix is selected from each of the above genres, products
qualified for the following prizes will also be selected: |
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Visual Grand Prix Gold Prize/Silver
Prize/Bronze Prize |
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Home Theater Prize |
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Special Jury Prize |
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Golden Longrun Prize |
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Chairman/Tomohiro
Kaiyama
Judges/Chitake Inoue,Hirotsugu Saito,Masanori Hayashi,Ryoichi
Matsuyama, Takaya Murase,Tadashi Yamabiychi,Shintaro Ohashi,Mitsuharu
Nagai |
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| 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. |
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| End of May, 2006 |
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June 17,2006
the July issue of"AV Review" issued on June 17,2006
"Hometheater phile Vol.36"issued on June 20,2006
the July issue of "Senka 21" issued on June 25,2006
and "Phile-web","yodobashi.co.jp","avac.co.jp"
etc. |
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| Visual Grand Prix
SUMMER is the first half of the yearfs equivalent to Visual
Grand Prix 2007. Consequently, all products selected are included
in the screening process for Visual Grand Prix 2007. |
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