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You know how moviegoers are always complaining about the amount of vampire movies being made on a yearly basis in Hollywood? Here's another one.Directed by Timur Bekmambetov and based on Seth Grahame-Smith's novel of the same name, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” stars Benjamin Walker as the m... |
14 February 2012
11:09 GMT |
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LG may not be making the same choices as Samsung in regards to its OLED TV, but that does not mean it is slacking off, as its newest product announcement all too clearly shows. The company has announced the impending availability of a new, special monitor, bearing the name of D2500N-PN. The name alone does not exa... |
14 February 2012
04:16 GMT |
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There is a new 3D technology in town, though it isn't so much a new 3D panel as it is a means to turn a regular 2D laptop screen into a 3D display.
Basically, Spatial View has created the 3DeeScreen, a display meant to be installed over the 2D LCD of a 15.6-inch laptop.
As long as the mobile personal computer... |
7 February 2012
08:34 GMT |
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A new trailer for the upcoming “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the fourth film on the beloved superhero that will hopefully reboot the franchise, has just been released. Check it out in full in HD above. The new film will take place before the other 3, telling the story of a Peter Parker / Spider-Man who is sti... |
7 February 2012
06:07 GMT |
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It wasn't long ago that Vizio first unveiled its massive series of CinemaWide TVs and, now, it looks like the time when sales begin is drawing closer and closer.
Vizio was present at this year's edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2012, so it put a few things on display in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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2 February 2012
08:19 GMT |
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2012 is bound to see the appearance of at least several display product lines with resolutions that go beyond the Full HD image quality, and Toshiba is proving to be quite fast on its feet, so to speak.
Toshiba has begun mass producing its series of 3D TVs that feature glasses-free technology and a native resolutio... |
1 February 2012
03:29 GMT |
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As far as features are concerned, the freshly released PowerDVD 12 is quite impressive. CyberLink equipped the latest release of their Blu-ray and media player with more than 30 new features and extends the list of supported formats (lossless FLAC and OGG and MK3D included).
Among the most notable modifications ther... |
31 January 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Development for Google Earth progresses with the release of a new version that introduces plenty of improvements and new features. The current build is in beta, so smoothing of the rough edges should ensue.Google Earth 6.2.0.5905 beta enhances the search function by enabling autocomplete feature and search layers (yo... |
27 January 2012
03:40 GMT |
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LG is serious about its effort to help turn 3D into a more readily available technology, so it went ahead and built, among other things, the A540 notebook.
The A540 is one of those laptops that possesses every trait needed to make people reconsider their view that a laptop should be as thin and light as possible.
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23 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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After a relatively long hiatus and plenty of anxiety for fans of the franchise, Screen Gems has finally rolled out another “Underworld” film, the fourth: “Underworld: Awakening.” Kate Beckinsale is back as the breathtakingly beautiful vampire Selene, but the rules of the war have changed drast... |
21 January 2012
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The first official trailer for the fifth “Resident Evil” film has just dropped at Yahoo! Movies. Called “Retribution,” it will see the return of Alice and her never-ending fight to escape flesh-eating zombies. Though received with very poor reviews by the critics, “Afterlife,” the ... |
20 January 2012
05:33 GMT |
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With all the CES 2012 hubbub, we initially missed the latest announcement of the Bluetooth special interest group (SIG), but the currents of the world wide web are not so easily curbed.
What the Bluetooth SIG made a point of spreading word about was the release of the first specification for its wireless active 3D ... |
19 January 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Not long ago, Disney announced it would be re-releasing in 3D some of its most successful films. “Finding Nemo” was also on the list – and we know have a short teaser trailer for it.Not only was “Nemo” a good film with a good story and well-defined characters, but it also introduced the ... |
12 January 2012
06:24 GMT |
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Video game site Gamespot is quoting unnamed sources inside Microsoft to suggest that the new yet announced but much rumored Xbox 720 home console from the company will be built around a tablet concept.The source does not offer much information on the tablet or what features it will sport but talks about the desire of... |
10 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Looks like Sharp is trying to spread its reach as far as possible, having prepared more than 'just' an 80-inch display.
Since the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) has finally kicked off, Sharp has begun officially unveiling its products.
Needless to say, there are quite a few thin... |
10 January 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Like so many other companies, Lenovo will be present at this year's CES, one of its products being a special Smart TV that runs the latest version of Android. IT companies seldom miss an opportunity to claim that one their devices is the world's best in one or more areas, or the first to exhibit a certain... |
9 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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On January 13, 2012, Disney will premiere “Beauty and the Beast” in 3D. As a special treat to fans, each screening will be preceded by a short film called “Tangled Ever After,” a preview of which you can see above. As if mention still must be made, “Tangled Ever After” is Disney�... |
7 January 2012
07:07 GMT |
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As the release date for “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” is drawing near, we're being treated to a new trailer for it, meant to convince us to check it out in theaters when it's out. See it above in full.
The sequel to the critically panned “Ghost Rider,” which came out years ag... |
7 January 2012
06:26 GMT |
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After looking at the Super Ultrabooks, an All-in-One 3D PC and even a Glasses-Free 3D Laptop now we finally get to the P535 notebook.
In part, the P535 is similar to the A540: they are both 15.6-inch notebooks, they both have 3D support and neither settles for the integrated Intel HD graphics.
Granted, buyers of ... |
5 January 2012
19:01 GMT |
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LG is going to bring out all the guns at the upcoming CES trade show, or enough of them so that onlookers won't easily be able to tell the difference.
Of course, once they lay eyes on the A540 notebook, they may forget all about LG's other products, for a while at least.
This is one of those notebooks wh... |
5 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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LG, like so many others, plans to make the best of this year's CES trade show, so it has many things prepared, like an All-in-One PC called V300.
Unlike most of its kind, it features support for 3D, via the Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology.
The IPS display has a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pi... |
5 January 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The trick with 3D movies is that, while they might be more expensive to make, they're more profitable than 2D releases. However, shooting a film in the traditional way and then having it go through post-conversion is not always the best idea.As we also noted a while back, 3D movies can be either shot with specia... |
30 December 2011
23:11 GMT |
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LG is not going to cut any corners at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, not on the display market at any rate. In fact, it would be safe to say that the company is more than ready to humble most every other display maker out there. We already saw how the company is ready to show off a 55-inch OLED display a... |
29 December 2011
10:51 GMT |
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There have been attempts to make 3D glasses less painful to look at, but LG may have just bested them all with its latest announcement. 3D glasses are the only means by which 3D films can be watched on a big or small screen, unless one owns one of those rare, glasses-free models (which aren't perfect). Alas, ... |
27 December 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Not that this should come as much of a surprise since both “Thor” and “Captain America: The First Avenger” were in 3D, but the upcoming “The Avengers” from Marvel will also see a 3D release, director Joss Whedon confirms. In a recent interview with JoBlo, Whedon says that “Th... |
23 December 2011
14:11 GMT |
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People used to not pay much attention to how thick the bezel, the plastic/whatever other material that framed a TV or monitor, was, but that has changed and LG leads the charge towards a time when it is no longer there at all.
LG has not precisely made a monitor that has no bezel yet, but it is very close.
While t... |
22 December 2011
08:21 GMT |
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For “Star Trek” fans who found J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot the best fresh start the franchise could possibly get, it's been a very tough couple of years. Production on the sequel kicks off next month and the famous director is finally spilling the beans on what fans can expect from it. The “S... |
21 December 2011
08:16 GMT |
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Ten years ago, Peter Jackson proved nay-sayers wrong and turned J.R.R. Tolkien's novels into film, a task that was deemed impossible until then. He's now returning to the fantasy world with two films based on the original novel “The Hobbit.”The first trailer for the first film, “The Hobbit... |
21 December 2011
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Even before James Cameron came out the most successful 3D film in history (so far), “Avatar,” there'd been a lot of talk about whether the 3D frenzy was something that would last. A new infographic from Sortable will answer whatever questions you might have on the topic.Michael Bay, for instance, was... |
20 December 2011
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In case you didn't know, there's a new vampire movie coming out sometime in 2012. Directed by Dario Argento, “Dracula 3D” is a retelling of Bram Stoker's novel – in 3D, of course.
The first teaser trailer is now out (most likely leaked) and reaction to it online ranges from utter di... |
16 December 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Early screenings of “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” have led to disastrous reviews saying it has a worse plot and character definition than the original film. One thing the new trailer can promise: excellent special FX and 3D.
A new official trailer for the sequel to Nic Cage's “Ghost Ride... |
16 December 2011
04:33 GMT |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released for almost a month now and, even we spent quite a long time talking about it in our gamer diary series as well as other special articles about it, we just remembered that the game even has support for Nvidia’s 3D Vision technology.As such, after trying out Batman: Arkham... |
9 December 2011
23:11 GMT |
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Scientists with the Giessen University, Yale University, and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (MPI-BC), in Tübingen, recently took a closer look at how the brain creates the illusion that we are living in a three-dimensional world, and managed to clear some of this mystery.
Experts do know t... |
8 December 2011
06:46 GMT |
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There are 3D TVs and there are high-end 3D TVs, and then there are things like Toshiba's REGZA 55X3, which have no qualms about blowing all competition out of the water.
Certainly, the TV itself is not news on its own, not after it was announced two months ago (back in October).
The reason it is getting atten... |
7 December 2011
10:14 GMT |
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Glasses-free 3D panels aren't many, and they are actually rather limited, but people who don't expect there to be more than one person in front of the monitor still buy them.
This time, it is LG that launched a display of this sort, one DX2500 which features parallax 3D technology.
For those who don'... |
1 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Acer may have launched a special, new 3D monitor, but that is definitely not the only 3D item that the company made public. In fact, the company devoted an entirely different press release just to make it known that the H9500BD projector was locked and loaded as well. It should already be up for sale too, in Nort... |
29 November 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Hearing of 2D content being converted into 3D isn't new, but learning that there are monitors that do it definitely is.The new display that Acer created, and which bears the name of HR274H, claims to accomplish just that.Normally, converting 2D content into 3D requires specialized software and is something that... |
29 November 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Here’s one piece of news that failed to gain traction recently. It appears that Apple has been fooling around with 3D capabilities on prototype iPad tablets to release a version that offered 3D as a selling point. The company, however, scrapped it because it wasn’t convincing enough.A rather old report fr... |
28 November 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Normally, one would need a 3D TV to actually watch 3D media, but Marvel claims to be able to allow any HDTV to render images into side-by-side 3D. Basically, the box is meant as a 'stepping stone' of sorts, placed between a Blu-ray player and the TV itself. It turns 2D into anaglyph 3D, which is synchro... |
24 November 2011
12:21 GMT |
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It so happens that DRAM products aren't the only ones suffering from oversupply, as DisplaySearch discovered that 3D LCD TVs are in a similar bind, though perhaps not as tight.
3D LCD HDTVs may have been among the candidates for the most convenient holiday purchases, if they'd been closer to the mainstrea... |
23 November 2011
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VIZIO decided to break apart from the fold and, instead of developing some new, expensive 3D TV that needs special glasses, made a whole series of sets that work with passive glasses like the ones used at cinemas.The M-Series Theater 3D TVs that VIZIO just formally launched are free of the great pitfall of modern 3D... |
17 November 2011
10:53 GMT |
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James Cameron spent over a year and $20 million (€14.8 million) on converting “Titanic” to 3D. The new version comes out in theaters in April 2012, and the fans are now treated with a first trailer. For those who saw the movie way back when, it brings nothing new in terms of story or approach: we sti... |
17 November 2011
07:14 GMT |
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HP covered the Ultrabook, the lightweight and the mainstream laptop segments already, but it didn't forget about the high-end market, preparing a couple of Envy 17 models as well.
The Envy 17 and 17 3D, as the two are called, were actually launched alongside the Envy 15, which we already covered here, along wi... |
16 November 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Q4 has brought a nice breakthrough in the world of PC BIOS: the eye-candy UEFI version, a very neat 3D GUI which seems to fill the gap between the unexperienced user and the – until now – rather abstract, and even scary BIOS screen.The new 3D BIOS from Gigabyte can run in two modes: the 3D and the Advance... |
16 November 2011
07:25 GMT |
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With 3D apparently gaining traction, Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and Sony Corporation, along with X6D Limited (XPAND 3D), decided to pool their resources.Their goal is to standardize 3D active shutter glasses for consumers instead of allowing the current situation to perpetuate.For those unawa... |
13 November 2011
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Kate Beckinsale is finally suiting up in the latex catsuit that made her the dream girl of millions of men (and women) from around the world. Here is the extended, official trailer for “Underworld: Awakening.”The film will be out in January 2012 and, as fans must know, it took years to convince Beckinsale... |
10 November 2011
06:45 GMT |
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The world is turning into one of wireless connectivity, so IOGEAR decided this was a good time for the Wireless 3D Digital Kit (GW3DHDKIT) to make its appearance.
Composed of a transmitter and receiver, it can link to two HDMI devices at once and stream their content to even displays from other rooms.
Housed in a ... |
9 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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HP has definitely not been slacking off in the 3D department, as the photon technology has just received some attention. The Photon technology is not exactly something HP spent a lot of time speaking about, not so far at least. Nonetheless, it is quite possible that it will see more and more attention in the near... |
7 November 2011
10:07 GMT |
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One would think that it would still be a while before humans reach the stage where they stay mostly inert and interact with things via robotic proxies, but a team of Japanese researchers apparently aren't willing to wait too long. Anyone wondering what had become of the technology of virtual reality helmets mi... |
7 November 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Some may have noticed, a while ago, that HP was preparing a FPR-enabled monitor with passive 3D support and, sure enough, the item is now up for order.
Back at the end of last month (October, 2011), we mentioned how HP had mostly finished developing the 2311gt monitor.
Now, this very panel has started to ship, for... |
7 November 2011
08:32 GMT |
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