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Guitar Hero 5 from Activision is now out and battling for the title of most successful music title of 2009 with The Beatles Rock Band from Harmonix and MTV Games. Initial reports are saying that Guitar Hero 5, no doubt buoyed by the advertising push from the publisher, is doing very well. But, as always after a big r... |
16 September 2009
07:10 GMT |
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With the PlayStation 3 Slim released on September 1, a lot of videogame fanatics are already wondering what Sony is planning next in its bid to get a 10-year life cycle for its console and to at least wrestle second spot from Microsoft's Xbox 360 for this generation. A few bits and pieces of information seem to ... |
11 September 2009
08:04 GMT |
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The Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing has issued a new report detailing the degree to which Americans have adopted a wide array of gadgets and information technologies and there are some interesting implications for gamers in the data offered.Straight up, the report says that 40% of American househ... |
11 August 2009
03:49 GMT |
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A new report coming from Jon Peddie Research is saying that the ongoing world wide economic recession is at the moment affecting the PC gaming market, but only marginally, and that the segment is still strong, with growth expected to be “healthy” in the coming years.The study from Jon Peddie Research stat... |
1 June 2009
12:51 GMT |
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While Microsoft is moving further and further into the universe of digital television with its IPTV Mediaroom platform, Yahoo is closely following it by serving a side-dish of Internet to traditional television via Samsung TVs. In this regard, Yahoo and Samsung Electronics have announced a partnership designed to mar... |
6 January 2009
05:16 GMT |
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The console war is a series of pretty tough battles, with the three sides, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, fighting bitterly for every customer out there. This is especially true around the holiday season, because people are more and more inclined to buy consoles and games. But, as recent sales figures show, the hiera... |
18 December 2008
02:16 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the web, at least four distinct standards for transmitting HDTV wirelessly over home networks are supposed to be unveiled at CES 2009, yet some analysts say that the technologies are still incipient and not ready for demonstration. While vendors already talk about plans to demonstrate ... |
13 December 2008
03:59 GMT |
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This year has been extremely important for Sony and its Blu-ray disc, since it was officially crowned the "next-gen DVD format" after the utter defeat of Toshiba's HD DVD. After that fateful moment (which, as you might recall, occurred in early spring), things took the path everyone expected them to, the players... |
12 November 2008
16:31 GMT |
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We've heard quite a lot about Mitsubishi's LaserVue HDTV over the past couple of months, but these "world-changing" TV sets were nowhere to be found on the market. However, it looks like the device has just made it to stores, in due time for Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season, we might add, beca... |
29 October 2008
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Mahalo chief Jason Calacanis claims he knows “first-hand” that Apple is actively working on a networked television, an HDTV. Don't get ahead of us, it's not an upgrade to the Apple TV – it's better, much better!CNET's Nate Lanxon claims that Jason Calacanis “confirmed&rdquo... |
14 October 2008
08:29 GMT |
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The Silicon Valley startup Quantenna announced the first fully integrated 802.11n chipsets featuring 4×4 MIMO and transmit (Tx) beamforming. The new product has been designed to offer guaranteed wireless bandwidth within homes. According to the company, the chipset combines in a unique manner a 4×4 radio ... |
14 October 2008
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Up until recently, 3D displays were regarded at somewhat of a technological curiosity, with a very restricted area of use (mostly advertising) and selling for some pretty prohibitive sums. While the cost of this technology has remained at a very high level, its range of possible uses and applications has diversified ... |
3 October 2008
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Apple has updated the software of its set-top box and “hobby,” the Apple TV. Version 2.2 of the Apple TV software brings both new features (addressing the changes occurring with iTunes) and security fixes. The update is only available through the Apple TV's software update mechanism.The security enha... |
3 October 2008
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As the debate on whether optical media will eventually be replaced by digital downloads rages on, one of the most important players on this particular market segment, Vudu, has just announced the development of a new and improved format for delivering HD content to the user's HDTVs via the Internet. Dubbed HDX, ... |
2 October 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Everything seems to be “wireless” nowadays, including here some specific areas that were “wired” by tradition, as for example HD content streaming. We're all quite used to HDMI cables, but it seems that the Japanese company Panasonic is quite keen on eliminating even those, since it has j... |
1 October 2008
08:05 GMT |
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As some of you might remember from our CEDIA and CES coverages, Japanese company Hitachi announced back at the beginning of 2008 its UltraThin line of LCD HDTVs, which features a width of just 1.5 inches (3.87 cm). Nevertheless, it seems that Hitachi has decided to up the ante right on its home turf and showcased at ... |
1 October 2008
04:29 GMT |
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"Upconversion" is an extremely popular concept nowadays, as it allows users to enjoy an almost HD-grade cinematographic experience without actually using an HD signal source (such as a Blu-ray player). Several of the most important names on the consumer electronics market have already rolled out products embedding su... |
26 September 2008
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As some of you might remember, Sling Media, the maker of the famous Slingbox streaming device, announced back at CES 2008 a new product that would be able to stream HD video to the user's computers. And now, 9 months later, the company finally delivered on its promise and announced the official availability of t... |
26 September 2008
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Convergence seems to be one of the strategies chosen by some manufacturers of LCD HDTV sets in order to sell more units during this very difficult economic period, when the purchasing power of average customers has seriously decreased. And a very good example of this trend comes from ViewSonic, which has just introdu... |
24 September 2008
08:58 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Blu-ray discs don't seem to be getting any cheaper (since not enough people are actually buying Blu-ray titles yet), various manufacturers around the world keep rolling out new Blu-ray machines, some of these things retailing for huge amounts of money, while others are actually available at... |
18 September 2008
09:39 GMT |
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As you probably know, Toshiba has taken quite a beating from Sony earlier this year, when it's next-generation optical disc format, the HD DVD, had to bow down to Blu-ray and accept defeat. Since then, the Japanese company has bet pretty much everything on the "up-conversion" card, claiming that this technology ... |
4 September 2008
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Microsoft together with Sony were celebrated for their contributions to the High Profile of H.264/MPEG-4AVC standard that directly impacts the quality of the HDTV video signal, both in terms of storage but also of its delivery. The two companies are among the members of the Joint Video Team Committee, which received ... |
4 September 2008
09:42 GMT |
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It's been quite a busy time for Japanese company Sony lately. Even if it came up with a large number of products at the IFA 2008 show from Berlin, it still had to keep something in the bag for yet another major event, CEDIA, which is taking place as we speak over the pond, in Denver, Colorado. And that "somethin... |
4 September 2008
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A week ago, we were reporting that an upcoming Blu-ray player from Samsung, then dubbed BD-P2550, had appeared on BestBuy's website, which meant that an official announcement from the Korean manufacturer was bound to follow shortly. And it looks like Samsung didn't want to keep us waiting for too long, sinc... |
29 August 2008
14:22 GMT |
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For quite a long time now, the IFA consumer electronics show has been the place where the most important manufacturers in the audio/video segment present their latest developments, which, in some cases, can only be described as breathtaking. And that's also the case with Philips, which has come up this year with... |
29 August 2008
02:43 GMT |
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Although not directly related to the IFA show taking place in Berlin as we speak, the Japanese company Sony has decided to launch today a huge array of products, LCDs in particular. We've seen earlier the company's (and world's) thinnest LCD, the ZX1, but we're in for many more surprises, since th... |
28 August 2008
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Sony's victory in the format war against Toshiba's HD DVD format should have marked a whole new era of prosperity for the Japanese consumer electronics giant, since, at least theoretically, its sales of standalone Blu-ray units should have skyrocketed. Nevertheless, it would seem that things aren't exa... |
25 August 2008
03:22 GMT |
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One of the side effects of Blu-ray's victory over HD DVD in the format war has been the fact that the manufacturers of standalone players were relieved of the pressure of coming up with new and improved models at a very fast pace. But even if the rate of launches has somewhat diminished, we keep seeing new Blu-r... |
22 August 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Since camcorders capable of shooting videos in full high-definition resolution tend to become the standard nowadays, it was to be expected that HD recording would soon be implemented in digital cameras as well. And one of the first companies to go down this road is FujiFilm, which has just announced the FinePix S2000... |
12 August 2008
08:24 GMT |
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It's already a very well-known fact that most people around the world use the Internet and torrents for downloading multimedia content. For this reason, the popularity of those special devices that are capable of playing back the respective content directly on a widescreen, high-definition TV set (without the ne... |
7 August 2008
02:06 GMT |
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You might say that there's no such thing as a cheap LCD TV coming from one of the best-known names in the industry, and you'd be perfectly right. However, even big players do roll out, from time to time, various models targeting especially the people on a budget, and that's also the case with Sharp, wh... |
6 August 2008
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It would really seem that, these days, LG's going mostly for those people who appreciate both style and high-end features in their HDTVs. After they've announced the very elegant Scarlet a while back, the Korean company is now back with two PDPs (plasma displays), the PG3000 and PG200R models, which have a ... |
25 June 2008
01:45 GMT |
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Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. announced today a partnership with Nvidia Corporation and Aspen Media Products, LLC, intended to provide a complete 3D solution for home entertainment markets. Customers will be able to enjoy for the first time high-value 3D content, provided at home in one convenient pack... |
24 June 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Waterproof TVs have always exerted quite a high level of fascination with most people, especially since they are traditionally associated with a certain social status (after all, not everyone can afford such an expensive product). So, imagine our surprise when we've come across one of Sanyo's latest announc... |
19 June 2008
16:16 GMT |
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As we've mentioned time and time again, it would seem that Sony's decided to throw some new Bravia goodness on the European market almost on a monthly basis, releasing new and attractive LCD TVs at a fairly even pace. And this time they've just unveiled the S4000 series, a family of either full HD or H... |
17 June 2008
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Three-dimensional (3D) displays have always been somewhat of a showstopper, given the fact that we're dealing with a pretty innovative technology, still largely unavailable for the wide mass of consumers and delivering some spectacular results. However, it would seem that Philips is willing to take things even f... |
6 June 2008
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Since the Internet has become the world's largest content-delivery vehicle (whether we're talking about news, music, videos, etc.), it's no wonder that the most important manufacturers of various consumer electronics are trying their best in order to integrate online capabilities in just about every pr... |
21 May 2008
01:48 GMT |
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Sony seems to be really keen on improving its position on the HDTV market this year, as it keeps pumping out new and improved BRAVIA models on a very frequent basis. And the latest in the series is the V4000, which the company touts to be just the thing to install at the core of one's home cinema system. First a... |
20 May 2008
01:56 GMT |
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One of the dominant trends in technological design nowadays is to combine very advanced technical features (high brightness level, high contrast level, various enhanced image processing technologies) with an eye-catching look, which will appeal even to the more discerning of customers. And this trend is quite visible... |
9 May 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Since Blu-ray has become the ultimate victor of the next-generation DVD format war, just about every major player on the consumer electronics' market has either prepared or launched something for this particular segment. And one such major name is Panasonic who has finally shed some new light on one of latest of... |
7 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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As you might have heard from one of our previous articles on the subject, Sony's got some pretty big plans for Europe, as it has seriously increased its production capacities in this particular area. And one of the first series of models that will be rolled out from the new plant is the Bravia V4500, a family of... |
6 May 2008
13:51 GMT |
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Everyone's talking about "brand awareness" and "brand recognition" nowadays, but in some cases, these terms actually mean a lot more than loads of PR talk. And one of those cases is that of Sony's Bravia line of LCD HDTV sets, which seems to be so popular across Europe that the Japanese company has been act... |
29 April 2008
07:31 GMT |
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Portable TVs ain't exactly the most popular things around, but certain manufacturers do come up with some products of this type that actually manage to raise an eyebrow. And that's exactly the case with the latest announcement from Westinghouse Digital, who has just unveiled the PT-16H610S, a thin and flexi... |
25 April 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Perhaps in order to keep the keen eyes of both consumers and press away from the huge scandal involving its top management, the Korean company Samsung has decided that this is the best time to throw some pretty nifty new products on the market, some of them designed especially to occupy the central position in the us... |
24 April 2008
12:21 GMT |
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Don't you just hate those moments when, for some particular reason, you simply can't get home in order to watch your favorite episode or "Dr. Who" or whatever TV show you might be interested in? Well, if your TV addiction has reached such a high level, then perhaps you should really consider purchasing one... |
23 April 2008
11:36 GMT |
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Sony really took the world by storm when it launched the XEL-1 OLED-only HDTV set back in October 2007, as it offered a bit of a preview regarding the future of television. However, it looks like the Japanese company has not slowed down the research pace, since it has showcased some even more "Sci-Fi" displays at the... |
17 April 2008
11:56 GMT |
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One thing's for sure about the Japanese electronics' giant, Sony: it has some pretty inventive and talented designers. Most of the products the company has rolled out over the past few years have very eye-catching designs, and that's also the case with the new Bravia E4000 Series of high-definition TV ... |
10 April 2008
09:36 GMT |
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Pioneer has provided quite a pleasant surprise when it released the KURO line of high-end PDPs a while back. However, it seems that the Japanese company is keen on maintaining its products in the spotlight and that's why it has announced quite an important overhaul of the KURO family, which will also include a f... |
9 April 2008
10:31 GMT |
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The whole world is going through a rather unpleasant period of economic recession and this fact is becoming increasingly visible, as the major corporations are re-focusing and re-orienting their business plans for optimum profitability. And one such announcement comes from Philips, who has decided to almost completel... |
9 April 2008
07:56 GMT |
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As you might remember from our CES coverage, the Japanese company Mitsubishi has unveiled early in 2008 its laser-based television set, a product that will bring a major shift on the HDTV's market (or at least that's what the manufacturer hopes). However, Mitsubishi has decided to provide some further detai... |
8 April 2008
02:01 GMT |
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