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Sony Ericsson Kurara Gets Reviewed

The latest mobile phone from Sony Ericsson that made it into the wild is the Sony Ericsson Kurara, a device still unannounced, but which surfaced in a series of leaked photos and which has been also reviewed. The device is expected to arrive on the market sometime in the first quarter of the next year, while running...

23 November 2009
10:32 GMT

Apple Kicks Off 'Buy & Rent HD' on iTunes

Apple has announced that iTunes fans can now purchase or rent high-definition films on the iTunes Store. HD movies are priced at $19.99 and can be viewed on a Mac, PC, or Apple TV. Upon purchasing a title, the download also includes the standard-definition copy of that movie for viewing on an iPod or iPhone. Apple sa...

20 March 2009
04:08 GMT

New IdeaPad Y-Series Laptops Designed for HD Experience

Lenovo has just refreshed its IdeaPad Y series lineup with the introduction of three new portable computer systems, each coming in a different size. The company's new Y450 is the smallest of the three, providing a display size of 14-inch, while the Y550 and Y650 have been designed to boast 15.6-inch and 16-inch ...

5 January 2009
05:08 GMT

Benchmark Proves PS3 Is the Best Blu-ray Player

The fact that the PS3 is the main force driving the adoption rate of the Blu-ray discs is pretty much common knowledge nowadays. However, one question that has really given a few nights of restless sleep to quite a lot of people faced with the decision of purchasing their first Blu-ray player was whether Sony's ...

5 December 2008
06:14 GMT

Flip MinoHD Camcorder – YouTube Yourself in HD

Nowadays, the large majority of people who shoot a video clip with something other than a serious camcorder (either HDD/Flash/MiniDV based) will most likely upload it to a video sharing or social networking website, such as YouTube, AOL Video or MySpace. However, since most of these clips are recorded using either mo...

12 November 2008
01:50 GMT

More HDTVs Sold in 2008 Than Standard Definition TVs

For many years, and even nowadays, in our technologically-advanced era, hearsay remains one of the best information channels out there. Moreover, it is also what, in many cases, drives the consumer world. That's because there are quite a lot of people out there who don't know exactly what HD, PDP, HDMI, LCD...

27 October 2008
10:51 GMT

InFocus X9 Projector Offers HD Home Cinema On The Cheap

Since we're going through some rather tough times, most consumers are pretty reluctant to spending a lot of money on their home entertainment systems. This is why most major names in the industry are trying to come up with certain specific solutions that will help them cope really well with this situation, ...

15 October 2008
10:21 GMT

Sony Brings BRAVIA VPL-VW80 SXRD Full HD Projector to Europe

It's rather difficult to tell what Sony's product launch strategy is exactly, because sometimes they make the weirdest possible choices. At IFA 2008 they've launched the VPL-HW10 SXRD projector, which was then also showcased at CEDIA 2008, alongside the BRAVIA VPL-VW70. But no, Sony's not going to...

12 September 2008
13:11 GMT

Toshiba Loses 95% Profit, Launches Blu-Ray Player

The death of Toshiba's HD-DVD high-definition format triggered a series of losses in revenue that are reported to have reached alarming levels. According to Toshiba, the company's profit barely reached a faint 1.25 billion yen, much lower than the expected 26.17 billion yen achieved an year earlier.The com...

26 April 2008
01:59 GMT

IBM Pitches at New 3 Mbps HD Encoding Technology

US-based conglomerate IBM plans to unveil a revolutionary encoding technology, that would make it possible to stream HD media at up to 3Mbps speeds across the web. The new technology has been developed in collaboration with the software firm Broadcast International.According to a joint statement prepared by the two p...

14 April 2008
16:06 GMT

Asustek Unveils Geforce 8300-Based Motherboard With HDMI Ports

Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Asustek has just unveiled its new M3N-H/HDMI model, with Nvidia's Geforce 8300 integrated graphics. This is the first board on the market to come with the new GeForce 8300 graphics core, that delivers superior 3D performance as compared to the older Geforce 8200 graphics core.A...

29 March 2008
08:46 GMT

Lucasfilm's THX Takes Back Blu-Ray Death Allegations

THX, one of Lucasfilm's spin-off companies claimed earlier this week that the Blu-Ray high-definition standard arrived too late on the HD media market. Despite the fact that Sony's format was announced as the victor in the HD standards war, THX claimed that it will soon fall into oblivion because of the new...

29 March 2008
06:38 GMT

Asustek Unveils Splendid HD1 Video Enhancement Card

Asustek has just announced its new ASUS Splendid HD1 video enhancement card graphics solution, that is allegedly able to deliver improved graphics performance for high-definition multimedia applications, with sharper, more vividly colored visual outputs.The enhancement card comes bundled with Asustek's Splendid ...

24 March 2008
17:06 GMT

Red One to Be Available for Purchase on August 31st

Any serious movie maker or just dreaming of becoming the next Peter Jackson should definitely take a look at the Red-One camera. It's like nothing you've seen before. Perhaps the best definition is the one provided on the site: "The idea behind the RED camera system is simple. Design and build a high perfor...

28 August 2007
09:38 GMT

Panasonic: Our Plasma Panels are Immortal, Outlive their Owners

Quite obviously, Panasonic is very proud of its plasma panels and is trying to do just about anything in its power in order to better promote them. And the latest marketing gimmick the company has come up with is their claim that, on average, the devices in the 1080p Plasma HDTV line can play 100,000 hours before the...

9 August 2007
10:36 GMT

TDK Intros Recordable "Mini-Me" Version of Blu-ray Discs

As the market for the Blu-ray discs evolved and diversified, the range of possible uses for this format has also increased, as it seems that they'll now be used also in high-end video devices (namely, high-definition camcorders). And in order to meet the possible market demand, the people over at TDK (now an Ima...

3 August 2007
11:21 GMT

Affordable High-Definition with JVC's New GZ-HD3

JVC has just announced a new HDD camcorder that combines the HD capabilities of the GZ-HD7 with the slim factor of the GZ-MG series. The new GZ-HD3 uses three 16:9 progressive scan CCDs, each dedicated to one of the three primary colors - red, green, blue, to capture 1440x1080 high definition material. If you find th...

19 July 2007
06:15 GMT

IPTV Is a Menace for Triple-Play Services

When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) first thought out the uses for the networking system they were devising for military, I think they didn't realize to what extent their idea could be taken to in such a short period of time. Many of the original designers of the large network we now call ...

6 April 2007
07:03 GMT


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