Archive for August 30th, 2007
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
In addition to announcing its "low-end" BDP-S300 will be pond-skipping to Europe, at IFA today Sony also announced its latest Blu-ray player, the BDP-S500. Before we start in, and it's neither here or there, but didn't Sony notice that "S500" is the most common consumer electronics ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: HDTV
Yesterday there was Monster Cable's Speed-Rated HDMI cables and today, Honeywell's CURxE self-healing cable. Sounds like someone in the marketing department decided that the error correcting built into the HDMI spec wasn't good 'nough and told the engineers to incorporate a little chip into the cable. Of course ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment
We could hardly believe the audacity when LG first started touting its Chocolate hand held projector, but now that they've played down the cross-branding -- it's just known as the HS101 now -- and rounded out a few more of the specs, we're beginning to see ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Features
We were fortunate enough to check out Panasonic's new DMC-L10 DSLR, and we have to say, it's a solid jump ahead of what we saw in their first-gen L1. Besides trimming down the size significantly (it's still a heavy sucker, though), we were into the swiveling ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Hope you're not tired of Coolpixes yet, cause Nikon's got another bundle of compact cameras for us, including two new models in its L series and two in its S series. As the model numbers suggest, there's not a whole lot of difference between the L14 and ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones
Just weeks after Sony Ericsson's sexy W580i Walkman phone went live on Rogers, AT&T customers can now get their hands on the mobile, too. According to AT&T's own listing of the handset, this svelte slider will (obviously) tout a two-megapixel camera, video recording / playback, Bluetooth 2.0 with ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Features, HDTV
We've just gotten back from the Panasonic press conference at IFA, where the electronics giant unveiled a couple of interesting new products, including a new lineup of HDTVs, and the brand-spanking-new Lumix DMC-L10 DSLR camera. Here's a brief rundown of all the hot action that ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/What_it_takes_to_produce_an_HD_newscast'; The only thing better than watching HD, is learning how it actually works. So we took a trip down to WFTS in Tampa Florida to get schooled on what it took for them to upgrade their daily newscast to HD, and yes we ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Laptops, WirelessHot on the heels of the AirCard 595U, Sierra Wireless is expanding its HSUPA offerings with a new duo of USB modems. The AirCard 880U and 881U both connect to your Windows or OS X-based computer via USB, sport the company's TRU design features, and offer ...
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