Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Sharp has just wrapped a rather dry press conference at IFA, where it announced very little, but did rattle off a series of fairly benign and boring numbers (which we will spare you from). There were a few moments of excitement during the hour-long presentation, ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio
Not that CDs are beginning to show their age or anything, but Panasonic knows that we'd still prefer to keep our tunes on one big hard drive rather than fish through dozens of plastic enclosures. That said, the firm's 160GB SX850 and 80GB SX450 enable users to ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio
Just months after catching wind of the Pacemaker handheld DJ system, the (lucky) folks over at Digital-Lifestyles managed to get their hands on a prototype unit and spend a few quality moments perusing its features. Interestingly, their unit did indeed sport a color display, but still retained ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Nikon just dropped a seasonal load of new Coolpix compact shooters so let's get to it. The P5100 represents Nikon's Coolpix flagship model: 12.1 megapixel 1/1.72-inch CCD with new EXPEED image processing engine; 3.5x Zoom-Nikkor lens with optical lens shift vibration reduction; ISO 3200 capability (for 5 ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Displays
LG's going all hoity-toity on us today with its new Design Art line of products for Europe. The hope behind the line is that "LG is now developing 'coveted' products, rather than just 'needed' products." We'll see how that goes for them, but there is indeed plenty to ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Panasonic's still relatively new to the DSLR game, but it looks like it's intent on proving its worth, and it's now rolled out its second such camera: the Lumix DMC-10. This one clocks in at a hefty 10.1 megapixels, and boasts a swiveling 2.5-inch LCD, along with ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Mmm mm, WiFi and digital photography go together like brown on Zune (whatever that means). Sprinkle in a 3-inch LCD, optical lens shift vibration reduction, SDHC expansion, and Nikon's new EXPEED image processing and you've got Nikon's Coolpix S51c. Under the hood you'll find an 8.1 megapixel, ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Filed under: Displays
LG is touting its fancy new Digital Fine Contrast tech today, which gives it a new "world's highest" contrast ratio, at 5000:1. And who are we go argue with numbers like those? LG is planning to implement the tech into all of its monitors, except for the M8W, ...
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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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