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filed under: home entertainment
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By now, we’ve all heard plenty about Blu-Ray, HD DVD and the so-called HD “format wars”. Now a little upstart disc format known as HD VMD has started to ship their very first players for less than half (correction: now just a little bit less than) the price of the cheapest standalone Blu-Ray and HD DVD machines…
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posted: October 8th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment
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Sony today announced a new series of agressively-priced LCD front projectors, the Bravia VPL-AW10 ($1000 MSRP) and VPL-AW15 ($1300 MSRP).
Both projectors feature a widescreen 3-LCD panel with 720p native resolution, and a bright 165-watt UHP lamp…
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posted: March 28th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment | media players
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This new media center from LG is being sold under the “Chocolate” moniker which has become synonymous with “sleek, modern design.”
The new LG J10HD system is a full-featured home entertainment system complete with DVD player, 2.1 channel sound and an onboard 80GB hard drive for media storage…
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posted: March 14th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: digital imaging | future tech
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Developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, Germany, this tiny little camera can capture full HDTV 1920×1080 resolution video at up to 60 frames per second…
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posted: February 2nd, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: digital imaging
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Coming this April, JVC’s new Everio GZ-HD7 camcorder is the first consumer video camera to feature full 1920×1080i resolution hard disk recording. The camera records up to 5 hours of 1080i MPEG2 content on its internal 60GB hard drive.
It features a 10x optical zoom Fujinon lens, as well as optical image stabilization…
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posted: January 7th, 2007
author: technabob