Sony is to release the first “Double Full HD” 3D consumer camcorder that will bring your memories not only in high definition, but in 3D high definition. Yes, it is pointless and very unnecessary, but since Sony is pushing this 3D World, they are going to milk this for all of its worth.
Sony's BRAVIA XBR-HX929 LCD Television (Credit: Sony)
Sony’s press conference was simply bringing the 3D experience to your house, and with its new BRAVIA LCD HDTV lineup for 2011, it plans to do so. The company will bring out this year 27 new televisions – 16 are capable of watching 3D content, and 22 have internet connectivity.
Get ready for digital television with this cheap Dick Smith HD Set Top Box for only $49. That’s right, it’s only $49 dollars and comes with a bonus HDMI cable! When the Australian Government turns off the analogue signal, you will be all set and watching digital TV in Full HD.
Looking for a new TV in the living room for christmas. Or do you need a new TV for your children to play their new Xbox 360 with? Well For one day only, Dick Smith Electronics (DSE) are selling a 40″ Full HD LCD TV for just $499 down from $729. That’s a whole $230 off. It has HDMI inputs, VGA input, 5ms response time and 1920 x 1080 resolution.
This is Panasonic’s latest 3D television, an 103-inch plasma display that happens to have a contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1 and can support 1080p full HD resolution – despite the fact the screen would make it a bit stretched because of the freaking size! Also bundled are some 3D glasses and a stand. Yep. That’s it. No Blu-Ray player, movies to test out the 3D content or anything else. Just some 3D glasses and a stand. Guessing most of the money comes from the damn plasma screen then.
Well, just minutes after the HTC announcement of its new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z, Vodafone Hutchison Australia – owners of Vodafone and 3 – have announced that they have the exclusive rights to sell the HTC Desire HD in Australia. Pricing and availability have not been confirmed.
Thought HTC couldn’t get better? Well, it just proven that wrong. The popular mobile maker has announced two new phones that will join its lineup of Android phones – the Desire HD and the Desire Z. The two phones will run on Android, and will be out in major European and Asian markets. Desire Z is to be released in North America later in the year.
Here it is. The Western Digital TV Live. This little baby can play your movies, music, photos and even search and watch videos on YouTube.
Many of us have gigabytes if not terabytes worth of movies, music and photos on our computers, sometimes, watching them on the computer is a pain. Back in the old days, you would need to move your computer to the TV and plug the computer into your TV to watch your stuff but not anymore! Simply plug this baby into your router or plug your USB portable hard drive into it, hook the HDMI cable into your 1080p widescreen display and get watching!
Look at that sexy design. No, that’s no mockup. It’s a new tablet from Aigo (or Patriot) with beautiful slate-like design. According to new details from China, it will run on the Tegra 2 processor from NVIDIA alongside a 1GB ARM Cortex A9 processor with 512MB of DDR2 memory, a 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display and HDMI output. It comes with a 4GB, 16GB and 32GB options and will have Wi-Fi and 3G. Also, this is running on Android 2.1 – bet you didn’t even know until I said it when you were looking at the picture, hmm?
Google’s claims that Vietnamese computer users were spied on and blogs critical of the government were hacked into were rejected by Vietnamese authorities talking to the AFP, telling the news agency that these were “groundless opinions”.
The Ten Network has confirmed that it will be launching a new general entertainment channel on its second multichannel in the second half of the year, joining ONE HD and the main network on digital television. It has also been confirmed that the station will have a new brand, unlike the public broadcaster ABC and SBS – referring to their channels as ABC1, ABC2, SBS One or SBS Two.
You would have thought the Eee PC line would have died when all those other manufacturers started to make their impact in the netbook market? Well, you’re wrong. ASUS has announced that it will make a new version of the EeeTop PC, called the ET2010 – which has some features that goes a bit beyond what you expect from the lineup.
LG has announced a brand new 3D television, the LX9500, which is built using LED technology – not like the LCD screens many other 3D screens are using. The television is also super thin – measuring 16mm thin – and is said to allow you to watch any movie from any direction because of its “Multi Picture Format”, unlike many others which are limited sitting directly at the screen. You still, however, need to wear those geeky and uncomfortable glasses. It also support 1080p and features the Skype TV function.
Who would have thought that a HD camera could be so small these days? First the Flip does it and now many other competitors are lining up trying to take a stake in that market; and Sony is no exception with its Bloggie camera line – the model we got is the MHS-PM5K, and we did a piece on it during our CES 2010 coverage.
Bang & Olufsen has announced a brand new LED HD TV – the BeoVision 10. It’s basically a huge square, allowing to look like one of your pictures hanging on the walls. This features a 40-inch, 240Hz display with an integrated stereo speaker below the screen (where that big gap between the screen’s bottom and the frame). It also features 1 stereo headphone jack, a VGA and 3 HDMI ports, and 5 “Power Link” ports for adding your own loudspeakers to it.