Author Archive for Daniel
AMD has just introduced its newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE (Highly Efficient) processors. The new CPUs operate with far less power requirement at 55-watts compared to its predecessors that use 75-watts and 105 watts.
Packing a laptop with a full-sized keyboard, screen bigger than many use with their desktop and the sort of specs that gobble through even the most capacious of batteries has always struck me as cheating a little. Call me old fashioned, but I do like my notebook to be portable and my desktop to be [...]
If you think the mobile-size pico projector is small, wait until you see the miniature projector from 3M. This matchbox-sized beamer is beyond ultra-portable but can throw image size up to 40-inch wide. I assume it is a standard 4:3 business class PJ, that’s about 50-inch in diagonal.
The Canadian retailer Future Shop is doing a good deed by trading your obsolete HD-DVD player with store credit and will donate them to charity. But the $100 credit is only good toward a Hybrid Hd-DVD and Blu-ray player, trade in for another soon-to-obsolete player? It’s seriously twisted if you take the charity part out [...]
As an owner of a Tivo S3 DVR box, I have concerns regarding the widely-spread Switched Digital Video aka SDV utilized by Cable network to reduce bandwidth usage. TWC around my neighborhood is about to add 11 more HD channels to the lineup but the word on the street is, SDV may be deployed and [...]
Pentax has been teasing its medium format fans, showcasing an 18 megapixels prototype then another 31.6 megapixel digital CCD medium format sensor since the introduction of digital version of medium format 645 back in 2005, but none of them ever made it to prime time.
To get the price of Blu-ray players fall to the level at DVD players, we’ll need the Chinese to flood the market at large scale. But the Blu-ray Association has acknowledged the threats and agreed China was the reason of collapsed DVD player market, thus Licensing will be managed and issued strategically to keep the [...]
No more Circuit-City’s secret handshake to trade in you HD-DVD for Blu-Ray, the electronics retailer is now officially launching the promotion according to AP. Circuit City will accept returns of HD DVD players within 90 days of purchase with proof of purchase receipt; customer will receive store credit or use it to pay the different [...]
While LG is still sticking to support HD-DVD with combo player, Samsung has decided to abandon its second generation Dual-Format Blu-Ray and HD-DVD combo player. The BD-UP5500 was announced in CES 2008 and scheduled to release around the second-half of 2008 to replace the BD-UP-5000.
The latest addition to Casio EXilim Zoom family is a stylish, slim and compact 8.1MP EXilim EX-Z9 featuring an 1/2.5-inch CCD sensor with 4x digital zoom, 3x optical zoom range of 37.5-112.5mm (35mm equiv.)
