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AT&T Mobility Network Disaster Recovery : SlashGear Exclusive

By Daniel Lim and Chris Davies on Friday, Mar 13th 2009 No Comments

When your broadband drops, or your local cell tower decides it wants a nap, it’s frustrating. What if you’re responsible not just for one broadband connection but a copper, fiber and wireless network that stretches across the US? That’s the responsibility of the AT&T Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) team, the group responsible for swooping in after natural disasters and significant network failures and bringing AT&T back online. SlashGear was invited to one of their quarterly disaster simulations recently took place at Houston, Texas to see what’s involved.

Samsung talks NX hybrid camera

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Mar 13th 2009 No Comments

One of the big splash at the 2009 PMA, or in digital camera industry for that matter, has to be Samsungs’ NX hybrid camera that launched a day prior to the show. An implementation resembles Micro 4/3, bigger due to larger sensor size, but much compact than DSLR. A new standard hopes to capture 20 percent of global digital still camera market in 3-4 years. It’s an ambitious move in this economy, especially in the cut-throat DSLR business and with the establishing Micro 4/3 on the way. As previously mentioned, the vague press release and our visit to Samsung booth didn’t get much information that’s already out there. Today, team DPR has published an exclusive interview with Samsung executives to find out more about the new hybrid.

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What’s inside the new Apple ipod? 3-gen iPod Shuffle Dissection

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

The new Apple iPod Shuffle announced just yesterday, many, including us, are still curious about the feature of the third-gen shuffle, but the iFixit crew managed to locate one and has it dismantled right away.

Panasonic adds a trio of Blu-ray Players, one with VHS desk

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

Seems like just months ago we reported about the pre-ordering for Panasonic’s DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55 Blu-ray players. They are back in fast lane to unveil a new lineup, a trio of Blu-ray players – DMP-BD60, DMP-BD70V and DMP-BD80 – with schedule to deliver next month.

Nintendo preps movies for Wii, coming this year?

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

I don’t particularly despise Wii gaming console. Deep down, the new Nintendo is probably the most innovative and family-friendly entertainment on-the-budget’s package ever built. There’s no hulking graphic, “official support” of a legacy DVD playback or even output video beyond 480P, and hence the low price. In a nutshell, this fun little gaming console is not built to accommodate HD content. But with the success of Microsoft New Xbox Experience and PS3’s cornering the online video content, the leader in gaming console market could branch out to include movie streaming this year.

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Samsung Blu-ray player BD-P 3600 show up in store

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

Back in CES 2009, Samsung threw a mix of wall-mountable 1.5-inch thin and a low-profile tabletop Blu-ray desks with more substances than the unique design. In additional to the BD-Live, Dobly TrueHD, DTS-HD MA internal recorder; it also comes equipped with WIFI dongle, and is networked to feature Netflix and Pandora streaming services. Price and availability were scant at that time. Today, one of them, the P3600 is showing up at Best-buy B&M store according to comment left from an allegedly Best-buy employee at Engadget.

Another postpone on Sigma’s 18-250mm F3.5-F6.3 DC OS HSM

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

Sigma is having hard time to deliver the new 18-250mm F3.5-F6.3 DC OS HSM zoom lens. The EF mount was previously scheduled to hit the street of Akihabara in the mid February, but later pushed to March 15th and now we are looking at another month of postponement.

Onkyo intros TX-SR607, world’s first AV Receiver with Dobly ProLogic IIz

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

Many moons ago, I have this thought of digital surround sound processing will get discrete vertical sound field over your head, from a pair of ceiling speakers, to create a much realistic Home-Theater experience in your living room. Dolby’s Lab has done it, but with a set of speakers above the front channels. A much logical solution without having to install speakers on your roof. The Dolby Pro Logic IIz now features up to 9.1 channels playback system that enhances the spaciousness of music, movies, and video games, and Onkyo is the first manufacturer to provide the new dimension sound effect with the introduction of TX-SR607 AV receiver.

Nikkie reports Panasonic DMC-GH1’s AF difficulty

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

Future owners of the GH1 may find this report from Nikkie useful. Prototype shown at PMA permits quick Auto-focusing methods to record videos while zooming. There are two ways of doing this, one of them is by triggering the AF button to gain focus after zooming in AFS mode (Auto-Focus single). The second way is by using continuously mode (AFC) which functions like a camcorder. The latter though proven useful but having difficulty in acquitting subjects. We happened to have both video clips to illustrate their finding.

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First iRiver Wave Home reached KT Telecom subscriber in Korea

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Mar 11th 2009 No Comments

Last month words got out iRiver is shipping its multi-talent Wave Home multimedia communication hub in Korea, today, we learned the first unit has reached KT Telecom subscriber; one lucky Korean has already posted an unboxing ceremony and a preliminary review of the new iRiver on his blog.

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