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Intel push Core 2011 chips for entertainment; Intel Insider 1080p HD movie store

, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel made its Sandy Bridge based 2011 Core i3, i5 and i7 processors official earlier this week, but it's still making a song & dance about them at CES 2011 today. More than 500 desktop and laptop PCs using the chips are expected to debut in 2011, with features like Intel Quick Sync Video - for speedy transcoding - and WiDi 2.0. Meanwhile there's also Intel Insider, a hardware feature of the chips for purchasing and renting 1080p HD movies on their PC. Read The Full Story

Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910 gets Mac support

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Logitech has added Mac support to its HD Pro C910 webcam, bringing full HD 1080p video recording and plug-and-play support for iChat, Photo Booth and FaceTime for Mac. Alternatively, Logitech's Vid HD app is also available for Macs, offering 720p HD video calls to other Vid HD users as well as those who have picked up the Google TV based Logitech Revue. Read The Full Story

Cowon D3 Plenue Android PMP gets official

, Dec 28th 2010 Discuss [1]

Cowon has finally got official on its long-rumored D3 PMP, and as teased it does indeed run Android. The Cowon D3 Plenue has a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display and uses Android 2.1, paired with WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 and a T-DMB TV tuner. Read The Full Story

ASUS O!Play MINI offers Full HD at under a ton

, Dec 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

ASUS has pushed out a new version in its O!Play media streamer range, slimming down the STB and simplifying the onboard connections. The ASUS O!Play MINI drops the USB 3.0 connection found on the O!Play HD2, making do with a single USB 2.0 port and a multi-format memory card reader; you still get HDMI connectivity, among other ports, and a healthy clutch of supported media standards. Read The Full Story

Iain Sinclair Poco Pro camera promises the works: 1080p HD, 14MP in a tiny form-factor

, Dec 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

With cellphone cameras improving all the time, point-and-shoots have to aim high if they want to stand out of the crowd. Iain Sinclair's Poco Pro certainly makes plenty of promises; tipped to launch in Q2 2011 for a bargain £200 ($308) or thereabouts, there's a 14.6-megapixel sensor, 1080p HD video capture, a 2.4-inch AMOLED preview display and a microUSB 3.0 port for data and option HDMI output, all in a credit-card sized black-anodized magnesium chassis. Read The Full Story

Vizio XVT3D650SV Unveiled, Brings 3D to 65-Inch $3,500 TV

, Dec 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

Vizio is certainly investing itself in the 3D market, and they look to be making a bigger push as of today. In a late announcement, the company has officially unveiled their latest, and largest, 3D-capable TV. The XVT3D650SV is said to be more aggressive in the pricing area due to the fact that, instead of using active shutter technology, it focuses on the passive 3D glasses. Read The Full Story

LG Optimus 2X official: Tegra 2, HDMI & 1080p HD

, Dec 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

One of the first Tegra 2 powered smartphones has been made official, the LG Optimus 2X, with the 4-inch Android handset set to hit the Korean market in January 2011 and Europe and Asia after that. Built around NVIDIA's dual-core 1GHz processor, a WVGA touchscreen and an 8-megapixel camera, the Optimus 2X promises 1080p MPEG-4/H.264 playback and recording. Read The Full Story

VIA EPIA-P830 Pico-ITX board promises 1080p HD in tiny footprint

, Dec 15th 2010 Discuss [2]

VIA has made its name with tiny mainboards, and the EPIA-P830 Pico-ITX is no different. Featuring a 1.2GHz VIA Nano E-Series processor and VX900 media processor, the EPIA-P830 measures 10 x 7.2 cm but is still capable of up to 1080p HD video playback and HDMI connectivity. Read The Full Story

Roku add 1080p HD to XR streamers with 2.9 firmware update

, Dec 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

Roku has pushed out the latest firmware update for its Netflix streamers, with 2.9-b1509 bringing 1080p HD support to the older Roku XR STBs and various other Hulu optimizations that affect all models. Hulu streams should now start playing quicker, and be more resilient to higher-latency networks. Read The Full Story

Time To Buy a Blu-Ray

, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [15]

Consider this my official holiday gift guide column. I’m not going to do a round-up of all my favorite gift ideas. I’m not going to recommend which phone you should buy, which laptop, which Lexus, or whatever. There are plenty of great gift guides to tell you all that (and I’ve even worked on some of those, myself). I’m not even going to recommend a specific product. I’m just going to tell you to buy a Blu-Ray player. I don’t really know which one to buy, and I don’t even have one myself. But it’s become the number one item on my list, and it should be for you, too.

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TI OMAP4440 processor debuts: 1.5GHz dualcore, 3D 1080p and more

, Dec 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Texas Instruments has announced its latest mobile processor, the TI OMAP4440, a SoC packaging a pair of 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPUs along with two ARM Cortex-M3 cores to power-efficiently offload time-critical and control tasks. Coupled with the POWERVR 3D graphics engine, that provides a quoted 1.25x increase in graphics performance (including 2x faster HD video playback, with support for 1080p60 and 3D stereoscopic 1080p) and a 30-percent cut in webpage loading times. Read The Full Story

BenQ DV S11 Camcorder Breaks Cover, Features Pico Projector Built-In

, Dec 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Amidst the other hot topic that seems to be taking over the Internet right now, BenQ has released a brand new camcorder that, for those who love some pico projectors, may be an interesting addition to their holiday wish list. Packing in the features, inside a bright orange shell, the new DV S11 camcorder is only lacking one thing: a release date for the United States. Read The Full Story
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