Tag Archive for 'high-definition'
The Wii HD saga continues. After Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America president, dismissed the last round of rumors in October about a high-definition update to the popular console, senior managing director Shigeru Miyamoto has reignited speculation that the company at least has an HD version in the works. Speaking in a podcast interview [mp4 link], Miyamoto declined to [...]
Nothing like ambition to get the mouth watering, and Ericsson have create a whole lot of leaky orifices today after a presentation slide suggests that they envisage mobile devices with cameras capable of HD-quality video and 20-megapixel images by 2012. In addition, the company believes we’ll be using 1Gbps LTE Advanced mobile networks by the [...]
Canon have announced a pair of high-definition camcorders that look likely to make serious videographers (i.e. not me) weep, like little children, with joy. The XH A1S and XH G1S both record to HDV tape, have 20x lenses with manual zoom and focus, and use Canon’s optical image stabilizer system. Each can record full 1080p high-definition footage.
Dell have taken the wraps off of their latest XPS computer, the 24-inch Dell XPS One 24 desktop PC. Running at full 1080p 1920 x 1080 high-definition, the XPS One has optional Blu-ray for entertainment and high-capacity back-ups, together with a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 processor and optional NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT video [...]
Samsung’s flexible OLED panel isn’t the only display the company has been showing off this week; they’ve also wheeled out a 40-inch OLED screen capable of full 1920 x 1080 high-definition resolution. The new panel also has a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
Setting up a computer-based media center can be a matter of picking one off the shelf of your nearest Best Buy, or spending days building your own DIY version. But if you’d rather stick with the PC you already have, the Hauppauge HD PVR Model 1212 could be the device for you. Capable of recording [...]
The International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2008 kicked off in Korea yesterday, and both Samsung and LG Display brought along their latest OLED-based displays for a little screen-quality sparring. LG tried valiantly, with their 19-inch OLED panel, but Samsung’s smaller, 14-inch panel fought back with the lower power-requirements of AMOLED while their larger 31-inch [...]
The dust has barely settled on the RIM BlackBerry Storm launch, and already there’s news of new, improved devices on the horizon. The BGR has received word from multiple sources that not only are RIM currently working on the second-gen BlackBerry Storm (and in the early stages of the third-gen Storm), but that the more immediate [...]
Fujifilm have been demonstrating a twin-lens 3D camera using its new Finepix Real 3D system, which is expected to hit the market in 2009. Two Fujinon lenses are positioned 6-7cm apart from each other, roughly mimicking the average distance between the human eyes, and each capture a frame at the same time; those are combined [...]
The Sony VAIO VGC-RT150Y was described to us back in September as an “all-in-one high-definition studio”, and a look at the spec sheet indicated the company was certainly on the right track. Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q9400 processor running at up to 2.5GHz (6MB L2 cache), 8GB of RAM and 1TB of storage in dual-SATA user-accessible [...]
