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Verizon stream Blu-ray quality 1080p 3D over FiOS [Video]

, Jan 7th 2011 Discuss [1]

Verizon has demonstrated streaming Full HD 3D 1080p video over FiOS fiber-optic networks. The system promises double the quality of some rival systems, and uses a Panasonic Blu-ray player on the receiving end. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire One 522 AMD Fusion 1080p netbook gets official

, Jan 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

Acer's Aspire One 522 - which leaked back in December - has been made official, with the netbook packing AMD's latest C-50 1GHz Fusion processor and Radeon HD 6250 256MB graphics. Fronted by a 10.1-inch 1280 x 720 display, the AO522 promises 1080p HD video output from an HDMI port, along with real time image processing with auto color and contrast adjustment. 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

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

HTC Media Link unboxing [Video]

, Dec 22nd 2010 Discuss [4]

It’s been a long time since we first caught sight of HTC’s Media Link, squeezed into an HTC Sense presentation back at the launch of the Desire HD and Desire Z. The two phones have launched and gone on sale, but it’s taken longer for the compact DLNA wireless streaming box to arrive. Patience has served us well, though, and now the Media Link is fresh on the SlashGear test bench.

Unboxing video after the cut

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JVC LSI 2D/3D camcorder chip promises Full HD 60fps 3D, 4K2K & more at CES 2011

, Dec 16th 2010 Discuss [3]

JVC's 3D projector technology is among the best around, but until now the company hasn't offered a straightforward way to record high-definition 3D content for it. All that could change at CES 2011; JVC is promising a new HD camcorder in January next year, using the world's first LSI chip for high-speed image processing. The new JVC LSI chip is capable of recording Full HD, including both 2D and 3D images, and also 4K2K images that are roughly 4x Full HD resolution. 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

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

Tron Legacy Trailer #3 [VIDEO]

, Nov 9th 2010 Discuss [8]

Here it is, everyone in the world who loves to have their eyeballs ripped from their sockets, here is the new TRON trailer. Today, take note of the following, if you've not been following along so intently you've basically already seen the movie: there's a storyline here that includes Flynn (from the first movie) flipping a coin to his son promising him a trip to the arcade. Overnight he disappears, leaving his son to fend for himself until he finds that, yes, his dad appears to have been sucked into the machine. Read The Full Story
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