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

Chris Davies, 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

Chris Davies, 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

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Time To Buy a Blu-Ray

Philip Berne, 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

Chris Davies, 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]

Chris Burns, 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

Lumix GF2 HD Camera Gets Looked at Close Up

Chris Burns, Nov 4th 2010 Discuss [2]

Mister Vlad Savov of Engadget got the chance to wrap his fingers around Panasonic's newest and smallest Micro Four Thirds and take a bunch of photos and video with it. It's full HD. It's very much excellence it does seem. This camera is reportedly 19% smaller than the Lumix GF1, and that's saying something. It's also 7% lighter, functions with a lovely touchscreen user interface, and takes video in 720/60p or 1080/60i recording in AVCHD format. Behold this cool maybe-bulky, maybe-tiny enough for a pocket large-sensor shooter. Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire RevoView 1080p media streamer packs HDD bay

Chris Davies, Nov 3rd 2010 Discuss [2]

Acer has injected some of their nettop DNA into a new network-capable media player, the Acer Aspire RevoView. The STB is capable of Full HD playback from local storage - either on memory card, USB drive or in the user-accesible 3.5-inch hard-drive bay - or streamed over the network via the RevoView's ethernet port. Read The Full Story

VUDU pay-per-view hits Boxee and Boxee Box in November

Chris Davies, Oct 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Boxee and VUDU have announced a partnership that will see the former's media platform - including the upcoming Boxee Box by D-Link - gain access to pay-per-view titles from the latter's catalog. Up to 1080p Full HD content will be supported, together with Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound. Read The Full Story

PandaBoard OMAP4 developer board on sale for $174 [Video]

Chris Davies, Oct 27th 2010 Discuss [2]

The PandaBoard Cortex-A9 OMAP4 developer board we mentioned at the start of the month has gone on sale, priced at a reasonable $174. Based around a dual-core 1GHz chip with 1GB of RAM, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1, the PandaBoard supports 1080p 30fps output via HDMI and is intended to allow developers to whip up OMAP4-compatible apps in Android, Angstrom, Chrome, MeeGo and Ubuntu. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Western Digital WD TV Live Hub packs 1TB, 1080p, streaming & more

Chris Davies, Oct 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

Western Digital has outed its latest media-streaming set top box, the WD TV Live Hub, a low-profile 1TB drive with Full HD 1080p playback support and Netflix, Blockbuster on Demand, Pandora and YouTube. As you'd expect, there's a fulsome list of supported file types - including MPEG4, Xvid, MKV, H.264 and MOV - while ports include gigabit ethernet, two USB 2.0, HDMI, composite and component video, and optical audio. Read The Full Story

Sharp AQUOS BD-AV70 35mm-thick 3D Blu-ray recorder arrives Dec 1

Chris Davies, Oct 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Sharp Japan has announced a release date for what it claims is the thinnest 3D-capable Blu-ray recorder, the Sharp AQUOS BD-AV70. Measuring just 35mm high, the AV70 can squeeze up to 87 hours of video onto a single BDXL disc, and will arrive in Japan on December 1 2010. Read The Full Story

Panasonic DIGA DMR-BF200 squeezes Blu-ray/HDD DVR into tiny chassis

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

Panasonic Japan has outed what the company is calling the smallest ever DVR that integrates both Blu-ray burning and a hard-drive. The Panasonic DIGA DMR-BF200 measures a slight 210 x 194 x 65 mm and weighs in at 2.2kg; it can burn BD-R or BD-RE discs and or record media to its 320GB hard-drive. Read The Full Story