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Lumix GF2 HD Camera Gets Looked at Close Up

, 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

, 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

, 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]

, 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

, 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

, 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

, 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

Panasonic AG-AF100 Micro Four Thirds HD camcorder dated & priced

, Oct 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

Panasonic has confirmed availability and pricing for their AG-AF100 Micro Four Thirds HD camcorder, announced back in mid-September and capable of recording full 1080p and 720p HD using a range of micro 4/3-inch lenses, filters and adapters.  The AG-AF100 (and, we're guessing, its AF105 Japanese sibling) will drop on December 27 2010, priced at $4,995. Read The Full Story

Sharp Demonstrates 64-Inch Prototype LCD Display at CEATEC

, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

CEATEC is happening right now in Japan, and will be an ongoing presence in the region for the next few days. It's another electronics trade show where companies all over the world can showcase their latest and greatest, as well as plenty of prototypes of things they'd love to get out into the market. Sharp managed to make the high-definition market shake a bit, as they successfully demonstrated a 64-inch LCD prototype display, featuring a resolution of 4096 x 2160. Read The Full Story

Samson Zoom Q3HD Full HD camcorder gets pro-microphones

, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [1]

Watch out Flip Video and the rest of the pocket camcorder crowd; Samson's new Zoom Q3HD not only has twin capsule microphones for recording stereo sound, but they're so fierce they need to be safely kept in a cage.  The Samson Zoom Q3HD shoots up to 1080p Full HD video in H.264 format and has the same condenser microphones as the company's H4n Handy Recorder. Read The Full Story

ASUS O!Play HD2 detailed; launches this week for £109

, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [9]

It's been a while since we've heard from ASUS about their USB 3.0 toting O!Play HD2 multimedia center, but now - with the launch tipped for this week - the company is being a little more forthright about the specifications.  Supporting USB 2.0 and eSATA external drives, the ASUS O!Play HD2 also has an internal 3.5-inch hard-drive bay and can be used as a regular USB 3.0 external HDD in its own right. Read The Full Story

PandaBoard offers TI Cortex-A9 OMAP4 to imaginative devs

, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [5]

Texas Instruments already has a Cortex-A9 OMAP4 product available to developers in the shape of the undeniably expensive OMAP Blaze, but now there's a cheaper option on the horizon.  Based on the BeagleBoard principle, the new PandaBoard project is now taking submissions for an early adopter program with the first TI Cortex-A9 based boards expected to ship out in mid-October. Read The Full Story
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