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Matsushita working on a deal with Hitachi and Toshiba

, Dec 19th 2007 Discuss [0]

Back when the large panel TV’s were first getting popular, most companies had two choices, bet on Plasma for the ease of which it scales, or bet on LCD and hope for the best. Well, Matsushita bet on Plasmas, and that worked out well in the beginning, but since then, LCDs have grown in size, and the plasma market has dwindled considerably. Read The Full Story

Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB HDD

, Nov 21st 2007 Discuss [0]

So, Samsung has this series of hardrives called the Spinpoint F1 series, with the HD103UJ topping it at 1TB. All three drives in the series have a data density of 350GB, operate at 7200RPMs, and utilize the SATA/300 interface. its the one on the left. Only the 750GB and 1TB drives have the full 32MB cache though. All of that calculates to make the 1TB drive have a total average access time of 14.2 milliseconds, which, in the terabyte hard drive market (there aren’t many) is slow, in fact, Seagate and Hitachi have models that perform at 12.7ms and 13.8ms respectively, so the only company the Samsung beats out is the WD Caviar GP with its 15/15.1ms access time. Read The Full Story

Hitachi UT Series LCD TVs – Thin and light, but full of features

, Nov 14th 2007 Discuss [0]

You don’t believe its thin and light? Well peep this, its 35mm thick, that’s a number, then for the lightness, look at the runway model carrying one and stopping to pose after strutting out with the screen in hand. I am pretty sure a good sign of something being light is how easily a runway model can carry eat and still look good. Part of the reason its so light is because they’ve separated the actual screen, and all the other junk that usually comes built into back/side of the TVs. Read The Full Story

Two largest manufacturers of optical drives to quit making CD-ROM and CD-RW drives

, Oct 23rd 2007 Discuss [0]

HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) and TSST (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology) are soon to cease manufacturing of both CD-ROM and CD-RW drives. Not too big of a surprise since the last time I went shopping for computer parts I could have gotten one of each for less that $40. Basically what it comes down to is the fact that all the new DVD burners are so close to the price of a new CD burner, and do the same thing and more, that they aren’t selling very many, roughly 5% of their shipments right now, and they expect it to be less by the end of the year. So if you were a big fan of those optical drives, my condolences go out to you. Read The Full Story

Amazing storage density achieved by Western Digital

, Oct 18th 2007 Discuss [0]

They were able to hit 520GB per square inch, which means I now want a freaking hard drive that holds that much data that’s not much bigger than a square inch. Yeah sure, they’ll probably use the technology to crank out hard drives somewhere in the multi-terabyte range, but I think it would be awesome to have a thumb drive that could hold 520GB. I guess this is just proof that telling someone they can’t do something is just more motivation to do just that, since Hitachi just said earlier this week that the Tunneling Magneto-Resistive head used wouldn’t be able to do just what WD has accomplished. Of course Hitachi was saying that as they announced their new CPP-GMR read/write head tech. Read The Full Story

Hitachi is at it again, making all the other HDD manufacturers look bad with their 4TB HDDs

, Oct 15th 2007 Discuss [0]

That’s right, by 2011 your laptop could have a 1TB HDD and your desktop could have a 4TB HDD. That’s all thanks to some nanotech thing that Hitachi has done that reduces Nanometer Recording by two times. You could actually see the technology as early as 2009, but probably not quite in those capacities. Basically what they did was shrunk the head (I KNEW IT WAS ALL VOODOO!) to a point where it’s about 2,000 times smaller than a human hair. Read The Full Story

IFA 2007 – Hitachi unveil World’s First BluRay Camcorders

, Sep 1st 2007 Discuss [0]

Hitachi are throwing their hat firmly into the BluRay ring with the release of two HD camcorders - the BD70E and BD7HE -  that can record direct to the discs, allowing for instant playback in any compatible player.  Using 5.3-megapixel CMOS sensors, they record full 1920 x 1080 high-definition to 8cm discs; or, in the case of the BD7HE, optionally to the internal 30GB hard-drive before burning to disc.  Both camcorders - which Hitachi are calling the world's first to use the BluRay format - have HDMI outputs should you not have a BluRay player to hand.   Read The Full Story

DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 camcorders from Hitachi record straight to Blu-ray discs

, Aug 2nd 2007 Discuss [0]

If you've already chosen your side in the format wars between Blu-ray and HD DVD, you might want to check out these two new camcorders from Hitachi. That is if you're a Blu-ray supporter. Read The Full Story

Water-cooled HDD from NEC and Hitachi

, Jul 30th 2007 Discuss [0]

Hitachi and NEC partnered up to make the first Water cooling system for Hard Disk Drive that is as quite as a sleeping baby at 25dB. Although the technology is targeted towards audiovisual system, NEC does plan to ship the water-cooled hard drive with its consumer desktop system. NEC and Hitachi water-cool your HDD [via akihabaranews]

Hitachi introduced Biometric Finger Vein Reader

, Jul 26th 2007 Discuss [3]

Fingerprint readers are pretty common these days with laptops, however Hitachi went a little further and developed Biometric finger vein reader. That’s right! It reads veins in your finger and uses it as identifications. Read The Full Story

Hitachi’s Travelstar 7k200 – 22% faster than the competition

, May 11th 2007 Discuss [0]

It's great to have a hard drive that can store a lot of data, but that's not the only thing that matters. To keep up with today's demanding software, you need a drive that is fast. Hitachi has unveiled a new hard drive that blows the competition out of the water in terms of speed. Read The Full Story

Hitachi Releases World’s First Terabyte Drive

, Apr 27th 2007 Discuss [0]

No matter how you partition it, 1 terabyte of storage is a lot of space to fill. Ready to give budding audiophiles and cinematics a shot at doing just that is Hatachi's Deskstar 7K1000 with it's $399 price tag. Read The Full Story
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