Happy New Year everybody with lots of tech, travel and family satisfaction! I cannot think of any better way to celebrate than watching the Muppets sing the brilliant “Bohemian Rhapsody” from Queen. Enjoy in HD! And if you haven’t seen Kermit anywhere, you have to watch till the end :-):-):-):-)
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Having previously written about the insane Japanese Super Hi-Vision plans and how hardware manufacturers like JVC strive to match them, I have decided to come back to this subject. In a way, I have come back to reconsider. The transition to Full HD (1080p) is yet not complete, we are not even halfway there. Terrestrial [...]
In Photokina 2008 Canon was busy launching its 50D and 5D Mk II DSLR models. The 5D Mk II has caused a stir in the DSLR world. Demand is steadily as high as its supply and clearly video is the new much sought feature to add to new DSLR models.
So now that Canon has taken [...]
A couple of days back I wrote about how the PC remains the best gaming platform. In a recent 10 year anniversary event of Polyphony Digital in New York there was demo hardware for the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 that could well be a glimpse into the future of gaming.
The hardware consisted of four combined PS3 [...]
Jim Jannard, the founder that conceived and developed the Red One, seems to have no plans for rest. And neither should DSLR manufacturers. Why? Simply because the next aim for Red is the development of a DSMC (meaning Digital Still and Motion Camera) to take the DSLR market by storm.
Jannard promises that the new Red [...]
Was Toshiba right to state that Blu-ray is not going to replace the venerable DVD on the way to movie downloads and VOD? Judging by Blu-ray player sales, it now seems like a very possible scenario.
Still being happy with DVD discs, I have supported that there are many good reasons to not adopt the Blu-ray [...]
It seems that Nova, the only company offering Greek satellite programs, is finally getting some competition. A few days ago, OTE has applied to the Greek National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV) for permission to emit satellite programs.
The new venture will use the existing HellaSat platform, but with a small difference. It will be [...]
So far 2008 is a good year for HD camcorders. The Canon HF10 was the first to break the deadlock and offer great performance for the AVCHD standard. Now Sony seems to join the top end of consumer HD camcorders with its new HDR-SR12 and HDR-SR11 models. The only difference between the two is the [...]
There is hardly any camcorder that is not tested by the guys at camcorderinfo. Amid the storage medium confusion -HD, tape, flash, optical disc- there is also the even more serious matter of what format to choose. From the first HD generation, the only models that managed to offer good quality results were tape based [...]
I have yesterday given here 9 reasons why you should not yet invest in Blu-ray.
As a follow up, and in order to help readers decide whether it is the right time to go ahead and buy, I decided to list here the questions I would be asking myself before making a sensible decision:
Do you own [...]
About 2 weeks ago we discussed here whether the Lumenlab Q is worth $10,000. I did not hide the fact that I fancy its daring and innovative concept, but unfortunately a 10K product is definitely not accessible by the majority of us.
Earlier this week, Lumenlab presented the cheaper Q42, as a follow up to two [...]
All reports say that the war is effectively over and even sales figures show that finally Blu-ray is trampling HD-DVD. So now that HD-DVD is seemingly out of the way, you are thinking it is the right time to invest in Blu-ray right? Maybe not…
Here is nine reasons to stick to good old DVD:
You still [...]
Are you worried how to get your PC multimedia content to your TV? Worry no more because Lumenlab has taken a drastic measure to satisfy you, it is actually bringing to the market a device that is HDTV and PC at the same time! Everything comes integrated in a slick 3.5 inch thick aluminium box. [...]
At CES 2008 there was no official press conference to declare that the HD war is over and Toshiba stated that it will battle on. However, nobody is fooled and the release of Blu-Ray’s spec 2.0 is an indirect confirmation that Sony et al actually now control the game. While spec 1.1 required a double [...]
It was about time to see a move favoring one of the two HD disc formats. Warner has failed to combine both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD on a single disc and at the same time feels the pressure from set-top boxes and download services. For this reason it decided to exclusively back Blu-Ray. Analysts see the end of [...]
