Archive for January, 2008
The kind, loving folks over at Sony claim that they’re about to explode the video conferencing market wide open — HD style — and we’ve got front row seats to the festivities. According to the electronics-maker, the PCS-XG80 is the industry’s first 1080i, HD conferencing solution, and will provide dual streaming, 30 FPS performance over IP or ISDN connections. The system is backwards-compatible with its older SD setups, and we assume it plays nice with the behemoth’s earlier HD effort, the PCS-HG90 — though you might want to double check on that before dropping the $8,999 that the company is asking for the system. Finally, you can really see just how ugly the home office is
Source Engadget
Maplin has launched the "Mini Pocket DV with Sporty Cam". Fitted with a detachable sports camera that can be attached to clothing, this digital video camera is designed capture all your sporting action.
The 10-megapixel DV camera has a digital image stabiliser for said sporty shots and a highly technical elastic band gizmo that means it can be attached to either the arm or the head for hands-free filming.
As well as its photographic abilities, the device offers a built-in MP3 player with 15 channel equaliser and four audio FX settings. Accessories include a remote control, a tripod, pouch and earphones, USB cable and USB adaptor, AV cable and a quick guide and a CD-Rom, that we assume contains the software necessary to see the action on your PC.
The new Mini Pocket DV with Sport Cam (product code: A21HK) is available from Maplin for £149.99 - but is on sale for a limited introductory price of £99.99 until February 20, 2008.
Source pocket-lint.co.uk
Softbank Japan’s leading mobile carrier has added the Hitachi W61H to its offerings. The clamshell is the first in the world to come with a 2.7 inch e-ink display on the back nicknamed ‘Silhouette screen’. Users can choose from 95 patterns of the screen, unfortunately the display is not robust enough to show text messages or email. Coming to the specs the phone has everything you would expect from a Japanese phone a super sharp 2.7 inch 240×400 pixel display with Hitachi’s Woo a technology used in LCD TV’s, 100mb internal memory, Micro SD card slot, Felica for making wireless payments and EZ Nabi Walk or personal GPS to navigate through the streets. The W61H has a one seg tuner for watching digital TV on the move with support for recording along with an EPG (Electronic programming guide). The phone will be available in three colors green, white and black in Japanese markets by March.
Source Newlaunches.com
The ultimate compact HD Camera from Canon with:
-HF10, AVCHD video codec, 16GB of internal memory and support of SDHC, DIGIC DV II and Full HD
-HF100, the little bother of the HF10 but without internal memory
-HV30, Is a regular miniDV camcorder with a 2.96Mpix censor, but also receive the DIGIC DV II. Also Full HD
-The Cute and little FS10 with 8GB of internal memory, weight only 260g and has a size of 58×124x60mm, support SD and SDHC, and record video in MPEG-2/SD Video.
-DC300 a “old school” DVD video camera.
Source akihabaranews
To facilitate the migration from wired to wireless, WUSB introduced a new Device Wire Adapter (DMA) class, commonly referred to as a “WUSB hub”; and Host Wire Adapter (HMA), which is essentially a USB 2.0 device that connects to a PC via a USB port or internally to a laptop’s miniCard interface. There are already several USB HMA dongles, which ultimately share the same resources with existing USB sub-system. For those with an older laptop that comes with a relatively unused CardBus slot, IOGear has a Certified Wireless USB CardBus HMA that does the same job as a USB dongle equivalent, but without clogging the bandwidth. Nothing on pricing nor availability yet, unfortunately.
Source Everything USB
Sony Ericsson launches its GSM mobile phone ‘W62S’ in Japan market, which supports KDDI’s EV-DO service ‘CDMA 1X WIN’ and international roaming service in over 180 countries.
Equipped with a 2.7-inch display with 240 x 432 display, a 2M camera and a micro card slot expandable to 2GB, the W62S offers 240 minutes of continuous calling.
It is expected to be available in Japan market after March.
Source AVING
Sanyo announced the release of its handset ‘W62SA’ in Japan market, which features IPX7 waterproof to 1m for 30minutes.
Supporting 1-Seg and KDDI’s EV-DO service ‘CDMA 1X WIN’, the W62SA adopts a 2.8-inch display with 240 x 400(WQVGA) resolution, a 1.97M camera and an micro card slot expandable to 2GB.
Measuring 51 x 106 x 19.5mm at 138g weight, it offers 300 minutes of continuous calling. It is expected to be available in the end of February.
Source AVING
JVC has announced two new additions to its Everio lineup of camcorders the GZ-HD6 and GZ-HD5 which are the world’s first HD camcorders delivering 1080/60p output. The GZ-HD6 comes with a 120GB hard drive and 1080p output whereas the GZ-HD5 comes with a 60Gig drive and 1080i output other than this they share the same features. Features include 3CCD 16:9 progressive scan, full HD recording (1,920×1,080) in MPEG-2 TS format, HDMI output and HD Gigabrid image processing engine which processes the 1080/60p signal. The 1.8 inch 120GB hard drive can hold upto 10 hours of HD video in VBR mode and the 60GB drive can hold 5 hours of video. The cams are equipped with a microSDHC card slot, USB slot and a 2.8 inch LCD. Scheduled to hit stores in Japan by mid Feb the GZ-HD6 will cost 170,000 Yen ($ 1600) and the GZ-HD6 will sell for 150,000 Yen ($ 1400).
Source Newlaunches.com
Consumers who own camcorders that use flash memory cards instead of tape will now be able to select the right storage media for their cameras with the debut of a video card line from SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK). As the first of a new category of storage media, SanDisk Video HD™ cards will be available in SDHC™ (high-capacity) and Memory Stick PRO Duo™ formats, and will be identified by minutes of recording time as well as by capacity.
SanDisk unveiled the high performance video card product family during a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show, where the company is exhibiting at Booth 30768 in South Hall 3 of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
More info at SanDisk
XFones: The Ultimate Audio Entertainment! XFones PC-2400 lets you experience the ultimate audio entertainment with your PC or Mac. Using the latest wireless 2.4GHz technology, XFones allows you to experience your PC or Mac audio, wirelessly with comfortable over-the-ear headphones.
Share with your family. XFones has the ab
ility to broadcast to more than one headphone. You and your family can enjoy a movie or listen to a concert together in the comfort of your living room.