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Panasonic Releases Second Gen BluRay DMP
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Movies,
Continuing its fight on the blu side, Panasonic introduced its HD DMP-BD30, the next generation of their BD10. The player offers Final Standard Profile for creating picture-in-picture and audio mixing, which means that you can have the director’s comments drone on during the entire movie without having watch it a second time. The DMP also offers Deep Color Compatibility and 1080/24p playback. With the use of its AVCHD codec, the DMP-BD30 allows recorded images on a HD SD card to be outputted from the user’s HDMI terminal in their original 1080p form. While it will not have the $1,295.00 price of its predecessor, it will still set you back a hefty $499.95.
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Star Wars Alert! Autographed “Empire Strikes Back” Photo
Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Hot Deals, Movies,
So you thought your Star Wars collection was complete after buying those Star Wars stamps the moment they were released. Well it’s time to break the bank again, amigo. Truly for the obsessed fan—and we mean that in a nice way—Wireless Catalog is offering a wood-framed still from “The Empire Strikes Back” signed by Billy Dee Williams, David Prowse (Darth Vader), and Jeremy Bulloch (the enigmatic Boba Fett). The collector’s item comes with a certificate of authenticity, measures 21x25” wide, and is currently available for $300 USD. Limited quantities available.
Read More | The Wireless Catalog
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Original Star Wars Lightsaber Hits Space
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Movies, Science, Transportation,
Who says that astronauts are all work and no play? Luke Skywalker’s actual lightsaber from “Return of the Jedi” was bundled up and taken on the latest trip to the Discovery. Before being packed away in its flight kit and stowed away in an area in the space shuttle, it was personally given a sendoff from George Lucas, Chewbacca, and some Jedi Knights. Ever since Gus Grissom carried a few dimes on his spaceflight in 1961, many items have been taken along for the ride. Although astronauts are not allowed to bring anything personal for profit, sometimes memorabilia will find its way to sites such as CollectSPACE. We prefer to think they they brought the weapon along just in case they need the Force to be with them.
Read More | USA Today
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Samsung Unveils Standard PMP
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Movies, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Wireless / WiFi,
Today, Samsung Korea introduced its latest digital multimedia player, the YP-T10. It will play MP3s, WMAs, OGGs, and WMVs, and features an FM tuner, Bluetooth capability, voice recorder, and Character GUI. The DMP is available in four colors and can play up to 30 hours of audio time and 4 hours of video. The MSRP for the YP is 159000 Won (~$175.00) for the 2GB version and 189000 Won (~$208.00) for 4GB. While we don’t see anything particularly outstanding about the player, we might consider purchase if they throw in the YEPP pup.
Read More | Akihabara News
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MP4 Watch Does All Things Musical
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Movies, Music, Portable Audio / Video,
We love all gadgets that you can wear and lessen the chance of losing, and this Luxury MP4 Watch is no exception. Enclosed in a steel shell and with a 1.8-inch 160 x 128 pixel OLED, it features a built-in Li-on battery. You can play MP3s, WMAs, Mp4s, music videos, movies, and display JPG images. It also allows wireless broadcasting through your car stereo or portable radio by an integrated FM transmitter.
The player holds 1 GB memory, connects to your PC by USB for downloading, has voice recording with built-in mic, features 4 hours of video playback time and 7 hours with audio, and recharges in only 1.5 hours. About the only thing it won’t do is wash windows. The MP4 Watch is available from our buds at vavolo For $110.00.
(Thanks, Cassily)
Read More | valvolo
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Chumby Loves Hackers
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Internet, Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, Wireless / WiFi,
Chumby is a new open source device that will display useful as well as entertaining information. It can create flash animation, report news, weather, sports, and celeb gossip, and is completely hackable since it was created by hackers themselves. Chumby’s owners will receive free personalized widgets and information on their Network. Since it is always on, it keeps up to date on all things relevant to your Internet life by WiFi. At a size of 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 3 1/4-inches, and in your choice of black, latte, and pearl, it can also handle pictures, music, video, and blogs. It’s creators say it will cost less than $200.00 and are looking for those who want to adopt the little computerized gadget in the near future.
Read More | Chumby Product Page
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YouTube Unveils Copyright Protection Plan
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Google, Home Entertainment, Internet, Movies, Music,
YouTube has finally released the means to automatically remove copyrighted clips. Although it has been eliminating most of those videos per request, the site is hoping that this will have a more positive impact on complaints such as Viacom’s suit against them. Working with its parent Google, the technology also allows companies to sell ads on their material if they will allow them to remain on YouTube. Unfortunately, the method of copyright protection requires copies of the videos that need protecting to be given to YouTube for comparison. This certainly doesn’t appear to be the solution that the studios desire and we suspect that YouTube will have to go back to the drawing board on this one.
Read More | ABC
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Eurocase is Perfect For Shy Suitors
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, USB,
Designed for over-the-top romantics, the Euricase Ring Box features a built-in LCD video screen. Load your fave pics, a clip of Luther Vandross singing, or a scene from “Casablanca” by USB connection. Working on a single lithium rechargeable battery, it will hold up to 500 images or 30 to 60 minutes of video in case you want to include a marriage proposal and don’t have the guts to ask in person. The Euricase is available for pre-order in four colors and four metallic finishes (for an extra $50.00) for $198.95 with a shipping date of November 1.
Read More | Euricase
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Nokia Includes Spidey in N95 Release
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Cameras, Smartphones, Corporate News, GPS, Handhelds, Movies, Music, Video Games,
Nokia has debuted its N95 with “Spiderman 3” film, wallpaper, and ringtones, which they feel will show off its capabilities. The handheld features a 2.8-inch, 240 x 320 QVGA display, a 5 megapixel cam with Zeiss optics, A-GPS with over 150 countries, WLAN, HSDPA, and storage of up to 20 hours of video and 6000 tunes with 8GB. The N95 also has the good fortune of being part of the Nokia Music Store and N-Gage Games, which will be going live soon so that you can actually test a game before purchase. The black N95 with 2-way slide is available in Europe and selected countries in Africa and the Middle East for €560 (~$793.00.)
Read More | Nokia via Mobilewhack
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Samsung BD-P1000 and BD-P1200 Blu-ray players get new BD+ firmware tomorrow
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Home Entertainment, Movies, Software,
Our pals over at Samsung just alerted us to the fact that their BD-P1000 and BD-P1200 Blu-ray disc players will be receiving the firmware upgrade treatment tomorrow. This is good news, because some of the latest Blu-ray titles have had issues playing on the Samsung players due to the lack of BD+ support. This update fixes that. Here are all the details, straight from them:
Available on Friday, 10/12/07, the firmware update will be available on www.samsung.com for users to download, burn to disc, and load into the player. Owners of the BD-P1200 will have the option to do the update via the player’s Ethernet connection. This firmware update will resolve freezing issues experienced when viewing Fox titles and their BD+ features. Details are as follows:
BD-P1000 Firmware Update
This firmware update provides the following benefits:
- Enhanced Blu-ray movie title playability regarding BD+
BD-P1200 Firmware Update
The firmware update provides the following benefits:
- Improves playback compatibility in some movies
- Enhanced Blu-ray movie title playability regarding BD+
- Enhanced performance of in-movie games
- Fixing audio noise in some movies
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