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Sony Also Wants Piece of 3D Pie

Gadget News — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:59:30 +0000

Sony has unveiled a new 3D television set this week in the hope of getting its share of profit from the 3D television market. The new Bravia LCD TV, unveiled at the IFA Consumer Electronics Fair, will not only enable people to watch TV in 3D, but it will also be the ‘centerpiece of Sony’s 3D entertainment experience’, the company promised.

Users will be in a position to plug their PlayStation gaming consoles, which will enable them to play games in 3D. Users will also be able to connect Blu-Ray players and computers to the television.

3D movies are nothing new, with the Lumiere brothers’ L’arrivee du train, which was filmed in 3D back in 1903. In 1946, the Soviet Union made Robinzon Cruzo in color and 3D. In the 1950’s there were more than 60 other movies made in 3D. It was not until the 1986 invention of the Imax format and the later movie, Avatar, that 3D came into its own rights.

Sony is now adamant on having its 3D television sets in households around the world and is sure to offer competition to other makers.

NetTalk TV to deliver à la carte HD television programming?

Gadget News — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:23:47 +0000

NetTalk hasn’t exactly made it easy for the world to believe in all of its claims, but things are just getting loco at this point. The NetTalk TV has been introduced here at CES, touted as a companion device to the Duo that provides ultra-low cost digital TV service. Reportedly, the bantam box offers HDMI / S-Video / composite outputs, Ethernet and WiFi, and it’ll enable consumers to receive only the standard- and high-definition content that they want. According to the company, this allows individuals to detach themselves from the high-priced cable packages that force you to pay for 50 channels (when you only need three), but here’s the kicker: there are no details whatsoever provided in the press release after the break. Not even a price. We’re told to expect shipments in Q3 of this year, followed by undoubted disappointment as you begin to understand that it won’t be NetTalk to finally convert the à la carte dream into reality.

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Logitech Revue hack brings Android Market, requires brute force

Gadget News — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:21:56 +0000

It’s not exactly what we’d call a easy jailbreak, seeing as how it requires a soldering iron, a NAND format procedure, and a Logitech Revue that’s never even been powered on, but it looks like it is possible to root a Google TV box after all. GTVHacker has a thirteen-step walkthrough to cracking the Logitech Revue — and physically crack the case you must — after which point custom firmware can let it download, install and run apps from Android Market and bypass pesky television network blockages. Risky? Definitely. Worth it? Depends on how patient you are.

[Thanks, Jason W.]

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Philips bringing ultrawidescreen TV, wireless Blu-ray player, apps and eventually Android TV to USA

Gadget News — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:23:01 +0000

And here we were worried that Funai’s takeover of the US arm would lead to a falloff. Whatever its name or corporate structure, Philips has brought plenty of US-bound heat to CES 2011, with none bigger than the news that we will see the company’s sweet 3D-capable 21:9 ultrawidescreen HDTV on this side of the Atlantic in the second half of 2011. Today it also announced plans for a Blu-ray player with wireless HDMI, the world’s first (meaning you’ll probably need a dongle on any TV to use it until compatible displays arrive later in the year) but no surprise for an outfit that’s been pushing HD streaming for some time. On a similar front its MediaConnect app on new TVs and Blu-ray players will let it stream anything playing on a PC to the TV screen WiDi-style (video embedded after the break.)

Gallery: Philips CES 2011 TVs and Blu-ray player

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Movea SmartMotion Air Mini Keyboard remote and Air Mouse revealed alongside Sunrex partnership

Gadget News — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:47 +0000

Don’t quote us on this, but we’ve got a feeling that remotes will be more than just remotes by the time 2012 rolls around. HDTV companies have been slyly adding motion support to their remotes here at CES, and with PrimeSense’s technology going over so well in the Kinect, there’s an obvious next-step when looking at TV control. Movea — the company responsible for the Gyration Air Mouse and Air Mouse iOS app — has just teamed up with Sunrex here at CES, with the newly formed relationship expecting to yield new kit based on the former’s MotionIC platform and SmartMotion technology. We’re told to expect the first products to be available in Q1 of this year, with the SmartMotion Air Mini Keyboard remote and SmartMotion Air Mouse being named in particular. The former includes a full four-row QWERTY keyboard and relies on 2.4GHz wireless technology, but no images, pricing and availability details are available just yet.

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JVC shows off prototype 50-inch 21:9 full HD 3D TV, says it could hit US later this year

Gadget News — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:23:00 +0000

When the Philips’ 56-inch 21:9 3D TV was released in Europe with no US ship date in sight, darkness fell over our home theater world. Then, Vizio announced its own 21:9 3D TV and we knew it was all going to be ok. They say when it rains it pours though, and now it’s looking like JVC will release its own 50-inch 21:9 full HD 3D TV in the US sometime in the third quarter of 2011. Other details are scarce, but JVC’s talkative CES booth attendant also mentioned the TV might be sold in varying sizes and might feature internet connectivity. The possibility of internet connectivity was also supported by a few screens teasing an integrated information bar, which appeared on the left-hand side of the screen without blocking HD content. Needless to say, we’ll be keeping a close eye on this TV as more news emerges, and in the meantime bide our time dreaming of the ultra-wide CinemaScope-style movies we could be viewing in late 2011. Oh and if you’re curious that’s JVC’s newly-announced TH-BC3 soundbar positioned right below it carrying a sweet paper iPhone 4.

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Oliver Stone, Michael Mann and Baz Luhrmann extoll the virtues of Blu-ray, Stone suggests stocking up

Gadget News — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:22:08 +0000

Panasonic took a break from its usual CES business this afternoon to host the inaugural directors’ panel at the show (in conjunction with 20th Century Fox), where the unexpected trio of Oliver Stone, Michael Mann and Baz Luhrmann showed up to talk about technology in Hollywood, and Blu-ray in particular. As you might expect, the general theme was that Blu-ray is great, but the directors certainly weren’t shy to make their opinions known. While Mann said that Blu-ray would be the “premier format for six, seven or eight years,” for instance, he also took a moment to reminisce about the photochemical process used on Last of the Mohicans, which he notes still can’t be fully replicated on Blu-ray. Luhrmann also talked at length about the great colors Blu-ray allows, and stated simply that “it’s better,” before picking a fight with a noisy booth next door.

Oliver Stone was unsurprisingly the most opinionated, however, and lamented the fact that Blu-ray will be “last hardware” in the face of digital distribution. He even suggested that people should “be different, go against the grain” and collect Blu-rays, which he says will be very valuable by 2050 or so in much the way comics and baseball cards are today. Incidentally, he also said that watching kids multitask so much these days is “very depressing to me” and that, in a way, “we are the last of the Mohicans.”

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