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Sony Pushes Back Blu-ray Titles One Month

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president Benjamin Feinhold said today that his company’s first Blu-ray movie titles are ready to be released May 23, as promised, but the company is going to delay release until June 20 to better coincide with the availability of the Blu-ray players.

Samsung previously announced its Blu-ray players would be delayed until June 25 in order to compete compatibility testing.

The move is an attempt to make Blu-ray’s launch more coordinated than the awkward roll-out of Toshiba’s competing HD DVD next-generation disk format, which saw limited availability of HD DVD players before HD DVD titles were available.  Read more...

Amazon Subsidiary Brings Us TV Greats

Amazon.com subsidiary CustomFlix Labs today said they’d reached agreements with NBC Universal, A&E Home Video and PBS to begin making available popular broadcast content via a new “DVD on Demand” service on the Amazon.com Web site. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.

Under this new DVD on Demand service, said CustomFlix, content from television programming networks’ vast library of normally archived material is being encoded and distributed on to DVDs as consumers select and purchase them online. For NBC, this includes a wide variety of titles such as the “Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show” and a compilation of popular “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” segments from the “Today” show. More NBC titles are being added on an ongoing basis, with many DVDs being pre-sold during the initial airing of the broadcast.  Read more...

CES 2006 Profile: Motorola

Motorola was busy at CES 2006 showcasing a wide array of new products and services for the coming year. Of more interesting note where announcements about a new ROKR music phone, Oakley designed music eyewear and a mini Bluetooth headset.

Motorola’s newest ROKR phone is the ROKR E2. This mobile music handset, which has a projected availability in the first half of this year, allows for easy switching between phone calls and music at the touch of a button. Features include a Linux operating system, built in digital audio player which is compatible with a variety of different audio formats, PC connectivity for loading of music via USB 2.0, a SD memory card slot for expanded memory, built-in FM radio, dedicated music playback keys, Bluetooth support, airplane mode and a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture.  Read more...

CES 2006 Profile: Asus Computer

Asus Computer announced several new products at CES 2006 geared towards both computer and consumer electronics users. Among these new products are several laptop computers, a digital media hub, a networked DVD player and some monitors.

Asus Computer’s new 2006 laptops include the W2J, A7J, W5F, A6J and V6J. All are based upon Intel’s next generation dual core mobile platform. The most interesting of these is the W5F. Features of this compact model include a built-in 1.3 megapixel 180 degree swivel webcam, microphone, white carbon fiber casing, 12.1” WXGA LCD and up to 1536MB of DD2 memory at 533/667MHz.  Read more...

Akimbo to Pitch Baseball-over-IP

Just in time for playoffs, Internet media company Akimbo announced yesterday that it will be offering Internet-based video-on-demand baseball, with premium content including condensed games, highlights, and classic historic games. The content will be provided by MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), Major League Baseball’s media and Internet company. According to Akimbo, games will be available for the service in the early morning the day after the games are played.  Read more...

Sony Introduces New DVD Players

The DVP-CX995V 400-disc DVD/Super-Audio CD (SA-CD) changer up-scales video to high definition (1080i/720p) resolution and transmits high quality audio through a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). HDMI connections allow for the transfer of uncompressed digital signals to other HDMI equipped components such as Sony’s Grand WEGA LCD rear projection high definition televisions.

The 2005 line also includes two single-disc HDMI DVD players and two progressive models addressing multiple levels of performance and budget. All of the new DVD players feature Precision Cinema Progressive circuitry and 12bit/108MHz video D/A converter for high-quality video output.

Sony DVP-CX995V
Sony DVP-CX995V  Read more...

Samsung Develops New HDTV System-on-Chip

The S5H2200 is a single-chip solution that incorporates dual HD MPEG-2 decoders, which can simultaneously provide high-quality audio and video for digital broadcasts to the sub-screen as well as to the main screen, an ARM920T-based 330MHz CPU, and the company’s proprietary picture improvement function, DNIe (Digital Natural Image Engine).

The S5H2200 supports various display modes such as multiple picture-in-picture (PIP) and picture-in-graphics (PIG), providing an added convenience for digital TV viewers. It also includes 24-bit digital signal processor (DSP) for high fidelity sound, and supports multiple-input Transport Stream Decoder (TSD) for Personal Video Recorder (PVR) application. Interfaces for various peripherals such as Memory Stick, ATAPI, IEEE1394 and USB make it compatible with external inputs from other digital devices such as digital STB, DVD, game console, and digital camcorder.  Read more...

Samsung Syncmaster 172X review

Quote from the review at The TechZone:

“The letter X usually is used to denote something mysterious or of high performance. In terms of computers it can be also used as a wildcard character, leaving spaces for variation in a series of products or standards (Win9x, 802.11x). In today’s review, the former seems to be the way to go. The SyncMaster 172X by Samsung is rumoured to have a 12ms pixel response time; something that would be indeed in the high performance category!”

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