Tag archive: Cinema

For deaf people who like to enjoy films on the big screen, choice is often limited when it comes to the offerings of the local movie theater. It’s usually only foreign-language movies that have subtitles, leaving the hard of hearing with little choice but to wait for the DVD release of other movies they want to see. And even then, who wants to watch a blockbuster on a small TV screen? In a short film on the BBC website, reporter Graham Satchell… Read More

Console video games are becoming more like big blockbuster movies all the time. Seeing this trend, Capcom has decided to jump ahead a few years and give us Asura's Wrath, an epic hybrid of sorts that blends cinema and gameplay in ways few developers have yet dared to try. I didn't manage to play the game at E3 this year, but I did catch up with Capcom at a New York event not long ago where I played through the PS3 game demo twice. I… Read More

Microsoft's hardware group has long been making mice, keyboards, headsets, and other peripherals for computer users, and today the company announced a new addition to its LifeCam series of Webcams, the LifeCam Cinema. The LifeCam targets the high-definition video crowd, claiming to be the first consumer Web cam to offer a native 720p sensor and a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, and promises sharp pictures and high frame rates even in… Read More

Although one would think last week's CES show would have been a great time to announce this product, Philips is starting to take the wraps off its new Cinema 21:9 LCD television, which is designed to let viewers experience movies on screen just as they would in theaters: with a super wide-screen 21:9 aspect ratio. Philips hasn't released specs on the set—those should be coming at the end of February—but the unit will… Read More

LTB Audio Systems, a manufacturer of audio and multimedia headphones, yesterday announced a new 2.4GHz wireless headphone which they say gives a true 5.1 surround sound listening experience. The Cinema 1 LTB-WR51 is priced at $299 and should be available now. LTB said that the Cinema 1 headphones

Delivering high quality multi-channel audio playback from hard disks with pristine reproduction of audio over countless screenings, the XD10 Cinema Media Player represents the latest cinema technology from DTS. Since audio is stored externally and not on the film print, there is no degradation of quality regardless of how many times a film is presented. In addition to audio playback, the XD10 also offers high definition video playback, used… Read More

Paradigm gives three different CT systems to choose from. Studio apartment dwellers and gamers will appreciate the high-end sound the Cinema 70 system provides with four Cinema 70 satellites and theCinema CC center channel and a compact subwoofer. The next system the Cinema 90 CT - two slightly larger Cinema 90 satellites for the front front and a Cinema CC center channel flanked by ADP speakers and a compact subwoofer. Cinema ADPs… Read More

Advanced Digital Broadcast (www.adbglobal.com), a vendor of digital TV set-top boxes and software solutions for interactive television, announced today the introduction of the i-CAN170T, its first Integrated Digital TV (IDTV) based on the DVB-T MHP open standard. Mass production of ADB's i-CAN 170T is planned to start this October and its introduction will follow during the autumn in various retail outlets in Italy. It will also… Read More

Texas Instruments was in Hollywood this week to show film industry executives, reporters and cinematographers a projection system it calls “DLP Cinema” that is based on a TI “2K” microchip. The Dallas-based company's presentation follows by one day a similar demonstration by Sony Electronics in which it showed a new Sony projector using its own “4K” chip it claims offers picture resolution and… Read More