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Samsung yesterday announced their SC-X105L Sports Cam, which allows users to shoot digital video or stills. This rugged, sports oriented camcorder is in retail channels now for $599.99.
The SC-X105L offers up a weather resistant body and hands-free camera lens mode in a lightweight, compact design, Samsung said. Major technology features of this device include 10x optical zoom with a 680k optimized CCD lens, digital still captures at 800 x 600 resolution, 2
The players employ a digital process that upgrades the standard DVD resolution to high-definition resolution with 1080i, 720p, and 768p signals – the latter a Samsung exclusive in the category.
Samsung’s high-def conversion DVD players serve to open a vast library of DVD material to these consumers by up-converting a DVD’s native resolution (480p) to output high definition formats (720p/768p/1080i). Significantly, this process takes place entirely in the digital domain, which eliminates data loss and other artifacts associated with analog conversion.
Samsung has developed its own multi-format technology that allows these new models to be flexible in the face of competing recording formats. The DVD-R100, DVD-VR300 and the DVD-HD800 support three unique recording formats, DVD-RAM, -RW, and -R, each with their own advantages and capabilities that maximize the product’s compatibility, performance and usability. DVD-RAM is the most versatile recording format available to DVDs and can adapt to -RW for playback on older units. Its non-contact optical pick-up ensures that each disc is scratch-free for repeated use. It also allows for a mixed storage of video, audio, and other types of data from both the PC and AV worlds. It’s non-linear characteristics enable unique features, like time-shifting and time-warping. This means the user can start watching a program from the beginning while the end is being recorded. In addition, Samsung supports both DVD-RW and DVD-R, ensuring the broadest DVD forum-backed compatibility available in the market.
The YH-920 has been selected as an International CES Innovations 2004 Design and Engineering Showcase Awards winner and will be on display at the Samsung booth, #11027 in the Central Hall of the LasVegas Convention Center at CES 2004 from January 8th – 11th.
The YH-920 is an inventive combination of portable music player, including an FM Radio with MP3 encoder, and the ability to encode from line-in source material. It has a 30GB hard disc drive packed into a unit that is less than two inches. The unit features a customizable EQ and plays music in MP3, WMA, Audible and Ogg Vorbis formats. The docking cradle allows you to connect to line-out sources like speakers or stereo audio components. The versatile YH-920 is USB 2.0 compliant which means it is fully Windows compatible, so any music or personal mixes that are stored on a computer can be downloaded easily. The rechargeable Li-Ion battery is designed to last for ten hours or more and a set of earphones is included in the package.
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