Tag archive: Long Beach

Launched yesterday at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in Long Beach, Singularity University is going to be an institution with a difference. Its chancellor will be futurist Ray Kurzweil, whose 2005 book gave the place its name. It will be housed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Google has donated $1 million to help fund it, while other big companies have also given money. But the… Read More

There’s thin, and then there’s incredibly thin. When it comes to television screens, Sony has come up with one that’s going to be almostimpossible to beat, the proverbial size 0 of displays – at 0.01 inch (0.3 millimeters) it’s thin enough to bend. The company has released video of the screen, which currently offers a 2.5 inchdisplay in full color.   This is a huge breakthrough, an advance on the flat panel… Read More

From the press release: The features of the wireless video transmission equipment are as follows: (1) The transceiver is adapted to input/output high-quality component video signals. Both uncompressed HDTV signals and stereo audio signals are transformed into a 1-Gbps (“gigabit per second”) digital-data stream, and then converted to 60-GHz-band to allow wireless transmission by using ASK modulation… Read More

The first new DVD recorder, which will hit store shelves this month, is Pioneer's DVR-310-S.  This entry-level DVD recorder allows families to replace outdated VCRs with simple one-button recording for televised content as well as home movies directly onto DVD discs.  Before the Christmas season is over, Pioneer Electronics, a world leader in home entertainment technology, will introduce three additional products including… Read More

With multi-channel music and movies driving sales of DVD players, consumers are adding five, six, and seven speaker configurations to their home theater systems. As a result, Pioneer continues to develop new audio/video receivers with features to enhance the home theater environment. Four of these receivers now offer multi-channel acoustic calibration (MCACC), allowing consumers the ability to easily and accurately set-up their speakers with… Read More