Tag archive: PAL

Audio gear maker Zoom (owned by Samson Technologies) has long been known for its high quality portable audio gear, favored by everyone from journalists to podcasters to audio professionals for field recordings, interviews, and other on-the-go work. Now the company is looking to improve on its well-received H4n Handy Recorder with the Q3 Handy Video Recorder, which puts professional-quality stereo audio recording in a compact gizmo that can… Read More

Oppo Digital built its reputation on upscaling DVD players that offer high quality image processing and output at prices that didn't require customers to be card-carrying Home Cinematiphiles or take out second mortgages on their homes just because they liked movies. Last year, the company announced it would be bringing its savvy to Blu-ray players, and Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray Disc Player is now finally available, offering high-end Blu-ray… Read More

Sure, home video might be all the craze now, but it was also the rage back in the Dark Ages, when everyday folks would go around with camcorders loaded with (shudder) videotape and attempt to record important events in their lives for posterity. The systems might have been limited to simple play and record buttons, but sometimes the devices even worked! The problem, of course, is that most people's VCRs have now slipped off their… Read More

Last summer, Nikon launched the D90, the first DSLR camera that could also shoot high-definition video. Although videographers weren't terribly thrilled with the D90′s capabilities as a video recording device, the units raw capability and high-quality DSLR features appealed to a broad range of photographers. Now, Nikon is following up with the D5000 DSLR; like it's predecessor, it offers a 12.3 megapixel resolution and… Read More

A new gaming startup named Zeebo has has big plans for its eponymous gaming console…and it's not to take on the Wii, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3 head on. Instead, Zeebo is aiming its inexpensive console at emerging markets like Brazil, India, China, and Eastern Europe, betting that people in those countries want to blow things up, race cars, hack up zombies, and save the world from alien menaces just as much as gaming-saturated… Read More

Storage and peripheral vendor LaCie has taken the wraps off its new LaCinema Classic Hard Disk, which looks to bridge the gap between a traditional hard drive storing photos, music, and video, and a media device users hook up to their HDTVs or living room setups in order to enjoy their digital media. The LaCinema Classic Hard Disk offers either 500 GB or 1 TB of storage capacity, and users can load it up via USB 20=.0 from any PC. One the… Read More

Muslims, and those interested in the Muslim life in all its variety, will soon have their own virtual world. Called Muxlim Pal, it’s not too dissimilar to the Sims, with users having their own avatars and rooms that they can customize as they choose, according to the BBC. Mohamed El-Fatatry, founder of Muxlim.com, which is behind the site, said: "From what we have seen from our market research is that most Muslims have a… Read More

Nikon has introduced its new top-of-the-line digital SLR camera, the Nikon D3X, a 24-5 megapixel FX-format DSLR that offers continuous 5 frames-per-second shooting at full resolution, along with a complete slate of high-end features sure to please professional photographers and simply wow the rest of us. The D3X can capture images at wieher 12-bit or 14-bit resolution to ensure high image quality…and at 24.5 megapixels, each RAW… Read More

There's no doubt Dell is best known as a maker of computers—from servers to ultra-portable notebooks and everything in between—but the company has long run related businesses, including computer monitors, televisions, and even a brief (and perhaps to-be-repeated!) foray into personal media players. Now, the company is getting into projectors, announces its M109S portable projector for folks who need to take their… Read More

It's undoubtedly a great thing to carry around a portion of your video library on an iPod or a similar device…but if there's one thing the whole “portable digital video” thing is lacking it's the widescreen experience. For folks who can't bear to be anything but totally immersed—and really don't care what they might look like while immersed—Vuzix has announces a new entry in its… Read More

One of the problems with showing television or DVD programming to a group using a projection system—particularly in business situations—is that close captioning information included with video programming is usually entirely lost. Sometimes, that's not a big deal, but when an audience includes the deaf or hard-of-hearing, it makes all the difference in the world. Toshiba's new TLP-X100U mobile projector aims to… Read More

The 80GB Playstation 3 will be coming to most of the rest of the world. Already announced for the US, last night Sony confirmed an August 27 release date for the model to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Africa, with Russia two weeks later, according to the Gamespot blog. The company will be discontinuing the 40GB consoles, but there will be no price reduction, as stocks are low; likewise, there will be no price reduction on… Read More

Canon has officially introduced its EOS Rebel XS DSLR digital camera, with a feature set and price tag designed to appeal to both photo enthusiasts but also to consumers who are outgrowing the world of point-and-shoot digital cameras and may be ready to move into the DSLR arena. And to help folks along, the camera offers a 10.1 megapixel resolution, optical image stabilization, and a live view LCD. “As consumers have fully embraced… Read More

BenQ has announced its new DCS X800 point-and-shoot digital camera, which the company is claiming is the slimmest 8 megapixel shooter on the market, with a thickness of 14 mm, but it pulls in its gut to measure just 9.8 mm at its thinnest. The X800 also sports a 3-inch LCD display, face detection technology, and BenQ's “Super Shake Free” image stabilization to ensure clear pictures. The camera sports USB 2.0 connectivity,… Read More

Although the product has been in the rumor mill for quite a while, Archos has unveiled its Archos TV+ just ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and already the device is being hailed in some quarters as everything the Apple TV should have been, offering Wi-Fi connectivity, DVR capabilities to record and store television content, the ability to download movies and TV shows from the CinemaNow-powered Archos content portal, and… Read More