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Zoom Q3 Video Recorder Gets Its Stereo On

Zoom Q3 Video Recorder Gets Its Stereo On

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 also capture VGA video—and the whole thing runs off AA batteries and stores data to SD/SDHC media.

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Oppo’s BDP-83 Blu-ray Player Hits the Streets

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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 performance for a $500 price tag.

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Convert Those VHS Tapes Before They Crumble to Dust

Convert Those VHS Tapes Before They Crumble to Dust

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!

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Nikon D5000 DSLR Camera Also Shoots HD Movies

Nikon D5000 DSLR Camera Also Shoots HD Movies

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 can shoot 1,280 by 720-pixel video—plus it offers 19 scene modes, a 2.7-inch vari-angle LCD monitor, and it’s cheaper than the D90.

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Zeebo Gaming Console Wants the Next Billion Gamers

Zeebo Gaming Console Wants the Next Billion Gamers

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 markets like the U.S., Japan, and Western Europe. And Zeebo’s console integrates phone technology from Qualcomm to download games and content over-the-air: no discs to buy, and users won’t even have to have a data service plan with local mobile operators.

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LaCie’s LaCinema Hard Disk Does HDTV

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 media has transferred, users can then hook the drive up to their living room setup via HDMI, composite video, and/or S/PDIF and stereo audio output to enjoy their media on their HDTVs or home music setups. The LaCinema drive supports MPEG-4 AVI, XviD, and DivX video, WMA and MP3 audio, and JPEG and HD-JPEG images—and it’ll upscale video to 1080p resolution and supports both PAL and NTSC output.  Read more...

A Muslim Virtual World Arrives

A Muslim Virtual World Arrives

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 lifestyle that is not so different from everybody else. They all share the core values which are from Islam then beyond that they actually have made identities, they have many interests."

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Nikon Intros 24 Megapixel D3X DSLR

Nikon Intros 24 Megapixel D3X DSLR

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 image is roughly 138 MB in size.

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Dell Lights Up 0.8-pound SVGA Projector

Dell Lights Up 0.8-pound SVGA Projector

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 presentations—or their entertainment or games—on the road.

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Vuzix Goes Widescreen with iWear AV310

Vuzix Goes Widescreen with iWear AV310

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 line of personal video displays for iPods and other portable media players, the iWear AV310. And it fully supports 16:9 widescreen video.

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