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Digital picture frame maker PhotoVu keeps expending its horizongs—literally. Today, the company announced the availability of its PV2265w 22-inch widescreen digital picture frame. The LCD display sports a 1,680 by 1,050 pixel 16:10 widescreen resolution, and offers a customizable picture frame and matboard to complement your images, your decor, or both. The 22-inch model follows on the 19-inch photo frame the company launched last… Read More

Seems like portable picture/video/music devices are launching fast and furious: Digital Foci has taken the wraps off its Picture Porter Elite, a portable image and video viewer with a 3.6-inch, 320 by 240 pixel LCD display, a memory card reader, video output, USB 2.0, a hard drive capacity of 40 or 80 GB, and PictBridge compatibility for printing images directly to PictBridge-compatible printers via USB without an intervening computer.… Read More

Digital Foci, a company which makes products used to enjoy digital photos, today announced a new portable digital picture viewer with a built in hard drive and memory card reader. The Picture Porter Elite will become available for purchase in May, with a start price of $499 depending upon the hard drive storage size. The Picture Porter Elite, said Digital Foci, offers up two storage capacities

Envision Peripherals, known for their AOC and Envision brands of display devices, yesterday announced a new

Digital Foci, a company which offers products to allows consumers to manage and enjoy a digital picture collection, today announced the release of the Picture Porter portable picture viewer with card reader. It is available now.   The Picture Porter is a portable hard drive (20GB or 40GB) which lets users save and view digital images so that they never have to worry about running out of memory card space in a digital camera. This storage… Read More

From the press release: The reference design features advanced picture improvement algorithms and supports dynamic backlight technology, which dramatically enhanced picture contrast for extraordinary viewing. It incorporates flash memory to support wired and wireless network connections, streaming media and digital photo display for an enhanced consumer entertainment experience. Demand for integrated digital TV continues to grow with… Read More

Quote from the review: “The Samsung DVD-P241 embodies balance between cost and quality. With progressive scan, MP3 playback, DTS the ability to play burned CDs and DVDs as well as picture CDs the P241 has about as much functionality as anyone could want. For those that don't like the widescreen letterbox look, the P241 also features EZ view which zooms the picture to fit the size of your TV.” Read the full review

Quote from the guide: ” A simple explanation for how TV works is that a transmission signal sends information to your TV. The information tells the TV what the picture is supposed to look like. Once received, the TV paints that picture onto the screen pixel by pixel, forming horizontal rows, called 'scan lines,' across the screen. The TV continues to paint and re-paint these scan lines multiple times every second. This… Read More

“It has been a while since ATI released their HDTV dongles, which provided HDTV output support for most of their Radeon line. In fact, we probably first experimented with their HDTV dongle back in July or August of 2002. Back then, HDTV output support was plagued by the overscan issue. And for those of you unfamiliar with “overscan”, it is simply the part of the picture that is cropped. Depending on whom you ask,… Read More

Quote from the review: “The Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Deluxe is a feature-rich TV tuner that will allow any computer with an available PCI slot to enjoy TV, as well as capturing capabilities, and digitally tuned FM radio… The picture is clear and sharp, and perhaps due to the higher resolution of a monitor (compared to a tube TV), the picture looks better than on my standard TV.” Read the full review

The DV3080 has a 600-nit brightness and a contrast ratio of 600:1, and features Oplus scaling technology, 10-bit color processing and RGBY (red, green, blue, yellow) independent adjustment technology. In addition to supporting standard TV technologies such as de-interlacing, 3:2 pull down recovery, PIP (picture in picture) and PBP (picture by picture), the DV3080 also supports digital TV (DTV) reception and can be used as a PC monitor.… Read More

Digi-Frame has announced their latest digital picture frame, the DF-1710. The new model features a 17-inch LCD screen with 1280×960 resolution, a CD-ROM drive and an internal hard drive. From Digi-Frame's spec page: Load pictures and movies from CD-ROM, memory cards, ethernet, or 802.11b wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) Kodak Picture CD

By pushing ahead with regulation now, states are facing long battles in court with VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol)service providers that believe existing laws don't apply to them; and later with the Federal Communications Commission, which is expected in the next few months to leave states with very little, if any, regulatory power over Net-based phone calls. Though small VoIP start-ups like Vonage are moving forward unfazed… Read More

From Sprint's press release: Sprint and LightSurf Technologies, a leading provider of open-standards technology and services for multimedia messaging, today announced the launch of North America's first inter-operator picture messaging service for camera-phone users. The two companies, together with Bell Mobility, are leading the way in bringing seamless picture sharing to North American camera phone users. “This… Read More

The new home cinema projector incorporates innovative advances such as high-definition wide-screen LCD panels, integrated cinema quality circuitry, full 10-bit digital processing and gamma correction, and new smooth screen technology.  Many of these advances are the result of research and development at the company's facilities, including the Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory in Hollywood, California, where top Hollywood studio… Read More