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gemstone

Acer Ships Ginormous 8920G Gemstone Notebooks; 16:9, Dual HDDs, Blu-ray Included, Hernia Belt Not

Acer's now shipping the 8920G Gemstone laptops, and they're even more impressive than we'd thought. While not the biggest screen we've seen on a portable, they sport an impressive 18.2-inch LCD at 1920x1080 with a 16:9 aspect ratio, perfect for watching movies on the integrated Blu-ray R/W drives. They're not light, tipping the scales at just over nine pounds, but their 1.6-inch thickness makes up for some of that. What's really interesting is Acer put dual hard drives in these machines, meaning you get 640GB total, probably the highest we've ever seen in a shipping portable. If you're looking for the ultimate in desktop replacements, these are a great place to start, if you can afford the $3,000 price tag. [Trusted Reviews]

10:00 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Matt Hickey
5,610 views, 30 comments

Latest by n/a: I think this is the wave of the future. Mobile desktop machines will be very handy when were all living in a cardboard refrigerator box and drinking yougurt from a bag. more »

sony

Sony HT-IS100 Tiny Hi-Def Speakers Look Delicious

The HT-IS100 is the latest little speaker set from Sony, a 5.1 channel surround system that looks small enough to smuggle in your underpants—sans subwoofer of course. Each speaker in the 450 watt system is about the size of a golf ball (or a 4-H award winning strawberry from the looks of it). UPDATE: Added gallery, and impressions below. More »

4:30 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Benny Goldman
5,275 views, 24 comments

rumor confirmed

HD Content Confirmed For Amazon Unbox!

TiVo has officially confirmed that Amazon Unbox will get HD content in the near future, but execs at the company say a few kinks need to be ironed out first. The current version of Unbox can't process HD content, and availability is limited by bandwidth constraints—something cable companies are in the process of solving. If a previous customer survey is to be trusted, an HD movie rental will cost $4.99, the same as iTunes. [Zatz Not Funny! - Thanks Dave]

1:00 PM on Sat May 10 2008
By Elaine Chow
2,522 views, 7 comments

Latest by Barion: Too expensive! I'll take my Blu-ray rentals from Netflix, thanks. 10 Amazon Unbox rentals would cost as much as the 25-30 discs I rent a month from Netflix. And even if that price hike on Blu-ray Disc more »

sad

George Ou Says HD Bitrates Mean They Suck, Forgets About Codecs

George Ou over on Zdnet wrote an excellent piece outlining why those too-good-to-be-true HD downloads we see in Xbox 360, ABC.com and even Apple TV are a bit bogus. He points out that while these services deliver on their 720p resolution promises, the encoded bitrates are so low, compressing the data to such small proportions, that the image within the said resolution has inadequate fidelity. He's dead wrong, forgetting that MPEG-4 generation codecs can take the same bitrates from sources like DVDs and ratchet up the res and quality in the same space. Duh. [zdnet via engadgethd]

2:00 PM on Sat Jan 19 2008
By Mark Wilson
19,554 views, 53 comments

Latest by ripfire: Who freakin cares what bit rate it uses. As long as it looks better than DVD quality, does it really matter? Besides, who needs to watch P.S. I Love You in full 1080p 50Mbps quality? more »

format war

Toshiba HD DVD Laptop To Be Sub-$1000 Blu-ray Killer?

UPDATEDToshiba announced that one of its laptops would come standard with an HD DVD drive for under $1,000 in time for Christmas. Citing easily available DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives as the cause for mainstream adoption of DVD, Toshiba believes that affordable HD DVD/DVD-RW drives will dictate the winner of the war. Battery drain is still a high-def movie disc issue, and laptop screens really don't do the 1080p content justice, but this isn't likely to hurt HD DVD adoption. Not that we wouldn't like to see a Blu-ray equipped Sony Vaio at that price. Think these HD DVD drives in the lappies are subsidized? [PC World]

6:10 PM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Benny Goldman
2,966 views, 10 comments

Latest by n/a: I got no problem counting PS3 for Blu-Rays as long as you count HD DVD's in laptops and towers. HD DVD is out selling Blu-Ray 8 to 1 in laptops now. Toshiba has stated it plans to equip all of its more »

gadgets

Wii Does HD, But Not Really

Dear Internet, More »