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CES Partycrashers: We Got Thrown Out of the HP Party

When I told you about the Verizon party I promised video from the HP party we got kicked out of. I am a man of my word, so here it is. Imagine a party in a cheesy dance club populated with a bunch of people who party like your parents do when you aren’t around.…

Tech News Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley Jan 8

Video Goodness: Slide Inside the Ambisound

While we showed you a video of the Ambisound HTS8100 and its announcement yesterday, today we’re coming back with a video of the slide-open CD/DVD panel in the front. Slick stuff, as you can see. – Matt Buchanan

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 8

Core 2 Duo Dancing Dork

Down at the Intel booth they set up a green screen that lets you star in their Core 2 Duo Commercials. You know the one where it’s a bunch of copies of one person dancing around on the screen. It’s actually pretty cool, that is unless you’re this guy. Just kidding we’re not particularly good…

Tech News Ben Longo and video by Richard Blakeley Jan 8

Sonos Now Supports Zune, Napster, Yahoo!, AOL, and MTV

Sonos is spending like Web 2.0 Bubble money is going out of style, and announcing they’ve bought support for almost all the major internet music stores. Along with Zune, there’s Napster, Yahoo, AOL and MTV support, which makes streaming pretty simple. Current owners can download Sonos 2.1 software which adds support for these new music…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 8

Best Booth Entertainment: String Quartet Dances Up a Sanyo Storm

We were taken by surprise by a musical presentation at the Sanyo booth, where the usual booth announcer was surrounded by Barrage, a Canadian quartet of virtuoso violinists playing a blend of techno, disco, Las Vegas hip/beat music and a touch of Yanni. And we mean that in the best possible way. All were expertly…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 8

Sanyo Demos WHDMI Wireless HD Projection

Wireless HDTV projection is here, and we saw our first demo at the Sanyo booth. Using a transmitter and receiver from Amimon, the $3000 WHDMI module slides into the industrial-strength projector ($10K) they were using, giving uncompressed wireless performance with no lag time. The Sanyo official told us the system is capable transmitting 1080p video…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 8

What You Missed: Camcorders For Everyone

Best Concept? Hitachi showed off some camcorder concepts featuring direct to Blu-ray recording. https://gizmodo.com/hitachi-concepts-blueray-camcorders-227007 Best Resolution? JVC HD Everio, featuring full 1080p support. https://gizmodo.com/jvc-hd-everio-full-consumer-hd-226571 Cheepest Looking/Easiest to Use? RCA EZ201, coming in at only $129 it isn’t exactly cutting edge. But it will get the job done for your Aunt Salley. https://gizmodo.com/rca-ez201-camcorder-memorymaker-easy-does-it-226788

Gadgets Ben Longo Jan 8

Sharp 108″ LCD Screen Ain’t Perfect

We were longingly gazing at the World’s Largest LCD Display, Sharp’s 108-inch Aquos 1080p flat-ish panel that’s a custom-constructed mockup made specifically for CES. But we noticed a problem with the mighty behemoth: The big screen shows noticeable unevenly-lit streaks, giving the screen a mottled look in bright scenes. You can see them in the…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 8

Samsung LCD Pyramid: No Video Good Enough for Rez This High

Building a flat-panel pyramid is getting to be an artform here at CES, and Samsung presents a fine example of the craft, stacking up 82″, 70″ and 52″ monitors up to the ceiling. We carefully perused all these screens, and were highly impressed with all their 1080p goodness. We left with the impression that there’s…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 8

Panasonic’s Eight 103-Inch Plasmas Live With Kung Fu and Flamenco Dancers: Videos and Gallery

Here’s that amazing Panasonic booth, that we found under cover on Friday, 3 days before the show opened. It’s like we said: Eight of those amazing, but now second best 103-inch plasmas, dancing on display, each with their own 1080 stream and hydraulic pivoting mounts. What we didn’t know was that they’d put an entire…

Television Brian Lam Jan 8

What You Missed: TV’s Everywhere

TV’s are once again the big story at CES—108-inches to be exact. Here’s a quick rundown of the better TV-related announcements over the last couple days. Who Had the Biggest? Sharp with their Godzilla Sized 108-inch LCD. https://gizmodo.com/sharp-rolls-out-gigantic-108-inch-lcd-226761 Biggest Falling Out? Sharp and Plasma, since they released a bunch of new LCD’s aimed right at…

Tech News Ben Longo Jan 8

Samsung Auto Wall Mount: Make Your Flat Panel a Swinger

Samsung showed off a remote-controlled auto wall mount for 42 to 50-inch LCD and 42 or 50-inch PDP sets that swivels 30 degrees in either direction with 20 degrees of tilt with the touch of a button. Support for 63-inch monsters is coming in May. The unit features auto-centering and obstruction detection, which stops the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jan 8

Dirty Hands-On: Sony VAIO WA1 Wireless Music Streamer

Sony announced it last night during their press conference, but now I got to put my grubby, dirty hands all over it. For those that missed it, the WA1 is a wireless stereo radio from Sony that can play music from integrated flash memory, Internet radio, auxiliary input or streaming directly from a PC. https://gizmodo.com/sony-press-event-live-in-hd-226811…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 8

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

New developments coming out of the Netgear/BitTorrent partnership: breaking into the universal streaming media market, Netgear’s Digital Entertainer HD tries to make good by packing a cornucopia of features into its rather large box. Using draft-N, it’s able to stream video in 1080p, as well as most any other media content (MP3, WMA, AAC and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 8

Hitachi’s $2500 50-Inch Plasma: How Good?

We took a close look at Hitachi’s low-end “1080HD” plasma that’s selling for a rock-bottom $2500, and the three of us there decided it’s not half-bad for the money. The set looks like HD; it’s plenty crispy but the contrast is fair, giving black levels that look more dark gray than black. Aww. Blacks are…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 8

ViewSonic Takes on Vizio and Westinghouse with Low-priced 1080p LCDs

Ladies and gents, we have another contender in the 1080p price war. In this corner, standing in its panther-black casing with a large 42-inch display is ViewSonic’s N4261w. The 1080p LCD has dual HDMI inputs, a 1,500:1 contrast ratio, and built-in ATSC/NTSC tuners. Vizio has a head start on the N4261w (in the sense that…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 8

Full HD and HD1080: What’s the Diff?

As we were walking out of the Hitachi booth, we saw this stand of Plasma displays, where one row was marked Full HD and the one above it was labeled “HD1080″ We were immediately confused. Doesn’t HD1080 sound like ‘Full HD”? WTF? If we are confused by this, and we’re dealing with this stuff every…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 8

Plasma vs. LCD: Moving Image Resolution

Yeah, this YouTube video hardly does it justice, but Hitachi set up a comparison between LCD and plasma displays that showed how plasma has an easier time with motion video. The plasma display’s images remained sharp while the LCD’s looked rather blurry as the video scrolled by. However, with high-end LCD displays, this problem isn’t…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 8

Comcast DVRs Finally Caught Holding Hands with TiVo

All you Comcastic subscribers listen up. Sounds like very soon you’ll be able to add TiVo features to your Comcast DVR, and best of all—you won’t have to call in a Comcast technician to set it up. The announcement was made today at CES, though Comcast wouldn’t say how much the added features would spike…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 8

Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless Media Player

Buffalo rolled out an easier-to-set- up version of its LinkTheater Wireless Media Player, and it’s not going as far as its higher-end brandmate, the AirStation Wireless-N Infiniti, and staying on more finite ground with the 802.11a and 802.11g standards. In case you’re wondering, that’s just garden-variety Wi-Fi. Its latest trick is its ability to play…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 8

CES Partycrashers: We Got Thrown Out of the HP Party

Video Goodness: Slide Inside the Ambisound

Core 2 Duo Dancing Dork

Sonos Now Supports Zune, Napster, Yahoo!, AOL, and MTV

Best Booth Entertainment: String Quartet Dances Up a Sanyo Storm

Sanyo Demos WHDMI Wireless HD Projection

What You Missed: Camcorders For Everyone

Sharp 108″ LCD Screen Ain’t Perfect

Samsung LCD Pyramid: No Video Good Enough for Rez This High

Panasonic’s Eight 103-Inch Plasmas Live With Kung Fu and Flamenco Dancers: Videos and Gallery

What You Missed: TV’s Everywhere

Samsung Auto Wall Mount: Make Your Flat Panel a Swinger

Dirty Hands-On: Sony VAIO WA1 Wireless Music Streamer

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

Hitachi’s $2500 50-Inch Plasma: How Good?

ViewSonic Takes on Vizio and Westinghouse with Low-priced 1080p LCDs

Full HD and HD1080: What’s the Diff?

Plasma vs. LCD: Moving Image Resolution

Comcast DVRs Finally Caught Holding Hands with TiVo

Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless Media Player

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