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Seven Sony Blu-ray Titles Coming June 20

Regardless of whether Samsung’s BD-P1000 is going to launch next week or not—we’re pretty sure it is—Sony’s pushing ahead with releasing seven old titles onto Blu-ray format next week. These titles have been around the block a while: The Fifth Element, 50 First Dates, House of Flying Daggers among them. More movies, and Sony’s own…

Tech News Jason Chen

Omisys Wi-Fi DVD Player Media Center

DVD player? Ha! With as many features that this baby packs it should be called a hard-driveless media center. The Omisys PN-210V comes loaded up with a nice big antenna for Wi-Fi streaming via 802.11b/g. It can play Off Vorbis, XviD, DivX, MPEG-4 and WMV9 and it can read burned CD and DVD media. It…

Tech News Travis Hudson

SunbriteTV: Waterproof Outdoor 32-inch LCD HDTV

Pool parties and fiestas: two places that a waterproof, outdoor 32-inch HDTV would fit in better than Woody Allen at a Korean church. This 3200HD-Pro SunbriteTV LCD has a 1366×768 pixel resolution with a 1200:1 contrast ratio. SunbriteTV claims the set is sealed against moisture, dust and water, plus it even has a dual-fan system…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony’s Spelling Blunders

A reader of our blogging cohorts, Kotaku, hit up Sony’s Ginza showroom and found a comical spelling error on the displayed Playstation 3 controller. Sony just can’t seem to get anything right as of late. We highly doubt the SERECT spelling error will make the shelves, but it is still nice to giggle at their…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Xbox 360 Compatibility Update

Our favorite next-generation console that you can currently buy in stores has gotten another backward compatibility update. Twenty one more original Xbox titles are added to the over 200 already working on the Xbox 360 today. Here they are: 4×4 EVO 2, Amped® 2, Bad Boys 2, Big Mutha Truckers, DOOM 3®, Dreamfall: The Longest…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung Delays BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player Yet Again

After pushing the launch date from May 23rd to June 25th, Samsung confirms that their Blu-ray BD-P1000 isn’t going to be released until September. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-delays-bd-p1000-blu-ray-player-adds-1080p-play-164944 Sony’s BDP-S1 is also delayed until August, so consumers are left wondering whether these first generation Blu-ray machines are going to work out or be sort of a bust—like how…

Gadgets Jason Chen

HDMI Spec Upgraded to Support “Deep Color”

Just when we started getting used to the HDMI interface, they’ve gone and upgraded it again, where it will now support what’s known as “deep color.” The group controlling the interface, HDMI LLC—founded by Sony, Thompson, Philips, Matsushita, Hitachi, and Toshiba—decided to upgrade HDMI to version 1.3, where the increased bandwidth will allow support of…

Tech News Charlie White

Tramp Lamps

Not sure how we ever missed these when they were making such a ruckus two months ago, but now there are quite a few new versions available of the Tramp Lamp, illuminated lingerie that might just cast the perfect glow on your boudoir. The lamp’s maker, Kelly Butler, takes “vintage lingerie” and firms it up…

Gadgets Charlie White

Gizmodo Deals: $156 Slingbox

We normally leave all of the wheeling and dealing up to our half-sister Consumerist, but this one is too good to let people pass up. Slingbox is offering a $50 instant rebate on their Slingmedia Slingbox. This device has been the cat’s pajamas for quite a few months now and it may now be the…

Tech News Travis Hudson

CinemaNow to Offer Fox Content Online

The march of the majors into the dark and dangerous online world continues, where CinemaNow announced it will offer films and TV shows from the Fox Entertainment Group. Starting today, you’ll be able to take your pick of “a wide selection” of downloadable 20th Century Fox movies, according to a statement from News Corp., the…

Movies Charlie White

HDMI Cable: Price Gouging?

Yesterday we mentioned Best Buy selling Monster HDMI cables for upwards of $80, and reader Todd pointed us to a website offering no-name 6-foot HDMI cables for $6.37. Taking a quick glance at the Best Buy website, there’s an HDMI Cable that’s 2 feet shorter, a 4-foot length from Monster Cable for $149.99. The lowest-priced…

Tech News Charlie White

PS3 Too Powerful

Our girlish cousins over at Kotaku discovered that the majesty of the PS3 just cannot be contained within the tiny confines of its case. It seems that there are no PS3 beta units simply because there is no way to fit all of the powerful, expensive components inside a plastic box and that it will…

Tech News John Biggs

Philips Streamium WAK3300 WiFi Alarm Clock

Designed to stream music from the Philips WACS700, this WiFi alarm clock allows you to wake up to your own tunes instead of the inane jabbering of your local morning shock jock. The WACS700 just got a hard drive upgrade to 80GB, so you can now store twice the amount of music compared to before.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sanwa iPod Speaker dock With Subwoofer

This Sanwa iPod speaker dock looks a bit similar to our alarm clock that we’ve had for almost 20 years, but there’s two big differences. One, the Sanwa supports the iPod, obviously, and two, it’s got a subwoofer. Available in black or white, the dock fits your iPod Nano or your iPod 5G and has:…

Tech News Jason Chen

Marantz WEAVE: Stream Music Through Your Electrical System

Similar in theory to the MicroLink dLAN, the Marantz WEAVE lets you stream music through your electrical system to any room in your house, provided that room contains a WEAVE receptor. https://gizmodo.com/microlink-dlan-electrical-audio-power-134607 Up to six ZC4001 receptors can be plugged in your home at once to receive audio, but to transmit audio you’ll have to…

Tech News Jason Chen

TiVo Sends Cease and Desist to SmugMug for their “Thumbs Up” and “Thumbs Down” Feature

Gene Siskel must be rolling over in his grave, and Roger Ebert must be rolling over in his hospital bed for not trademarking the “Thumbs Up” and “Thumbs Down” all those years ago. SmugMug received some nasty correspondence from TiVo asking it to stop using the thumbs up and down icons because TiVo has actually…

Tech News Jason Chen

Panasonic Unveils 3 Entry-Level TVs

By no means do we mean entry-level by cost, but by specs. These TVs are part of Panasonic’s Viera Link line and the three models have a 4000:1 contrast ratio. The models introduced are the the TH-50PX60 (50 inches, 1366×768 resolution), the TH-42PX60 (42 inches, 1024×768 resolution) and the TH-37PX60 (37 inches, 1024×720 resolution). These…

Tech News Travis Hudson

ezVision Video iWear From ezGear

For $400 you can simulate a 50″ widescreen TV in the form of glasses that very much resemble those worn by Geordi LaForge. The ezVision Video iWear is compatible with the iPod with Video as well as any other video source that has video outputs. Its powered by a Lithium ion battery that should last…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

By the Numbers: 2006 FIFA World Cup

It takes a lot of broadcasting gear to put together the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and we like to count it all up for your extreme gadget-porn entertainment. We gave you the 2006 Super Bowl by the numbers, and many of our dearest readers outside the United States didn’t give a rat’s ass. So in…

Gadgets Charlie White

Tuning Fork

IPTV 4 U and Me By Brian L. Clark TV sure ain’t what it used to be. The emergence of TiVo, the popularity of iTunes video, the growth of YouTube, mobile video and the IPTV invasion are just a few examples of how the TV Universe is in flux. And don’t think the network folks…

Tech News Johnb

Seven Sony Blu-ray Titles Coming June 20

Omisys Wi-Fi DVD Player Media Center

SunbriteTV: Waterproof Outdoor 32-inch LCD HDTV

Sony’s Spelling Blunders

Xbox 360 Compatibility Update

Samsung Delays BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player Yet Again

HDMI Spec Upgraded to Support “Deep Color”

Tramp Lamps

Gizmodo Deals: $156 Slingbox

CinemaNow to Offer Fox Content Online

HDMI Cable: Price Gouging?

PS3 Too Powerful

Philips Streamium WAK3300 WiFi Alarm Clock

Sanwa iPod Speaker dock With Subwoofer

Marantz WEAVE: Stream Music Through Your Electrical System

TiVo Sends Cease and Desist to SmugMug for their “Thumbs Up” and “Thumbs Down” Feature

Panasonic Unveils 3 Entry-Level TVs

ezVision Video iWear From ezGear

By the Numbers: 2006 FIFA World Cup

Tuning Fork

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