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Gizmodo Video Review – JVC’s Design Pro 70-inch 1080p D-ILA

Got a chance to review this 70-inch beast in our usual ghetto video style. The TV is actually very nice, with great color and quality in HD. CORRECTION – This ain’t DLP, it’s D-ILA. I thought it was a generic term. So sorry.

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British TV Box Prompts Sea Rescue

Oops, this is somebody’s big mistake. It looks like a 67 year old woman’s Freeview TV set-top box sent out an emergency signal that launched 2 lifeboat rescue teams in Wembury, England. Poor Mary Donaldson was stupefied when officials from the Falmouth Coast Guard showed up at her door, asking why she would have sent…

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PS3 Launch Date – September 21 PLUS PS3 HUB

Next Generation has the hot scoop—the PS3 will probably be hitting the streets on September 21st in the US, September 16th in Japan, and include a new XBox Live-alike system, HUB. According to well-placed industry sources, PlayStation HUB will offer PlayStation 3 owners much the same services as Xbox Live, including chat, downloadable demos, independent…

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Blame Infineon for 360 Shortage

Well, looks like Microsoft has found a good scapegoat for its nasty Xbox 360 shortage with German chipmaker Infineon. Basically, the company is being blamed for not making enough chips at the right speed for the 360—many of them running slower than the required 700 megahertz. The problem, it seems, was all the time it…

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Sony Bravia TV Software Issues

Sony announced that “faulty software” may cause 400,000 of their LCD and rear-projection TVs to either refuse the “off” button or not wake from stand-by. This software issue happens after approximately 1,200 hours of use. The models of Bravia affected were sold in Japan, the United States, South America, China and other Asian countries. For…

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Sony Resuscitates CRTs with 34-Inch XBR970 HD Model

Reports of the death of the lowly CRT have been greatly exaggerated, and Sony asserted that point with the introduction of a line of FD Trinitron WEGA direct-view televisions—one of them HD, the rest not. Sony must believe there are still people who want to buy standard-definition TVs, so it answers that perceived need with…

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HiGrade DMS P60 Viiv PC

The first of the Intel Viiv machines are starting hit the streets, and here s probably the best-looking one yet—the Hi-Grade DMS P60 Viiv PC. This small box runs Windows Media Center and will fit in perfectly in a home theater because it’s quiet, yet its Intel Core Duo 1.6GHz processor is fast enough to…

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TiVo Central Online Upgraded

TiVo has upgraded its TiVo Central Online interface. The Ajax-based website lets users view TV schedules and record shows via the Web, but the upgrade s beauty goes more than skin-deep, too, because now users will find it easier to search and customize the site to their liking. Maybe this website update is a signal…

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MovieBeam – HD Movies on Demand

As a recent convert to the magic of HD, this is actually a pretty interesting concept. MovieBeam, which was founded—then seemingly abandoned—by Disney, is now streaming HD movies by piggybacking over PBS data signals. The service sends ten new moves per week and they can be stored on a storage box by Linksys that can…

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frog Design Mind

The Brand Boutique Completes the (Entertainment) Experience By Mahin Samadani I must have walked by hundreds of mall kiosks this past holiday season. You know, those carts set up in the aisle-ways, designed to maximize rental revenues. Although I generally walk right by, this year my wife stopped in her tracks and exclaimed, “Look at…

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XBox 360 Hacked – Full HD/Memory Card Read-Write

Another day, another compromised closed-source project. The XBox 360 filesystem has been cracked wide open and you can now move saved games to and from your 360 using a piece of software called xplorer360, a SATA cable, and/or a hacked USB cable. The program allows you to browse the entire 360 and even lets you…

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Xbox 360 Shortage is Over?

Peter Moore, head of all thing Xboxen, has made a bold statement in his DICE session. Within the next four to six weeks, anybody will be able to walk into a store and buy an Xbox 360. Hopefully by store he means eBay where anybody can buy my Xbox 360 price gouged 300%. Along with…

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Mac Streaming for the Xbox 360

So the Xbox 360 has the ability to stream music and photos with the help of a Window’s enabled (XP or 2000) PC and the Windows Media Connect service. So essentially Mac owners are SOL? Not anymore. Nullriver has designed a program for OS X 10.3.9 or later that allows music and photo streaming to…

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Wireless HDMI from Radiospire

Radiospire is continuing the global quest to remove wires completely with their HDMI wireless solution. The connection works up to 15 feet and will transfer at 3Gbps. Meaning you can transfer full HD video and audio goodness without having to compress any of it. Additionally it will clear at least a little bit of clutter…

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Hands-on with the PlayStation 3

A sly fox over at Kikizo managed to get his hands on not one, but three different playable PS3 dev kits. They get into the nitty gritty about graphics, gaming, design, and the like with their hands-on exclusive. This is definitely a good read if you are in dire need of some Playstation 3 news…

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Flat-Panel For Those With a Flat-Budget

ByDsign is releasing a budget priced flat-panel plasma display. The 50-inch plasma display features a 1366×768 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 1,000cd/m2 brightness, stereo speakers with SRS, and two HDMI ports. ByDsign has also integrated the “DCDi” microchip, which enhances image quality by reducing those rotten jaggy edges. ByDsign’s 50-inch plasma display is on the market…

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Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man and Galaga Cocktail Table

Here s a tripleheader cocktail table that lets you play Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man and Galaga in their original form. Extreme Toys for Boys is offering this cocktail table unit, which looks just like the original but contains only the latest technology, at a sale price of $3600. Not sure why they call it…

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Cold Beer, Just in Case

If you’re looking for a unique way of pouring beer at your next soir e, here’s a dispenser that has just the right mixture of geekitude and originality on tap. There are precious few details about this boozy case mod, but we’re hoping there’s a radically overclocked liquid-cooled computer inside, chilled by the same mechanism…

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Bsendorfer VC7 and AC7 Loudspeakers

You’ve probably seen the name B sendorfer festooned on the side of the finest pianos in the world, but did you know the company also makes high-end loudspeakers? B sendorfer has taken all it has learned in pianomaking since 1828 and rolled that into an exclusive line of speakers it’s been offering for the past…

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Tuning Fork

Legislating Television By Brian L. Clark February 17th, the day the first driver s ed class was offered in State College, PA; the day a little-known radio show called, Prairie Home Companion, went national; and the day in 2009 granny s rabbit ears become obsolete. Or so Congress says. Giant tech companies have long been…

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Gizmodo Video Review – JVC’s Design Pro 70-inch 1080p D-ILA

British TV Box Prompts Sea Rescue

PS3 Launch Date – September 21 PLUS PS3 HUB

Blame Infineon for 360 Shortage

Sony Bravia TV Software Issues

Sony Resuscitates CRTs with 34-Inch XBR970 HD Model

HiGrade DMS P60 Viiv PC

TiVo Central Online Upgraded

MovieBeam – HD Movies on Demand

frog Design Mind

XBox 360 Hacked – Full HD/Memory Card Read-Write

Xbox 360 Shortage is Over?

Mac Streaming for the Xbox 360

Wireless HDMI from Radiospire

Hands-on with the PlayStation 3

Flat-Panel For Those With a Flat-Budget

Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man and Galaga Cocktail Table

Cold Beer, Just in Case

Bsendorfer VC7 and AC7 Loudspeakers

Tuning Fork

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