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Click to viewWe scored a sitdown with DongSoo Jun, Executive VP and General Manager of Samsung’s Digital AV Division. Translation: He’s Samsung’s main man on Blu-ray and HD DVD. We asked him the big question: “Is HD DVD dead ?” His answer might surprise you. https://gizmodo.com/confirmed-warner-going-100-blu-ray-is-this-hd-dvds-d-340809 On the Hollywood front, he believes that the Warner announcement…
Is there a difference between 120Hz and 60Hz TVs? Philips proved there is a noticeable diff at CES 2008 today, showing last year’s 60Hz 42-incher mounted below this year’s 120Hz 7403 display. In a moving, panning image, the jumpiness of the 60Hz video was apparent compared with the butta-smooth motion of the frame-doubled 120Hz 7403…
A car with a Mac mini in the front and a built-in Wii in the trunk. Check it… In case you’re wondering, this is a 2005 Infiniti Q35 G35 (happy now?) tricked out by Visonik and Clif Designs: [Clif Designs; Visonik]
We got a chance to check out the picoprojector that Texas Instruments is working on, both in a cellphone and as a standalone device. The picture that it puts up isn’t amazing, but you wouldn’t be watching HD movies using this thing anyways. It could be useful for business travelers who want to do easy…
Want some perspective on that Panasonic 150-inch plasma display? Here it is with a human standing next to it, flanked by Panasonic’s largest TV shown at past CESes, a 103-incher. So if you like your TVs as big as a queen-sized bed and capable of displaying an elephant in actual size, you may now begin…
The Lasonic iPod Ghetto Blaster has been hyped for a while now, but this was our first opportunity to get a look at it up close—and as you can see, we took full advantage. We also managed to score a full-feature list which I lovingly hand-typed word-for-word from a spec sheet (weird errors and all).…
Microsoft will release Power Pack 1 as an update to their Windows Home Server software. It will enable support for 64-Bit Vista and increase data protection. [Microsoft] https://gizmodo.com/hp-updates-mediasmart-server-adds-linux-powered-mv2120-339863
Click to viewWe’ve had video and pictures of the Optimus Maximus keyboard, but now we’ve got the first hands on with the mythical layout-changing input device. Is it as good as all the hype’s built it up to be? No. It’s better. https://gizmodo.com/first-video-of-the-optimus-keyboard-actually-working-an-325615 The units we got to play with were both fully working—one of…
A WiMax-enabled OQO Model 02 was also spotted. [Asus] https://gizmodo.com/oqo-model-02-gets-spec-bump-price-dump-298048
That WiMax Eee PC we heard about last week was confirmed at the Asus/Sprint/Intel press conference today, coming in 7, 8 and 8.9-inch models and a variety of colors. https://gizmodo.com/next-gen-asus-eee-pc-packs-wimax-8-9-inch-screen-339234
If you were curious to know more about Creative’s inPerson Video Conferencing device, we have a video that shows it up close. As you will see, the UI is fairly straightforward and simple to use. During the demo we made a call to a rep in Miami and the process was pretty smooth. It connected…
Hitachi announced its LCD displays that are a mere 1.5-inch thick, and now we got our hands and eyes on those thin 1080p screens. The company also showed us some tech from the future, a plasma screen that’s also just 1.5-inches thin. These are some super-thin monitors, but we’re wondering how many people are going…
“Don’t tell the bloggies anything!” Heard in: the information booth…two kind older ladies were afraid we might write about them after helping us with directions.
In the first segment of our Bill Gates CES 2008 interview, we asked the difference between Apple’s approach and Microsoft’s approach when it comes to product releases. Apple steers clear of products that might be iffy in their first iteration—portable music rentals; DVR—whereas Microsoft rolls out stuff that may not be quite ready. Bill’s response…
We just published our hands on with Canon’s new Vixia HD flash-based camcorders. Here are their new flash-based standard def offerings, the FS11, FS10 and FS100. https://gizmodo.com/canons-hd-vixia-hf10-and-hf100-need-no-tape-341768 FS11: Records to 16GB internal memory (10 hours) or SDHC card. 1.07MP CMOS and and Canon’s DIGIC DV II Image Processor. ($599) FS10: Like above, but records to…
I have no context for this photo, but it’s one of the most ludicrous things I’ve ever seen. Seriously, how did these jackasses not kill themselves? Hell, maybe they did. Just remember, friends: electricity and idiots do not mix. [Spulch]
Canon plays catch-up at this year’s CES, but we’re pleased over their new line of tapeless HD VIXIA camcorders all the same. Here’s the rundown: HF10: This is their top of the line consumer cam featuring two types of flash memory recording: a 16GB internal Flash drive, as well as an SDHC memory card slot.…
You already saw FLIR’s PathfindIR’s night vision video, showing off what it looks like in use driving down a dark street. Now we’ve got a face-on of what it’s going to look like when you run over a paparazzo that looks eerily like Jason Chen (Benny’s the bowl-cut in the foreground). You can still make…
Creative’s new HS-1200 wireless headset features a new, as yet unnamed proprietary compression technology developed by Avnera that rivals the Bluetooth standard. Some of the advantages of the new technology include a greater data transfer rate than Bluetooth as well as lower energy consumption (9 hours to a charge.) The HS-1200 also features duplex technology…
The world’s number one consumer of wood for casemods, Jeffrey Stephenson, has created another machine called the Pico Bayard. It’s got a 1GHz Via C7 CPU, an 8-inch EarthLCD touchscreen LCD on the front, 1GB Crucial DDR2 memory, and integrated Wi-Fi. The most important part is how this guy looks, and it looks great with…