Genius G-Shot HD520 Sells For $149
The new 5.0 megapixel HD camcorder was just released to the general public going just below 150 bucks. The G-Shot HD520 is compatible with Windows (Vista/XP/2000) and Mac (OS10 and above) PCs. Using Electronic Image Stabilizers (EIS), the G-Shot HD520 will detect and correct shaking and vibrating.
Providing 720p footage, a 2.5-inch LTPS LCD screen, memory of 32MB (and an additional 8GB HDCS memory), Hi-Def video at 5-megapixel in MPEG-4/H.264 format, Face Detection, and more, the G-Shot HD520 is a pretty nice deal.
The G-Shot HD520 is also capable of shooting still photos (up to 11 megapixels), listening to music, reading e-books, playing voice recordings, and can also be used as a portable media player. Read more
Maxtor BlackArmor: Beauty Meets Security
The growing trend in technological advancement these days is either going green or going secure. With the BlackArmor USB Hard Drive, Maxtor steered its path towards the latter.
USB Drive With Its Own PIN Pad
Protecting the data on your pocket USB drive with a password, using an encryption program just didn’t seem good enough for the CHDT Corporation, so they decided to protect them with a PIN code too. It has advanced security features such as military-grade encryption, safekeeping of passwords and other informations and a feature that covers its tracks to be sure no one will be able to trace its presence after it is removed from a system.
Above all these top-securing abilities, the drive has a PIN pad, to protect, once more, the entire package of data with a password of 4 to 10 characters long. The Personal Pocket Safe™ is described by its manufacturers as “the world’s first encrypted, epoxy coated, pin-protected USB device”.
Mvix MX-780HD Streams Wifi HD For Cheap
Mvix has just released a HD media streamer with quite usual features nowadays, like a HDD slot, Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n WiFi, along with a lot of supported file formats. The MX-780HD can play DivX, XviD, AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, AAC, OGG, AC3, MP3, WMA, JPEG and much more, it sports coaxial / optical audio ports and a front LCD display. It’s price isn’t that high and it seems to be worth $299.99.
Smallest 1seg Tuner Unveiled By Sharp
How small do you think world’s smallest TV Tuner is ? Just look at the picture above to view Sharp’s latest, that’s even smaller than a ¥1 coin. The VA3A5JZ922 is 35% smaller than it’s competitors, with 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 mm. Also the 1seg tuner isn’t extremely pricy, at $185, but you have to wait a bit until mass production is September.
via PMPToday
Universal And Paramount To Sell Movies On Blu-Ray
It was the time for Paramount and Universal to publish their movies on a HD disk drive and now it seems they took action. Well, now it’s obvious what formate they have chosen once with HD DVD’s death. Yes, you guessed, Blu-ray is the winner.
Craig Kornblau, Universal’s President made a statement: “While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray,” so it’s official.
HD DVD Can No Longer Be Resuscitated, It’s Officially Dead
After a long dispute, HD DVD has finally lost the battle and Blu-ray is now a winner. Toshiba has just announced that ” it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” The production will stop in March 2008 and they will only going to sell HD DVD disks for players and recorders owners.
Also, Toshiba’s President and CEO, Atsutoshi Nishida stated that Toshiba is going to “continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives.”