Category: Video Reviews
SHINY PREVIEW: the wonderfully waterproof Sanyo Xacti VPC-WH1 camcorder
Take one bucket of water, one Xacti VPC-WH1 camcorder, one blogger and you’ve got yourself a preview of just how well Sanyo’s waterproof video recorder works when submerged.
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: Emtec S800 HDD Movie Cube
Over Christmas I ate a lot of turkey, drank a lot of wine, and fiddled endlessly with this – the Emtec S800 movie cube. I’ll break it to you now – it’s not a cube – but it is a great little home entertainment set-top-box that lets you stream video over a network and record television.
Not one for the technophobic amongst you, but if you like tinkering with your AV setup then it comes highly recommended. It costs £230 and the company claims it’s available now from Dixons, but I certainly can’t see it on the site, or anywhere else for that matter. If you know where you can buy it in the UK, drop us a line in the comments.
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SHINY VIDEO: Quad vs Dual – how many cores do you really need?
Just before Christmas, Dan and I took delivery of a dual core and a quad core machine, and we thought we’d see if it’s actually worth putting four cores into your computer, rather than two. We ran four processor-intensive concurrent tasks – a virusscan, a DVD encode, a 3D game, and then we measured how long it took to unzip a zip file.
The results? Well, you’ll have to watch the video to find out. I’ll just say that I was surprised by the outcome. Let us know your experiences of Quad core vs Dual core chips in the comments below.
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SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: Sanyo Xacti HD1010 Full HD camcorder
I’ll be getting a first hand look at the new Xacti range from Sanyo in just over an hour but before we bring you all that, I thought we could have a proper report on the Xacti HD1010 which you can actually buy now for the price of £420. Take it away Susi…
Sci-fi world devastated – Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban pass away
Patrick McGoohan, made famous by his role in bewildering 60s sci-fi escapology show The Prisoner, died on Tuesday, aged 80.
He was great in Danger Man, made his name in The Prisoner, then continued to deliver entertainment beyond the call of duty by directing and starring in numerous episodes of Columbo between the 1970s and his last directorial appearance in 2000…
CES 2009: Video – NJOY ecigarettes
While ecigarettes are ten-a-penny in the UK, there’s only one manufacturer of them in the USA. Zara, ever the detective, managed to track them down. Not just cigarettes, though – cigars, cigarette holders, everything!
For more CES tomfoolery click through to the Tech Digest CES motherpost
CES 2009: Hands on with the Asus T91
Susi was lucky enough to get her her hands on the swivelly Asus T91 in Vegas that we originally covered here. It’s got a GPS unit, a touchscreen and a TV tuner – quite nifty for an 8.9″ netbook. Can’t wait to try Windows 7 on it.
For more CES goodness, click through to the motherlode of CES posts.
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: The 720p HD video shooting Nikon D90
I had a lot of fun with this camera. The Nikon D90 is about as good as it gets for consumer DSLRs- certainly for now, anyway. I had this one for quite a while I got very comfortable with it.
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: Philips SCE7640 Power2Go – 60 hour portable battery pack
I was fairly unimpressed when the Philips SCE7640 Power2Go Li-polymer portable power pack turned up on my doorstep. Huh? It's just a box. It's only after reading the back to find out that one charge can get you 60 hours of power…
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: BlackBerry Curve 8900
Whether you know it as the Curve, the Javelin or 8900, the handset’s the same and it still doesn’t support 3G for some unknown reason. On the other hand, according to Zara it’s not bad and, for a phone I had no particular interest in, I’m quite impressed by the review…
