Tag: HD
Opinion: Is Apple a bigger danger to our lives than Microsoft?
Jonathan Weinberg writes… I thought I could rely on Apple so this morning I awoke to disappointment in Steve Jobs after his Macworld announcements yesterday. I was sure he’d launch a new iPhone with either 3G or bigger storage memory, thus annoying the FOUR MILLION people who have now, like cult followers, signed up to the iPhone religion.
But it was a clever move. Save that announcement for a couple of months time, and bring a second-generation device out around a year after the first and no-one can have any complaints… can they? After all, technology is always changing and those of us who spend fortunes on gadgets and gizmos, only to see them bettered just weeks later, are fools of our own making. I do it, as much as you…
CES 2008: Samsung announces its first high definition digital camera – the NV24HD
Samsung has a number of new cameras on show at the CES, the pick of the bunch being the NV24HD.
CES 2008: ViewSonic launches Pro8100 Full HD/1080p home projector
ViewSonic has entered what it describes as the “luxury home theatre lifestyle” category with the Pro8100 home theatre projector.
CES 2008: CUE Acoustics' iPod-dockin' HD radio
In this video, not only can you see Gemma’s accidentally-pervy camera-work aimed at my jubblies, you can also see me making a bit of a fool of myself by forgetting that in the US, HD radios are the equivalent of what us Brits call DAB radio.
We may not have HD radio…
The next boring format war – Wireless HD. Intel, Sony and Toshiba ready to unleash HELL
The next VIOLENT TECH WAR will be about “the last foot” – or how to get HD signals from your HD player to your telly without needing a cable.
Yes, that really is a big problem for some people.
As with everything new, there’s a billion (or maybe about three) competing formats and groups…
Full HD horror film coming online: "Shadow: Dead Riot" streams at 1080p on the Internet
MyTVPal.com, the high definition streaming web service, and MatrixStream, a video on demand and IPTV solutions company, have claimed the world’s first 1080p instant streaming movie.
“Shadow: Dead Riot” (2006) is a story about resurrected slain inmates turned flesh eating zombies that invade a women’s rehabilitation facility — but enough about the choice of film. What we’re really interested in is the technology and the capability, right?
European Blu-ray Association claims they've sold one million discs, owns 73% of HD market
The Sony PR machine is in overdrive at the moment, with them churning out more facts and figures about Blu-ray sales, than playable games on their PS3 console.
The Blu-ray Disc Association in Europe has let information leak about the one million Blu-ray movie discs they’ve sold, which according to them is 73% of all HD films sold. Bad news for HD DVD, if those figures are accurate. Of course, it was only last week we heard from the HD DVD camp that HD DVD player owners…
Toshiba adds fuel to the format war fire with their HD-DVD give-aways
More ammunition for Blu-ray zealots, with HD-DVD backers Toshiba promising to give five HD-DVDs with every HD-enabled notebook purchased.
The choice of titles includes cult classics such as Children of Men, Full Metal Jacket (a personal favourite), Corpse Bride, Serenity and The Prestige, with the laptops in the free give-away being…
OFCOM upgrading the digital TV system – HD could be here by 2009
Telly bosses at OFCOM have announced proposals to change the digital TV broadcast standard – which could allow HD channels to arrive well before the analogue switch-off is done.
The new digital TV broadcast standard includes a change to the more efficient MPEG4 picture encoding system, which along with a few…
YouTube promises HD video streaming in next three months
Fed up with shoddy YouTube videos? Join the club. But according to co-founder Steve Chen, a dose of high-definition goodness is on the way. At least, that’s what he promised in his speech at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco yesterday.
