Tag: IFA 2008
IFA 2008: Compositor Media Streamer
Turns out that Brits are the biggest consumers of digital photo frames in the world – god knows why. They're expensive and not very useful. However, upping the usefulness of these devices is the Compositor Media Streamer. It lets you stream all kinds of content – photos, videos, even movies to a bunch of frames around your house. Susi from ShinyShiny has had a look…
IFA 2008: Video – Super-thin Sony Bravia ZX1 LCD
You’ve read the Cutlack copy, you’ve heard how thing this new 40″ Sony Bravia ZX1 LCD is, now experience it for yourself or at least watch the pleasure of Susi experiencing it for you.
IFA 2008: iRobot automated vacuum cleaners
I tell you, this IFA place is great. The show has barely begun and already I’m getting excited about the pending UK release of robotic hoovers. This is actually a little footage I grabbed last night of the Roomba and Scoomba…
IFA 2008: Plantronics Gamecom 777 Gaming Headset
This is the horribly-named Gamecom 777 headset. Honestly, “Gamecom”? What does that even mean? It sounds like a 90s mouse manufacturer. Anyway. Minor naming matters aside, this is actually quite a nice cheap, light headset. As a gamer with light-sleeping neighbors I can appreciate exactly why someone might need a headset dedicated for gaming…
IFA 2008: Sony's Cyber-shot T500 – 10.1 megapixels and 720p movie clips
Susan here is impressing her friend with the new Cyber-shot T500, which Sony has just revealed at IFA 2008.
The minuscule snapper boasts a spec-sheet-pleasing 10.1 megapixels, plus the ability to record videos at official HD Ready 1280×720 resolution, in MPEG4 AVC/H.264 format, for proper HD playback on the widescreen TV of your choice…
IFA 2008: Sony's super-thin 40" BRAVIA ZX1 LCD, with Wireless 1080 Media Receiver
And the floodgates are open! Sony’s first out of the gates with its IFA announcements, the first of which is this – the BRAVIA ZX1 LCD TV.
Boasting Wireless 1080 technology, which utilises a separate base station…
IFA 2008: Sharp Press Conference – Liveblogging
Well, here I am now at the Sharp press conference at IFA to the accompaniment of some soothing lounge jazz and the humdrum of the strangely polite press, waiting for the show to get on the road. The minute it starts, I'll get tapping away at anything we ought to know…
IFA 2008: Toshiba Press Conference
Good morning ladies and TD readers and welcome to the Toshiba press conference today coming to you not quite as live as I would’ve liked form Berlin.
So I’ve just sat through a rather lightening speed press conference courtesy of HD-DVD depressed Toshiba who unsurprisingly championing upscaling to a version of HD without, of course, a sniff of a Blu-ray in sight.
Toshiba chief, Alan Thompson, introduced the show…
