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Sharp to introduce two new entry level HDD and BD Recorder

Featuring only 1 Digital TV tuner, the Sharp Blu-Ray Aquos BD-HDS53 (320GB) and BD-HDS55 (500GB) new Video recorders aims to offer a fully features product at an affordable price ranging at 80,000 Yen for the first model up to 90,000 Y[...]
Sharp to introduce two new entry level HDD and BD Recorder
Sharp to introduce two new entry level HDD and BD RecorderSharp to introduce two new entry level HDD and BD Recorder

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Bluedot New Colorful and Ultra Light Portable DVD Player

This morning Bluedot announced new DVD player, the BDP-1475, that’s available in a trio of our favorite colors: Pink, Yellow and White… Definitely designed for the ladies, these portable DVD players are also extremely light at ju[...]
Bluedot New Colorful and Ultra Light Portable DVD Player
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Toshiba Releases Two New HDD and DVD Recorders in Japan

With the 1TB RD-E1004K and the 320GB RD-304K HDD and DVD recorders in Japan Toshiba is trying hard to forget their lack of Blu-ray support with attractive prices. Both record HD video in Blu-ray, standard (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264). The 1TB ve[...]
Toshiba Releases Two New HDD and DVD Recorders in Japan
Toshiba Releases Two New HDD and DVD Recorders in JapanToshiba Releases Two New HDD and DVD Recorders in Japan

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Sony LocationPorter, Stream Your Camcorder Video Via 3G

Pretty much for professionals and hard core crazy geeks like myself, here’s Sony’s LocationPorter. Simply put, plug your camcorder or camera directly into a LocationPorter connected to the Net via 3G, LAN, or whatever…[...]
Sony LocationPorter, Stream Your Camcorder Video Via 3G
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Framee-L, Iriver Japan’s New Digital Frame

Iriver Japan announceda new digital frame, the Framee-L. Featuring a nice 7” LCD with a resolution of 800 x 480 and 1GB of internal memory, it supports JPEG files and many different video codecs / containers like MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, AVI [...]
Framee-L, Iriver Japan’s New Digital Frame

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YASHICA DV588, Your Average Crappy Entry Level HD Camera

Let’s imagine for a moment that you have only 24,800 Yen (200€) to waste and want to waste it in style. You may think this would be easy, but in Japan, we have very few crappy products. Japanese folks tend to be picky! But today we fou[...]
YASHICA DV588, Your Average Crappy Entry Level HD Camera

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Panasonic Develops World’s First Single-Chip Signal Processing LSI for Blu-ray Disc Players

Osaka, Japan – Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, has developed the world’s first Blu-ray Disc (BD) player-specific single-chip signal processing LSI (product number: MN[...]
Panasonic Develops World’s First Single-Chip Signal Processing LSI for Blu-ray Disc Players

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The All New Sanyo DMX-CA8 Waterproof

Here you are! I’m now allowed to talk about the new waterproof Xacti DMX-CA8 which will be sold in Japan mid-May, 2008. So… What’s up Doc? Our camera now has a 8Mpix CMOS sensor as well as a new “face chaser” which works wi[...]
The All New Sanyo DMX-CA8 Waterproof
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SpursEngine SE1000: The Heart of the PS3 in Your PC (almost)

Toshiba just started shipping its SpursEngin SE1000 image processor. It’s the same/simillar image processor found in the PS3 which provides stunning video and fully supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC/H.265 hardware encoding/decoding. Pr[...]
SpursEngine SE1000:  The Heart of the PS3 in Your PC (almost)

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2 New Video Recorder (DVD, VHS and HDD) from Panasonic

Panasonic just launched in Japan 2 video recorder the DMR-XP12 (250GB, DVD DL/RAM) and the DMR-XP22V (250GB, DVD DL/RAM, VHS), which have both a Digital and Analogue TV tuner, 1 HDMI output with Up-scale and support both the MPEG-4 AVC[...]
2 New Video Recorder (DVD, VHS and HDD) from Panasonic
2 New Video Recorder (DVD, VHS and HDD) from Panasonic2 New Video Recorder (DVD, VHS and HDD) from Panasonic2 New Video Recorder (DVD, VHS and HDD) from Panasonic

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