Sony’s new 1080p PJ (VPL-HW10 SXRD)

30Aug08

 

Tack on one more PJ to Sony’s stable. This one will have their prestigious Bravia badging and will more than likely be carrying a Bravia style pricing. Though this model still won’t be anywhere near the top of their PJ line that belongs to the VPL-VW200 or probably a soon to be released projector from the CEDIA show. 

Some specifications:

  • Bravia Engine 2
  • 1000 ANSI lumens
  • 30,000:1 contrast ratio
  • Dual HDMI Inputs
  • HDMI-CEC Controls
  • 24p True Cinema
  • 22db noise of opereation

    Some more information on the VPL-VW200

    Hopefully inexpensive NEC Tablet PC

    29Aug08

    NEC has released two new Atom powered tablet PC’s. The 12PNC-W2/B2 and 15PNC-W2/B2 are 12″ and 15″ all-in one powered touch-screen PCs sporting some pretty decent specifications.

    •  Atom Z350@1.6Ghz
    • 512MB or 1GB of RAM
    • XP Embedded or Vista Business
    • 80GB HDD

    Jesus Christ Guitar Hero

    29Aug08

     

    Digital Praise

    No longer is “Rock and/or Roll” the music of the devil it’s a tool of the Lord now and thou may thrash away for God. If Guitar Praise is the Veggie Tales of Guitar Hero it’ll be quite the boon for Digital Praise. One of their prior releases can’t be doing that bad since it currently has a sequel out. 

    Digital Praise - Dance Praise 2-the ReMix

    Guitar Praise will only be available for the Mac and the PC (sorry, no consoles) and will be available “mid-September 2008″ and will sell for $100. The extra guitar will costs you $70 more dollars to be able to jam for Christ with your friends. 

    From the product page

    Grab the guitar and play along with top Christian bands! Shred those riffs or blast the bass…you add a unique sound to the solid Christian rock. But watch out: if you can’t keep up, the artists will take a break and stop the music. Crank it up and try again—you’ll soon be rockin’ with the best while praising the Lord! Order the second guitar and jam with a friend!

     

    Pre-Order from Digital Praise

    Sanyo $1,295 720 PLV-Z60 Project

    29Aug08

    Sanyo is rolling out a new projector for it’s lineup and setting a $1,295 price point for 720p PJs. It will have a native 720p resolution, 1,200 lumens, 10,000:1 contrast ration a dedicated 12-bit IC for video decoding, scaling, and gamma curve.

    Connectors are VGA, HDMIx2, Componentx2, S-Video.

    Available next month

    Source: Sanyo

    Blackberry Bold Review

    28Aug08
    -From Gizmodo 

     

    -From Gizmodo

     

    The folks over at Gizmodo has gotten their hands on the newest RIM phone the Blackberry Bold

    The new phone is featuring a completely flat and flush 480×320px TFT LCD screen and a 624Mhz Marvell Travel PXA930 running the OS. Pack in there 128MB RAM, 1GB storage (expandable with a microSD slot) and a QuadBand GSM, and a Tri band HSDPA radio and you’ve got quite a phone. Other features include

     

    • 2 Mega Pixel camera with flash
    • GPS - internal GPS with extended ephemeris, BB Maps is standard
    • MP3/WMA/AAC+ media player
    • DivX/WMV/Xvid/3GP video player
    • Wi-Fi a/b/g
    • Battery Life - Standby: 13 days, Talk Time: 5 hours
    • Bluetooth v2.0, Bluetooth Stereo Audio via A2DP and AVCRP
    • Browser - HTML browsing, View Movies/Clips from websites built for mobile streaming, RSS feed support
    • Size - Length: 114mm, Width: 66mm, Thickness: 14mm
    • Network Support - UMTS: 2100 / 1900 / 850MHz, GSM: 1900 / 1800 / 900 / 850 MHz, GPRS, EDGE andHSDPA networks
    • 3.55mm stereo audio jack

    More from the Gizmodo Review

    If you were feverishly anticipating a cellphone this year, it was one of two phones: the iPhone 3G or this phone. The BlackBerry Bold is RIM’s most powerful, polished handset ever. With 3G, a glossy new UI, a real web browser, serious hardware and an almost beautiful body, the Bold doesn’t redefine the BlackBerry experience, but it does elevate to the highest point its ever been.

    Let’s be clear: If you hate BlackBerry phones, you will still intensely dislike the Bold. As many coats of polish as RIM has thickly layered on the Bold, it is still a BlackBerry, with all of its suit-and-tie DNA fully intact. Fundamentally, it works and plays just like every other BlackBerry, but with a load of small-to-medium improvements, updates and tweaks that add up to a richer, more refined phone that also looks far better than the rest while doing its thing.

    Sony BlueRay HTIB ( BDV-IT1000 )

    28Aug08

    Sony has finally come around to releasing a Home Theatre In Box (HTIB) including a Blue Ray player. The HTIB which will be launched in the Bravia brand name. 

    It will be named the BDV-IT1000 following in a long line of Sony products being poorly named by a slew of acronyms that only Sony fan boys and Sony salesmen can explain on how to decrypt. Despite the horrible name, which is never a surprise from Sony, it is quite an elegant and innovative design. The entire speaker driver is just wider than the width of a finger and the front and center speakers have 3 drivers while the rears have 2 drivers apiece.

    The Xross Media Bar GUI will be the driver which supports 2 other HDMI inputs as well as all of the classic audio formats like Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTD-HD

    System Specs:

     

    • Super-slim speakers made possible by finger-sized full-range drive units
    • All-in-one home cinema system with integrated Blu-ray Disc drive
    • Full HD 1080/24p picture quality with Deep Color and x.v.Colour
    • Wireless rear speakers for great surround effects without cables
    • BD-Live Ready: upgradable to Profile 2.0 for extra content and downloads via Ethernet port
    • DVD upscaling to 1080p
    • Two HDMI input terminals for connection of games consoles, HD TV decoder boxes or other sources, and one HDMI output
    • Optical digital and analogue stereo inputs. Also composite/component video in
    • Upconversion to HDMI for analogue sources
    • Fast, perfect ‘one-touch’ set-up with Digital Cinema Auto Calibration
    • BRAVIA Sync for integrated operation with other Sony components
    • XrossMediaBar onscreen display for simple, logical operation of all functions
    • Connectivity with Network WALKMAN® and iPod® players, Bluetooth devices and home Wi-Fi networks via DIGITAL MEDIA PORT, plus Portable Audio Enhancer
    • 700W total power: 5×100W plus 2×100W for subwoofer, using efficient, high-quality 32-bit S-Master digital amplification

    Sony Europe

     


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