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IEEE approves 3.2 Gb/s IEEE 1394 high-speed serial bus specification

July 31st, 2008 at 11:10 pm » Comments (0)

IEEE 1394, which is very well known under the names of Firewire or i.Link, seems to be getting ready for a speed enhancement by the end of the year. The new IEEE 1394-2008 specification, which will offer support for up to 3.2 Gb/s bandwidth, has been recently approved by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and [...]



Fujifilms brings in 10 Megapixels Finepix Z200fd

July 31st, 2008 at 10:52 pm » Comments (0)

Fujifilm today announced the latest in its youth oriented Z line, the FinePix Z200fd. Featuring a 10MP sensor, 5x optical zoom lens and 2.7-inch LCD, the slim (20mm thick) camera offers combination mechanical/digital image stabilization, face detection that also removes red-eye, a rotary dial menu for selecting key functions, and a “blog mode” web resolution images that [...]



Dell vostro 2510 available for $899

July 31st, 2008 at 10:42 pm » Comments (0)

Dell is coming up with new laptop Vostro 2510. Vostro 2510 was spotted in a business flier. As far as listed specs, it has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 160GB hdd, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GPU, and integrated webcam. There are not a lot of details on dell.com at U.S site , but [...]



Dish Network to broadcast live 1080p content

July 31st, 2008 at 9:56 pm » Comments (0)

Satellite TV provider Dish Network became first live TV provider to broadcast full 1080p ((1920×1080 progressive) content on demand in America.  Starting with an August 1st Video On Demand option for the movie I Am Legend, DISH says it will start offering 1080p whenever the content is available rather than the lower-resolution 1080i (interlaced) or [...]



Open Media library Beta 0.1 rolls out to the public

July 31st, 2008 at 7:10 pm » Comments (0)

Forget about waiting for Niveus to open up its slick Movie Library to the public, now that the Open Media Library is available. The GPL v3-licensed project just rolled out the 0.1 beta version, designed for users to access their entire movie library and associated metadata (actors, summary, etc.) no matter the format, through extenders [...]



LG’s BD300 Blu-ray player will play Netflix online movies

July 31st, 2008 at 7:34 am » Comments (1)

LG Electronics and Netflix, Inc. today announced plans for the first Blu-ray disc player with the added capability of instantly streaming movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly to the TV. The photo shows the LG BD300 Blu-ray Disc Player, available this fall, and the Netflix instant Queue as it will appear on the TV.
Available this [...]