Panasonic continued its pursuit of a standard for 1080p 3D pictures on Wednesday at the CES conference in Las Vegas.The company told a room full of reporters and industry insiders that it would propose a standard for the system it first debuted last year at Cebit in Japan in the coming months.”Panasonic doesn’t think that [...]

Panasonic, a major developer and contributor to the success of the Blu-ray format, introduced the world’s first portable Blu-ray Disc player at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. The DMP-B15, designed to provide the ultimate high definition Blu-ray experience for those on the go, features a high quality 8.9-inch WSVGA LCD screen and includes the unique [...]

Samsung Electronics is diving into connected TVs just like the other big companies that have made presentations today at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Samsung said it will team up with Yahoo to deliver TV Widgets and other web applications that run on TVs. (Notice that nobody is teaming up with [...]

As Americans become more conscious of TV power consumption, manufacturers are taking full advantage by offering more eco-friendly HDTVs. The KDL-VE5 series is Sony’s power-sipping entrant for CES 2009, and includes the ability to turn off automatically when viewers leave the vicinity.The three-size series includes the 52-inch KDL-52VE5, the 46-inch KDL-46VE5, and the 40-inch KDL-40VE5. [...]

The new Sony Vaio P series Lifestyle PC is lighter than most laptops at 1.4 pounds and is MacBook Air-thin at less than an inch. It is not quite 10 inches wide with a bright eight-inch LCD screen. Like a laptop, the P uses a 1.3-HHz Intel processor. The extra inches give it a more [...]

Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday it has acquired Q-layer, a Belgium-based cloud-computing specialist. Q-layer’s technology adds automation to both public and private clouds, allowing companies to simplify the management and deployment of data center applications. Its software will give customers greater flexibility in areas such as servers, storage, and bandwidth, Sun said. Like many other companies [...]

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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, Sony announced two new additions to its entry-level digital camera line. Beefed-up specs, ease of use, and a thinner frame mark the new Cyber-shot S series and W series point-and-shoots.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S950 pumps the S series’ megapixel count to 10 megapixels [...]

Samsung’s latest two BD-Live Blu-ray decks are design conscious to the max—one is a wall-mountable 1.5-inches thin (BD-P4600) and the other is a low-profile, sleek tabletop deck (BD-P3600), and both stream Netflix and Pandora. Nice to see some creativity in the BD player zone—the wall-mountable 4600 especially, which reminds me a lot of Naoto Fukasawa’s [...]

Now that LCD TVs with 120Hz refresh rates are becoming commonplace, manufacturers including Toshiba are implementing 240Hz to bolster claims of smoother images with improved blur reduction.Toshiba’s ZV650 series includes three screen sizes, the 42-inch 46ZV650, the 46-inch 46ZV650, and the 55-inch 55ZV650, and will be available in April (prices were not announced).In describing its [...]

For months, gadget bloggers have been buzzing about the possibility of a successor to the Samsung P2, a touch screen portable media player. The rumors are true: Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung unveiled the P3, with updates to both the interface and the sound technology.