Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Sony Organic TV


Certainly one of the hottest technologies at this year's CES is the 27-inch Organic Light Emitting Diode television by Sony.
Not only is the picture beautiful, but the screen is just three millimeters thick, about the same as three credit cards. Current LCD televisions require a backlight, but OLED technology doesn't, which means its far more energy efficient.

This full HD (1080p) television also has a million-to-one contrast ratio, which means blacks are very black and brights are very bright. It also has what Sony claims is a super fast response time, so there won't be any blurring if you happen to be watching a movie or sporting event.

Smaller, 11-inch OLED's have been on sale in Japan for the last few months, but they haven't worked their way into the U.S. market till now. Sony says the sets are on sale at select Sony stores across the country for a not-too-shabby $2,499.

Monday, January 7, 2008

Blu-ray


Meeting the need for high-definition video, the Blu-ray Disc is here. Blu-ray offers five to 10 times more storage capacity than DVD, offering room for interactive and bonus features for Hollywood movies or more room for storing personal, digital assets such as photos, music, data and video.
Blu-ray Disc is supported by more CE, PC, gaming and entertainment companies than any other HD format, offering consumers a broad range of hardware and content to choose from, as well as the ability to enjoy their Blu-ray discs (and existing DVDs) in more players, PC and gaming consoles.
It looks like friends Blu-ray disc won the game. The End

The largest Plasma:


Panasonic USA launches the world’s largest full HD Plasma display. The plasma TV is 103 Inches wide and supports a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. It has a contrast ratio of 3000:1 and a 3.8 Inch pixel pitch. The company will be manufacturing 5000 of these displays annually at its high tech factory in Amagasaki - Japan. There is no info on pricing yet.

New HD TV models:

With the occasion of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show’s opening news conference from Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled a range of new models of high def TVs, in a move that will expand the company’s line of LCD and plasma products. Panasonic also debuted a 32 GB SD memory card, which will allow users to store up to eight hours of HD content.With the occasion of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show’s opening news conference from Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled a range of new models of high def TVs, in a move that will expand the company’s line of LCD and plasma products. Panasonic also debuted a 32 GB SD memory card, which will allow users to store up to eight hours of HD content.

Among the several new displays that Panasonic announced on Sunday, the most noteworthy are the 37-inch TC-37LZ85 LCD and the 46-inch TH-46PZ800, which are expected to become two main players of the company’s HDTV line.

However, it was not the new displays that represented the main attractions at the news conference, as Panasonic’s high-capacity SD card seemed simply amazing for everybody. The SD card, which is in fact a flash memory card format developed by Panasonic’s parent company Matsushita Electric Industrial, SanDisk and Toshiba, is about the size of a postage stamp and can be used in Panasonic’s LCD and plasma TVs, which all have SD slots. The 32 GB SD memory card allows people to store their HD content recorded with different portable devices such as digital cameras, handheld computers and others, and than to play it on Panasonic next-generation HDTVs.

HDTVs seem to be the next big thing on the electronics market and Panasonic did not miss the chance to expand its high def devices offerings.

WirelessHD

A group of industry heavyweights, including LG Electronics, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic and Intel, will promote an emerging technology called WirelessHD – capable of replacing the cable between your cable box and TV