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Panasonic TH-50PZ850U Reviewed: Beats Pioneer Kuro in Color and Detail, But Not Black Level

Gary at HD Guru probably puts TVs through the most insane, obsessive test gauntlet of anyone. He just stacked one of Panasonic's latest, the TH-50PZ850U, against a Pioneer Kuro, once and future King of Plasmas. Basically, while Kuro is blacker (courtesy of its screen's darker tint) and brighter, Panny's color reproduction is much deeper, you get better dark detail, more accurate gamma, it uses 30 percent less power, AND it's cheaper ($3500 to $4600). Everything else is about even. For more grisly details, head over there: [HD Guru]

7:02 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By matt buchanan
2,349 views, 9 comments

Latest by irfan: wii tennis looks amazing in the first pic of the review! more »

pocket camcorder

DXG-567V Camcorder is HD-recording, YouTube-ing Flip Cam Rival

DXG's new 567v looks designed to join Flip cam lookalikes in the YouTube camcorder game. But this candybar form-factor camera packs in a 5-megapixel CMOS sensor and records at 1280 x 720 pixels HD resolution at 30 frames per second: meaning it's far beyond YouTube's video requirements. Recording to SDHC cards, it also comes with all the cabling to connect it to your TV and has ArcSoft TotalMedia editing software in the box. Available now for $179. Press release below. More »

4:29 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,106 views, 10 comments

Latest by targatop: The guys over at Rootclip.com should put these in their prize packs. This seems much better than the Flip to me. All these cheapo HD cameras have really gotten my attention, but I'm just afraid I don't really have enough more »

waterproof tvs

MarineAV's 70-Inch, Waterproof LCD TV

The 57-inch Aquavision is a definitely a big waterproof television, but it falls well short of the 70-inch beast that MarineAV is packin'. Outside of its size and rugged exterior, the LCD70 also features full 1080p resolution, a 1,500:1 contrast ratio, 600cd/m2 brightness, 8ms response time, 178 degree viewing angle, and AV, S-Video, Component, HDMI, PC (VGA) inputs. Not bad...until you see the £27,995.95 ($55,500) price tag that is. [MarineAV via HDTV UK via Born Rich]

7:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Sean Fallon
1,065 views, 14 comments

cyberlink

CyberLink Uses ATI Card To Transcode Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously

The fashionable thing these days is to take the tremendous processing power of graphics cards and put them to use when you're not utilizing them to render games. CyberLink, for one, has come up with a pretty ingenous method to take an ATI or NVIDIA card (in their case, the demo was on an ATI Radeon 4850 512MB card) and convert four 1080p MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4. Simultaneously. As long as you've got a pretty fast video card, all you need is a copy of CyberLink PowerDirector 7 and you can be doing this too. We hope this is the kind of thing Apple's going to be putting into Snow Leopard. [TG Daily]

6:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Jason Chen
3,400 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: @ichi1 you must have spyware/adware on your machine. An idling computer without any software intentionally running in the background should be 0% as shown by task manager, although that 0% is really a rounded off number. more »

too much hd

NHK Projector Features Insane 7680 x 4320 (8K) Resolution

Japanese TV broadcaster NHK has demonstrated Super Hi-Vision, their whopping 32 megapixel, 8K (7680 x 4320) ultra-high definition projector technology using two LCoS projectors with a combined 8,000 lumens brightness and a towering 6.6m x 3.7m 300-inch projection screen. For those of you who are counting, that absolutely obliterates the 4K (3840 x 2,160) full-HD standard. They have even developed a matching 8K studio camera. Once again this raises the question: is there such a thing as too much HD? [CNET]

3:55 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,913 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: It pisses me off that these companies keep rolling out this stuff. Why don't we get 1080p rolled out to, oh, I don't know, half of the households in industrialized nations before we race to the next res standard. more »

dealzmodo

Dealzmodo: Buy 2 Get One Free Blu-ray Disks on Amazon (Psst...Father's Day)

At a loss about what to get your Dad for Father's Day? If he likes movies you could always take advantage of the buy 2 get one free sale going on Amazon right now. There are 95 titles to choose from and you just might get them in time for Father's Day if you hurry. However, if you choose to disappoint dear old Dad empty handed on the big day, you have until the 16th to procrastinate. [Amazon]

2:00 PM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,690 views, 10 comments

Latest by SeattleTed: @schmere: Agreed. Society loses IQ points for Hellboy and it's impending sequel..much like ice skating with the fatties tv shows. I'm still trying to get my head around the concept of buying movies I likely won't watch more than 2 more »

sony

Two Bravia TV Modules That Make Sense: Wireless HDMI and Slot-Loading DVD Player

Sure the Bravia Internet Video Link is a dubious use of $300 (even with YouTube), but there are at least two Bravia add-on modules in Sony's oven that are tasty and smart: A wireless HDMI module—neato factor is self-explanatory, especially since the transmitter takes up to four HDMI connections—and a slot loading DVD player. It sounds weird to say, but having a hidden DVD player on the side of a flat panel TV is actually nice, plus it's integrates with the cross media bar (XMB). Only downside is that they both need external power. Check 'em out up close.

7:52 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By matt buchanan
3,920 views, 10 comments

Latest by apeguero: I sent Sony an email suggesting that they develop a Home Theater device that handled BR Discs or even a PS3 with Home Theater functions. Also, asked them to put out a Gotdamned Bluetooth/IR universal remote that controls the more »

sony

Sony HT-IS100 Tiny Hi-Def Speakers Look Delicious

The HT-IS100 is the latest little speaker set from Sony, a 5.1 channel surround system that looks small enough to smuggle in your underpants—sans subwoofer of course. Each speaker in the 450 watt system is about the size of a golf ball (or a 4-H award winning strawberry from the looks of it). UPDATE: Added gallery, and impressions below. More »

4:30 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Benny Goldman
5,045 views, 24 comments

cameras

Sanyo Xacti HD1010 Camcorder does 1080i, Face Recognition and 300FPS Slow Motion

Casio's excellent EX-F1 slow motion digital camera has a bit of competition in Sanyo's Xacti HD1010 camcorder. The 1080i HD cam does face detection for up to 12 people at once, and 300 frame per second slow motion as well as seven frame per second still shooting. YES! IIIIII saaaaaaaaiiiiiiidddd SLOOOOO MOTIOOOOON! More »

12:29 AM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Brian Lam
10,688 views, 29 comments

Latest by oopl: A ~$200 price increase over the Sanyo Xacti HD1000. more »

blu-ray

Over Half of HDTV Owners Still Don't Know What Blu-ray Is

NPD's latest survey of consumer awareness about Blu-ray tries to cheerlead, with the headline, "Consumer Awareness and Potential for Blu-ray Disc Devices Rising." But then you read the results—45 percent of HDTV owners are now "familiar with Blu-ray," up from 35 percent the same time last year. That means over half of HDTV owners—not regular people with standard def TVs, we're talking the leading chunk of consumers that should be well aware of Blu-ray—still don't know what it is. That's horrendous. More »

11:00 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By matt buchanan
4,042 views, 82 comments

Latest by n/a: @SuperSan: Thank you! Besides money I don't have cable to start with. I have a mortgage and 2 kids. I want to be able to catch 90 min to view a movie, let alone worry about picture quality. My husband more »

super hi-vision

Super Hi-Vision Gets 33-Megapixel Sensor for Full-Color Video

Remember NHK's Super Hi-Vision, the 7680x4320 format that looks so good viewers throw up? The research group finally prototyped up a 33-megapixel video sensor that could take in the whole picture at once. More »

10:00 AM on Thu May 29 2008
By Wilson Rothman
8,478 views, 14 comments

sid 2008

LG Develops Largish Double-Sided LCD

We've seen double-sided LCDs before, but they're generally quite small and prototyped for cellphone use. This week, LG is showing off a prototype that's conceivably TV-sized at (an admittedly still small) 15 inches. Running a resolution of 2048 x 1536 and offering a four-color sub-pixel arrangement (red, blue, green and white), we could only imagine the implications of a tablet PC that could otherwise be a normal laptop (without an awkward Exorcist maneuver) or a TV that could accommodate Gears of War 2 and Grey's Anatomy at the same time. Of course, even if the product were released, you know they'd just charge double for the privilege. [Tech-On]

2:40 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Mark Wilson
2,937 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: @OtioseScandal: What, you've never heard of directional speakers? Use two speakers which create sound well below the human range of hearing, offset them slightly so that they are in-phase (and so have constructive interference) only in the direction you want more »

hdtv

Will HDTV Decide the Presidential Election?

A legend of American politics is that TV defeated Nixon and delivered victory to Kennedy—in their televised Great Debates Nixon looked old and haggard, Kennedy, young and tanned. TV viewers said Kennedy won the debate; radio listeners said Nixon did. It was all about looks. Now, consider the HDTV/porn problem: Every little flaw is in glorious HD. And now consider that John McCain is older than your grandpa, ravaged by a rough campaign and melanoma surgery. Slate ponders the question: Will HDTV kill McCain? More »

1:20 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By matt buchanan
13,456 views, 201 comments

Latest by pinkfloyd1972: @tokiwartooth: The point I was trying to make wasn't "ZOMG! WELFARE CHEATZ R EVERYWHEREZZ!1!!." I was trying to point out that SOME people make a career out of it. Had nothing to do with media I access. I do believe more »

sdv on tivo

TiVo Switched Video Tuning Adapters Appear at CableLabs

At long last, the SDV dongles that TiVo promised would arrive this year from Motorola and Cisco have been submitted to CableLabs for formal testing. For those unfamiliar, these little devices allow for two way communication between CableCard boxes and Cable Companies, so that only the needed programming data is sent, and bandwidth is conserved. Dave Zatz says its a good start to fixing the whole CableCard HD Programming debacle, even if its widely unsupported and a bit clunky. A shot of the Cisco box below. [Zatz Not Funny] More »

7:16 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Adrian Covert
3,505 views, 13 comments

Latest by Geist420: Awesome idea.. but it's useless until everybody has it. They still need to send all the channels to everybody that doesn't have one of these, which is the vast majority, and to every device that can't use them...again, the vast more »

question of the day

Which Couldn't You Live Without, HD or DVR?

Our memories have grown fuzzy. We can't remember exactly what watching TV was like 10 years ago, but we're pretty sure that it involved a 16mm projector, slide rule and a horse that walked in circles around the room (oddly enough, the horse wasn't actually connected to anything). Now we have a slew of new viewing technologies options, like streaming media, DVRs and high definition broadcast. And today, we're forcing you to make the Sophie's Choice of the entertainment center:

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5:00 PM on Sat May 17 2008
By Mark Wilson
17,790 views, 88 comments

Latest by MirDreams: Really can't want a show halfway through or with commercials. I need my DVR. more »

rumor confirmed

HD Content Confirmed For Amazon Unbox!

TiVo has officially confirmed that Amazon Unbox will get HD content in the near future, but execs at the company say a few kinks need to be ironed out first. The current version of Unbox can't process HD content, and availability is limited by bandwidth constraints—something cable companies are in the process of solving. If a previous customer survey is to be trusted, an HD movie rental will cost $4.99, the same as iTunes. [Zatz Not Funny! - Thanks Dave]

1:00 PM on Sat May 10 2008
By Elaine Chow
2,486 views, 7 comments

Latest by Barion: Too expensive! I'll take my Blu-ray rentals from Netflix, thanks. 10 Amazon Unbox rentals would cost as much as the 25-30 discs I rent a month from Netflix. And even if that price hike on Blu-ray Disc more »

rumor

Asus Subsidiary Making Blu-ray Xbox 360

Despite repeated bashing and smashings, the Xbox 360 Blu-ray rumor is eternal like the sun god. Taiwanese rag Economic Times is reporting that Pegatron Technology—an Asus subsidiary, not a Decepticon as McWhertor points out—has received an order from Microsoft for a Blu-ray-equipped Xbox 360, due to be manufactured soon and shipped in time for the holidays. Weeks ago, Digitimes said Lite-On was going to make 'em. Let's assess. More »

12:20 AM on Fri May 2 2008
By matt buchanan
10,587 views, 45 comments

home entertainment

The 10 Worst HDTV Ripoffs Explained

If you are planning on picking up an HDTV in the near future, HD Guru's list of the 10 worst HDTV ripoffs for 2008 is required reading—pure and simple. Chances are, many consumers have already heard about the issue with HDMI cables—which is probably one of the biggest scams of all time (right up there with Q-Ray ionized bracelets and the Ionic Breeze). Other scams, like the one involving contrast ratio specifications are also making their way into the public consciousness. More »

4:05 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Sean Fallon
51,773 views, 86 comments

Latest by atomx: @GOKOR: I thought that's what I was doing, but if it makes you feel better... more »

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