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Written by Terry Tran
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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Technology has long since invaded our offices and homes, and electronic appliances continue to pile up year after year. The year-end shopping spree is at its maximum peak and there are chances that Santa dropped for you a HDMI or DVI-enabled device such as home theaters, home stereos, a recording space or even a common gaming console, be it Wii or Sony's PlayStation. |
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Home Entertainment
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Written by Terry Tran
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
 The BTM630 and BTM628 are the two new releases from Philips. Both of them promise to provide powerful sounds with stylish designs. Their highlight is obviously Bluetooth connectivity and iPod compatibility. The systems play CDs, MP3 and WMAs with digital text display. The BTM630 plays and charges an iPod with its integrated dock and plays MP3 or WMA music from a SD or MMC card. The systems offer one touch MP3 digital recording in 2X speed and CD ripping bypassing the comp. |
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Home Entertainment
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Written by Terry Tran
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
 The BTM630 and BTM628 are the two new releases from Philips. Both of them promise to provide powerful sounds with stylish designs. Their highlight is obviously Bluetooth connectivity and iPod compatibility. The systems play CDs, MP3 and WMAs with digital text display. The BTM630 plays and charges an iPod with its integrated dock and plays MP3 or WMA music from a SD or MMC card. The systems offer one touch MP3 digital recording in 2X speed and CD ripping bypassing the comp. |
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Home Entertainment
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Written by Terry Tran
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
 The new Blue Light line from Samsung was in the spotlight this Tuesday. The three new sets of LCD TVs are named after their signature lighting underneath their built-in speakers. The M92 series consists of 40, 46 and 52-inch TVs and boast of a 17,000:1 contrast ratio. They also come with 1080p, three HDMI inputs for "richer colors" and ACAP support for basic data during sports matches. Music and photo playblack are facilitated via USB 2.0. North America will have to settle for the 15,000:1 ratio for the time being as these models are set to release in Korea for the time being. |
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Written by Terry Tran
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
 We've screaming ourselves hoarse that retro is the in look these days, that's why most of the gizmos are styled like that. The new kid on the block is iHome's iH10 that features a built-in iPod dock, AM/FM tuners, and a line-in jack on the back. Looking like a cushy Table Radio, the wooden cabinet houses a 3.5-inch speaker. |
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Home Entertainment
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Written by Terry Tran
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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 Sharp announced a new line of iPod speaker systems, the iElegance Music Systems. The new system consists of two models DK-A1 and DK-A10.Both the models are available in two colors: white and black. The i-Elegance music system for iPod feature full-range bass reflex speakers with built-in side-firing subwoofers that illuminate and produce low-end frequencies that ensure a deep bass sound. The i-Elegance also feature an electronic equalizer that customizes the sound based on the music genre and has a six-step mode to accurately adjust the sound for any type of music. Model DK-A10CD add a front-loading CD slot that plays standard CDs in addition to CD-R/RW with MP3 and WMA files. These 14-watt systems have a 6.5mm full range ×2 and 10cm woofer ×2 with 2W×2ch and 5W×2ch (sub woofer) output. For optimum sound quality, the units offer Esound, a digital signal processing technology that improves the quality of compressed digital music. |
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Written by Terry Tran
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
 Add a bit of art to your workspace; get the Blox Speakers from Boynq. A very kitsch looking piece that believes in minimal art. It's pleasing to the eye and is a great computer speaker, but can also be connected to any other audio device. The clever designing allows you to slide the speakers up and down along a track that simultaneously controls bass and treble levels. Sliding the left speaker up corresponds with increasing your low frequency, sliding the right speaker up corresponds with increasing the treble. Dual 5-watt amplifiers power the orange and silver speakers. It features a 3.5mm stereo "mini" audio jack and since it hooks up via a USB cord, an AC adapter is not required. |
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Written by Terry Tran
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
 Two new rear projection TV are here from Sony; the 70" SXRD model KDS-Z70XBR5 and 60" KDS-Z60XBR5 are around 40% slimmer than their predecessor. They feature Motionflow 120Hz high frame rate technology. The feature is adjustable with four modes (including "off") that the user can change to match the content, be it high-definition sports or Blu-ray Disc movies. The new PhotoTV HD mode replicates the look of actual printed photography to the set. This is done by reproducing high quality digital photos by fine-tuning parameters, including sharpness, gradation and color. The other features include x.v.Color technology, Theater Mode, DmeX compatibility, Xross Media Bar (XMB) interface, Internet connectivity and the Theatre Sync feature. |
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Written by Terry Tran
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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Electronics giant Sony has revamped its Bravia line of HDTVs, announcing nine new LCD displays and three new SXRD flat panel televisions. The nine new Bravia LCDs range from 40 to 52 inches (diagonally) and are all 10-bit panels featuring 1,920 by 1,080 resolution along with Sony's Digital Media Extender (DMeX) technology which lets them hook up to Sony's Bravia Internet Link system so users can tap into Internet-based digital video from sources like Grouper, Yahoo, AOL, and—of course—Sony itself. Selected models also feature Sony's Motionflow 120Hz high frame rate system (which reduces blur and stutter) and x.v.Color capability. |
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Written by Terry Tran
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
The digital home office is set to become a reality following the introduction of the DHP-301 PowerLine HD, a 200Mbps Ethernet Starter Kit from D-Link. PowerLine adapters take advantage of active wall sockets to transfer traffic. This enables you to extend your network simply by tapping into your existing electrical wiring set-up, thus providing homes or small businesses with a fast and cost-effective alternative to traditional Ethernet installations. The DHP-301 is pitched as an ideal solution for bandwidth-demanding applications such as high-definition media streaming, music sharing and online multi-player gaming. Connecting to a network simply requires plugging one adapter to a router and the other to an Ethernet-ready device such as a personal computer, High Definition TV, digital video recorder, game console, print server or digital media player, such as D-Link’s MediaLounge family of media streaming products. |
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Written by Terry Tran
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) today identified the key operator requirements driving future development of Home Gateways with the commencement of work on its third specification document. The key features addressed will include: designing the Home Gateway for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based Next Generation Network (NGN) environments; the growing need for supporting the SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) market; and the impact of connecting Consumer Electronics devices in the broadband home. “IMS-based NGNs have been hot topics in the industry for some time now, but few standards have been developed that will allow consumer devices to efficiently access added-value services on these networks and, hence, allow operators to generate the increased revenues required to support network investment,” said Paolo Pastorino, Chief Technology Officer at the HGI. “With our sets of specifications built around and for the Home Gateway, we are working to address these crucial issues. |
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