Category: Gadget

The new H3DII-50 expected to launch in October , featuring the world’s largest sensor. Featuring the new a 36 X 48mm Kodak 50 Mpixel sensor, twice the physical size of the largest 35mm DSLR sensors, the H3DII-50 is designed to meet the exacting demands of high-end commercial photographers who require the ultimate in both image quality and performance.

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JVC has added three new high definition camcorders to its HD Everio line, including a pair of dual-format models, one of which records up to 50 hours of AVCHD Full HD video. Two new models, the JVC GZ-HD40 (120 GB) and GZ-HD30 (80 GB), are the world’s first AVCHD / MPEG-2 dual-format camcorders, allowing access to the superior long time compression afforded by AVCHD, as well as MPEG-2’s superior editing and post-production environment. Both offer 1920 x 1080 Full HD recording in both formats to a 120GB (GZ-HD40) or 80GB (GZ-HD30) internal hard disk drive. The third new model, the GZ-HD10, offers 1440 x 1080 recording in the AVCHD format to a 40GB hard drive. The JVC GZ-HD40 and GZ-HD30 both have three AVCHD recording modes that all record Full HD 1920 x 1080 video. The only difference among modes is the bit rate, and while using the highest bit rate yields.

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One of the most popular MIDs on UMPCPortal, the Gigabyte M528, looks like it might be one of the first to launch and very reasonably price.

The specifications remain unchanged, 800×480 touchscreen, 3mp auto-focus cam and 4GB SSD on 800Mhz Silverthorne/Poulsbo (Menlow) with integrated GPS and 3G modules all controlled from the Moblin-based software . A full suite of applications includes a browser based on the Firefox 3 engine, Skype, Pidgin IM, OpenOffice 2.4 and many others. The price, Including 3G but excluding any form of data contract is $750 in the Taiwan market.

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The new Netflix Player ($100) streaming media box will allow you unlimited downloads of 10,000 movies with a Netflix subscription.

click here to read more about what other news outlets like Wired, CNet and more say about the new Netflix Player by Roku.

The all new waterproof Xacti DMX-CA8 has an 8Mpix CMOS sensor and a new “face chaser”
which works with both photos and video in land and under water. The DMX-CA8 can be in under water for
maximum of 1.5m depth for one hour.

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Canon’s new XL H1S and XL H1A camcorders, which will be on display at the 2008 NAB Show, feature an updated Canon 20x HD Video Lens with three independent manual adjustment rings (focus, zoom and iris), as well as enhanced manual focus and zoom control. Additionally, the XL H1S and XL H1A incorporate an expanded array of controls for customizing the image, display, and operation to match individual needs. Utilizing the industry’s most affordable digital video recording media – HDV tapes – both models are ideal for such long-form production applications as wedding and event videography, digital filmmaking, documentary production and media education.

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D-Link is pushing the 5GHz radio band as the future of wireless by announcing the launch of the quadband DIR-855 wireless N router.
The DIR-855 can support true 802.11n transmission over both 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels at the same time, with that supporting multiple wireless devices with up to 600Mbps of available bandwidth.

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This bring your own hard drive enclosure got a little kick under the hood. You can put any size 3.5″ IDE or SATA hard drive. It connects to your network either via Ethernet or 802.11b/g/pre-N MIMO. It’s a media player that connects to your HDTV via composite, component, s-video or DVI.

It’s support massive files, Mpeg-1/2/4, VOB, WMV 9, DivX, and Xvid. It’ll play MP3’s, WMA’s, AAC’s, Ogg, WAV and AC3 files. All from its internal hard drive, stream off of your pc over the network or an external USB drive.

Supports resolution of 1920 x 1080 Progressive Scan (1080p) video output. price at $299.99 at Thinkgeek

The Celrun TV comes with a WiFi, Ethernet, 320GB hard drive, USB ports, an integrated digital TV tuner and more. Celrun TV support DivX, XviD, AVI, MPEG1/2/4, ASF, OFF, FLAC, WAV, H.264, WMV and lots more. Price or release date not available yet.
Eat your heart out Apple tv.

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