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Archive for 2006

Hitachi Hybrid Camcorder

Posted by Charbax on 3rd September 2006

A camcorder with both 8GB harddrive and a DVD burner in one.

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Hitachi Blueray Burner

Posted by Charbax on 3rd September 2006

Showing a living room Blueray disc burner prototype, as well as a Blueray burner drive for the computer.

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Archos booth babes and award

Posted by Charbax on 2nd September 2006

Archos has a nice booth. Showing the 504 which is a 160GB PMP, the 604 with a 4.3″ screen, probably the best quality screen on any portable multimedia devices. The 404 which is a very small and thin PMP but still has a large 3.5″ screen. When we were about to film an interview with a representative demonstrating their 604 Wifi and 404 Camcorder, they had to go and receive an award for second most favourite Mp3 player in Germany after the ipod. So film I will film the interview and provide you with information about the 604 Wifi and more exclusive information about its Browser and IP centric possibillities will be explained on a next video to be made available here.

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Iubi

Posted by Charbax on 2nd September 2006

Iubi have an interesting Bluetooth PMP so you donät have to connect your headphones with the device. The usb headphones consume power and need to be recharged after about 4 hours, but the concept of using Bluetooth for headphones is interesting. Specially when itäs gonna be to connect a headset for VOIP usage.

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Maxian

Posted by Charbax on 2nd September 2006

A corean PMP manufacturer. Showing their latest 4.3″ 480×272 PMP with backlit blue buttons in the style of a Motorola Razr. The representative is also talking about the next generation Texas Instruments chip which playsback full HD 1080p DivX, support WiMax and Wifi. They say they will launch such a device with a 800×480 touch-screen, with a browser and other software in November. November is only 2 months away, so it is to be seen. But getting some information about the next generation Texas Instruments PMP chip is very interesting. Maxian is the only corean PMP manufacturer I know which also supports WMV DRM Playsforsure. Though I donät knopw if they also support subscription WMV, at least itäs not DVD resolution for now.

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DLNA

Posted by Charbax on 2nd September 2006

A new standard for communicating over a local network. It’s built on top of upnp. Samsung is showing a big screen with built-in ethernet, D-link has a 4-usb to ethernet adapter.

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Opening Fireworks

Posted by Charbax on 2nd September 2006

The opening fireworks on 31st of August at 22:45PM by the IFA tower.

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Geneva Fireworks 2006

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2006

While we wait for IFA 2006 to really start: This is 51 minutes of high definition fireworks display that I filmed 2 weeks ago in Geneva. It is one of the greatest fireworks in the world, synchronised with the recording of the music that was broadcasted on radio. It is celtic music, and the pyrotechnician are Imagine from France and Panzera from Italy.

This is to enjoy while we wait for my newest videos to be captured, encoded and uploaded, as well as we wait for the IFA exhibition area to open up on the 1st of September at 9AM. I will be walking around the IFA with my HD camera for the whole week producing hours of coverage for you here each day. Tonight there will be the official IFA fireworks, which I will go and film and put here online as well.

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Panasonic Press Conference

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2006

Talking about the Panasonic HD Plasma and LCD screens. The new Full HD versus the old 720p or 768p screens.

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Blu-ray Press Conference

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2006

Some business men in suits representing different companies, standing and answering questions about why they support Blu-ray. There is also some part of the presentation that is about the Playstation 3.

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