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FaceVsion HD Video Conferencing solution

Charbax — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:22:02 +0000

FaceVsion of Taiwan now has added HDMI-input and Full HD 1920×1080 HD video-conferencing in the new FVexpress Pro card, as well as they still have the FVexpress combo with a new higher quality HD webcam included and a mini-PCI module that can be integrated in certain compatible netbooks (when the Express Card slot is not present on the netbooks) to integrate their HD video-conferencing directly into the netbooks.

What this technology from FaceVsion does is that it integrates HD H264 encoding and decoding into their express card device, or into their mini-PCI module, for netbook/laptop manufacturers to integrate or for end-consumers to buy as an express card solution or as a mini-PCI module to install inside of the netbook or laptop.

FaceVsion’s Qulive software automatically adapts the upload and download bitrates to and from each party according to the stable and reliable bandwidth that is available, it also support SIP to SIP connections and even IP to IP direct connections, thus it could be perfectly suitable for implementation at the Enterprise, for large, medium or small businesses. But also, especially, for just $119, this FaceVsion HD video-conferencing solution could easilly reach end consumers in masse if they manage to offer the right combination of product and value proposition.

Imagine sitting in your living room with a HD camcorder or cheaper HD webcam on your HDTV, and the same for your grand parents wherever in the world they live, simply sit back and have a real-time HD quality discussion in each of your sofa’s, the siye of a 42″ HDTV making it look like you are nearly sitting in the same room!

720p Android on a video-phone solution by Universal Microelectronics Co. Ltd.

Charbax — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:19:40 +0000

Universal Microelectronics Co. Ltd. is showing this awesome looking video phone project based on a powerful ARM Cortex A8 processor to integrate the Google Android OS into a 10.1″ capacitative touchscreen product! It has HDMI output, capacitative touchscreen (Android touchscreen dirvers are still under construction), ethernet plug, USB host and more features. Built-in dect phone, webcam. For about $260 price for carriers or resellers to buy this in bulk. They are also making a 4.8″ 800×480 version with a built-in mini-HDMI output, MicroSD slot and USB-host as well for about $200!

Toshiba JournE Home Media Tablet at IFA 2009

Charbax — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:18:20 +0000

Toshiba is getting a lot of attention for their new Windows CE based Home Media Tablet. It’s got a 7″ 800×480 screen, 1GB of internal memory but XDHC memory card support (new version of SDHC) for up to 64GB of memory expansion. It will ahve a dock for charging and HDMI output of 720p videos in DivX and WMV formats. There will be applications but all based on whatever is available for Windows CE. The price in Europe at launch later this year will be 249€.

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Sharp’s press conference

Charbax — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:09:42 +0000

Sharp is showing new lower power HDTVs and solar powered HDTVs. Then I do a little both tour of the Sharp booth. You can see my extensive video of the awesome Sharp PC-Z1 (best thing shown by Sharp at IFA 2009) at: http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/sharp-pc-z1-arm-freescale-based-5-smartbook/

Avatar 3D game showcased by Panasonic

Charbax — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:27:43 +0000

From the demonstration room for the new 3D game running on a XboX 360 with HDMI output to a prototype of Panasonic’s new 3D Full HD HDTV. 3D glasses are required for it to work.

Followed by the first impressions from a video games industry analyst Gustav Andersson of M3-Digital World and another guy expert in Wii games.

ARM Director of Mobile Computing about ARM Laptops with Android and Ubuntu

Charbax — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:00:22 +0000

Bob Morris, Director of Mobile Computing at ARM Holdings introduces the new type of ARM based products such as ARM in Laptops/Netbooks/Smartbooks, ARM based Android smartphones.

Android laptop: Compal Qualcomm powered Smartbook

Charbax — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:05:09 +0000

The worlds first Android laptop that runs everything awesomely well already!

Asus has an Android and Qualcomm powered smartbook as well, though Asus is hiding it at this point.

Acer, HP, all Nvidia Tegra based laptops, Texas Instruments based devices and Freescale based devices, all are launching with Android support.

In this video you can see how fast the current implementation of a browser in an Android laptop loads pages, while they still have optimizations to do, and I think they should try to get a full Google Chrome running on these, with support for an unlimited amount of tabs (though no need for all tabs to be active and heavy in the RAM memory).

Nvidia Tegra: HD streaming and Flash support demonstrated by Gordon Grigor, Director og Mobile Software

Charbax — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:57:16 +0000

An amazing demonstration by Gordon Grigor Director og Mobile Software at Nvidia (the software engineering lead in developing Tegra solution!) of the ways Nvidia accelerates web browsing, flash, HD video decoding, HD video streaming from the Internet and more.

I was very impressed today I interviewing the Nvidia executives and engineers, they are insanely confident about their Tegra ARM implementation, even though the current demonstration of the Tegra technology does NOT use the latest ARM Cortex processor which is 4x faster for things like a browser compared to ARM11!!!! Nvidia is processing many things from the browser using the GPU! Can you believe that? Rendering of browser contents, scrolling, font antialiasing, image rendering, flash animations, flash videos, all are taken care of by the Nvidia GPU! Look for my videos of all that, being uploaded now and filming more the next couple or three of days.

Nvidia Tegra: Overview by Michael Rayfield, general manager of the mobile business unit

Charbax — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:35:14 +0000

A complete overview and presentation of Nvidia’s amazing new line of $100-$200 laptops runing Android or Windows CE on an embedded ARM11 processor and Nvidia’s awesome 1080p and advanced 3D graphics capable Nvidia Tegra chipset.

FaceVsion cheap HD video conferencing

Charbax — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:18:33 +0000

FaceVsion presented their really cool and cheap FVexpress express card based HD video encoding and decoding solution to use for high definition video-conferencing. Usual HD video conferencing solutions by Sony Ipela, Lifesize and Cisco usually costs huge amounts of money, such as over 12 thousand dollars and they do not provide a much better quality than this FaceVision system. All you need is a cheap laptop on each side with an express card slot where you put the FVexpress card.

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