Mitsubishi-Electric decided to remove the upscaling mechanism in the HC4900 to make it the worlds cheapest 3LCD based 1080p projector to be released at below $2000. So if you have got a DVD player and set-top-box that already upscales decently to 1080p, you wouldn’t need to have a built-in upscaler in the projector even though Mitsubishi-Electric’s upscaler called HQV shows impressive video when I saw a demonstration last year of a Star Wars DVD which looked nearly as good as the HDDVD version when upscaled.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Facebook, Google, Metacafe, Myspace, Photobucket, Putfile, Revver, Sevenload, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

Now the newest LED based pocket imagers from Toshiba can provide 100 lumens and function for two hours on a battery.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Google, Metacafe, Myspace, Photobucket, Putfile, Revver, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

Toshiba was showing some of the latest advances that they have made for the screens of mobile telephones.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Facebook, Google, Myspace, Photobucket, Putfile, Revver, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

Toshiba was showing some technology where you can just wave infront of a camera to control a computer such as opening your hand to stop, showing your fist to open the main menu and open your hand again to resume the video.

DivX HD: Play

Description and Youtube flash versions coming tomorrow.

Toshiba is making some Methanol Fuel Cell technology to supplement or replace the uniquely Lithium Ion batteries in all consumer electronic devices. I didn’t understand though what the main advantages of this technology would be other then near instant recharge.

DivX HD: Play

Description and Youtube flash versions coming tomorrow.

Some strange looking dual screen tablet at Toshiba next to the 32GB SDHC card.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Facebook, Google, Metacafe, Myspace, Photobucket, Putfile, Revver, Sevenload, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

This is an iPhone without the phone from Samsung. 3″ touch-screen for video and music, though the navigation on the main screen doesn’t seem totally smooth to me for now, this does look like a nice flash based PMP to me if you don’t care about the codec and resolution of the video that is supported which is just QVGA at a low bitrate. It also integrates Bluetooth for wireless headphones or speakers.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Facebook, Google, Metacafe, Myspace, Putfile, Revver, Sevenload, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

Philips is showing some interesting table top user interface where the objects that you put on a special table make noises or let the user interact in a game.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Facebook, Google, Metacafe, Myspace, Photobucket, Putfile, Revver, Sevenload, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

This is the Nokia E90 compared with the Archos 605 WiFi. One costs 800€ and the other costs 200€.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Facebook, Google, Metacafe, Myspace, Putfile, Revver, Sevenload, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

Samsung comes with a very impressive and very compact 720p HD camcorder, which records in 50fps H264 at 1280×720 progressive. This video interview was filmed using that camera at the booth onto one of my SD cards. I re-encoded that video from 50fps to 25fps using an unproven technique of using a server-side ffmpeg process, so that might explain some of the stuttering that there is in this DivX HD version, and it´s encoded in only one pass Mpeg4 720p just as every other of my IFA 2007 videos (while all the other videos are filmed using the Sanyo HD2). To view the full quality sample from that camcorder, you can download the sample recording below.

DivX HD: Play

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Facebook, Google, Metacafe, Myspace, Photobucket, Putfile, Revver, Veoh, Vimeo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

Here is a link to download a 700mb sample recorded with this new Samsung 50fps 720p camcorder:

http://charbax.videohost.eu/ifa2007/HDV_0074.MP4 (the .MP4 file that this Samsung HD camcorder produces is not a common h264 .mp4 file, VLC won´t play it easilly. At the Samsung booth, they told me a software that plays it is http://www.gomplayer.com/download.html)