JVC is launching some super slim LCD TV LT42DS9, the Sophisti Design Audio DVD System, showcasing the upcoming 4K2K technologies using 4K2K video cameras, 4K2K LCD TVs and 4K2K projectors. Those 4K2K technology demos were one of the IFA highlights in my opinion. The quality is totally amazing, it is showing about 10 million pixels per frame, basically that is 10 megapixel video. Sure 10 megapixel video requires really high bandwidth, but with advanced H264 encoding, a 10 megapixel 4K2K video can fit in 50mbit/s, and 50mbit/s can be delivered over Fiberoptical Internet connections and probably that you would be able to fit a 4K2K stream on a Blu-ray disc which has a 48mbit/s bandwidth limit. At that bitrate, a 2 hour 4K2K movie could fit on about 43GB, so it can perfectly well fit on a dual-layer 50GB Blu-ray disc.

Considering small and cheap processors that can decode 1080p, which amounts to about 2 megapixel, have been available for at least a couple of years, according to Moore’s law, the next generation processor to embed in affordable 4K2K televisions, just need to be 5 time more powerful then 1080p hardware. Which amounts to about 4 years of technological development after the introduction of 1080p as the mass market standard. Which according to my guessing could mean we would all be able to buy 4K2K LCD TVs and 4K2K projectors within the next couple of years at mass market consumer prices. That is of course if the broadcasters and movie industry let us have that kind of quality at home. Cause 4K2K technology might also be a differentiator that digital cinemas would want to have for themselves.

Just when you thought 1080p was the best one would need, just wait till you see a 4K2K demonstration, the quality is just insane, it’s even more like really being there.

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Daewoo is showing their new 32″, 37″ and 42″ PCTV products which combine a HD LCD TV with a built-in Linux computer that has a customized interface to access multimedia files and for browsing the Internet on the HDTV.

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DLP introduces a new projector technology based on LED, quality of the picture increases and no need to change any lamp in the device. Here they are demonstrating the Vivitek lamp free PhlatLight LED 1080p, a Brilliantcolor chipset that has 50% better color range, 500,000:1 contrast ratio and 30% less power draw. Texas Instruments is also showing the new LED based pico projector.

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Egoman is releasing a new PMP with a docking station to output to the TV and other features.

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Gamepark Holdings is the South-Korean company that has previously released the GP32 and the GP2X which are open source video game emulators. The new Wiz handheld is faster, smaller and better then the GP2X. It may be able to emulate as much as N64 and PSX games.

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HiVision makes the worlds cheapest Linux laptop at $98 using a new cheaper MIPS based processor (perhaps the Longsoon or the Ingenic), WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, has 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out, voice-chat, skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support and Abiword for word processing. Automatic and secure online software updates. Their current model is running a smooth and pretty snappy Linux user interface. In this video, I got to borrow a review sample of the laptop overnight, and I try to show you all the browser and other software interfaces in this extended video review of this cheap MIPS based laptop. Embedded is the way that I hope that most cheap laptops are going to be based on in the near future, Google will hopefully make a great Chrome browser for this kind of Laptop and hopefully that OLPC soon will announce that they will work to improve Embedded Linux based laptops in the upcoming XO-1.5 and XO-2 designs.

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Posted by Nicolas Charbonnier aka Charbax, this video was viewed by over 300 thousand unique users.

This video is linked to on http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/2232225, http://gizmodo.com/5047705/hivision-shows-off-sub+100-linux-mini-laptop and http://digg.com/linux_unix/HiVision_Shows_Off_Sub_100_Linux_Mini_Laptop, pretty cool!

Just point out with your finger in the air to click on stuff, drag it around, rotate it and put it someplace else. The system uses infrared detectors and many other things detailed in this video.

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Introducing DivX 7 with H.264 MKV support, announcing new Blu-ray players with DivX and DivX HD support, announcing new DivX certification programs, new features for DivX web playing, support for DivX in the latest LG and Samsung phones, how DivX can be used to put near-Blu-ray quality movies on standard DVD discs. Detailing the latest plans for DivX, how they are going to provide us with more and better online video experiences.

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Apvell presents some pretty cool looking Linux KDE implementations on one of the lowest cost MIPS based laptop designs and they are also presenting their upcoming VIA C-7 $260 Laptop design with a 8.9″ screen.

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Uni-V presents the UNIV100 $150 laptop running Windows CE on a Samsung ARM9 based laptop with full DSP accelerated video codecs playback support.

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