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Samsung Omnia mobile phone at IFA 2008

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2008

Samsung releases this Windows Mobile 6.1 based large touch-screen iPhone competitor.

IFA 2008

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download (mb)

Flash versions: Dailymotion, Blip, Viddler, Google, Sumo, Yahoo, Vsocial, Metacafe, Putfile, Vimeo, Revver

The exclusive sponsor of this IFA 2008 video coverage is DivX, Inc.

Posted in IFA, Mobile phones | 2 Comments »

Samsung YP-Q1 at IFA 2008

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2008

Samsung releases this cheap portable mp3 player with some animated user interface to follow up their popular YP-P1 which they released last year.

IFA 2008

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download (mb)

Flash versions (high quality): Youtube

Flash versions: Sumo, Google, Blip, Dailymotion, Yahoo, Viddler, Vsocial, Metacafe, Putfile, Vimeo, Revver

Posted in IFA, Portable Multimedia | 2 Comments »

Samsung Innov8 mobile phone at IFA 2008

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2008

Samsung releases this nice looking Symbian S60 based mobile phone with an 8 megapixel photo camera, a 120 frames per second slow motion video camera mode, HSDPA video direct upload.

IFA 2008

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download (mb)

Flash versions (high quality): Youtube

Flash versions: Sumo, Dailymotion, Blip, Viddler, Google, Yahoo, Vsocial, Metacafe, Putfile, Revver

Posted in IFA, Mobile phones | Comments »

Samsung Ultra Thin LCD, Quad HD and 200Hz at IFA 2008

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2008

Samsung shows a lot of screens, new 28mm thin LCD screens, a 82″ Quad HD screen and 200Hz refresh rate in HDTVs.

IFA 2008

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download (mb)

Flash versions: Sumo, Dailymotion, Blip, Viddler, Google, Youtube, Vsocial, Metacafe, Revver, Vimeo

Posted in High Definition, IFA, Screens/Projectors | Comments »

Samsung X360 Laptop at IFA 2008

Posted by Charbax on 31st August 2008

Samsung releases this slim high end laptop that looks cooler then the Apple Air laptop, and this one runs Windows Vista. But it is expensive.

IFA 2008

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download (mb)

Flash versions: Dailymotion, Sumo, Blip, Viddler, Google, Yahoo, Vsocial, Metacafe, Putfile, Youtube, Vimeo, Revver

Posted in IFA, Laptops | Comments »

Ydcome set-top-box

Posted by Charbax on 8th September 2007

Set-top-box based on the latest Sigma Designs chips for accessing video-on-demand, functions as a full HD media extender with all codecs support including h264 support in the home, IPTV and more Linux based software can be made for it, and it can be bought in batches of 1000 starting at $100 each unit for the basic model and $10-20 more for the high end model that includes a HDMI output.

Ydcome at IFA 2007

DivX HD: Play, Download, Stage6
(filmed with the Sanyo Xacti HD2 720p camcorder using its built-in microphone)

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

Posted in High Definition, IFA, Set-top-box, Video-On-Demand | Comments »

Potsdam University Wiimote drumkit software

Posted by Charbax on 8th September 2007

Students at the Potsdam university are programming software to use with the Wiimote, no Wii required, just buy a set of the Wiimote with the Wii nunchuck and install their bluetooth software on your PC or Mac and you can get to do all kinds of interesting things. In this example you can use the Wiimote as a drumkit.

Potsdam University Wiimote drumkit software at IFA 2007

DivX HD: Play, Download, Stage6
(filmed with the Sanyo Xacti HD2 720p camcorder using its built-in microphone)

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

Posted in IFA, Wii | 1 Comment »

Nikon D300 and D3

Posted by Charbax on 8th September 2007

A presentation of the Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 DSLR cameras.

Linksys NAS200 at IFA 2007

DivX HD: Play, Download, Stage6, BitTorrent
(filmed with the Sanyo Xacti HD2 720p camcorder using its built-in microphone)

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

Posted in DSLRs, IFA | Comments »

Linksys NAS200

Posted by Charbax on 8th September 2007

Ethernet connected network storage with two available SATA hard drive bays that cheaply adds shared storage directly to a network. It might come with a development community as there was with the Linksys NSLU2. For now Linksys and Cisco haven’t got a video-on-demand set-top-box successor to announce of the KiSS DP-1600.

Linksys NAS200 at IFA 2007

DivX HD: Play, Download, Stage6
(filmed with the Sanyo Xacti HD2 720p camcorder using its built-in microphone)

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

Posted in IFA, Networking | Comments »

Hitachi iVDR

Posted by Charbax on 8th September 2007

Hitachi has launched TVs in Japan with a built-in iVDRs slot, that lets users buy 2.5″ hard drive iVDR cartridges and connect them behind the TV to use that storage for the built-in DVR of the TV. The iVDR system let’s users buy hard drive storage in such iVDR cartridge which provides as large a removable storage capacity for devices as hard drives can provide. Though iVDR for now does not include 3.5″ hard drive sizes.

Hitachi iVDR at IFA 2007

DivX HD: Play, Download, Stage6
(filmed with the Sanyo Xacti HD2 720p camcorder using its built-in microphone)

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

Posted in IFA, Storage | Comments »