Hasta La Gadget!

Here at the Panasonic press conference at CES 2009, the company finally woke us up with a stunningly thin 1-inch thick plasma: the all new Z1, or the TC-P54Z1 VIERA, in particular. Little is being said about the panel for now, though we are told that it’ll be wireless (via an undisclosed standard) right out of the box. In related news, we’re also told that VIERA Cast-enabled sets will soon be able to suck down Amazon on Demand content, so it’s good to see Panny keeping up with with the Jones family in that regard as well.

Filed under: CES, Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Panasonic introduces wireless, 1-inch thick TC-P54Z1 VIERA plasma originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Move over LG, Vizio is now the second manufacturer bypassing the set-top box and doing Netflix streaming straight to the TV. Apparently just one of Vizio’s “key content partners” expect to browse your queue via customized remote over wired or wireless connection when the new lineup hits retailers later this year. Looks like someones putting in work on that goal of enabling streaming to all US households.

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Vizio Connected HDTV directly streams Netflix movies originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been expected for months, now Asus has announced its Eee PC T91 convertible tablet ripe for a fresh Windows 7 tossing. The 2-pound (right, two!), 1-inch thick tablet features an 8.9-inch LED backlit touch panel riding atop Intel’s Z520 Atom processor. It also features a TV-tuner and built-in GPS. No other details yet but it won’t be long.

Update: Added video after the break of this svelte convertible floating in air with its incredibly dreamy UI. It’s destined to make all your touchable dreams come true. No, really.

Continue reading Eee PC T91 convertible tablet lives (Update: Video!)

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Eee PC T91 convertible tablet lives (Update: Video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Chicklet keyboard, check. Tiny pointing nub, check. Looks like this is Sony’s Vaio P series ultraportable on display at CES. By on display we mean, on display as these shots were taken off the display monitors here at CES. Engadget was first in the world to reveal the P from the FCC specs so it seems only fitting that we bring you the first authenticated pictures dontchathink? The Sony Picturebook… it lives again at CES!

P.S. Sorry for the blur, best we could do before the security hammer came down across our knuckles.

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Sony’s VAIO P ultraportable revealed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While Phil hasn’t mentioned it in the keynote just yet, it looks like iTunes might be getting a big catalog overhaul, with most major labels finally offering up DRM free tunes. Our tipster mentioned DRM free goodies from Virgin, Sony BMG, American Recording and more (iTunes Plus has mainly been limited to EMI and some independents so far), and that most previously purchased songs are now upgradable for the same old price of $0.30 a song. We’re still digging around on the iTunes Store trying to figure this out — it’s offering to upgrade our library, but the transaction won’t go through yet — and we’ll obviously know more if it gets a keynote mention. Let us know if you have any luck picking up those non-EMI MP3s on your end.

[Thanks, Greg]

Update: As you’ve you probably noticed in the liveblog, Apple just made this very much official, and announced that some 8 million songs from all the major labels will indeed be DRM free, with a full ten million planned by the end of the quarter. As if that wasn’t enough, it’s also announced a new pricing structure for tracks, including a new $0.69 tier and a $1.29 one, which music companies will apparently be able to use at their own discretion. And, to keep things really spicy, the company has also announced that music store downloads are now finally available over 3G, and at the same price and the same quality.

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iTunes going primarily DRM free? (Update: yes, it is! 3G downloads, too) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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