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Live from Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
It was already a fair bet that Steve Ballmer will be talking about Windows 7 during his CES keynote tonight, especially after the beta keys leaked but we’d say the odds just got better: we just hit up the Microsoft booth a little early and spotted a prominent 7 display. We were hustled out before we got a chance to dig further, but we were certainly intrigued by the black cloth covering up the Windows Mobile display — we doubt it means anything, but maybe Ballms has some WinMo 7 action to show off as well. Check it in the gallery!
Gallery: Microsoft CES ninja booth tour
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Microsoft CES ninja booth tour: hello Windows 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Rounding up all the non-HDTV, non-P4600 devices showcased at Samsung’s CES 2009 event, we managed to get a closer look at the HMX-H106 camcorder, HZ10W camera, P3 PMP, and HT-BD8200 soundbar, none of which were really in the mood to play. That didn’t stop us from snapping some glamor shots, which you can peep in the gallery below.
Filed under: CES, Digital Cameras, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Samsung HMX-H106, HZ10W, P3 PMP and HT-BD8200 soundbar on display originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Look for something to drive your new Samsung monitor or 120Hz 3D HDTV? Enter NVIDIA’s GeForce 3D Vision package, loaded up with powered 3D glasses (no red / blue silliness here, charged via USB) and an IR emitter to keep everything synced between the display and your glasses. Left 4 Dead, WoW: WotLK and several other games are already compatible with more expected to come soon. CES had a quick demo and didn’t notice any of the headaches sometimes associated with stereocopic 3D, but at $399 for the display and $199 for this set when it’s available in the next few days, we’re not sure how close we want to get to those zombies, but WoW fans may see things differently.
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NVIDIA offers up GeForce 3D Vision, takes WoW players further down the rabbit hole originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sure, Panasonic’s 0.33-inch thin Neo PDP might have just redefined our definition of thin, but the new Samsung HDTV are quite the lookers. The form factor, like the company’s touted UI initiative, is fairly unified in appearance across all models. Frankly, we had a pretty hard time telling them apart, and all we could really think about is how awesome they’d look in our living rooms. Hard to tell from the gallery below, but trust us, the picture quality is very crisp and clean. Now if we could only get a glimpse of Internet@TV in action.
Filed under: CES, Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Samsung LCD 750, Plasma PDP 850, new LED series hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
LAS VEGAS — At its CES 2009 pres conference today, Samsung showed off its rather stunning new LCD TV, the Series 7, comprising several different sized but equally good looking sets.
The problem with LCDs is that they get blurry when the on-screen action hots up. Samsung has solved this by upping the refresh rate of the display to 240Hz, or four times faster than the standard 60Hz rate. This is coupled with what Samsung calls Auto Motion Plus, an interpolation trick which guesses where a pixel would be if the source refreshed fast enough to send it and uses the excess of cycles to put it in its place.
I was half way back in the room when Samsung showed the TV off, but even from there the picture looked incredibly sharp and smooth, more like plasma than LCD. The bright CCFL (Cold cathode fluorescent lamp) backlight probably doesn’t hurt, either.
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired
Cell phones that work like MP3 players. MP3 players that share menus with TVs. Samsung is aiming to unify its user interfaces across many categories of products this year, Dr. Jong Woo Park, the president of Samsung’s digital media business said at CES today.
Samsung’s move to unify its menus and interfaces will begin with its new digital camera line, Park said. At Samsung’s press conference, he showed off TVs and digital cameras that shared a menu system, and an MP3 player and cell phone that both share Samsung’s TouchWiz widget-based home screen. This is part of ensuring “a digital seamless experience,” Park said.
For PCMag’s full CES coverage, go to http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,2235882,00.asp.
We couldn’t help but notice Sony’s cute little Webbie MHS-CM1 and MHS-PM1 HD cams hiding in the corner while we were scoping out the VAIO P and the Walkman NWZ-X1000, so we snuck a few shots. They look and feel really nice, and while we didn’t get a chance to check the video quality, the PM1’s swiveling screen certainly brings something new to the Flip-esque form-factor. Check ’em out in the gallery!
Gallery: Sony Webbie HD hands-on
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Sony Webbie HD cams hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
LAS VEGAS — Take a look at the photograph above and wonder, for a moment, just why Panasonic might release a tiny Blu-ray player with a built-in screen. But that’s just what it did at CES 2009 today.
Consider the case: The DMP-B15 has a netbook sized screen (8.9") with WSVGA resolution (pretty much the same as a netbook). It has an Ethernet port to use Panasonic’s walled garden Internet content service, Vieracast, and a rather poor three hour battery life (just like a netbook!)
Of course, it has a Blu-ray drive in there, but why on Earth would you want that? At this size a DVD rip would be sufficient. The only advantage we see is that there is an HDMI out, meaning it’ll work as a standalone Blu-ray player when hooked up to a TV.
Price is as yet unknown, but we expect it to come in somewhere above the price of a netbook. Unless, of course, its a Sony netbook.
Press release [Panasonic]
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired
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While Sony’s OLED TV is little more than a beautiful, 11-inch novelty, LG is swaggering dangerously close to a respectable kitchen TV with this 15-inch AMOLED TV prototype. On display here at CES and planned for a production run sometime this summer, the image is absolutely stunning — every bit as impressive as the Sony’s XEL-1. Nothing else compares to the incredible contrast achieved by these OLED displays. Have a look in the gallery — we’ve got the prototype pictured with and without its chubby TV bezel. It’s credit-card thin (0.8-mm) and only on Engadget.
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Eyes on with LG’s near-production 15-inch OLED TV: come on summer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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