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Yes, we know just how hard it can be to take pictures with your standard compact digital camera, what with the whole shutter button and all. Thank goodness for Samsung, who will take ease of use to a “new level” this spring with the TL100 slim camera, capable of automatically detecting whether you’re taking a picture of a mountain or a person and toggling the appropriate mode accordingly. It can even go ahead and just take the durned picture for you in certain modes, able to tell when everyone has their eyes open or is beaming a sufficiently big enough smile. It will also take 800 x 592 videos at 20fps, and manages to pack a 2.7-inch TFT LCD into a body that Samsung says is just 16mm thick — if you don’t count the protrusion from the 3X lens. Since that lens is decidedly non-removable, we think we will.

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Samsung taking all that complexity out of pointing and shooting with the 12.2 megapixel TL100 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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3:50PM We’re on the floor at Sony’s big show in Vegas. There’s a twisting line out the door, but we’re about to head inside and grab seats. Stay tuned for live coverage as it happens!

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Live from Sony’s CES press event originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Regardless of your camcorder needs (well, outside of the professionals in attendance), Sony’s got you covered. Today at CES, the company is introducing the DCR-DVD850 and DCR-DVD650 DVD Handycams to complement its GPS-packin’ HDR line and the perfectly midrange flash-based Handycams. These buggers include Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lenses, a 60x optical zoom, 1/8-inch 680k-pixel CCD imagers and instant recording to three-inch DVDs. Thankfully, there’s also the option of capturing to a Memory Stick PRO Duo card, and the DVD850 even adds 16GB of internal storage for the truly indecisive. The pair also features a 2.7-inch LCD touchpanel and Steady Shot image stabilization, and they’ll run you $430 and $300 in order of mention when they ship next month.

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Sony’s DCR-DVD850 and DCR-DVD650 DVD Handycams: perfect for the anti-edit crowd originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony, the debatable kind of proprietary formats, has finally caved. Well, at least in this one instance, anyway. In a presumed confession that Apple’s music players actually are somewhat popular, it is releasing the iPod / iPhone-friendly CMT- LX20i micro shelf system, CMT- LX20i clock radio and MHC-EC99i mini boombox (pictured above). Not a whole lot left to say other than they also play CDs, tell time and rattle windows, respectively. For pricing and release details — including a word or two on the new Muteki systems — hit up the read link.

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Sony bites the bullet, releases Made for iPod music systems originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tired of seeing your child come home from school in tears, only to find that all the cool cats in the playground were telling him / her to get a real pocket camcorder if they wanted to join the clique? Never fear, as Sony has just introduced two new Webbie HD cameras for giving your youngsters the chance to capture spontaneous moments in glorious high-def. The MHS-CM1 and MHS-PM1 both grab live action video in 1,440 x 1,080/30p and take stills at 5 megapixels; uploading the MP4 results are said to be a snap thanks to the embedded software that handles most of the hard work. They’re available in two designs and three “stylish” colors (eggplant, orange and silver), and while the CM1 (available now for $200) gets gifted with a 2.5-inch swivel LCD and a 5x optical zoom, the four-ounce PM1 (ships in April for $170) goes screenless and sticks to a 4x digital zoom.

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Sony’s MHS-CM1 and MHS-PM1 Webbie HD cams teach your kids to upload originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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