At its pre-CES press conference today, Sharp introduced a slew of new home theater products, including the world’s first LCD with a built-in Blu-ray player, the company’s first soundbars, and two new Blu-ray players.
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Logic Wireless’ Logic Bolt makes luminous appearance at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Looking to ride out the recession in front of a brand-new LCD TV? Toshiba can help.
The company announced a number of new LCD TVs, DVD players, DVD recorders, and devices at a Wednesday press conference, including a revamped line of Regza LCDs.
Toshiba will add three new Regza lines in April and May, dubbed the XV645 (above), ZV650, and SV670 series. All new Regza sets will incorporate what Toshiba calls “Deep Lagoon” technology, which is intended to provide better picture quality.
The Regza XV series will debut in May 2009 and will incorporate invisible speakers, auto view that will automatically adjust picture parameters, and a color temperature control that adjusts color based on the type of lighting in the room. The XV will also include an insta-port for faster HDMI switching.
The Regza ZV series, expected to hit shelves in April 2009, will include XV features as well as ClearScan 240 technology, which will add backlight scanning to cut down on possible blurring. The ZV will also include Dolby Volume sound control, and expert mode for specific adjustments, a USB port, and SD card.
More details after the jump.
We’ve now got a content provider giving support to Netgear’s Digital Entertainer Elite, and that honor goes to CinemaNow. At today’s overly-enthusiastic press conference — seriously, they threw apples, footballs, and a beer can at certain points — the company showed off the pay-per-view service on both the aforementioned media streamer as well as the new, much smaller Internet TV Player that’s coming this summer for $199. It’s very lightweight and has an HDMI output alongside two USB 2.0 ports. It’s got YouTube support as well as North American, Europe, and Asia internet TV. The upscaled video looked good, although nothing that’s gonna replace your HDTV anytime soon. One very nice feature is support for torrents that you can trigger remotely for download to the player (presumably on an attached disk drive here, as there’s no internal storage from what we can tell). No word on codec support, but if they’re touting torrents, we’re hoping for at least some DivX / XviD and MKV love. The much larger and heavier granddaddy Elite, whos specs we’ve already heard care of the FCC, is coming February for $399. A fun little feature touted in the presser allows you to pause a video on one TV and watch it on another — provided you’ve got a separate Elite unit connected to each. The bad news? Neither device supports Hulu or Netflix, although a rep told us that they’re kinda sorta looking into adding the latter sometime in the future.
Gallery: Netgear Internet TV Player
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Netgear unveils Internet TV Player, Digital Entertainer Elite with CinemaNow originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Providing some audio punch to go along with all the video, Sharp’s taking the wraps off of two new 5.1 HTIBs with Blu-ray included , the BD-MPC40 and BD-MPC30, plus two new 2.1 channel sound bars, the HT-SB300 and HT-SB200. Since no AV rollout is complete without an iPod dock, the DK-AP7N and DK-CL6N. Why, you ask, is only the soundbar pictured? To peek into the eye of the $799 piano black Blu-ray packing home theater units would be madness, ditto for the $99 – $129 iPod docks, ready to give you two channel audio (DK-CL6N) and 2.1 ESound processing, video out packing DK-AP7N. The theme here is convenience and quality in small packages, some hands and ears-on time should give us enough info to safely pass judgement.
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Sharp debuts Blu-ray HTIB, soundbars and iPod docks originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sharp’s chosen to focus on creating an affordable 1080p home projector, rolling out the single chip DLP-based XV-Z15000. Ready for the discerning customer with $2,999 in their pocket, it features a 30,000:1 contrast ratio and 1600 ANSI brightness, plus Keystone Correction ready to take care of any type of distortion that may crop up. Projector heads can put this up against the PT-AE3000 and company when it ships in March.
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Sharp shows off the XV-Z15000 1080p projector originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Windows 7 beta 64-bit version leaked just in time for Steve Ballmer’s keynote originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Last year Carl Zeiss tantalized us with promises of an eye-level, “cinema quality” display for iPods (and only iPods). The result was a somewhat funky looking set of “video eyeware” that, to put it mildly, didn’t quite catch on in the Apple community like the company’s tiny lenses have elsewhere. Undaunted, Herr Zeiss is releasing a new version — cunningly titled the Cinemizer plus — that offers mostly minor tweaks, like improved cable management and better compatibility with external (higher quality) earbuds. The company is also pushing studios to produce more content that will show off these things’ 3D capabilities, but we’re guessing there still won’t be much of the stuff available when these drop in March for $499.
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Carl Zeiss pushes 3D with updated Cinemizer “video eyeware” originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We can’t blame you if you were scratching your collective heads over Casio’s slightly silly Dynamic Photo technology demonstrated at today’s Casio press event. Click through to see this little girl walk across the moonscape to shake hands with Neil Armstrong — all processed on Casio’s new EX-FS10.
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Video: Casio’s composite moving image trick — proof that the moon landings were faked originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
If you were taken aback by RCA’s EZ300HD, you’ll serious consider marrying the EZ209HD. Said device is the company’s slimmest, sleekest and “sexiest” Small Wonder ever, enabling users to grab HD footage and view playback on the 2-inch LCD display. It’s also packing an HDMI socket, a rechargeable battery good for two hours of use and a microSD slot. It’ll hit this quarter for $119.99 alongside the standard-def EZ207.
Continue reading RCA introduces slimmest Small Wonder camcorder ever: EZ209HD
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RCA introduces slimmest Small Wonder camcorder ever: EZ209HD originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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