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Despite the infamous logo and hot red lid, Acer’s Congo-based Ferrari One “ultrathin notebook” (read: netbook) managed to blend in rather well among a number of other laptops (at least 15, by our count) on display at AMD’s VISION event yesterday. The chassis felt pretty sturdy and the keys had the right amount of bounce… and we’d love to tell you more, but like all but a handful of portables on display, it was resolved to play the same video over and over again, refusing to acknowledge our key-pressed directives. We also decided to take snapshots of the entire display lineup, although more than a few here are previously-seen models — it was pretty much just a rebranding, after all. See them all for yourself in the galleries below!

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Acer Ferrari One hands-on, and more from AMD’s VISION event originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just because Pioneer isn’t in the plasma business anymore doesn’t mean the company is dead, and one of the new points of focus over there is on media aggregation. So part of the new do-it-all Entertainment Tap concept Pioneer was displaying today included a demo of storing Managed Copies of Blu-ray Discs on a hard drive. The copy itself was done in about 4x real time (dependent on the drive’s speed) and looked great thanks to some hardware transcoding. We also appreciated the Pioneer interface that made copying the disc easy. Of course at this point this is just a demo, with no word on availability or price, but it is a start to what will one day hopefully be a better way to enjoy HD movies.

Continue reading Video: First working Blu-ray Managed Copy demo

Video: First working Blu-ray Managed Copy demo originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It was all too brief, but we managed to grab a few snapshots of the Motorola CLIQ less than an arm’s length away and shoot some shakycam footage before the PR rep re-cloaked it and promised more at a later event — what a tease. Video after the break.

Continue reading Video: Motorola CLIQ quick hands-on

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Video: Motorola CLIQ quick hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The big theme that stood out for me last week at IFA was the idea of 3D driving sales of new TVs. Both Sony and Panasonic made strong plays for 3D at their press conferences, although Sony did a much better job, giving the audience 3D glasses and showing the trailer for “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” along with footage of FIFA Soccer and Gran Turismo running on the PS3 — the cockpit view in GT was particularly impressive. Panasonic’s presentation was a little odder, with the audience being asked to “imagine” what 3D would look like during a slideshow of still images of various events like boxing matches. It was kind of like introducing color TV by showing off a black and white screen and asking the audience to imagine it in color.

I understand the need to drive new sales of TV sets and find some sort of purchase driver. Let’s face it. Screens have gotten large enough, perhaps even too large — if I offered you a 150-inch TV, where would you put it? Resolutions have maxed out and it’s hard to make sets much thinner. OLED displays could be a great purchase driver but are a few years off. So something new needs to drive the market. I’m just not convinced that 3D will really help move things forward.

Continue reading Entelligence: 3D may fall flat

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Entelligence: 3D may fall flat originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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