A new portable DVD player “GH-PDV9DW-WH” will be out from GREEN HOUSE in late March. It’s IPX7-rated waterproof so it can be used in the bath, kitchen and for outdoor activities.
It has a high-quality 9 inch LCD (800 x 480 Pixel) and it can be operated with a wet hand by the touchscreen sensor buttons on the screen or waterproof remote control.
It has attached handle and adjustable stand to make it easy to carry around and adjust its angle.
Retail price: 14,800 yen (including …
Panasonic is releasing a hands-free wearable compact camera “HX-A100″ on May 1.
Take action videos or still images of all your activities.
The camera part and body part are 2 separate units. The camera is a light 30g and by using the attached ear hook you can take handsfree movies or photos from the direction of your eyes. The body part can be attached to your arm using the armband case.
It is compatible with Wi-Fi, so broadcast your cycling activity live through Ustream, or …
Movies encoded in UltraViolet’s Common File Format represent just one of multiple takes on paid internet video — what’s to make them stand out? The answer might just be Dolby Digital Plus audio encoding, which should be a staple feature of CFF from now on. A newly ready development kit lets producers feed the multichannel sound to hardware and apps that can recognize it, including web-based avenues like Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft’s Smooth Streaming and MPEG’s DASH. Just in case a few devices fall through the cracks, Dolby is talking directly with digital production firms like castLabs, Digital Rapids and Elemental Technologies to make sure the audio codec’s implementation truly spans platforms. We don’t know how soon movies will take advantage of the upgrade, but the Dolby addition lends weight to a fledgling format that might have as fierce a battle in home theaters as it does on PCs and tablets.
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UltraViolet movie format to use Dolby Digital Plus encoding, keep sound thumping across platforms originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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What is life if there is no progress at all? The Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG for short) has just issued a new video standard draft which claims to offer double the video quality at a similar size, and if you want to look at it the other way around, we are talking about an identical video quality at half the data rate, which is what today’s MPEG-4 H.264 standard stand for. The new H.265 draft is targeted for a release sometime next year, where it will specifically address mobile devices as well as networks overloaded with video. Devices that are able to take advantage of the new H.265 video compression standard might being as early as next year, with Apple having a very high probability of adopting support for the new H.265 specification in a jiffy for their collection of portable media players, smartphone, tablet and notebooks. What do you think of the upcoming MPEG H.265 draft standard, and will it really blow your eyes away?
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: MPEG LA Opens Up H.264 for HTML5 Video in Preemptive Strike Against Google, Apple exaggerated in court concerning financial losses due to Samsung,
All of that squabbling over H.264 may be rendered moot in the near future. The Motion Picture Experts Group (better known as MPEG) has just let us know that it was quietly drafting a new video standard while everyone was on summer vacation last month: H.265, also called High Efficiency Video Coding, promises to squeeze video sizes with double the efficiency of H.264. As you might imagine, this could lead either to a much smaller video footprint for bandwidth-starved mobile users or a hike to image quality with the same size as before. Imagine fast-loading HD streaming on 4G, or cable TV without all the excess compression, and you’ve got the idea. Ericsson Research visual technology lead Per Fröjdh anticipates H.265 coming as soon as 2013, when our smartphones and tablets are most likely to play it first. TV and other areas might have to wait, although Fröjdh is offering a consolation prize — he’s teasing a separate MPEG project that could give us glasses-free, compressed 3D video as a standard by 2014.
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MPEG drafts twice-as-efficient H.265 video standard, sees use in phones as soon as 2013 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rejoice, because there’s a new MPEG video standard coming. It’s called High Efficiency Video Coding and it will be twice as efficient as current standards. This means downloading movies twice as fast. Or doubling their quality. HEVC will arrive next year. More »
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