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LCD Panel Makers Keep Going Despite Falling Factory Use

Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) have expressed they have no intentions of completely suspending production during year-end 2008 or the Lunar New Year in late January, despite facing falling utilization rates for the first quarter of 2009. According to AUO, the panel supplier is looking to utilize less manpower, and hence lower [...]

Jamo A 804 Wall-Mounted Surround Sound Speaker

Most speakers we know come with stands, but Jamo takes the gravity-challenged route by offering its A 804 wall-mounted speaker. This speaker was specially designed to be used at any corner of a surround sound setup, where two of these can function as a front stereo pair, a rear pair or even flipped to double up [...]

Watch Digital Freeview On The Move With A Firebox Portable TV

Firebox has launched a portable digital TV with a 4.3-inch WQVGA LCD screen that has a built-in DVB-T receiver for Freeview channel pick-up. As well as offering TV-tuning abilities, the device is an MP4 video player, audio player and picture viewer and has built-in FM radio too. File support covers MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV Audio, AVI, WMV9 [...]

Cygnett GrooveBassball Portable Speaker

Cygnett has released its latest product for iPods and other media players, the GrooveBassball portable speaker. The device integrates a rechargeable battery, claimed to last for three hours of playback time. The speaker resembles the shape of a ball, but extends when the end is twisted. The additional length is designed to improve bass response. [...]

Mitsubishi Launches Two Wide-Format Projectors

Mitsubishi makes us busy with their new projectors. Dubbed as the WD510U and WD500U-ST, both projectors features 1,280 x 800 native resolution with 16:10 aspect ratio, 4,000 hours lamp life, Texas Instruments DDP 2230 DMD chip with DLP technology, VGA inputs, DVI-D with HDCP support, 3.5mm audio jack, contrast ratio of 2,000:1 (WD510U)/ 2,500:1 (WD500U-ST) [...]

Yamaha DVX-1000 Review

The Yamaha DVX-1000 promises to be the last word in 2.1-channel home cinema, delivering a level of surround sound not heard before from a three-speaker system. Or so Yamaha would have us believe. It claims the DVX will deliver a 7.1-channel experience from just three speakers, a technique Yamaha’s marketing droids have dubbed Air Surround Xtreme. [...]

Bang & Olufsen’s BeoSound 5 Controller

An amazing and sleek audio jukebox is being released today by Bang & Olufsen. Since this name is associated with the digital jukebox, we know it has to be one of the best in the market. The BeoSound 5 is the pioneer in introducing the technology called “MOTS” which is short for “More of the [...]

Thiel CS2.4 Coherent Source Loudspeakers

Thiel Audio has released a new signature version of their popular CS2.4 speaker, which occupies the middle ground in their floorstanding line between the CS1.6 and CS3.7. The driver complement for the CS2.4SE is the same as the standard version. It’s a 3-way, time-and-phase accurate design that uses an 8″ aluminum diaphragm woofer augmented by [...]

Toshiba TLP-WX100U Slim Mobile Projector With CC Launched

Careful assessment of customer needs is one of the most essential factors to create an innovative product and enlarge one’s market share in a particular industry. As a market leader for mobile computing products, Toshiba truly understands this principle. The launching of its latest feature-rich mobile projector, TLP-WX100U, highlights this. The product is offered at a [...]

Samsung Unveils 0.05mm “Flapping” OLED

Samsung SDI shows an ultra-thin OLED panel at the FPD International 2008 conference. Samsung calls it the flapping display. I guess they just want to underline the fact that it is so thin that it moves with the wind. The 0.05mm-thick screen sheet has a diagonal size of four inches, a resolution of 480 x 272 and [...]

Luxe Bluetooth MP3 Player from Philips

Philips has hoped to boost its GoGear portable audio player line with the , a unique player built expressly to tie in with a phone. The device is designed to be wearable as a fashion item and to serve as a Bluetooth headset; the LUXE not only pairs wirelessly with a phone to warn of [...]

Sony Launches Four New Audio Products

Sony has launched four audio products that work with current dockable iPod and iPhone devices – a CD clock radio (model ICF-CD3iP), boombox (model ZS-S4iP), table top HD Radio with iTunes Tagging (model XDR-S10HDiP), and docking speaker (model SRS-GU10iP). The ICF-CD3iP device is Sony’s first CD clock radio with a hidden dock for iPod and iPhone [...]

Aiptek Pocket Cinema Projector V10 Review

Have you ever missed your TV while going to a distant place with not many up-to-date electronics around? Or have you missed a home theater if you have one of course? Probably yes, and if so, you should know that now there is a new cool gadget that can help you. It is Aiptek Pocket [...]

Philips Aurea 2 TV Review

Just a year after the first outing, Philips has updated its Aurea TV offering with a new model aptly named the Aurea 2. For those unaware, the premise of the Aurea TV is that rather than just shine light out the back of the TV using the company’s Ambilight technology, light shines from the frame itself [...]

Optoma Pico Pocket Projector Video Reviews

After months of waiting the Optoma Pico projector is finally here, but is it as good as we were promised. Watch the video to find out whether it cuts the mustard. Related posts Optoma To Launch “World’s First” Pico Projector in 2008 (1) Vivitek Unveils D220 MX Ultra Portable Projector (0) Toshiba TLP-WX100U Slim Mobile Projector With CC Launched (0) Sony [...]