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Flip took an early lead in the compact & dead-easy-to-use camcorder market, but a lot of companies, including Creative, have caught up and even surpassed what the Flip is capable of with their own products. The latest version of their Vado HD camcorder features a vastly improved and sleeker design that comes in various colors, patterns and finishes that will definitely appeal to the average consumer. But the Vado HD will also appeal to those who care more about functionality than flash. It captures video at 720P
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ATI have been steadily getting ahead of Nvidia lately, releasing new technology much earlier than their rival, and easily winning good market positions. This time they’ve released a new family of DX11-compliant video cards, this time aimed at notebook consumers.
The Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series offers full DirectX 11 support, as well as various other goodies. What’s even better though, is that the latest benchmarks that compared ATI’s currently leading card – the 5870 – to Nvidia’s GTX
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| Sony Handycam HDR-XR550V Full HD Camcorder Sony introduces eight new Handycam High Definition camcorders at the CES 2010. These HD camcorders are all equipped with back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor and are capable of recording 1920×1080p Full HD video at 24Mbps in AVCHD format. Sony Handycam HDR-XR150 Full HD Camcorder Entry-level models include HDR-XR150 with 120GB hard drive, HDR-CX150 with 16GB flash memory and the HDR-CX110 that lacks internal storage. They comes
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| FaceVsion, along with dropping the “i” from it’s name is now introducing its first Skype HD-ready TouchCam N1 webcam. It comes packing an embedded H.264 video compression chip to help with 720p video streaming, and it also includes dual unidirectional mics to make sure that the video has some quality audio to go along with it. It may not be the most stylish design, but you can expect this one to be available next month for just $99. Don’t need a mic? Then it will only cost you $69.
[Engadget]
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| Do you want to do some James Bond work over the weekend? Well, Thanko’s Super Slim Video Pen 2 has been announced, and aside from being a spy camera, it’s capable of shooting video in HD (1,280 x 960) at 30fps. It’s 14cm long, and weighs 30g. With microSD card support, it can support up to a 16GB card, and also store 1.5 hours of video on its internal memory. You just need to push the button at the top of the pen to start recording. Recorded video files can then be transferred to your computer
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| Sanyo announced at the CES 2010 its ultra compact and slim VPC-CS1 Full HD Xacti dual camera. This new Xacti features a 3.4 Megapixel image sensor, a 9x optical zoom lens, 10x digital zoom, digital image stabilizer, and ISO 50-1600. The Xacti VPC-CS1 can record 1920×1080 Full HD video at up to 60fps in MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 format and capture up to 8 Megapixel still image. The Full HD camcorder comes with a 2.7-inch LCD diaply and offers HDMI output. It supports SD, SDHC as well as SDXC memory cards. Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 will be
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| Kodak introduces a new pocket-sized Full HD camcorder called the PlaySport. The video camera captures Full HD 1080p video at 30fps and caotures 5 Megapixel still images. It features a 2-inch LCD display with LCD Glare Shield, electronic image stabilization, smart face tracking technology, and HDMI output. Kodak’s PlaySport is waterproof up to 3 meters. It supports SD/SDHC card up to 32GB, which is enough for 10 hours of HD video. The PlaySport will be available in Abyss (black), Wave Crash (blue) and Adrenaline Rush (purple) for US
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| Following the 103-inch plasma and 50-inch 3D plasma, Panasonic announced at the CES 2010 that it has developed the world’s largest 152-inch 4K x 2K definition Full HD 3D plasma display. Panasonic’s new PDP technology is capable of delivering 3D images, with virtually infinite 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The new 152-inch plasma uses the full HD x 2 frame sequential method that displays time sequential images, alternately reproducing discrete full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) images for the left and right eyes on the display frame by
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As mentioned yesterday, media players are popular this year at CES. This is LaCie’s Mini HD, a “Full HD WiFi Media Center in a DVD-Sized Footprint”. Sporting a 500GB drive, the box will playback an array of formats on your HDTV. Loading content onto it is done through USB or network, be it wired or not. It’ll be available later this quarter for $300. Keep reading for the full press release. LaCie today unveiled LaCinema Mini HD, the all-in-one Wi-Fi High Definition media center. Its
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