Archive for November, 2006

DVD Movies back on the Christmas list, thanks HD-DVD and Blu-ray

HiDefDVD.com, a leading high definition DVD movie retailer, is already seeing a strong upswing in DVD sales this holiday season thanks to emerging high def formats, HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
“We’re pretty surprised, actually,” stated VP Shaun Guidolin of hidefdvd.com. “Movies have always seemed to be a product that drives customers to the re-buy factor. First it [...]

ViewSonic debuts 3 widescreen LCDs

Continuing its heritage of delivering display innovations to the mainstream market, ViewSonic Corp. today unveiled a line of widescreen LCD monitors, targeted at performance and value-focused consumers. This new series of widescreen displays represents the latest offerings in ViewSonic’s campaign to announce 25 products in the fourth quarter of 2006. With estimated street prices (ESP) [...]

nVidia launches the SLI Marketplace, let the domination begin

Dude I’m getting a Dell SLI !
NVIDIA Corporation today announced a revolutionary new shopping experience for gamers–the NVIDIA SLI Marketplace.
The NVIDIA SLI Marketplace will allow consumers in the United States to:
- Buy SLI-certified products, such as motherboards, graphics cards, power supplies, system memory, computer cases, and complete systems
- Sell SLI-components, [...]

Wi-Fi Your Ride with a WAAV CM3, Internet on Wheels

I guess this is the next step if the “everything” is wired world we live in.
The CM3 in-vehicle Internet router takes a broadband Internet connection and puts it on wheels. This hardware system allows several passengers to easily connect their Internet ready devices such as a laptop, PDA, Playstation® 3, Wii™, and Wi-Fi MP3 player [...]

NuVision teases a 1080p DLP TV

The NuVision Deep Black LED DLP® TV uses the PhlatLight™ LED Light Source to Provide Revolutionary Video Performance with Superior Color Fidelity, More Refined Grey Scale and Deeper Black Levels
NuVision (www.nuvision.com) is proud to announce that production has begun on its new 1080p DLP® television (model # 52LEDLP) and that it is on schedule to [...]

Save your Ears! - Volume Safe Earbuds

This may be a “non-cool” thing for the kiddies, but saving your ears isn’t a bad idea. It’s hard to find a kid (or adult for that matter) today without ear buds, pumping something into their brains.
Over 100 million mp3 players presently sold do not have the “guidelines” on safe listening built in. iHearSafe Earbuds [...]

Want DVD Playback on your Wii? Move to Japan

I’m not sure the why’s of this news.. because why not have dvd playback? Come on if Sony can put in a state of the art Blu-ray player in the PS3 and the 360 can support HD-DVD.. how hard is it to support good ‘ol dvd playback?
According to Wiifanboy, it’s confirmed that only Japan [...]

AMD’s new slick living room PC for your media pleasure

Bill Gates had a vision about 10 years ago about the PC being the center of the Living Room.. finally this is starting to become more of the norm. Now AMD is entering the fray with a very slick looking slim PC prototype - AMD hopes will be copied by other manufacturers.
“There will [...]

Deja Vu — Need a PS3? Have a spare $9k? Check out eBay

I’m not a PS3 Fanboy, so I can wait to get one.. but this is a turn back the clock moment to one year ago with the 360 going for hotcakes on eBay.
If Money is burning a hole in pocket you can always surf over to eBay to checkout the deals (aka insane ripoffs). [...]

Windows Vista Released To Manufacturing

A Day a long time in the making, Vista’s team has just announced that Vista is finished and has been given to manufacturing for duplication.
And just what is this so-called RTM? It’s the major milestone where we can confidently say that Microsoft is done with Windows Vista and will be handing it off [...]