Audio,Visual on TFTS - Page 64

Parrot, who are no strangers to digital photo frames, have announced a new Designer Collection of digital photo frames with the first designer digital frame in the series having been designed by leading French designer Andrée Putman.

In mind of the phenomenal success of Pure Digital Technology’s priced Flip Video YouTube and Blogging Camcorder – a budget priced motion capture device that’s gained a not inconsiderable 13% market share in the camcorder market despite a dispute concerning the device’s full duplex single chip video codec (see link …

Sony Europe has unveiled the new Bravia V4500 HDTV which serves to showcase Sony’s new ‘draw the LINE design concept’ and which, apart from offering screen sizes between 26” and 37”, is powered by Sony’s Bravia Engine 2 technology and comes complete with an integrated MPEG-4 AVC HD Tuner.

Digital Foci have announced that their new multi media ‘Image Moments 8’ IMT-083 digital photo frame is now available offering a 8” SVGA 800 x 600 LCD with 500:1 contrast ratio, MP3 and MPEG 1/4 file format compatibility, integrated stereo speakers and a not to shabby 450MB of internal memory.

Hitachi has confirmed that their ultra thin HDTV units, which measure a mere 1.5” in depth, come in screen sizes ranging from 32” to 47” and which caused a considerable commotion at this year’s CES are hitting the US market in a series of staggered releases.

Perhaps its just us, but we cannot help but feel that a designer somewhere (in China) forgot to take their medication before coming up with this monstrosity of a desktop USB speaker system – but what really surprises us is that another someone somewhere actually thought that someone else (who …

Mvix have announced the immediate availability of their new MV-2500U Ultra Portable hard disk drive based media center which ‘provides the joy of watching your favorite videos, movies, music and family photos on your TV or home-theater projector’ courtesy of a pocket sized, easily transportable device – though the actual …

Danish company Dynaudio have announced a new series Excite hi-end loudspeakers, designed as successors to its popular and highly acclaimed Audience range, consisting of no less than five new models – namely the Excite X12, X16, X22, X32 & X36 – all of which promise audiophile quality sound reproduction courtesy …

Equinux, whose TubeStick USB based TV tuner has, until now, been available as a DVB-T device reserved for the European market, have announced the immediate availability of their new TubeStick Hybrid Dual TV Tuner aimed specifically at Mac users based in the US.

Dolby Laboratories have announced that their new Dolby Volume audio-processing technology will make its commercial debut on Toshiba’s new REGZA ZH500 LCD HDTV – featuring integrated 300GB hard-drive PVR – and ZV500 LCD HDTV – offering LAN and USB connectivity – which will be launched in Japan next month.

Sharp have announced that their already available HT-DV50H Home Cinema System is to somewhat usurped by their new, larger HT-DV50H Home Cinema System which, apart from being billed as the perfect accompaniment to Sharp’s Aquos LCD TVs, offers high power 75W RMS per channel speakers and a 100W subwoofer and …