Friday, November 23, 2007
Blu-ray wins 97 percent of Japanese high-def recorder market
It’s hard to know what to make of the latest statistics on the battle for supremacy between Blu-ray and HD DVD because of the fact that they’re from Japan, home of so many of Blu-ray’s biggest backers. Nevertheless, the degree to which HD DVD has fallen behind in Japan in sales of the crucial high-end HD TV recorders is stark.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
KDDI to deliver domestic 4x high-definition video on demand



KDDI, the company that recently started an online service delivering DVD-quality movies to domestic customers has upped the ante to send quad-HD films down the same pipe.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sharp targets your bedroom with 22in 1080p LCD TV
Next time you go shopping for a second television set for the spare room or bedroom, chances are it might be one of a new breed of smaller full high-definition TVs, such as the new models introduced today by Sharp.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Stunning JVC high-def setup does quadruple HD TV
Another day at CEATEC, another amazing piece of technology; this time in the realm of higher-than-high-definition video. JVC’s stand at the Japanese electronics show is dominated by a boxy-looking camera that can shoot video at four times the resolution of standard HD TV.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Panasonic’s 1080p TVs suck up video on demand right out of the box
Although today’s Panasonic Japan launch of seven new 1080p high-definition televisions introduced the world to plenty of quality new hardware, one of the more intriguing announcements was buried well below the headline.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Hitachi springs world's first Blu-ray camcorders ahead of schedule



Just two weeks after we caught whiff of a rumor that Hitachi would be releasing a Blu-ray camcorder in the fall, the Japanese company has announced that the portable high-definition technology is, in fact, ready now.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Hitachi claims first Blu-ray camcorder coming this year
After what seems like years of waiting and fiddling around with AVCHD and the like, it seems the world is finally about to get a real next-gen HD video camera after Hitachi’s late-afternoon Tokyo announcement of the first Blu-ray camcorder.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
World's biggest LCD HD TV with 500,000:1 contrast ratio and super blacks
Jumbo TV fans had better get their gold credit cards warmed up well in advance of the latest high-definition set due to depart Korean shores from Samsung later this year – the company’s new 70-inch LCD is far from cheap, at 58 million won ($62,000).
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Quad HD cinema projector raises bar with encrypted movies in RAID array
Sony chose a rainy afternoon in downtown Tokyo today to unveil a revolution in digital cinema – a projector that can show full cinema-size movies at four times the resolution of standard high definition, with an anti-piracy server system on the side.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
SxS: Sony and SanDisk’s new memory card format
The hope for a single format for flash memory cards, or at least for plenty fewer than there are now, took a blow over the weekend when Sony and SanDisk announced another new medium intended for use mainly in high-definition video cameras.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Samsung monitor brings HD TV to the desktop
Everyone knows that watching TV on a computer screen doesn’t quite cut the mustard - duller colors and lower resolution than any decent dedicated television are readily apparent. That, however, is about to change if Samsung has its way with some nifty new display technology.
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