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Sony seems to have leaned from its past errors. After having seen the market of the walkmans escaping from them, they do not want to leave the field free for Apple with the iPad. The Wall Street Journal  announced a product which would like at the same time an ultra portable, a reader of digital books [...]

If the sales of home Blu-ray readers had a boom in 2009, especially at the end of the year when the prices dropped, it does not go in the same way for the computer manufacturers. It is still exceptional to see PC manufacturers to propose readers or BR burners offered as options on their machines, [...]

In 2007, Sony unveiled a new technology allowing the production of a new generation of flat panel display: the FED. Very promising on paper and from specification, this technology was offering the power consumption from LCD display associated with the thickness and responsiveness of the plasma display, each pixel being its own electron emitter. Unfortunately, due [...]

Sony just launched new series of Vaio Z, the high-end models, with impressive features:  2600×900 or 1600×1080 13.3″ LED display Intel Core i7-620M CPU NVIDIA GT300 graphic card with native and transparent switching between integrated graphical chipset and the discrete GPU. But the most impressive point is probably the 4 SSDs hosted in this notebook. 4 units of 32 [...]

Intel has announced a technology called “Wiress Display” for creating display via wifi. According to Intel, it allows a computer to display on another screen or television sets if they have a HDMI input. It is necessary to have an Intel laptop fitted with the latest Centrino platform equipped with an i3, i5 or i7 Core processor and [...]

While IBM is stopping production of its Cell CPU, and that rumors indicate that Sony will adopt a x86 CPU for its PS4, Toshiba unveiled TV models sporting a Cell CPU: According to the manufacturer, the "Cell" TV offer 143x more power processing power than the current models. Associated with a high quality LCD panel, it [...]

Since the arrival of Blu-ray, many manufacturers started to try to increase the capacity of these media to exceed the 50 GB offered by two layers. Essentially, the increase is dependent on increasing the number of layers to 4,8 and even 10. But even though these achievements are possible in laboratory, they are delicate to [...]

According to a recent study, the iPhone might have captures as much as 46% of the Smartphone market share in Japan. We are a bit surprise by such figures, as it would imply that a non-Japanese companies might have taken the lead on this segment, in front of the local Japanese giants!? It is clear [...]

The Blu-ray Disk Association (BDA), in charge of defining the evolution and features of Blu-ray format announced to have frozen specifications of the Blu-ray 3D that will be launched in 2010, opening access to 3D rendering on BD player. Compatible devices will be able to render 3D image in 1080p with a compatible TV set, [...]

Last year the company Valens Semiconductor presented in January its HDBaseT technology which had the goal of conveying uncompressed HD video, sound and Internet between various devices related to the television set, the Blu-ray reader, home cinema and professional video devices. Making of the new while using the old, this technology uses RJ45 Ethernet cables to transmit the data at [...]

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