JBL on Tuesday announced a pair of speaker systems designed to support everything from MP3 players and laptops to desktops and home-entertainment centers. Both the JBL Duet II and JBL Duet III systems are designed to provide a clear, powerful sound while maintaining a small footprint. JBL Duet II ...
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Canon announces a new addition to its HDV camcorder range: the Legria HV40. Recording HDV1080i images to tape, the Legria HV40 is the successor to the HV30. The latest evolution of Canon's popular HV-series, the Legria HV40 offers users greater creative control over their movies. A new Custom Key a...
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Audio specialist Harman International's AKG brand has already made a name for itself in the professional audio realm for its microphones, headphones and wireless equipment. The company wants to bring that brand to consumers however, and it announced at Macworld Expo Tuesday that it planned to deli...
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Solid-state disks, hard-disk drive replacements filled with flash memory chips, have become popular in the laptop computing space and now they're expanding to other markets. At this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics will unveil an SSD-based camcorder, it said Tuesda...
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Details are finally out on the most poorly kept pre-CES secret: Cisco plans to enter the wireless home audio fray with a family of mix-and-match components for playing music throughout your home over an existing 802.11n Wi-Fi network. The Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system will consist of...
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With a tip of the cap to the Flip Mino HD and Creative Vado HD , Kodak's popular Z-series pocket camcorder is also going high-definition. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas , the pocketable Kodak Zx1 digital video camera records 720p high-def video at two frame rates...
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Sling Media announced late Monday that it will release an iPhone client app for its Slingbox line of place-shifting video players by the end of March, as well as offering support for high-definition video streaming for Mac users for the very first time. According to Sling Media PR director Brian Ja...
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Vuzix on Monday announced the Wrap 920AV , a new pair of sunglass-style video glasses that work with iPods and the iPhone. Pricing was not announced; Vuzix expects to ship the new video glasses in Spring, 2009. Vuzix claims the Wrap 920AV provides the same effect as looking at a 60-inch monitor fr...
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It's not just televisions that are slimming down for this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Samsung, which has already said it plans to unveil a 7-millimeter thick TV at the show, will also be taking the wraps off a new Blu-ray Disc player that's 39mm thick. Few details o...
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Technology, at its best, saves us from doing stupid things. You know, the kind of thing that, immediately after you do it, you think, 'I really shouldn't have done that.' If you've ever connected your iPod or iPhone to someone else's Mac to charge it, you have an idea of what I am talking about. iTu...
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JVC is joining the race to thinner flat-panel TV and will unveil at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show a prototype 32-inch television that's just 7-millimeters thick. The TV set is one of the thinnest yet developed and, like a similar prototype that Samsung Electronics will show in...
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Back before Thanksgiving I predicted that Blu-ray sales would suffer during the holiday season due to the high cost of both the player and HDTVs combined with the current economic recession, among other reasons. But after seeing the report from the British Video Association declaring Blu-ray sa...
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Intel has ported Adobe Systems' Flash software technology to work with its processors used in consumer electronics such as set-top boxes and high-definition TVs, Intel said Monday. The Flash support will help bring a larger variety of rich Internet content to consumer electronics devices, which sho...
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Canon U.S.A. on Monday announced a new line of five high-definition and six standard-definition camcorders. Pricing and availability were not announced -- the announcement came from Las Vegas, Nevada, site of this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The new Vixia high-def camcorders include th...
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LG Electronics this spring will launch a series of broadband-enabled HDTVs that will stream movies, TV shows, and other high-definition content from Netflix, without the need for an external set-top box, the company has announced. LG and Netflix are demonstrating the new products this week at the...
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LG Electronics announced a range of Internet-enabled televisions on Monday that can stream movies from the Netflix rental service. The companies will show the televisions at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, a year after they first announced their plans to work together...
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Samsung Electronics plans to unveil a flat-panel TV that's as thin as just 6.5-millimeters at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it said Sunday. The TV set, few details of which were immediately available, is between 6.5mm and 7mm across its width and has an LED (li...
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Graphic: Diego Aguirre Audiophiles have long argued that vinyl records offer better sound quality compared to CDs or MP3s, but their stoic loyalty in the face of change was seen as little more than nostalgia over the 25 years digital recordings have dominated the music industry. In recent year...
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Today's hint is tangentially related to OS X, in that it uses iTunes, but it will really be of interest only to Apple TV owners. One of my issues with the Apple TV has been the inability to easily organize my movies, leading to a long list of entries in the My Movies section of the interface. As...
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Picture this: You're gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year's bash. All of a sudden, your Zune locks up , reboots itself, and freezes. What the heck is going on? In September, Microsoft released the Zune 3.0 software and firmware update along with its ...
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