Sony has just announced a brand new portable DVD player - and it looks like it could be the best one from the company yet. The Sony DVP-FX850 comes with an 8-inch hi-res widescreen display that also swivels 180-degrees - handy for sharing your movie viewing with friends. It's also compatible with ...
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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial , better known for its Panasonic brand, is reportedly in the final stages of selling its controlling stake in the well-known JVC, according to local media reports . ...
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Getting audio and video onto mobile devices can be anightmare simply because the range of encoding formats used can confound evenhardened hackers, so it's a pleasure to see an exceedingly simple device fromOnkyo designed to do just that. The Onkyo Wa...
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The cardinal truism of electronics shopping is that just when you think it's safe to open your wallet and buy that gadget you've been lusting after, it's a sure thing that something better will come along. ...
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Over the years, we've seen more than our fair share of portable media players and marvelled at the new features we never thought we'd need (or want) but iRiver Japan 's latest is definitely the first we've encountered that simply can't be purchased - i...
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It's one thingfor lithe, innovative firms like LG and Casio to embrace the web's most pervasivevideo phenomenon, but quite another when a company as fuddy-duddy as ...
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TDK has 200GB prototype Blu-ray discs on show here at CES in Las Vegas. The founder member of the Blu-ray Association also took the wraps of another format variation on Blu-ray - 8cm Mini Blu-ray discs. While we're not overly amused at the prospect of yet another format, the discs will still be fai...
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Sony is bringing mobile phone functions to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) games console, with a little help from BT . The two heavyweight companies have signed a four-year contract to develop a raft of ...
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Cheap portable media players are ten-a-penny these days and most perform about as well as emotional England cricketers on a late-night pedalo, so it takes something special to stand out, which Sunconnection 's latest Japanese PMP appears to do on paper...
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The old 8mm video camera could be making a comeback - Swedish company Ikonoskop is planning to release an 8mm versionof its popular 16mm film camera, the ...
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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 jointly ...
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NTT DoCoMo 's latest 3G phone is unusual in that it's the second mobile phone we've seen that's not actually mobile and that it's a dedicated videophone. The 2.7kg ' Simple Videophone ' is now on sale in...
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JVC 's Everio range of hard-drive camcorders has just receiveda predictable shot in the arm with the addition of the first model to recordhigh-definition images. The GZ-HD7 lays down 1,920 x 1,080i interlaced images,so is just short of what is consid...
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JVC Japan has launched a new entry-level camcorder. The GR-D750 is a aimed at first-time camcorder buyers and comes with the largestzoom in its class. The MiniDV model sports a 34x optical zoom (for high qualityclose-ups), and a 200x digital zoom. I...
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Gender equality in Japan took an expected blow yesterday when the female head of Sanyo , Tomoyo Nonaka, resigned from the company citing the now-ubiquitous 'personal reasons'. Nonaka had been in charge - first as CEO, then as chair - from June 2005, w...
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Samsung's other attention grabber on show at the Mobile Solution Forum today is evidence that the essentially meaningless pixel-count war between digital camera and phone vendors isn't about to end anyt...
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If yesterday's launch of the 'world's fastest digital SLR' - the Canon EOS-1D Mark III - didn't tickle your fancy, then maybe one of the Japanese imaging specialist's less-bombastic new models will. Sure, the ...
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Sony thisweek unveiled its flagship high-definition camcorders - the HDR-HC7E and HDR-HC5E. The MiniDV camcorders are successors to Sony's highly popular HC1 and HC3. MiniDV can capturefootage of a far higher quality than hard drive or DVD, making it the format ofchoice for the more serious home...
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As Korean electronics makers grow in confidence and begin to challenge Japan's domination of the East-Asian market, so it seems they are gaining a reputation as bold as the Chinese for flouting copyright laws. The latest possible violation is a very attractive portable media player from a company na...
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Police officers in Hartlepool are branding the use of high-tech cameras 'a big success' in the clampdown ondomestic violence. Two 'state-of-the-art', pencil-sized 'headcams' worn by specialistofficers over the Christmas period have collated enough evidence to prove offenceswhere victims were refusi...
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