A waterproof digital video camera makes sense. Capturing adventurous footage of water sports and snorkeling excursions can preserve some of life’s greatest memories. But it’s pretty safe to assume that you’ll never need to watch these videos underwater, thus bringing into question any value added by the TwinBird Zabady VD-J715B waterproof DVD player. The device, which in [...]
Oh how I wish I had time to sit around entertaining myself via one of the many nifty portable media players currently on the market. But despite my conception that dedicated personal media players are useless given the growing number of smartphones that encompass their feature set, the suits over at Viewsonic obviously feel differently [...]
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No Comments »It seems like 2010 is going to be the breakout year for 3D capable TV’s. A perfect storm of content production and hardware integration promises to finally lift the technology from a cheap trick to mainstream habit. Already, companies such as Sony and Panasonic are demonstrating and producing 3D capable TV’s as described here and here. As we’ve [...]
TV lovers rejoice! Thanks to the recently ratified ATSC mobile digital TV standard, you may soon find yourself watching live broadcast TV via a portable device. While all those NTSC compatible Sony Watchmen will still be trash, expect innumerable ATSC enabled portable personal media devices to flood the market in the very near future. The full [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Content Delivery, Personal Media Players, TV and Video, Technology Tags: ATSC, HD, NTSC, PMP, Sony, TV 1 Comment »Remember when your parents would tell you you’re watching too much TV? Well apparently the creators of FLO TV never got that message. The live mobile TV service today announced the FLO TV personal television to compliment its line of car and mobile phone TV service options. The portable device has an unfortunately small 3.5″ [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players, TV and Video Tags: FLO TV, personal TV 1 Comment »…get a Mobile Internet Device (MID). As processors, such as Intel’s Atom, continue to decrease their power requirements thus increasing device battery life, a growing number of mobile Internet devices will carve an interesting niche between the netbook and pocketable Internet capable device markets. Often built with 5-7″ touchscreens and tailored towards playback of media files, mobile Internet [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: Android, Intel, MID, mobile Internet device, RAmos, touchscreen 2 Comments »Here’s an interesting idea. Take a 9″ LCD display, slap an iPod dock, SD/MMC reader, and DVD player into it, get it Divx certified, and link it all together via a simple user interface. This is exactly what iLuv did to create its much hyped i1166 PMP. The device is unique, having been a “Best [...]
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