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 ATSC [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sony’
Watching TV just got easier!
October 16th, 2009
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Content Delivery, Personal Media Players, TV and Video, Technology 
Tags: ATSC, HD, NTSC, PMP, Sony, TV 
1 Comment »Sony demonstrates wireless power transmission…
October 2nd, 2009
New TechClickers may not realize how excited wireless power news makes us. We were stoked even when the Wireless Power Consortium changed its logo! So needless to say, Sony’s announcement today that it’s sustainably sending 60W of power over 20 inches of empty air has the TechClicker office abuzz.
Sony is using the relatively common magnetic resonance wireless [...]
A Two Screen eBook Reader?
September 8th, 2009
Well it looks like Asus has decided to up the ante in the ongoing game of eBook reader development. Trying to compete with Amazon’s market leading Kindle and Sony’s highly anticipated Reader series, Asus is planning on a dual screen eBook reader to better simulate the two sidedness of reading an actual paper based book.
The [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Cool or Annoying?, eBooks Tags: Asus, eBook, Eee, reader, Sony 2 Comments »More 3D Capable TV’s in 2010
September 3rd, 2009
In case anyone was wondering about the validity of 3D TV after Sony’s release yesterday, Philips and Panasonic today both announced plans to begin incorporating high definition 3D technology into some of their upcoming products. The announcements came at the IFA 2009 consumer electronics show in Berlin.
Panasonic is launching a cross country promotional tour in [...]
Posted in 3D Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Emerging Technology, TV and Video, Technology Tags: 3D, Blu-ray, LCD, Panasonic, Philips, plasma, Sony, TV 1 Comment »Another reason not to buy that new TV
September 3rd, 2009
We recently posted news of LG’s pending release of large format OLED TVs, in which it was suggested that anyone currently considering buying a new TV may want to wait for that technology to fully materialize (and come down in price). Well, today Sony, adding to its slew of recent new product releases in what [...]
Posted in 3D Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Emerging Technology, TV and Video, Technology Tags: 3D, Bravia, HD, LCD, Sony, TV 3 Comments »Sony Ditches Internet Explorer
September 1st, 2009
In what can only be described as a harsh reality check for Microsoft, Sony today made public its plans to ship all of its Vaio laptops with the Google Chrome web browser pre-installed instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has enjoyed unrivaled ubiquity since the demise of Netscape Navigator years ago and it being the [...]
LG’s 15″ OLED TV Release: A look at things to come…
August 31st, 2009
The next generation of flat screen TVs may soon be upon us. Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology has been around for a few years now, mostly finding use in cell phones, personal media players, and Sony’s 11″ XEL-1 TV which debuted in 2007. Up until now and at great cost with an MSRP of $2500, [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, TV and Video, Technology Tags: LCD, LG, OLED, Sony, TV 1 Comment »Sony Announces Reader Daily Edition
August 25th, 2009
Printing companies must love this trend. Coupled with the continued decline of traditional print media at the hands of online sources, the increase in popularity of eBook readers may very well deal a final blow to that industry’s lasting reign. To compete with Amazon’s Kindle and a handful of other 3G enabled eBook readers currently [...]
