Toshiba is announcing that it is planning to unveil it’s ‘world’s smallest HDTV camera’ to the world during the NAB show a little later this month. Unfortunately, the Toshiba IKHD1 might not live up to the ‘it’s all about the performance’ aspect of the great size debate. Sure, it’s a cool little gadget, but in today’s world of high-performance and real world functionality, is the IKHD1 going to be overlooked?
You might not want to take the Toshiba IKHD1 out to capture your child’s next birthday party or use it for your next video blog, but it does have a use in the area of security, science, and industry.
Some of the features are;
1080i output
1920 x 1080 output pixels
3CCD (1/3”) interlace
C-mount
Miniature HD Color Camera Head
Digital HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M); Analog RGB or Y/ Pb/ Pr
RS 232C serial interface
Auto & manual white balance
Optional accessories: 3, 6, 10 & 30 meter cables; 4mm or 15 mm lens
For Scientific imaging /diagnostics
For Specialty broadcast
For Homeland security
For Industrial video / inspection
So, all you scientists, security experts, and home inspectors finally have a camera that is ‘big’ enough to handle your job. But, if you’re a home video nut then you’re not going to like the size of this one.
The war’s over, Blue-ray won, and all the romantic attempts at revolution came for naught for HD DVD Promotion Group. To its fans, it kinda left a brief directive or interment announcement at their site, which may have been generated by a bot. That’s rude. But that’s because the guys are probably still disconsolate over their beloved HD DVD.
But cry no more. In the sweepingly broadband future, the war will seem puny. The past will always seem funny. See ya around, HD DVD.
The Aurea is basically a Tv, that has an light changing frame. Although this may not sound like much, it can create an atmosphere unlike any other TV, and it can even be separate to the images to create even more effect. To see this properly you could either get one,or watch the film on the website, which I have to say if very classy!
The name Aurea if very apt, as that is what the ingenious frame creates around the actual television with 125 LEDs that are synchronized with the screen. Obviously it is HD ready, which means that it can really enhance you viewing experience.It also has great sound, that comes from the frame, which comprises of 24 front firing speakers and 2 subwoofers and which coupled with the cool 42 inches, makes the perfect TV. Period.
However if you were thinking of trading in your current 40 odd inch TV and getting this one at a little extra cost, I’d read the next bit. It costs a grand total of $6,000, for which you could easily buy a nice car, or a very nice computer! So is it really worth it? If you have $6,000 waiting to be spent on a TV, then yes, but for anyone else I’d just sit tight and wait for other companies to catch up, and for the technology to become cheaper.
Mitsubishi has just unveiled 2 new blu-ray players, sleek and stylish. The DVR-BZ200 with 500GB of internal HDD (which can deliver up to 880 hours of recording time) and the DVR-BZ100 with 250GB of internal HDD, support, obviously, AVC codec, but also AVCREC which allows you to record AVC to DVD (way cheaper than Blu-Ray discs).
But the 2 things that caught my eye and that set the new Mitsubishi blu-ray player apart from it’s competitors are the cool, slick mirror finish and the touchscreen remote controller which has a color display and flexible softkeys tailored for specific functions.
All in all this new blu-ray player promises to be great but, like all cool gadgets, it’s only for the Japan market (for now I hope).
It would now seem that the earlier reports that Microsoft is in talks with Sony about integrating the new Blu-ray technology into their Xbox 360 is not going to happen.
Reuters.com has recently reported that Aaron Greenberg, the group product manager for Xbox, has commented that Microsoft is not talking with Sony about adding Blu-ray to their 360 console. Instead they seem to want to continue investing in the Xbox Live online service which enables users to rent hundreds of movies, including ones in high definition.
Of course the supply shortage is also hurting them now as they have been outsold by the Playstation 3 for the second month in a row. Microsoft needs to start make up it’s mind what it’s going to do and begin placing some new consoles into the hands of the consumer.
Myself, being a PS3 man, would like to see another Xbox with Blu-ray technology. But, the Live service isn’t bad either. An optional Blu-ray player would give people another option though in their movie watching experience. What say you?
Now that the so called format wars are over with Blu-ray taking no prisoners and sending HD into the never-never land of the techno landfill, Microsoft is now reported to be on the Blu-Ray bandwagon.
It is reported that shortly after the war was declared a Blu-ray victory the people at Sony and their rival Microsoft became very close buddies and were talking about offering Blu-ray in the upcoming Xbox 360. Remember that Microsoft offered the HD DVD drive in the 360 while PS3 went with the Blu-ray. But shortly after the victory of Blu-ray, Sony’s Electronics US president, Stan Glasgow, said the two sides were now talking about Microsoft adopting Blu-ray.
This is quite the quandary for Sony. See, if Microsoft adopts the Blu-ray drive in the 360 that means that the Xbox becomes a much better system. However, it would also mean more revenues for their electronics division. What to do… what to do??
On the other hand, Microsoft would then have to make a choice. Do we offer it as a part of a new upgraded machine which would add more cost, or Microsoft could again offer a drive as a plug-in peripheral. Stan Glasgow also stated that they were talking to Apple about a Blu-ray
Personally, I don’t think it much matters. With the iPhone, already the overwhelming king of cellphones, now poised to take over the gaming and computer world PS3 and Xbox360 will go the way of the HD DVD drive. What do you think?
Sony’s Blu-ray could as well lay claim to genuine Megatron heritage (if you watched Michael Bay’s Transformers movie). That is, when Blu-ray won the drawn-out DVD format war this month. But pray this win isn’t deja vu. Back in the ’80s, VHS’s victory over Sony’s Betamax was tainted with insinuations that VHS had brownie points other than superior technology - such as, umm, the availability of porn in VHS. Back to present day. There’s always that nagging problem with the cheap, brittle, and easily wearing-out DVD format, especially now that Blu-ray comes in mega gigs. And the problem is that it can accelerate piracy. I woke up one day realizing that what the Blu-ray format needs is a new rival such as — tadaaah, flash drives, which kindof remind me of those expensive Atari cartridges of yore. Oh have you heard of those artists experimenting with flash drive releases? Maybe this is nuts but the upside to flash drives is that if they were the universal portable format today, they’d last. They’d help unify storage and media players. Plus, it would be expensive to peddle around pirated copyright material in flash drive format. (Hey, it’s moot. I’m not sidling up to those behemoth corporations.
Does size really matter?
es to create even more effect. To see this properly you could either get one,or watch the film on the website, which I have to say if very classy!
you viewing experience.It also has great sound, that comes from the frame, which comprises of 24 front firing speakers and 2 subwoofers and which coupled with the cool 42 inches, makes the perfect TV. Period.
