Western Digital has just expanded their My Passport family of portable drives by unveiling the My Passport AV. It still pretty much looks like the rest of the My Passport drives, although WD claims this one to be “optimized for video storage and playback,” and is designed to work primarily with your home entertainment center, not just with a PC.
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WD intros My Passport AV that works with home entertainment setups
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Asus shows off O!Play HD2 player with USB 3.0
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Asus has just unveiled the latest network media player to fall under their O!Play line, the HD2, during the CeBIT show in Germany. It’s basically a relatively flexible media player that will let you play multimedia files straight off a storage source—that’s either connected via any of its ports and slots or through the network—straight to a TV.
Wi-fi for a high-def home: Netgear launches wireless HD Home Theater Kit
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Netgear’s new wireless kit is designed for multimedia streaming, or more specifically, Blu-ray-quality HD streams. The Wireless -N HD Home Theater Kit comes with a pair of wireless streamers that’ll basically let you shoot your Blu-ray videos from your home entertainment system in the living room to the home network so you can get your HD content served in any other room in the house without the cable clutter, but with the bandwidth and speed that’s comparable (at least according to Netgear) to a wired connection.
Ouch: Samsung’s 3D glasses will cost $150 a pair
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
After shelling out at least $3,200 for a 3D-capable HDTV, more serious dough for a 3D-capable Blu-ray player, what else do you need? 3D glasses. How much will the new technology cost? According to a listing at Vann’s, Samsung’s active 3D glasses will cost $150 each.
Samsung’s 3D-capable C7000 now selling for $3,299
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Samsung’s first 3D-capable LED HDTV is now available on MSI intros wireless motion-sensing Air Keyboard
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
MSI has just unveiled the Air Keyboard, a wireless 200-gram keyboard that comes with built-in motion sensors that you can hold up and wave around to move the mouse pointer. Yeah, like a Wii controller, but see, it’s shaped like a keyboard with 80 keys including the standard QWERTY set plus multimedia buttons. (more…)
Samsung 3D TVs due out next month
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The 3D-capable Samsung LED HDTV series, made up of the LED7000, LED8000, and flagship LED9000 (a.k.a. “the 0.3-inch HDTV that comes with the really awesome remote”), will start shipping by March… at least in the UK, according to the announcement made during Samsung’s 2010 Forum in Vienna.
LG to release slimmer, brighter 20-inch OLED TVs this year
Monday, February 1st, 2010
LG Display will begin production on 20-inch OLED (Organic LED) screens later this year, according to VP Won Kim. Usually found on high-end mobile phones, OLED technology allows for power efficient displays that are not only slim, but also brighter, and more vividly colored.
LG’s retro Serie 1 makes CRT sets cool again
Monday, January 25th, 2010
These days, old CRT TVs just aren’t cool anymore. Everything’s High-def, with current consoles, digital TV programming, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players (as well as the dropping prices on LCD panels) all giving us enough reasons to ignore anything that’s more than four inches thick and just check out the HDTV shelves. LG just announced a new CRT that looks so old, that it’s actually cool. If you’re looking for an artsy tube, we can’t blame you for wanting this thing.
Sony announces Torne TV tuner for PS3
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Sony will be releasing a new accessory for the PlayStation 3 that’ll let you view and record digital TV programs onto a hard drive. Already made famous for packing a full-featured Blu-ray drive (as well as being an awesome gaming console overall), this new accessory gives the console even greater home entertainment potential.
