PS3 Digs Itself a Deeper Grave, Requires Adapter for Backwards Compatibility

In the biggest twist of the year, including last year, Sony has made another bad decision regarding the PlayStation 3. Claims have been running rampant that this console would be able to play both PS2 and PSOne games—it still will be able to, but require an additional adapter that will likely cost a kidney…

Monday, August 7th, 2006

TV Makers Propose Internet TV Standard

Some of the world’s biggest TV manufacturers have teamed up to create a standard for building Internet-ready TVs. Details are thin on the ground but reports say that Sony, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sharp, Toshiba and Hitachi are pooling efforts to make a standard that they will all use to build TVs that can accept video…

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Franklin Wireless USB EV-DO Card

The Franklin USB EV-DO card is perfect for readers with laptops that don’t have a PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot, or those with tablets, PDAs, and UMPCs. This goes directly into the USB slot, unlike the Novatel, which had a separate cable but looks bit bulky in comparison. Franklin’s solution seems a bit more compact….

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T50 Leaked Pics

Pics of the so far unannounced Sony DSC-T50 surfaced on i4u from an anonymous tipster. The T50 has the general form factor of the T-series, but features a 7.2 megapixel sensor and 3x optical zoom, combined with “Super SteadyShot”. There’s also a built in slideshow with music feature for annoying friends and family. The…

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Hitachi DZ-HS303 DVD and HDD Camcorder

This DVD-HDD Hybridcam is only available in Japan as part of their “Wooo” line, but damn if it doesn’t make us say Wooo too. The disc accepts 8cm DVDs as well as SD cards for removable memory. However, it has a bonus of having an 8GB hard disk in there in order to seamlessly…

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Atari says ‘No PS3 games until 2007’

There you have it: one of the first games developers to take a practical approach to the PS3. Atari’s CEO, Bruno Bonnell has confirmed it will have no PS3 content until next year. There may be some bemoaning the fact but then those die-hards probably think they’ll have a PS3 at launch too. Hahahahahaha….

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Canon Announces HV 10 Consumer HDV Camcorder

Canon fired back at Sony, announcing the HV 10, its first consumer-level HD camcorder. It records high-definition footage in the low-cost HDV format at Canon’s so-called “full HD 1920×1080i.” Consumers will also like its ability to take stills at 3.1 megapixels, and store them on a mini-SD card. Canon says the HV 10 is…

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Sony Cybershot DSC-T10: Thin, Colorful, Antishake Digicam

Sony’s DSC-T10 was just announced just in time to screw up my sleep pattern. It’s skinny, like it grew up in The Valley eating sprouts instead of hoagies, although no dimensions have yet been announced. And comes in four pretty colours: Pink, White, Black, and Silver. In other words, the four most benign colours…

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Sony GPS-CS1: Tags Photos With Location

This little GPS clips onto your digital camera to tag your photos with latitude and longitude. How? By synching the clock in the GPS with the timestamp on your photos, on your PC. Clever, clever, Sony! The included software handles the sync, and also puts your photos on a little map, tacked on by…

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Canon unveils HD camcorder HV10

TOKYO (Reuters) - Canon Inc. unveiled a digital video camera for home users on Wednesday that can record high-definition movies, matching a product offered by rival Sony Corp.

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006


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