This theme, Japanese camera accessories maker Kenko is slapping pictures of Disney characters on its new point-and-shoot. The DMC-50 comes with a 5.17-megapixel sensor, 2.4-inch LCD screen, 128MB of internal memory (with SD card expansion slot), and 4x digital zoom. This shooter doesn’t have an optical zoom lens.
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The war of High Definition format between Blu-ray and HD DVD has come to the end. Toshiba just announced that they will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video. “We concluded that a swift decision would be best,” Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company’s Tokyo offices. The move would make Blu-ray ? backed by Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes Panasonic brand products, and five major Hollywood movie studios ? the winner in the battle over high-definition DVD formatting that began several years ago. Nishida said last month’s decision by Warner Bros. Entertainment to release movie discs only in the Blu-ray format made the move inevitable. Warner joined Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Co. and News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox in that move.

“That had tremendous impact,” he said. “If we had continued, that would have created problems for consumers, and we simply had no chance to win.”

Both HD DVD and Blu-ray deliver crisp, clear high-definition pictures and sound, which are more detailed and vivid than existing video technology. They are incompatible with each other, and neither plays on older DVD players. But both formats play on high-definition TVs. HD DVD was touted as being cheaper because it was more similar to previous video technology, while Blu-ray boasted bigger recording capacity. Nishida said his company had confidence in HD DVD as a technology and tried to assure the estimated 1 million people, including some 600,000 people in North America, who already bought HD DVD machines by promising that Toshiba will continue to provide product support for the technology.
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After the previous E-series, BenQ has released a new gaming X-series LCD monitor. They are BenQ X900 with 19-inch display, X900W with 19-inch wide display, X2000W with 20-inch wide display and X2200W with 22-inch wide display. The X series monitors features Senseye+Game, PerfectMotion and AMA technologies, which give users an enhanced gaming experience. The Senseye+Game Technology delivers fine visual clarity, depth and richness. While, the AMA Technology improves gray to gray response time and brings clearer images for users, and the PerfectMotion technology brings a dynamic video display processing. Thanks to this technology the X2200W offers Motion Picture Response Time (MPRT) of 8ms as compared to other LCD delivering 20ms MPRT.
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WinFast PxDTV2300 H is the latest high performance hybrid TV capture card with the latest PCI Express interface from Leadtek Research Inc. WinFast PxDTV2300 H provides high definition DVB-T and worldwide analog TV reception, including NTSC, SECAM and PAL standards. With full screen stereo/SAP support, you’re assured of the best TV entertainment on your desktop. And your PC is able to receive DVB-T and FM radio anytime! Even more, you can now choose the format from MPEG-4/2/1/WMV/VCD/DVD/SVCD for superlative recording effects. Equipped with 9-in-1 A/V cable supporting component video input up to 480p, it is easy to capture videos from CCD camera/camcorder/VCR/DVD player and even a video game console.
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Sony Corp. announced a revised PlayStation 3 console with a bigger hard drive for storing downloaded content such as video games and high-definition movies. The new $599 PS3 increases the system’s storage capacity from 60 to 80 gigabytes and also includes a retail copy of the online racing title “MotorStorm” a company spokesman said.
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Although Sony has yet to confirm a price drop officially, GameDaily BIZ has received confirmation from the retail sector that the PS3 will be dropped to $499 on 12 July. Sony’s perennially overpriced PS3 is about to get a welcome pricebreak to the tune of $100, at least according to a scan of an upcoming Circuit City advertisement leaked onto the interwebs. That puts the console at $499, and with the 5 free Blu-ray movies Sony is tossing in with every purchase, there’s never been a better time to buy.
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Microsoft Corp. recently announced that it would launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox 360 Elite, on Oct. 11 in Japan. The new machine, equipped with a 120-gigabyte hard disk drive, will sell for 47,800 yen ($390).
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Accordingly to the recent research, Nintendo’s Wii console has outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 in Japan last month by six to one. From Enterbrain, a Japanese publisher that tracks console sales, we learned that there were total selling of 270,974 Wii consoles from Nintendo last month while Sony sold 41,628 PS3s.
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