Posts for 'Portable Video' Category

What better way to kill 1 hour and 20 minutes on a long flight or road trip than by taking in a movie on the go? The trouble is, downloading movies at $10-$15 a pop can get expensive, buying DVDs and ripping them to a portable device takes time, and ripping rented DVDs is just plain illegal. Fortunately, there are a few services and devices that allow you to take low-cost rental downloads on the go.

The most well-known download rental service is Apple's iTunes store, which rents movies at around $2.99-$4.99 that can be played on most recent generations of iPods (Classic, Touch, and generation 3 and 4 iPod Nanos), as well as your computer or Apple TV. You get up to 30 days to begin watching your rented movie, and 24 hours to finish it once it's begun.

For celluloid connoisseurs who find the 3.5-inch screen of Apple's iPod Touch a little cramped for mobile movie marathons, the Archos line of Wi-Fi-connected portable video players offer more accommodating screens.

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Nokia N79 Active £350 SIM frer-The N79 has had an upgrade. It'll soon come with a 4GB Micro SD card, Polar heart rate belt, armband, headphones and the latest version of Nokia's workout application, Sports Tracker.

The N79's onboard GPS combined with Sports Tracker means that you can record speed, distance and route of your workouts, as well as your heart rate. All this while you listen to some motivating Bounce and Donk tunes to keep you going.

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I'm growing as loyal to the LG brand these days as I was to Sony's for much of the past 20 years. All of LG's fridges, air conditioners, and other appliances bear the company's cool signature curves and finishes, and smart features.

My wife, Lisa, was tickled to discover a light inside our new LG gas dryer that flicked on when she opened the door. It's a simple, low-tech Easter egg, but one that might help solve the lost-sock mysteries around our house.

This is what I call the LG touch: Each of the Korean powerhouse's products has at least one great feature, which demonstrates that a designer was thinking about you when he crafted the device.

The LG Decoy (available through Verizon Wireless) is no exception. The music phone comes with its own delightful add-on: a slot on the phone that holds its own detachable Bluetooth headset. Now your phone and headset can be in the same place - saving you from scrambling for two gadgets in your pocketbook. This also reduces the need for you to walk around like a tool, with that headset permanently planted in your ear.

The Decoy is a meaty, four-ounce slider with a mirrored, metallic finish and 2.2-inch display. The face has a joystick surrounded by backlit arrows and four backlit control buttons. The phone has a black keypad with backlit keys.

You can manage much of your Verizon Wireless V Cast media without sliding the Decoy open: The joystick (which is a might too touchy) will get you to your libraries, and the V Cast streams quickly enough. The Decoy also has a 2-megapixel camera and a memory card slot.

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Details of AOL's streaming radio application for the Apple 3G iPhone have surfaced after it was revealed that the application won an Apple design award for "Best Entertainment Application" at this year's WWDC. The free application will be available for the 3G iPhone next month, allowing users to stream 200 AOL online radio stations and 150 terrestrial radio stations over both Wi-Fi and 3G cellular connections.

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The Olympic games have historically been a big mover of home entertainment products, giving consumers that excuse to splash out on that new big screen TV, home theatre or recorder to enjoy the really soak up the two weeks of sporting highlights. Recognizing this Panasonic has announced that the DMR-BW500, the first stand alone Blu-Ray Disc Recorder to be launched outside Japan will be available just in time for the Games. The DMR-BW500i can record up to 72 hours of Full High Definition 1080p recording onto the built in 500GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or 6 hours 40 min on a 50GB double layer Blu-ray Disc. In addition to video, it can record 5.1-channel Dolby Digital surround sound broadcasts and Blu-ray movies are played in studio-master quality at a frame rate of 24 frames per second.

The DMR-BW500 offers a twin DVB-T High Definition (HD) tuner with 1 second quick start for recording and support for 7-day Electronic Program Guide. Panasonic's intelligent VIERA Link offers single-remote control of Panasonic AV devices via HDMI and streamlining operation with features such as Pause Live TV, Direct TV Record and Auto Preset Download. The unit also features HDMI V.1.3, Deep Colour, DVB-T adaptive noise reduction, silence technology, 1080p Up-Conversion with HDMI and 7.1-channel surround sound of BD movies. It also supports the 'Bonus View' (formerly Final Standard Profile) Blu-ray standard and bitstream output of Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, DTS-HD Master Audio and on-board decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS.

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Flip Video Mino is a new device which can send videos through email.

Flip Video Mino was designed as a follow-up to the tiny Flip camcorder. The first recorder changed the perception about video recording. It captures video in 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second.

Pure Digital Technologies has released its Flip Video Mini device which allows videos to be sent through email. Mino was designed as a follow-up to the tiny Flip camcorder.

Flip Video Mino has a cleaner and more elegant look with a rechargeable Li-ion battery, sensitive buttons and a thinner appearance. The new device is about 40 percent slimmer than the Flip cam recorder.

The new camcorder is very easy for users to edit their videos. It has a lock button to avoid accidental delete of videos and a mute option for camera sounds useful for recording during speeches, wedding ceremonies or other events.

The video recording device enables publishing on MySpace, as the prior software only allowed video sharing with YouTube and AOL Video. The device makes it very easy for users to edit their videos in just a few minutes.

Flip Video Mini is priced at $180.

The Flip Video camera line was first introduced in September 2007. The Flip Ultra, the previous model, has been the best-selling camcorder on Amazon.com since the day of its debut, capturing about 13% of the camcorder market.

Flip Video Mino is a new device which can send videos through email.

If you're a Netflix subscriber you may have noticed that in the last year or so the company has rolled out a Watch Now option that lets you instantly watch some of the movies and TV shows in the Netflix library on your Windows PC with a broadband connection.

More recently, in upgrading its digital offerings, Netflix has taken things a step further by separating out the Instant Queue from your DVD Queue.

While the all-you-can-eat streaming video option is a nice perk for users (it's available to any subscriber on the $8.95 per month plan or better), the real dream for many people is that instead of watching movies on your PC's monitor, you cut out the computer completely and go right to your TV.

Well, with the Netflix Player by Roku ($100) that has become a reality.

Before we get into just what the box does, it's probably worth mentioning a little bit about Roku for those who may not have heard of the company.

After releasing a handful of well-regarded streaming audio products earlier in the decade, the SoundBridge M1001 and the SoundBridge Radio, Roku had gone quiet in the consumer space for the past couple of years.

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Apple, maker of the iPod media player, said yesterday that it would start selling movies through its iTunes online store the same day they are released on DVD.

New releases from studios, including Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., will cost $14.99, Apple said in a statement. Previously, customers had to wait several weeks after the DVDs debuted. The service will start with such movies as "American Gangster" and "Juno" this week.

Chief executive Steve Jobs is counting on movies to increase sales of iPods, Macintosh computers and Apple TV devices, which let users watch downloaded films on their widescreen televisions. In January, Jobs said customers had bought 7 million movies, which was below his expectations. Apple began selling movies and television shows on iTunes in October 2005.

"People want to watch a movie as soon as it comes out, and they don't want to have to wait," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch in New York. "What Apple is doing is knocking down one more barrier for why you wouldn't want to buy a movie from them."

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Very slim portable camera that captures stills at up to 6-megapixel resolution as well as video with sound.

Likes: The large colour display (5.6cm) makes it easy to line up shots. The sleek metal body and easy-to-press buttons. Digital stills produce vibrant colours and good detail (which make enlargements and cropping possible). Video clips look impressive considering the size of the device and clip length is limited only by the size of the SD card you use (1GB can store up to 1 hour of MPEG-4). Press a dedicated button once and it starts recording. Comes with a docking cradle for charging, uploading images to your computer.

Dislikes: Be careful not to bump the video record button. Internal memory is only 8.3MB so you need to buy an SD card.

Ok so it seems Nokia are getting ready for their official Apple iPhone response, the name is called Nokia Tube.

The Nokia Tube will feature a touch interface which cannot wait to play around with, and then I will tell you if it is as good as the iPhone. This brand new handset is apparently set to be as close as possible to the iPhone device and was shown at a slideshow at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California.

The slideshow demonstrated the handsets UI plus a promotional shot featuring Shrek, vice president of Forum Nokia Tom Libretto has said that yes they do believe that they compete for the Apple iPhone’s market share even though they have not set a release date as of yet.

Apple have sold around 4 million phones since their launch but Tom Libretto said “We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday,” well let me say Libretto, yes you may have, but they were all low-end cell phones were they not?

Anyway we cannot wait to see this new handset, the world need the Nokia Tube and then and only then can we pair the two together.