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Just like most high-end speakers, Philips latest MCD299 flat micro theater is quite small and flat. Featuring four-disc changer for continous music and DVD movie playback, this micro theater also comes with groovy motorized sliding door as well as Moto Razr-like metallic buttons. It also supports for JPEG, MP3, and WMA via CD or USB. Read the rest

Giant Samsung has just unveiled its new LCD TV (1080p) which measures just 1cm thick. According to the company the 40-inch display has a bezel that’s just 1.5cm, down from the 3cm typical of today’s similarly sized LCD TVs. The panel, using an LED backlight that allows it to reach 92 % of the NTSC standard for color saturation. Read the rest

The LCD TV ‘POP UP’ has just been presented by electronics giant Sharp at CEATEC SHOW 2007. The most interesting thing about the 52V-inch TV protoype is that it will automaticaly hide itself under the the TV cabinet if someone turn the switch off. Weighing at just 25kg and measures 20~29mm thin, the ‘POP UP’ TV provides contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and Read the rest

Take a look at Sony’s XEL-1 TV, it is so slim. Adopting the Organic EL display technology, this TV has a very thin screen at just 3mm thick. This is pretty cool I think. Furthermore, Its 11-inch QHD Screen is capable to present 960×540 resolution and 1000000:1 contrast ratio with vivid colors. It supports for Hi-Def video and comes with a HDMI port as well. Read the rest

Here comes a new product from Hitachi, known as the P60-XR01 - a Full HDTV range. Coming with a 60-inch wide screen, the new TV provides 1920×1080 screen resolution with 10000:1 contrast ratio and 1000 cd/m2 brightness. It also features e-ALIS technology and iVDR-S player which allows you to directly record high-definition content from your TV. Read the rest

Another HDTVs from Samsung, the electronics giant has just announced the Samsung 69 series / LN-T4069F of 120Hz LCDs during CEDIA event. Coming in two different models, the 40- and 46-inches 1080p screens, it is a downgrade from the more expensive ones (Samsung 71 series), but thankfully it lack one downside…Guess what? It loses the gloss. Read the rest

Sony rolls out a couple new versions of its VAIO TP1 media center PC, codenamed the VAIO TP1V and TP1DTV. The former come equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, DVD burner, HDMI and WiFi connections. Sony offers more storage capacity than the previous model, 250GB hard drive. Meanwhile, the second features Intel Core 2 Duo T5800, TV tuner, 500GB hard drive disk and an improved compatibility with the Bravia TV range Read the rest

BenQ’s ‘FP241VW’ LCD monitor has been launched in Korea market about one month ago. Especially designed for console gamers, it can be switched to ‘Action Game Mode’ as well as ‘Racing Game Mode’ supporting enhanced response time (6ms), so that gamers are able to enjoy or XBOX or PlayStation 3 dynamically. It boasts a 24-inch WUXGA TFT LCD with 1920×1200 screen resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio and 500 nits brightness. Read the rest

During the IFA events, Samsung showcased its first ever dual format optical high-def player, dubbed as the ‘BD-UP5000 Duo HD Player’. This new player has the capability to play Blu-ray as good as HD DVD at 1080p (between 24 and 60 frame-per-second). Even though LG Electronic was the first with the BH100, but Samsung has got something more to offer, since it is capable of being used with both Hdi and BD Java. It adopts the Hollywood Quality Video system and supports Dolby Digital 7.1, Dolby True HD and Dolby Digital Plus as well. Read the rest