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I4U Gadget Flyer: Canon TX1, EOS 1D Mark III : PAL PS3 Different ...
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Last week in review:
The photography trade-show PMA 2007 is already stirring up things and tons of new camera announcements already hit this week. Canon is on top right now with the cool TX1 HD digital camcorder and the world's fastest SLR camera Canon EOS-1D Mark III. Also just in is the news that the PAL Sony PS3 will be different.
I4U Smack Shopping Event!
As one of the hot products that will be featured in our Smack Shopping event next week will be the great Panasonic TH-42PX60U 42 Plasma HDTV. In previous Smack Shopping events this item reached a 32.25% cash back (see archive page, you must be logged in to see this past event)
We partnered with Jellyfish to bring you this special I4U Smack Shopping Event on March 1st 2007 at 3pm EST.
1080p LCD projector
The Digital Bits has been right on the edge of the latest developments with the DVD format for ten years now. So it should be no surprise that we're in the thick of the high-definition format war either. But as active as we've been in debating the actual war itself, we've been slow to start reviewing a lot of titles in either Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD format. Part of the reason for this is that we want to familiarize ourselves with the quirks of each format. We've also been upgrading our video displays such that we're now able to fully appreciate all the benefits that 1080p video can offer.
Here at west coast offices of The Bits, I've been using a Panasonic PT-L500U LCD front projector for DVD reviews in recent years, but for HD I'd reverted back to our old Mitsubishi 65" rear projection HDTV.
CES 2007: BIGGER still doesn’t mean BETTER
Texas Instruments showed it isnt sitting on its hands in the flat-panel vs. microdisplay rear-projection TV showdown, and two new HDTV trade promotion groups made their debuts at the show. Alternative illumination systems for rear and front projection were hawked, including RF-excited lamps, LEDs, and several prototype laser light engines. Warner Home Media showed how a packaged media company decisively straddles the blue-laser fence. And a high-resolution video interface battle is joining the blue-laser format war. Japanese plasma manufacturers set up a not quite dead yet exhibit that clearly showed the motion-blur problems with LCD technology. LG and Sony unveiled small to midsize AM OLED HDTV displays. Panasonic proved it can indeed stuff 2 million pixels into a 42-inch plasma.
Advanced Photonix CEO Speaks About His Company
On March 5, The Wall Street Transcript interviewed Richard Kurtz, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Photonix, Inc. (API). Key excerpts follow: TWST: We would like to begin with a brief historical sketch of Advanced Photonix and a picture of the things you are doing right now. Mr. Kurtz: Advanced Photonix is an optoelectronic semiconductor components and subsystems manufacturer focused on the telecommunication, military, medical, industrial, non-destructive testing and homeland security markets. The company has three product platforms - high-speed optical receivers, optoelectronic solutions and terahertz systems and subsystems. All three of these product platforms leverage our core competencies including Indium Phosphide (InP), Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Silicon (Si) optoelectronic semiconductor design and material growth, microwave application engineering, and hybrid semiconductor circuit manufacturing.
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