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HGST Launches 2.5-Inch CinemaStar HDDs

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 15 May 2012, 9:30 am

HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) announced its new CinemaStar 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs).

Filed under Hard Drives, News. Tagged CinemaStar C5K1000, CinemaStar Z5K500, CinemaStar Z7K500, Digital Video Recorder (DVR), HGST, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Set-Top Box (STB), SmoothStream, Western Digital (WD)

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Diablo III Rises

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 15 May 2012, 9:00 am

Blizzard Entertainment announced that it is now shipping its highly anticipated Diablo III action role-playing game for Windows and Mac.

Filed under Gaming, News. Tagged Blizzard Entertainment, Diablo III

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Vinpower Launches Xerox Lite DVD Duplicators

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 15 May 2012, 8:45 am

Vinpower Digital announced its new Xerox le (lite edition) series of standalone CD and DVD disc duplicators.

Filed under Duplication and Publishing, News, Optical Storage. Tagged CD-R, Compact Disc (CD), DVD, DVD-R, DVD-R Dual Layer (DL), Vinpower Digital, Xerox Corporation

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Buffalo Delivers 5G WiFi Router

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 15 May 2012, 7:00 am

Buffalo Technology announced that it is now shipping its AirStation WZR-D1800H wireless router and WLI-H4-D1300 wireless media bridge that employ the 802.11ac specification (5G WiFi) currently under development.

Filed under Networking and Interfaces, News. Tagged 802.11ac, Buffalo Technology, Wi-Fi, WLI-H4-D1300, WZR-D1800H

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HDTVs Rule the Roost for Video Viewing

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 14 May 2012, 4:48 pm

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced its latest study suggests that U.S. consumers still prefer to use televisions to watch video.

Filed under Consumer Electronics, Market Research, News. Tagged 3DTV, Connected TV, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), HDTV, Organic light emitting diode (OLED), Smart TV, United States

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LG Demos Google TV

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 14 May 2012, 1:40 pm

LG Electronics announced that it is conducting live demonstrations of its Google TV models at Internet Week New York, which runs from May 14-17, 2012.

Filed under News. Tagged 3DTV, Google, Google TV, HDTV, LG Cinema 3D, LG Electronics

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Lenovo Smart TV Offers DTS Audio

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 14 May 2012, 8:30 am

DTS, Inc. announced that Lenovo has integrated DTS 2.0 + Digital Out audio technology into its K91 smart TV.

Filed under Consumer Electronics, News. Tagged China, DTS, DTS 2.0 + Digital Out, Lenovo, Smart TV

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NVIDIA CUDA Compiler Goes Open Source

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 13 May 2012, 8:32 am

NVIDIA Corporation announced that the LLVM open source compiler now supports NVIDIA’s Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

Filed under News, Software. Tagged CUDA, Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM), NVIDIA Corporation

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Bang & Olufsen Unveils BeoPlay V1 Television

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 12 May 2012, 7:00 am

Bang & Olufsen announced that its new BeoPlay V1 television will be available in the U.S., Canada and Mexico by the end of May 2012.

Filed under Consumer Electronics, News. Tagged B&O PLAY, Bang & Olufsen, HDTV

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US Flat-Panel TV Prices On the Uptick

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 11 May 2012, 1:00 pm

IHS announced it reckons that flat-panel TV prices in the U.S. surged in early 2012 due to a shift in strategy by brands and retailers.

Filed under Consumer Electronics, Market Research, News. Tagged 3D, 3DTV, Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL), Connected TV, HDTV, IHS Inc., IHS iSuppli, Light Emitting Diode (LED), Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Plasma Display Panel (PDP), Smart TV, Stereoscopic 3D (S3D)

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