Archive for April 9th, 2008

IO Data unveils DiXiM HVL4-G2.0 NAS for Regza HDTVs

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage IO Data took the wraps off of a new HDD unit made specifically to attach to those new Regza ZH500s, the DiXim HVL4-G2.0 is compliant with the latest DLNA / DTCP-IP standards to easily record TV shows via the network. It's got space for four drives ...

Toshiba’s 10 new REGZA LCDs: 3x Ethernet, built-in DVR, and much much more

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment In Japan, the hand can be used as a knife. And you can't swing a Yume Neko Smile cat without defacing a 1080p TV with built-in Ethernet and a hard disk drive recorder. Case in point, Toshiba's latest batch of REGZA LCDs, ten in all. ...

Symwave demoes FireWire 1600 gear

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Filed under: Peripherals, StorageThe 1394 Trade Association is already talking up FireWire S3200, but Symwave is taking baby steps, demonstrating a 1.6Gbps system known as S1600 (shocking) that's backwards-compatible with FireWire 800 and 400 this week at a conference in China. That's great and all -- transferring 1000 four megapixel ...

Siemens’ Gigaset SE68 WiMAX ExpressCard arrives before the network

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Filed under: Wireless Talk about putting the cart before the horse. Without a bona fide WiMAX network for mass consumer use up and running yet here in America, Siemens is making sure you're really ready for its onset by announcing its first WiMAX ExpressCard. The Gigaset SE68 WiMAX is based on ...

LG touchscreen UI contest ends… in a racecar?

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones We're not sure how LG managed to hold a touchscreen UI design contest with a $14K prize without telling anyone, but it certainly did -- and keeping things on the DL probably explains why "Driving," pictured above, was the winning entry. The "Art in Mobile" contest started last ...