January, 2009

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JVC is hot on Sharp’s heels with a HD TV with Blu-ray built in, the JVC LT-42B300.

JVC has posted details online of its first hi-def all in one, the LT-42B300, and it’s not a bad looker. The 42inch LCD panel will be full 1080p, sport two 10-watt speakers and offer three HDMI plugs, though with Blu-ray already sorted you may struggle to fill ‘em.

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N79 gets big firmware update

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Nokia N79 owners who have been itching to try out that device’s Over The Air updates – your day has come!

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Hoping for an easy way to record HD video? You won’t be getting one from Sharp any time soon: it’s just confirmed that it won’t be releasing a Blu-ray recorder this year.

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No sooner has Sharp slagged off Blu-ray recorders than it’s sticking the knife into another bit of next gen HDTV tech, saying that OLED TVs are simply “not ready for prime time”. Sharp won’t be bringing out an OLED TV anytime soon, so what’s it going to concentrate on instead?

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Sharp unleashed the world’s first Blu-Ray TV yesterday, the Aquos BD. We grabbed some alone time with it to bag the first hands-on pictures. See them all after the jump!

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In possibly the weirdest story this week – Tetris can prevent the formation of memories and could be harnessed to prevent Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, say medical researchers.

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Toshiba has whipped the dust sheets off its fresh range of Regza HDTVs for 2009. Flexing its tech pecs, this new series of super sets promise to push the TV envelope courtesy of clever developments (with silly names) such as ClearScan 240, AutoView, PixelPure 5G and Resolution+. Intrigued? You should be. Now let’s bust through the jargon…
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Toshiba has unveiled plans to bring TV Widgets to its HDTVs in 2009, by squeezing Network Players into certain new Toshiba televisions as well as launching a standalone Network Player with widget talents for TVs that don’t come network ready.
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