Posts Tagged ‘Full HD’
Slimmest LED Monitors of the World Now Comes to India
Leading LED monitor brand, BenQ, has launched the world’s three slimmest LED monitors–BenQ V2220, V2420 and V920 LED in India.
“With the launch of the three new V series models spanning HD to full HD, 18.5″ wide to 24″, the company has lined-up 8 models in the India market,” BenQ India’s Vice- President (Sales & Product Management), Rajeev Singh, told reporters here.
“BenQ V series is energy efficient and consumes 44 per cent less energy than other LED monitors,” Singh said.
BenQ V series will be now available pan-India at Rs 8,999 (V920), Rs 14,999 (V2220) and Rs 18,900 for V2420 model.
The company has a marketshare of 10-12 per cent in India in the monitor segment and plans to increase it to 15 per cent with the launch these models by this year-end.
“Our product is very unique and we expect at least 15 per cent market share by end of this year,” he said.
BenQ India, is a part of the BenQ Corporation. The Taiwan-based company offers unrivalled breadth and depth of products and integrated technologies across platforms.
Gaming Notebook Has Touch, Full HD, Core i7
The latest touch-enabled gaming laptop doesn’t look too shabby.
IBUYPOWER sent over a press release Tuesday afternoon announcing its Battalion Touch CZ-11, a new multi-touch gaming notebook that houses Intel’s Core i7 processor and AMD’s 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5650 graphics. The “game-ready” configuration pricetag isn’t all that bad either–$1,200–however gamers can configure the laptop to their specific needs and budgets for as low as $1100.
“Multi touch is one of the fastest growing PC gaming interfaces,” said Darren Su, Executive Vice President of iBUYPOWER. “Pairing those capabilities with a Core i7 processor, high definition LCD and graphics card allows the CZ-11 to meet the mobile gaming needs of almost any user.”
This portable rig provides a 15.6-inch, Full HD, multi-touch capable LCD with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080. Also thrown into the mix is Windows 7 Home Premium, a fingerprint reader, 4GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard drive, and an optional 2X Blu-ray drive.
Gamers wanting to max out this laptop can option for the meatier Intel Core i7-820QM processor, 8GB of DDR3, and a 512GB Corsair Performance Series P512 MLC SSD. Ultimately gamers can spend well over $4300 on the laptop, and that includes Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Edition and popular PC games such as Mass Effect 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Modern Warfare 2, and Bioshock 2 tacked onto the pricetag.
Sony Unveils New Range of Home Theatre Systems
Sony has introduced a brand new line-up of its Home Theatre Systems.
The new range of Home Theatre Systems in the DAV DZ range come equipped with ‘USB Play’, ‘Audio Return Channel’ and ‘DVD Up scale’ function to provide high quality sound and allow Full HD equivalent 1080p resolution Video from even a Standard Definition Input.
The USB Play/Ripping option allows users to play as well as record to a USB device. With FM recording, users can record FM songs on the USB device. Sony has also introduced an ‘Audio Return Channel’ feature that eliminates the need for additional audio connections as it can receive audio signals via single HDMI connection from the TV to the DAV system.
The new DAV-DZ series can receive audio signals via a single HDMI connection between an Audio Return Channel-enabled TV and Home Theatre System.
The ‘DVD Up scale’ function converts Standard Definition Signal (480) to 1080p full High Definition Video signal, which means users can enjoy full HD equivalent Video even from non HD content.
Priced between Rs. 16, 990 and Rs. 29,990, the new range of Home Theatres systems will be available across all Sony Center stores and other major electronic outlets across India from 25th February, 2010.
Western Digital Introduces WD TV LIVE HD Media Player
Western Digital has introduced the WD TV Live HD media player featuring network capability and Full-HD 1080p resolution. The new WD TV Live HD media player makes it possible for anyone to play HD videos stored on USB and network drives, as well as Internet content from popular Web sites. The GUI is also souped up, with Video preview being new candy.
The network capability of the WD TV Live media player enables users to stream or transfer movies from PC or Mac computers or a network-attached storage device. The WD TV Live media player also allows users to stream rich content from YouTube, Flickr and Pandora.
“The media enthusiast community has embraced the first WD TV HD media player and given us tremendous feedback,” said Sharad Srivastava, Director, Director India and South Asia, Western Digital. “With the new WD TV Live media player we’re giving them what they asked for — network connectivity and Internet-content streaming capabilities — and offering them a simple way to enjoy all of their digital media and enjoy it on their HD TVs.”
Features of the WD TV Live HD Media Player include:
Full-HD 1080p video playback
Ethernet port for wired or WiFi connection to access files anywhere on the network to play movies, music, and photos from any PC or drive on a home network;
Two USB ports for seamless media playback from multiple USB drives and ability to access them simultaneously
Picture Transfer Protocol support to show photos and movies directly from digital camera or video camera
HDMI 1.3 port, composite video and component video output
SPDIF digital output
The WD TV Live Media Player is available through select distributors and retailers and is covered by a 1-year limited warranty. The MSRP for WD TV Live Media Player is Rs 10,500.
Asus O Play Air HDP-R3 Media Player
HD media players have sprung out of every rabbit hole in wonderland, the concept has proliferated faster than you can imagine. It’s a great concept no doubt, who needs those bulky old DVD players anyways now that we have HDD form factors that play even our high def 1080p video files? But all of them don’t play these files alike, and that’s where we come in to separate the quality out, and today we have Asus latest offering up for examination. It’s called the O! Play Unlimited, and going by the fact that its parent brand has impressed us in many ways previously, let’s not waste any more time in checking this one out.
Design
The device is typical in that it resembles uncannily a 1 TB Hard disk these days, but functionally it has no storage. You have to connect your own storage to it. The top and bottom edges are matte finished, with 3 of the 4 sides covered by a glossy black strip. The lone backside is again matte, and has the connections located therein. The features of this player are quite good, besides the regular connectors of USB 2.0 we also have eSATA, which is MUCH faster than the former. There is also Memory card reader support.
Beside playing off storage this unit has other capabilities, and those have to do with a certain something called the internet. Besides playing HD files off a remote storage with Wi-Fi (upto Wi-Fi ‘n’), this unit also connects to the world wide web and accesses the Youtube, NBC, Fox sports, PICASA, Flickrs of the world. Not only that it also syncs to Internet radio stations, loads of them (according to the specs).
One of the most important things in this category of products is file format compatibility. The more the merrier, for sure; Asus sure gets this, and have tried to incorporate lots of audio video formats dear to our hearts.
Specs
Input:
• DC Power In
•1xUSB 2.0 Port
•1xUSB 2.0 / eSATA Combo Port
•RJ-45 LAN Port
•Card readers CF, SD+MMC, MS+MS Duo
•802.11n Wireless Networking
Output:
•Composite Video
•Composite Audio L/R
•S/PDIF Out
•HDMI 1.3
Supported Formats
•Video: MPEG1/2/4,RM/RMVB,VC-1,H.264
•Video File: .trp,.mp4,.mov,.xvid,.avi,.divx,.asf,.wmv,.mkv,.rm,.rmvb,.flv,.ts,.m2ts,.dat,.mpg,.vob,.mts,
•Audio: MP3,WAV,AAC,OGG,FLAC,AIFF,Dolby Digital AC3,Dolby Digital Plus,DTS Digital Surround,Tag ID3
•Image: JPEG,BMP,PNG,GIF,TIFF
•Subtitle: SRT,SUB,SMI,SSA,TXT(SRT)
Performance
The first thing to talk about was the menu, which had large icons arranged in a circle, which rotates around to display the main one. I would prefer a list form of UI to this any day. The color schema dn font size are alritght, no problem in readability.
The video output was sharp and crisp detail wise, it was very impressive in terms of the absence of dirty edge distortion or blurry edges in motion. The motion was stutter free almost, except in a full bitrate VOB file, which took a little while to start and sync up. The colors again were nicely saturated, we could not gauge any blotchiness or color banding, again a very impressive feat. This was observed in even 1080p MKVs.
Setting up wireless connections is as easy as selecting it from the list of detected networks, and entering your password. HD files streamed almost flawlessly from a distance of 8 feet, with a wall in the middle. thast mpressive.
Rs. 10,500 excluding taxes is the rate one has to shell out, which we feel is a decent price to ask, considering the market has product similarly priced. This model has superior wireless performance, plus core playback of all formats was handled with confidence. The menu was alright; could have been less quirky, but then that’s the only complaint we have. It’s a solid player.
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