Monday, April 12, 2010

Seagate teams with Paramount, pre-loads movies onto 500GB FreeAgent Go

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/seagate-teams-with-paramount-pre-loads-movies-onto-500gb-freeag/

Another fine day in paradise, another fine external hard drive for archivists to consider. Seagate has just announced its latest FreeAgent Go USB 2.0 drive, a pocket-sized external HDD with a 2.5-inch 500GB disc in there ready to be stuffed with your favorite blurred images and shakycam videos from the decade that was... except for the 20GB or so that's already claimed. In a move that may or may not be indicative of forward progress in the fight to free digital content, Seagate has partnered with Paramount Pictures in order to pre-load these drives with Star Trek (yes, the 2009 version), which can be unlocked gratis and shuffled about as you please after you register the drive. Additionally, 20 other titles are pre-loaded, and those guys can be "easily and securely unlocked through the online purchase of a license key," with pricing ranging from $9.99 to $14.99 per film. We had an opportunity to fire up Star Trek, and we must say -- the whole unlocking process was pretty painless on a Windows 7 rig. We didn't splurge on a third ninth copy of Nacho Libre, but we're pretty sure that masterpiece would be similarly easy to tap into. Oh, and if you'd rather just have free space rather than movies you already own / couldn't care less about, the delete command works wonders.

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Samsung i8910 HD runs 62 apps at once, multitaskers bow their heads

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/samsung-i8910-hd-runs-62-apps-at-once-multitaskers-bow-their-he/

While iPhone 3G owners and would-be Windows Phone 7 buyers sit in the corner, quietly weeping over their lack of true multitasking, webOS and Symbian continue to point and laugh. In mid-January, a Palm Pre Plus was seen cackling with joy over its rivals' misfortune even as the device staggered under the weight of 50 simultaneous applications, and less than a week later, a Samsung Omnia HD performed the very same feat, despite having only half the Pre Plus' RAM (i.e. 256MB) to work with. Now, in what we can only interpret as a large middle finger and "come here" gesture to all who aspire to the cell phone multitasking heavyweight title, we have a video of the i8910 running no less than sixty-two applications thanks to a custom ROM by HyperX. Watch in stunned silence as a finger scrolls through them, right after the break.

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Panasonic's AF100 Micro Four Thirds video camera considers itself 'professional'

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/panasonics-af100-micro-four-thirds-video-camera-considers-itsel/

We're not sure where Panasonic gets off calling its AG-AF100 a "professional" digital video camera. It's certainly not in the same class as RED or ARRI Alexa. It is, however, a very interesting video rig for shooting flicks on a budget with its Micro Four Thirds sensor and collection of micro 4/3 lenses, filters, and adapters. The AF100 records native 1080/24p using the AVC/ H.264 Hi Profile AVCHD codec to a pair of SD slots supporting both SDHC and newer SDXC removable media. The AVCCAM HD camcorder features a pair of XLR inputs, 48-kHz/16-bit two-channel digital audio recording, and supports LPCM/Dolby-AC3; it also packs USB 2.0, HD-SDI out, HDMI, a built-in stereo mic, and time code recording. So yeah, it won't record the next Hollywood blockbuster but it'll probably do fine by indie filmmakers without breaking the film school budget. Perhaps we'll better understand all this professional talk when Panny reveals its price in time for a year-end launch.

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Sharp's 3D tablet panel doesn't require glasses, RGBY 3D TVs launching this summer do

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/sharps-3d-tablet-panel-doesnt-require-glasses-rgby-3d-tvs-lau/

Don't think Sharp's going to sit by and let Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony have all the 3D TV fun. The Japanese company, and fourth-largest LCD TV maker, plans to begin selling its own 3D TVs in Japan this summer before launching in the US, Chinese, and European markets sometime later in the year. To prove it, Sharp ponied up some sample RGBY ("Y" for yellow) 3D LCD panels it claims to be the "industries brightest" in sizes up to 60-inches. While these biggie panels all require active 3D shutter glasses for the extra-dimensional effect, Sharp was also showing off a 10.1-inch 3D display prototype for netbooks or tablets that -- like its 3.4-inch parallax barrier display announced last week and suspected to be headed to Ninty town -- doesn't require glasses at all and can be produced with or without a touchscreen. No word on when that pup might begin mass production, however. 60-inch panel pictured after the break with a real live woman doing the pointing -- amazing.

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

iPhone OS 4 Has Video Chat, Group Chat Code [Iphone Video Chat]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5514326/iphone-os-4-has-video-chat-group-chat-code

iPhone OS 4 Has Video Chat, Group Chat Code9to5Mac dug up references to video conferencing—hosted on Apple's own servers—as well as group chat rooms and chat moderators in iPhone OS 4. That's good news.

The group chat and moderator stuff are unique to iPhone and aren't found in iChat on the Mac, so it's more-or-less legit as far as it being FOR the iPhone. 9to5Mac guesses that the group chat is for the Game Center, which makes sense, since if you wanted to have a group chat now you can do so over the regular phone network.

The video chat is definitely something we're looking forward to though, and hope that it's interoperable with iChat on the Mac (maybe an iChat for PC too). But to be fair, the existence of the code inside iPhone OS 4—especially right now—doesn't guarantee that the feature will come at OS 4's release in Summer. [9to5Mac - Thanks maj0!]

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