WutangFlu Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Wow.. I was looking through IGN and found some interesting stuff from CES 2006 http://www.ign.com/ces/index.html http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679462p1.html ^ New Sony Cypber-Shot !! wow thats a big screen, and SO thin!, and 58mb of internal memory Wow.... January 6, 2006 - Sony's Cyber-shot line of digital cameras have been quite popular at retail shelves, especially its T-line of slim Cyber-shot cameras. The latest in the line is the Cyber-shot DSC-T9, which Sony has readily on display at CES 2006. The camera features Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization in order to keep images from blurring because of hand movement. A higher ISO sensitivity and clear RAW noise reduction are said to enable the camera to work much better in low-light conditions. The camera also features 58MB of internal memory, as no flash card of any sort is needed. http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679513p1.html -103'' plasma TV :| January 6, 2006 - TV makers around the world have been racing to shell out the biggest and brightest new plasma screens, often sacrificing quality for size. But videophiles may soon find the holy grail of plasma sets in their local electronics ship -- at least, if Panasonic has its way -- and without any traditional drawbacks. The company unveiled a whopping 103" plasma display at the Consumer Electronics Show 2006 in Las Vegas this week and it did so using the same technology that powers its critically acclaimed 50" and 65" lines. The prototype unit delivers viewers more than two million pixels at 1920x1080 (1080p) native resolution. Panasonic claims that it has overcome technical hurdles in making 100"-plus plasma screens with the new unit, which successfully maintains a smooth picture and deep, rich black levels. The TV maker developed a new rib and phosphor for the set, which is roughly four times the size of the 50" panels, and as a result the 103" monster can deliver the same accurate images as its predecessors. The set incorporates Panasonic's 1080p HD high-speed pixel drive -- the same tech used in the TH-65PX500 65" 1080p plasma that hit Japan last November. "Demand for large-screen and high picture quality TVs is expected to further increase as digital HD broadcasting service continues to expand throughout the world. Also penetration of HD contents as well as Blu-ray Disc recorders and players will drive demand," said Hiroyuki Nagano, director, PDP Device Business Unit of Panasonic AVC Networks Company. "Since Plasma is a self-illuminating device, it offers superior characteristics on several measures including dynamic contrast, true-to-life color reproduction, quick response time for sports and programs with fast-moving images and a wider viewing angle, an important factor for large screen display. These features make the Plasma panel an ideal device for a large screen TV, and, as a result, global demand for Plasma TV is growing rapidly." He continued: "Until now, the market for 100-plus-inch screens was dominated by front projection TVs. Panasonic now realizes another option in this sector. Our 103-inch 1080p PDP promises high quality images with high brightness, dynamic contrast, high resolution and excellent color reproduction that projection displays cannot match. We believe it will create strong demand as a multipurpose display for business, educational and medical applications as well as home theater use." The company did not announce when the plasma would be available in the US, but it's likely to arrive before the end of the year. No pricing information was made available. http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679405p1.html ^DELLS INSANE READ THIS! OMG January 6, 2006 - At lunch on Thursday, Michael Dell, founder of Dell computers, gave a select group of gaming journalists, including yours truly, a first glimpse at his company's latest and greatest gaming products. Dell was unequivocal in his enthusiasm for PC gaming, and backed up his statements with some rather impressive hardware announcements. While many had suspected the release of a new edition of Dell's XPS gaming line, few knew quite how far Dell was willing to take things. With considerable flourish, Dell himself unveiled the XPS 600 Renegade, a limited edition gaming PC boasting not just a gnarly looking paintjob, but the be-all-end all of PC gaming: 4 Nvidia 7800 GPUs, running through dual card SLI boards at 16x, as well as a factory-overclocked Intel Extreme Edition 4.26 GHz CPU. By far the most powerful gaming computer yet known to man, Dell cited tech-specs at 1.3 billion transistors within the GPUs and 2 gigabytes of dedicated frame buffer memory, as well as benchmark figures of 41 Gigaflops per second and a total of 5.2 TFLOPs. Suffice to say, the Renegade is a beast of here-to-fore unknown power. http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679235p1.html ^New TV Technology "SED" upto 100,000:1 contrast ratios :| January 5, 2006 - We use plasma sets and we use LCDs. We like them. They're stylish. And their respective picture qualities have gotten better and better over the years. Not quite up to the black levels or the response times of standard CRT setups, sure, but nevertheless pretty damned good. The new plasmas from Pioneer and Panasonic are particularly impressive. And yet, a new technology from Toshiba promises to do the unthinkable and combine the best of CRT with the best of flat-panel displays. If we hadn't seen this impressive new tech for ourselves at CES 2006, we'd be quick to shrug it off, but having beheld it, we're here to confidently state that plasma and LCD better watch out. Toshiba is planning to release this new line of unbelievably accurate flat-panel sets in late 2006. The technology is called "Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display" (yes, that's a mouthful) or SED for short. The electronics maker showcased prototype SED sets at CES and every IGN editor on-hand was in agreement: nothing else compares. So how does it all work? SED sets use 6,220,800 electron emitters - or one for each color per pixel, to be precise - which cause red, blue and green phosphors to glow. That may not mean much to most, but the results will definitely matter. Toshiba's CES 2006 SED sets featured the deepest black levels we have ever seen on any television, including CRT - and these televisions are as flat as any plasma! Consider this: the typical plasma set sports a contrast ratio of 3000:1, but Toshiba's prototype SEDs offer a whopping 10,000:1 contrast ratio for truly unparalleled color and accuracy. Toshiba took us into a dark demo room with three 42" SEDs inside. The sets displayed a variety of video, from a boat moving along the ocean at night to a woman examining a pretty artifact. We were continually amazed by how rich and deep the blacks were in these pictures, and always without sacrificing image detail. The graying effect commonly associated with low contrast ratios was not only missing from these videos, but the 16x9 "letterbox bars" were so deeply black that the pictures looked to be coming out of the nearby wall and not displayed on a television at all. It gets better. The prototype SEDs on-hand at CES 2006 are far from finished, according to company spokespersons. The sets we viewed were running in 720p and not the standard 1080p that SEDs will accommodate later this year. Meanwhile, the 42" SEDs we saw will be axed in favor of a base size that begins at 55", Toshiba promises. The SEDs will also deliver a 1 millisecond response time, which guarantees that blurring or refresh issues will be a thing of the past. And get this - craziest of all, the final SEDs will ship with a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 to one. Yes, we wrote that correctly -- one-hundred thousand to one. Toshiba reps are confident of SED, calling these sets the "new standard." And having seen them in motion, we agree. These babies are beautiful and nothing else that we've seen even comes close. Unfortunately, the electronics maker was hush-hush on pricing for SEDs and would not even venture to give us a ballpark figure for these televisions. That noted, previous reports on the technology state that it can be mass-produced on a cheaper scale than competing plasma or LCD televisions. We've grabbed a couple of images of the SED presentation we attended. Unfortunately, these dark shots do not do the sets justice so for now you'll just have to take our word that this tech is going to deliver big in 2006. Your Throughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman089 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 My thoughts? Wow, this would be really cool if I coulda afford any of this crap. Gamertag: King Arizona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrune Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 My thoughts? Wow, this would be really cool if I coulda afford any of this crap. EXACTLY :lol: And no lol why do you always want to get stuff from John Lewis. Its over ̣̉300 more then than what i paid. John Lewis is a great, great shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Putter Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 The new Blue-ray vs. HD-DVD battle is gonna get on my nerves...They are supposedly better than regular DVD's (good enough for everyone to go out and completely rebuy their collection, I highly doubt), and here's the thing: you need a Blu-ray DVD player to play blu-ray disks, and a HD-DVD player to play those, and they are not compatible :?. And since Playstation 3 is backing blue-rays, and Xbox360 is backing HD-DVD's, I sence a really stupid war that will end in regular DVD's reigning supreme. What's the point? They only decent thing is that both types of players are backwords compatible to regular DVD's (as far as I know). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubsa Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Blu-rays can hold a lot more storage than DVDs, but I agree with you. This is bound to annoy us all. I never thought there would be disc-fanboys, but I'm sure there will be soon. This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knives669 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I'm going to sell all my earthly possessions that I may buy this new gaming computer... :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjiskebab5 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 wow dude, that pc is like 'awmagad i want one for xmass mum11!!1!' 4.26 Ghz...beats my 3.2Ghz processor :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WutangFlu Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 wow dude, that pc is like 'awmagad i want one for xmass mum11!!1!' 4.26 Ghz...beats my 3.2Ghz processor :roll: and 5.2 TFLOPS XB360 is in on 1.XXX TFLOPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrune Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Flop And no lol why do you always want to get stuff from John Lewis. Its over ̣̉300 more then than what i paid. John Lewis is a great, great shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 That camera looks like a winner, wonder how long until these things go on sale? That computer is pretty cool, but I don't think we'll be seeing it in the weekly Dell ads that are in the newspaper for anything cheap :P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apinagez Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Now imagine adding a TV board to that comp, connecting it to the 103" TV. Then imagine yourself playing in that. For the sake of the holy lobster :shock: ^The most disturbing signature on Tip.it^Last.fm|HELLY KAYLA!|Oh the mehagurtz!|#Siencemakers"they care less about their spelling mistakes then I." - Lionheart"apinagez... let me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runesmithie Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Now imagine adding a TV board to that comp, connecting it to the 103" TV. Then imagine yourself playing in that. For the sake of the holy lobster :shock: Oh boy! Inch high pixels! :D I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WutangFlu Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 Now imagine adding a TV board to that comp, connecting it to the 103" TV. Then imagine yourself playing in that. For the sake of the holy lobster :shock: Oh boy! Inch high pixels! :D it would be running 1080p :P i beleive thats 2mil+ pixels.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augsback Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 My thoughts? I'm really jealous because I would of loved to of went. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WutangFlu Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 My thoughts? I'm really jealous because I would of loved to of went. :D My sister and brother in-law were there on a honeymoon this past week :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Militaris Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I doubt the Cyber-shot DSC-T9 would be any good compared with Canon or Panasonics offering. A few other Ultra slims which were released at the show. HP R725 http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06010409hpr725.asp Fuji FinePix V10 Zoom http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06010403fuji_v10.asp PENTAX Optio A10 http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06010 ... ax_a10.asp Samsung Digimax i6 PMP http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06010301samsungi6.asp The Fuji and Pentax could be interesting. Although pentax have been missin the mark lately. The fuji could have good ISO abilities, although the '3 game gimmick' is quite disturbing. A good camera would sell itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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