Sony offers two new Profile 2.0 Blu-ray players in the form of the BDP-S360 and BDP-S560. The Sony BDP-S560 features built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, fully DLNA-ready, upscales your DVD collection, bit-streams audio via HDMI, decodes Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HD Master Audio and is compatible with external media loaded up on a USB drive. The Sony BDP-S360 offers the same specs except the Wi-Fi connectivity. [Engadget]
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This post was written by Johan on March 3, 2009
Mitsubishi offers two projectors for the mass market. The WD3300U and XD3200U is perfect for schools, churches, offices, or presentation rooms. The WD3300U comes equipped with 4,000 ANSI lumens, a 2,300:1 contrast ratio, and a wide screen WXGA (1,280 x 800) resolution with a 16:10 aspect ratio. Meanwhile, the XD3200U offers 4,500 ANSI lumens, a 2,500:1 contrast ratio and a smaller XGA (1,024 x 768) resolution. Both projectors feature DLP display technology that allows you to view pictures up to 300 inch in size, diagonally. [About Projectors]
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This post was written by Johan on March 3, 2009
Art Lebedev today unveiled a futuristic USB hub design. The hub is shaped like a prism. Check out more pictures after the jump. [Art Lebedev]
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This post was written by Johan on March 3, 2009
Blockbuster Inc’s (BBI) stock is down a whopping 77% on the day and trading around $.22. It seems that the company has hired a bankruptcy firm to explore the possibility of a reorganization.
Update: Turns out Blockbuster isn’t filing for bankruptcy after all. Damn rumor mill.
From Bloomberg:
Kirkland & Ellis LLP was asked to evaluate restructuring options for the company, which may include a “pre-packaged” or “pre-arranged bankruptcy,” in which much of the restructuring work is completed out of court, the person said. A pre-packaged filing is more advanced than a pre-arranged bankruptcy as it includes agreements from creditors about the outcome of the company’s reorganization.
This just hit and we’ll keep you updated as it develops. Hopefully you didn’t take the plunge on Blockbuster’s movie streaming device; It might not work soon.
Update:
It turns out that Bloomberg’s source wasn’t correct on the purpose of Kirkland & Ellis’s hiring. The company doesn’t intend to file for bankruptcy but simply refinance for more capital. Trading on the stock was eventually halted based on the poor information causing the run on the stock.
From Bloomberg:
“We’ve hired them for refinancing and capital raising initiatives,” said Karen Raskopf, a Blockbuster spokeswoman. “We do not intend to file for bankruptcy.”
Blockbuster is working with Kirkland and Ellis on refinancing, Raskopf said. The company previously announced plans to fund its own operations through the end of 2009 after two of its credit facilities expire this August, she said.
So there you have it. No bankruptcy for Blockbuster right now.
[Thanks for the tip, Patrick]
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This post was written by Matt Burns on March 3, 2009
Still remember the Bronze and Silver LaCie CurrenKey flash drives? The company comes back with the latest model of the CurrenKey series of USB flash drives. These mini microSD memory card readers provide a read speed of 20MB/s and a write speed of 10MB/s. The iamaKey and itsaKey are available in 4GB or 8GB capacities. Pricing or availability is still unknown. We will keep you posted. [Engadget]
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This post was written by Johan on March 3, 2009
Here are two super slim GPS navigation systems from Garmin. Dubbed as the Nuvi 1300 and 1200, these gadgets feature 4.5 inch and 3.5 inch displays, respectively. The gadgets offer a lifetime free traffic information service and have a pedestrian mode. Other features include text-to-speech, and Bluetooth. The Nuvi 1300 retails for $250, meanwhile the $1200 is priced at $199. [Garmin]
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This post was written by Johan on March 3, 2009
You might not have noticed this, but if you go to upgrade your RAM to 8GB in your new iMac, you’re going to be paying a pretty penny. Now, it should be noted that 4GB DIMMS are very expensive already, so it’s certainly not all Apple markup. It seems a bit strange that they’d even offer it in a consumer system like this. Sure, if you can afford a new Mac Pro you can afford that $6100 memory upgrade, but who’s getting an iMac and willing to drop an extra grand on memory?
The problem is just that the iMac’s board only has room for 2 DIMMs. 4GB DDR3 1066MHz costs at least a couple hundy a stick. If Apple had allowed iMacs the space to have 4 DIMMs, they could sell 4×2GB DIMMs instead of 2×4GB, saving probably around $700. Evidently they weren’t interested.
[Thanks to the people at Reddit for pointing this out]
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This post was written by Devin Coldewey on March 3, 2009
Intel announced two bits of news its Atom line of low power, low cost processors this week.
First, the company has entered an agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to help produce some of Intel’s Atom chips. This is the first time Intel has outsourced production of a CPU core. The deal will help Intel meet the high demand for low cost Atom chips at a time when consumers aren’t really clamoring for computers bigger, faster, and better processors.
Second, Intel has officially announced the launch of its Z5xx line of processors. We’ve already seen a few devices like the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 and Sony Vaio P as well as some upcoming netbooks from MSI and Asus that make use of the Intel Atom Z520 and Z530 processors. Those chips run at speeds between 1.3GHz and 1.6GHz, have 512KB of L2 Cache, and 533MHz FSB speeds. But Intel has also unveiled a lower power Intel Atom Z510 chip that will run at 1.1GHz with a 400MHz FSB speed and 512KB of L2 cache.
It’s possible that the Z510 chip could show up in netbooks, UMPCs, or even cellphones and other mobile devices in the not too distant future.
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This post was written by Brad on March 3, 2009
You can now pre-order the Asus Eee TOP all-in-one desktop. The nettop will be released in the US on March 9th, 2009 for approx. $600. The mini computer adopts an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP Home OS. [Electronista]
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This post was written by Johan on March 3, 2009
MSI showed off their 20 inch Wind Top at Cebit 2009. The MSI Wind Top AE2010 offers 1600×900 touchscreen display with HD playback capabilities. As a reminder, the NetTop features AMD CPU and 780G chipsets. The desktop also offers built-in universal video decoder (UVD) to support high definition content decoding. [SlashGear]
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This post was written by Johan on March 3, 2009
