Today LG Electronics announced a mew LCD TV panel which will be the world’s thinnest, measuring just 2.6mm thick. The announcement was timed as a promotion for the company’s exhibit at CES, where the new panels will be on display.
The reduction in panel thickness was made possible in part through the use of LED backlighting. This also improves image quality compared to older LCD panels
The panels also feature a 120Hz refresh rate and full HD (1080P) resolution.
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Toshiba Corp. has unveiled a bunch of new products at the IFA Consumer Electronics Tradeshow (2009) in Berlin, including it’s first Blu-ray stand-alone player and Blu-ray equipped multimedia laptop. A new upscaling DVD player promising, “stunning, near-HD 1080p picture quality from standard DVDs” is also included in the new products, as well as an LED-backlit LCD television, three new Camileo HD camcorders and a new touchscreen Mobile Internet Device.
Here is some information, pictures and videos of the new products shown off by Toshiba.
Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray Disc Player
Toshiba UK announced the launch of the BDX2000 Blu-ray player, offering high image quality with a sophisticated design and underscoring Toshiba’s commitment to High-definition entertainment and the Blu-ray format it once was fighting against. Of course, the player touts full HD 1080p output and also the ability to play content at 24fps. Supporting BD-Live (Profile 2.0), the BDX2000 allows users to take advantage of interactive features through an Ethernet connection. It will become available in December 2009. (No Price info yet)
More Information
BD-Live (Profile 2.0) & BonusView
1080p Full HD Video Output
DivX & AVCHD Playback
Toshiba REGZA-LINK (HDMI-CEC)
Support for enhanced audio formats from Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio | Essential
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The guys over at The Pirate Bay have announced the launch of a new freeware video converter, dubbed the Vio Mobile Video Converter.
The company claims “The ViO mobile video converter converts virtually any web video format file into a file that’s 100% compatible with your portable media device, compressing it up to 20% of its original size without any reduction in image quality. ViO converts your media faster than any tool on the market today.”
The program also “comes complete with general audio/video settings and you can also personalize your ViO experience even more with advanced audio/video settings. For example, you can customize the size of the output file and its BitRate is calculated automatically.”
The site notes the program is also optimized for Blackberry users. Best of all, its free.
