Gadgety News

A lot of emphasis has been put on getting the best pic from your google-box with high-definition but what about the audio people?

Well, French TV station - TNT is the world’s first to broadcast a Dolby Digital Plus track over a terrestrial signal.

The Dolby system is said to be just the thing for limited bandwidth applications like terrestrial broadcasts, as the original Dolby Digital bitstreams are maintained and can still be decoded.

Not sure when this will travel across the Channel though.

Marketwatch via CrunchGear

EuroTech have just launched their new iPod docking station, the movieCENTER.

As the name suggests you can connect your iPod to the dock and then get your iPod content through your stereo or TV.

They claim that the device incorporates

“powerful processing technology that transforms iPod movies and music into a more realistic and immersive experience”.

This technology includes:

• TruBass processing for subwoofer like performance from ordinary stereo or TV speakers.
• Dialog Clarity tool that creates a virtual center speaker “that lets you hear even the quietest whisper in crystal clear detail no matter how much background action there is“
• There is also a tool to process surround sound.

The movieCENTER comprises a compact black dock and remote control, a shielded audio cable with gold-plated connectors, component and composite video outputs and a USB input.

The Xitel movieCENTER is available in the UK now for £59.99.

Fancy hooking up your iPod to your telly without the need for trailing wires and such?

Well playing iPod video content on your main gogglebox has just got even easier thanks to the new range of JVC LCD TVs.

These tv’s have a built-in iPod dock but I’m not entirely sure if the curvy new iPhone will fit or not :0/

Each of the four new models, including three full HD 1080p sets, features JVC’s new TeleDock.

Just flip-down the iPod dock at the base of the set and shazaam!

The P-Series includes the 32-inch LT-32P679, 42-inch LT-42P789, 47-inch LT-47P789 and the 52-inch LT-52P789.

The LT-32P679 is a 768p model, while the others offer 1080p resolution.

The iPod will actually charge while docked whether the TV’s power is on or off :0)

As well as the iPod connectivity mullarky there are also three HDMI inputs, two component inputs, one S-video input, SPDIF input and an analog audio output for sending sound from an iPod or the TV through a home theater system.

The 52-inch LT-52P789 JVC LCD TV will be available from August for around the £1,700 mark.

Via - Fareastgizmos

As you will have heard, Freesat will go up against Sky’s HD service and will be available across the UK - in fact - in 98% of homes.

Users will have to make a one-off payment for a dish, set-top box and installation, but will not pay a monthly subscription.

As you’ve got to track down your own dish you might as well get something a bit more groovy - enter the Sqish!

Suitable to receive Sky as well as Freesat broadcasts, Sqish dishes come with the bonus of “sqishoflage” stickers .

Squishes are from around £150, plus £25 for a sticker, available now.

Sony has confirmed that their Play TV service will be out in September and will hit your wallet to the tune of 99 euros (£78).

PlayTV is an add-on gadget for the PS3 and effectively turns the console into a personal video recorder (PVR), although you have to keep in mind the puny 40GB hard drive.

It brags dual TV tuners with full access to Freeview, so users can record one channel while watching another and take advantage of the usual Freeview features. A seven-day EPG is also featured for easy channel surfing.

The bestest feature for Sony fans is the PS3’s link up with the PSP, so owners of both consoles can record and watch TV remotely using Wi-Fi, effectively turning the combination into a personal global TV channel.  Bonus!

This tiny work of art is JVC’s new Direct-Drive Image Light Amplifier and it can produce images at an eye-popping 8192 x 4320 resolution—that’s 35 megapixels-or around 16 times more than full HD!

JVC are saying the little single-device reflective liquid crystal imager has the highest resolution in the World - so there!

They’ve been working on this tech since 2003, refining the pixel count and contrast upwards with each generation.

Last year JVC made a 1.27-inch 4096 x 2400 version, which went on sale in a projector in February 2008. So does that mean we’ll see the new 1.75-inch, 20,000:1 version in projectors soon? It is likely, but not neccessarily for the home set-up.

via Akihabaranews

Television is dead - long live television!

All you digital-dodgers bewarned!  Your days are numbered.  The big boys have stopped selling anologue goggle-boxes.  Curry’s have announced that they are only now stocking digital tele’s.

Let’s face it;  they’ve been a dying breed for years now, partly due to the imminent switch over that’s taking place between now and 2012 and also thanks to our burgeoning obsession with monster screens and all things LCD or Plasma.

The out-of-town store people say they will continue to push integrated boobtubes, letting punters use an in-built freeview tuner to watch digital pics.

However, with slick HD ready tellies flying off the shelves, most buyers would rather have the fancier option of an LCD panel.  Curry’s says that 90% of the TVs they shift are digital anyway.

DVD players with only analogue tuners are also getting the chop, so best start thinking about where you sit in the HD wars if you’re in the market for a disc spinner……buy dual format if you can - tis the safe bet ;0,

T3