Microsoft's Zune has managed to gain enough sales in the first quarter of this year to reach 4% of the MP3 player market, making it the 3rd most popular MP3 player brand. SanDisk has also managed to increase its market share slightly to 11%. Unfortunately for Creative, its market share has made a significant drop, falling from 4% in the first quarter of 2007 to just 2% in the same quarter this year. Apple still clearly leads, falling just 1%...
According to a user thread at Blu-ray.com, Blu-ray disc players manufactured by Funai have started appearing at some Wal-Mart stores priced at $298. This player is their first generation player and is branded as Magnavox, model #NB500MG9. According to the writer, Funai is a Japanese company and is the largest OEM DVD player manufacturer for North America with its manufacturing factories located in China.
This Blu-ray player at...
Last week, gamers got rather angry when they found out that EA is implementing the controversial SecuROM DRM system in their upcoming PC games such as Mass Effect and Spore. EA's plan was to use this DRM system to carry out online verification of the CD key every 5 to 10 days to ensure the key has not been published online or used in some form of piracy. If the key cannot be verified, the software will try again over the next 10 days, after which the user will be...
Samsung has launched their newest high-def camcorder that takes high-resolution pictures and shoots slow-motion at 300 frames per second. In January the company already showcased the prototype of the released HMX20 and delivers 1080p full HD and 8-megapixel images. A nice feature is that it can take pictures while recording video.
The most important feature is the slow-motion shooting mode that tapes video at 300fps. Normally video is recorded at 30fps and...
Klipsch Audio Technologies is a company that's known for their knowledge in both design and audio solutions. With their goal to attract "upper-echelon customers", they come with an environmentally friendly approach to offer a handcrafted piece of furniture. The company's flagship product, Palladium P-39F floorstanding loudspeaker, uses not a zebrawood veneer but a look-a-like.
Zebrawood has the right look-and-feel and is very popular with a...
Plextor has announced a new generation of Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives that are targeted to both SOHO users and small businesses. The company says that they used the success of their previous range and re-engineered the unit and its interface. Plextor comes with a 500GB and 1TB version, called the Plextor StorX PX-NAS500L and PX-NAS-1000L.
The optical and hard disk manufacturer stated that the NAS drive is made for people in different...
For those unlucky customers that bought a HD DVD player, there is a new firmware update. Version 3.0 should improve the network connectivity for supporting downloads of web-enabled network content on some HD DVD movies.
With this being the first update after the format's withdrawal from the battle grounds, we can say Toshiba didn't announce this update with the usual bells and celebrations. As silent as possible the Japanese giant did what they could...
Yesterday Traxdata announced the availability of their new 16GB Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) storage product, and its new miniSDHC and microSDHC memory cards. You can store approximately 5,000 four-megapixel images or six hours and 40 minutes of MPEG-2 video on the 16GB SDHC memory card.
“The 16GB SDHC and the additional miniSDHC and microSDHC memory cards are the next step in extending our existing wide range of flash memory cards....
Besides being a gaming console, playground and a Blu-ray player, the Playstation 3 will now also be 'TV' with PlayTV. PlayTV is a new device that allows you to watch digital TV on your Playstation 3. A USB tuner delivers the streamed free-to-air digital programming, but with PlayTV you can also record the video content.
It's good that all Playstation 3 models are compatible, but the device will take more space than PC-based model, says GameSpot....
