If 3D TV isn’t as popular as TV manufacturers presumably hope it might be, it’s in part because of the hassle of dealing with 3D glasses. And part of the hassle has been their proprietary nature: Major TV makers have sold specs that worked only with their own sets, which meant that you had to buy ones from your set’s manufacturer, and couldn’t switch TV brands without buying new glasses.
Web TV has a new face… and, unexpectedly, it’s not Google, Apple or any of the other brands that you’ve been waiting for to launch a television service. No, the new future of Web TV belongs, apparently, to MySpace. No, really.
Happy birthday OS X!
Those hopes you had for playing a Battlestar Galactica MMO on the bus ride to work? Shattered.
A while back, the consumer electronics giant mysteriously introduced the Jungle, a new handheld gaming system designed specifically for online play. Now, Bloomberg‘s reporting that they’re starting to sent test units out to select customers in the U.S. The report has few details as to how the rollout’s happening, but quotes the notification e-mail from Panasonic [...]
Last night, consumer electronics giant Panasonic unveiled the Jungle, a QWERTY-enabled device dedicated to MMO playing on the go. Specifics on the data connection, screen resolution and pricing aren’t yet available. On the device’s official site, Panasonic’s being coy about specs and functionality:
Once upon a time, back in the glory days of Hollywood’s studio system, vertical integration was the key. If a studio made a film, you could probably only see that movie in their theaters. From the ground up, until the Supreme Court struck it all down of course, the studios tried to perfect an insulated [...]
We typically wouldn’t cover something as mundane as the launch of a new line of 3D HDTVs but the Panasonic GT25 line of full HD 3D rigs converts 2D to 3D on the fly. We’re still in the process of testing and reviewing the VT25 that was announced at CES but we’ll surely follow that [...]
Panasonic’s HDC-SDT750 camcorder will be here in October with a price tag of $1,400. That’ll get you a decently outfitted 3-chip camcorder capable of shooting in 1080p at 60 frames per second. You’ll also get a special lens that you can attach to the camcorder, allowing you to shoot in 3D. So two cameras on [...]
I wrote a little diddy for the magazine on four ‘rugged’ cameras from Panasonic, Olympus, Pentax and Casio. I also shot a video for the dot com and the iPad, as well. You can read the story here, but the video is a bit more fun to watch.
Another TV development drops in a week that promises to be chalk full of ‘em.
