HDTV, 3D TV's & more 2010

The 3D Revolution Is Here. Get Ready for 3D, More LEDs, OLEDS, Pixels, and Web Services.

I don't think it's a false start this time: The 3D-product plans for the coming year represent the initial salvos of the coming 3D revolution. Panasonic's 3D demos were among the most convincing. But the best implementation I saw, unfortunately, is one that won't be coming to market anytime soon: Sony showed its 24.5-inch 3D OLED HDTV as a technology demo only.

http://www.techhive.com/article/186451/hdtv_overview_ces.html

HTC HD2 Coming to T-Mobile US This Spring

The Best Windows Mobile Phone Yet

Since the HTC HD2 launched in Europe and Asia, the blogosphere has been buzzing about whether it would launch stateside. What's so hot about this smartphone? It has a superslim design, a 4.3-inch display, and a powerful 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It is by far the best Windows Mobile phone we've ever seen, and one of the best of the show. The HD2 will land on T-Mobile this spring. http://www.pcworld.com/article/186166/htc_hd2_coming_to_tmobile_us_this_spring.html

Boxee Gets Boxed

D-Link is the first vendor to come out with a dedicated piece of hardware for the lauded Boxee home media management software. The box is oddly shaped, but it won't take up much space when it sits next to a TV. It streams Internet video and connects wirelessly to your computer, so it can play back media files, such as music, photos, and video, on your TV. You get Boxee's cool user interface, as well as a long list of supported file formats; you can play virtually any kind of video on it. The Boxee Box will be available for $199 in the second quarter of this year.

Pocket Megazoom Camera

Sony's 10X-optical-zoom Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V shoots 1080i video and offers GPS capabilities, a digital compass, a revamped Sweep Panorama mode, and wireless file sharing via TransferJet. Casio's 10X-optical-zoom EX-FH100 has a rapid-fire mode that snaps 40 shots per second and shoots RAW-format images. And Samsung's 7X-optical-zoom CL80 has an AMOLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and an innovative design.

info Sony's DSC-HX5V Cyber-shot, Casio's EX-FH100 Rapid-fire, Samsung CL80

 

Windows 7 goes....somewhere

Although the replacement for the much maligned Windows Vista operating system had been in public beta testing for what seemed like years, it finally launched in October, literally to queues of adoring (or desperate) fans at PC World. Matt Warman