HDTV News: With the long lasting LED light engine of the Samsung HL-T5687S DLP HDTV, its Full HD (1920 x 1080p) picture will last for a very long time. An ultra-thin, piano-black bezel around the 56″ (142cm) screen lets you enjoy more screen and less frame. Its slim depth, light weight and hidden speaker system allow the set to fit through tight spaces and ideal for any home entertainment systems.Samsung’s Cinema Smooth light engine delivers the widest range of brilliant colors, while a 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio renders every picture in perfect detail, from the darkest darks to brightest whites, and every tone in between. SRS TruSurround XT delivers sound that is clear and full.

This TV is equipped with three HDMI inputs in version 1.3 that will render your digital movies, photos and more with greater color depth, while a USB 1.1 port and other inputs allow full connectivity. Game Mode optimizes performance, so avid gamers will marvel at the lifelike action. And even with all these advanced features, the HLT5687S is remarkably energy-efficient.

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Gizmodo: LG’s BH200 Super Blu player, which is an upgrade to their original HD DVD/Blu-ray player, sounded like a great idea on paper. However, with the state of HD DVD being what it is (dying), it’s probably not a great decision to pay a premium on a player that does one good format and one useless one. Nevertheless, this BH200 is actually a decent piece of tech, with 1080p resolution at 60Hz or 24Hz (if it detects the right display support) and pretty good image quality.

The problems come when you get to the HD DVD support, where the “sluggish HD DVD menu navigation” get points docked off. There are some other quirks like not being able to manually select the 1080p/24Hz mode if you know your display can handle it, but all in all it’s a fairly decent player for the price. That said, with HD DVD all but deceased, you should probably just buy a Blu-ray player at this point and skip out on these dual-mode machines.

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CNN Money: Mio Technology Corporation, a leading maker of mobile GPS devices, and Qualcomm Incorporated , a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, yesterday announced a collaboration to develop connected personal navigation devices (PNDs). These new connected PNDs will leverage Qualcomm’s technology with the QST1100(TM) chipset to deliver industry-leading GPS performance and cellular connectivity for real-time traffic updates, voice call capabilities and more.”Qualcomm’s legacy of wireless communications brings new possibilities to consumer devices, and we are very excited about our relationship with Mio that will bring integrated cellular connectivity, GPS and application processing to PNDs,” said Luis Pineda, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. “Our technology, coupled with Mio’s extensive device design expertise, will usher in a new generation of connected consumer devices aimed at propelling the industry toward the next level of functionality.”

“Personal navigation devices have been growing dramatically in popularity, and Mio is proud to be one of the first companies to offer the connectivity of cellular networks to PND users, making information access seamless and reliable,” said Samuel Wang, president of Mio Technology Corporation. “We are happy to be working with Qualcomm to introduce a new family of PND devices that will allow people to explore more.”

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CFP: Prepare for your electronics to be assimilated.

No, it isn’t some Borg-like alien invasion you need to worry about. Rather, it’s the accelerating convergence of all your audio, video and computer stuff from separate technological niches into an organized whole in which all of your techno toys can talk – and work – with each other.

It’s a logical development. Everything is becoming computerized and computerization is driving convergence: TV’s can now interface with computers, computers can play movies and the Personal Video Recorder (PVR, a.k.a.  DVR – Digital Video Recorder) uses computer-type hard disk drives to bring incredible new flexibility to watching and recording TV (think of it as the VCR dragged into the 21st century).

And they’re all being tied together by computer networks, which means you can now store your audio and video libraries on a central server and play them back anywhere you want.

Why would you want to? Well, many people have multiple televisions throughout the house – from a big screen HDTV in the family room to a little LCD on the kitchen wall (for those emergency trips to the fridge while the Big Game is on) and maybe even a screen in the master bedroom. Many people have more than one computer, and more than one audio system. Tying them all together adds flexibility and convenience, allowing access to one’s A/V library, and even the Internet, from anywhere in the building.

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NaviGadget: HP iPAQ 310 also got a review recently. As we expected the iPAQ 310 has the best screen out there for a GPS navigation device which is super bright and has 800×480 pixel resolution. It is also very impressive in terms processor power - how about a 600MHz dual-core CPU?But the software… It seems to be lacking in every department. Here is a small excerpt:

“We also had an issue with not being able to cancel navigation. Typically when you are navigating to a destination, and you navigate away from the screen giving you directions it’ll ask you if you want to cancel the route planning, but that is not the case with the 310; it keeps navigating, no matter what. In fact, if you choose a route and then decided to just cancel, it won’t, even if you go back to the home page. From there, pressing the “map” button takes you back to the route you were previously navigating. One time we even turned it off because we were tired of hearing it tell us to turn here and go there, and it magically turned itself back on a few minutes later to tell us to make a turn. It’s literally like the Terminator as far as navigation goes.”

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HDTV News: JVC has launched the LH905-series of HDTVs, featuring the Genessa Premium 36-bit video engine.The LH905 TVs feature a full HD 1,920 x 1,080 resolution LCD panel in all three of the 37in (94cm), 42in (107cm) and 47in (119cm) models, Deep Colour support, and an Ethernet port with DLNA support which allows the TVs to play media from a compatible network device.

Other features include dual ten-watt speakers, a built-in analog / digital terrestrial tuner, three HDMI 1.3 ports and an integrated SD slot.

JVC’s LH905-series TVs are scheduled for release in February.

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