Techradar: LG will release 3D televisions in one or two markets in 2009 according to the company’s television vice-president Choon Lee.

Choon Lee told T3 Online that television shopping may well be the first channels to broadcast the special pictures to allow people to better view their wares, adding that producing 3D animations was already fairly easy.

“3D TVs are the next big step for us,” said Choon Lee, Vice President Director at the Digital TV Research Lab.

“We will try with one or two markets in 2009,” he said, without specifying which ones.

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HD News: Aiming to make the technology a reality for consumers within 12 years, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK along with the BBC, Cable & Wireless and Italy’s RAI recently demonstrated ‘Super Hi-Vision’ (SHV) technology.

The SHV technology on show demonstrated images with an incredibly lifelike 7680 x 4320 resolution. Around 4000 scanning lines reveal around 16 times the detail of existing HDTV.

Equally impressive is the accompanying 22.2 three dimensional surround sound which makes even the latest high definition sound formats sound rather lacklustre.

Unfortunately, domestic use for SHV is at least ten years away, one of the main stumbling blocks being the storage requirements of the new format. 

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HDTV UK: Cheap Blu-ray players will be difficult to find across Europe this Christmastime, potentially affecting sales and success of the format, according to the latest report from media analyst Screen Digest.

In the report the company wrote, “Hardware supply constraints earlier in the year meant that the anticipated European BD promotional campaigns had to be reined in. Rather ironically, the unexpectedly rapid withdrawal of rival format HD DVD from the market in early 2008 caused a problem for Blu-ray by stimulating retailer demand for BD players when a severe shortage of an essential component meant that manufacturing could not keep up.”

The report implies that the more expensive Blu-ray players will be available, presumably because they have lower demand over all.

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Trusted Reviews: Looking for a fully featured sat nav that won’t cost the earth or cause you eye strain?

Then ever resourceful Germans Medion could well have the answer with the ‘GoPal P5430′ a unit which does away with the traditional 3.5in and 4.3in LCDs to fit a more substantial five incher along with full Western and Eastern European mapping, free lifetime traffic master with integrated TMC antenna and SiRF InstantFix II technology.

That’s just the half of it though since the P5430 also bundles in voice control, a rip roaring 600MHz Titan CPU (a good 200MHz above the norm), pre-loaded speed camera locations, lane and speed advisory and a whopping 3GB of memory (1GB external card, 2GB internal). Bluetooth is also thrown in for making handsfree phone calls.

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Stuff.tv: Mobile phones packing TV tuners are still rarer than hens’ teeth in the UK - we can think of the Nokia N96 and, er, that’s it - but LG has just unleashed a new model in Europe.

The KB770 sports a big 3in touchscreen and a DVB-T digital tuner for accessing live TV broadcasts.

Also on board are HSDPA for speedy downloads, a 3MP camera with auto focus, Bluetooth and a microSD slot. There’s no Wi-Fi or GPS.

The phone is only launching in Germany at the moment, priced at €449.

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Phones Review: For those prospective G1-ers who have been holding out for the Google Android T-Mobile G1 in white, your wait is over as T-Mobile is now selling the white version along with the bronze and black versions.

The T-Mobile white G1 will still command the same pricing as the G1 black and G1 bronze and is available online and in store now.

The word is HTC, the manufacturer of the Google Android G1 expects to now ship one million of the Android powered G1 by year’s end which is a rise of 67 percent on the original sales target.

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