Archive for: 3D

LG unveils first Full LED 3D HDTV — the 22.3mm-thin LX9500

Well, here’s a way to make those 3D tellies attractive — slim them down to unreasonable proportions and kill as much of the bezel as you can. The newly announced LX9500 isn’t quite as skinny as the stuff we saw LG show off at CES, but at 22.3mm it still makes the majority of laptops [...]

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Cablevision bumps Comcast to the back, 3D sports at home starts next week

Just as Comcast leapfrogged DirecTV’s 3D plans, its claim to the first live HD 3D event has been stolen away by Cablevision, which will broadcast a Rangers/Islanders NHL matchup Wednesday, shown both in a special viewing party in the Theater at Madison Square Garden and on iO TV channel 1300 (if you already have a [...]

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Dell debuts wireless, 3D-capable S300w short-throw projector

Sure, we may one day all simply carry pico projector-equipped phones and ditch any other sort of display, but until then, there’s still a place for projectors like Dell’s new S300w model. Designed mostly with presentations in mind, the projector can produce a 90-inch, 720p image from a distance of three feet (or 60-inches from [...]

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EVGA Classified SR-2 fits two Xeon CPUs for 24 threads, exemplifies overkill

Remember EVGA’s seven-GPU motherboard monstrosity, the W555? That experimental beast of a board just got declassified — and given immediate launch orders. Under the new “Classified SR-2″ callsign, the board’s layout has hardly changed since CES (though the heatsinks certainly got a makeover) but the big news here is that each of its two CPU [...]

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Samsung’s 3D BD-C6900 Blu-ray player now shipping, for real

The last we heard of Samsung’s BD-C6900 Blu-ray player it was up on Amazon for a pre-order — and then it was mysteriously gone again. We’re not sure whether anyone clicked the button quickly enough to get one of those into their shopping cart and onto their credit card statement back then, but even if [...]

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NVIDIA’s 3DTV Play finally solves the HDMI 1.4 gap for 3D Vision

In case you hadn’t noticed, there was some trouble brewing in the NVIDIA camp. After ages of reigning atop the land of stereoscopic 3D playback on the PC, NVIDIA is finally being confronted with a real, bona fide standard for 3D, with zero GPUs capable of meeting it. The current NVIDIA 3D Vision-compatible cards pump [...]

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Sony unveils 3DTV release dates and pricing for Japan

Kicking off an expected repeat flood of 3DTV info over the next few days (Samsung and Panasonic both have events scheduled over the next couple of days) Sony has revealed pricing and shipping information for its new televisions and related accessories in Japan. The new sets share that sweet/ominous monolithic style of the already available [...]

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NVIDIA GTX 480 makes benchmarking debut, matches ATI HD 5870 performance (video)

We’re still not happy with NVIDIA’s failure to publish anything on its site alerting users about the doom that may befall them if they switched to the 196.75 drivers, but the company’s making an effort to get back into our good books with the first official video of its forthcoming GeForce GTX 480 and even [...]

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MSI and ASUS show off 3D all-in-ones at CeBIT

There’s no escaping that 3D trend, that’s for sure. Both ASUS and MSI are demoing 3D versions of their respective all-in-one PCs here at CeBIT, though both companies say they are just concept models at this point. ASUS’ 3D Eee Top wasn’t up and running, but there was a pair of NVIDIA-branded glasses next to [...]

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MSI announces GT660 gaming laptop ahead of CeBIT

We’ve already heard about some of the systems MSI has in store for CeBIT — including a 3D-capable Wind Top — but it looks like the company still has bit more lined up, including this new GT660 gaming laptop. In addition to the requisite red accents to make it go faster, this one packs a [...]

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