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Andrew Everard
16 October 2009 02:56
Time to call time on the Hong Kong Electronics Fair, with its usual mix of the totally weird and really rather wonderful, from our first experience of the Chinese NVD video format to a sneak preview of a classy-looking Heritage model from Scottish radio
Filed under: Hong Kong Electronics Fair, Blu-ray, DJ Mouse, Revo Heritage, NVD, Last.FM
Andrew Everard
15 October 2009 08:00
Fine sunshine for the opening of the Hong Kong Electronics Fair's 2009 Autumn Edition, and while the show feels a little more compact than this time last year, there's a clear indication that the Hong Kong and mainland China- based companies represented
Filed under: Hong Kong Electronics Fair, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, Blu-ray
Andy Clough
15 October 2009 07:00
The weekend of the 17th and 18th of October will see the cream of the AV industry making its way to Manchester for the biggest consumer electronics show this year. The Renaissance Hotel, Blackfriars Street, Manchester city centre, will be the place to
Filed under: What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, Manchester Sound & Vision Show
Andrew Everard
14 October 2009 09:37
Interesting discussions with the guys from NXT here at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair: it seems every time I meet with them they have some new and exciting developments of their various technologies, and this trip is no exception. There's everything from
Filed under: Hong Kong Electronics Fair, Balanced Mode Radiator, NXT, Brammo Enertia, flat loudspeakers, SurfaceSound
Andrew Everard
08 October 2009 14:09
Bit of a strange day here at CEATEC Japan 2009, and indeed a bit of a scary one in Japan as a whole: Typhoon Melor, predicted to be the biggest the country had experienced for a decade, hit Japan just before dawn, bringing torrential rain and winds pushing
Filed under: CEATEC Japan 2009, Typhoon Melor, Nissan EPORO, Murata Seiko-chan
Andrew Everard
08 October 2009 11:10
The Sharp focus here at CEATEC is on a greener world, and the main platform of its stand is a demonstration of a Solar DC Eco-House concept: a house with an independent power supply, virtually zero carbon dioxide emissions and of course lots of Sharp
Filed under: Sharp, 3D TV, CEATEC Japan 2009, eco-TV, LED-lit TV
Andrew Everard
08 October 2009 00:21
Like Panasonic, Sony is going big on 3D TV here at CEATEC Japan 2009, with a punchy stage presentation drawing heavily on group companies' music, movies and more. It has a 3D theatre in the depths of the stand and the frankly rather cramped booths above
Filed under: Sony, 3D TV, CEATEC 2009
Andrew Everard
07 October 2009 11:55
Spent a good chunk of the morning on the Hitachi stand here at CEATEC, looking around at a raft of new technology the company has to give us better pictures, 3D pictures and of course significant energy savings. It's kinda familiar stuff by now: the big
Filed under: green TV, CEATEC Japan 2009, energy saving, face detection, Hitachi, Wooonet, gesture control
Andrew Everard
07 October 2009 00:28
If Toshiba's stand here at CEATEC is all about its Cell Regza technology, Panasonic is pinning its colours on a 3D future for TV, and a greener future for consumer electronics. But it isn't without a taste of even bigger and better things to come: it's
Filed under: Panasonic, 3D TV, CEATEC Japan 2009, James Cameron, Avatar
Andrew Everard
06 October 2009 14:56
Just to remind you that there's more to Yamaha than just home cinema receivers and Air Wired iPod docks, the company's putting its music division to the fore here at CEATEC. But that doesn't mean technology is taking a back seat: building on its experience
Filed under: CEATEC Japan 2009, singing robot, HRP-4C, Vocaloid, Play iT, Yamaha, iPhone
Andrew Everard
06 October 2009 10:32
More on the Toshiba Cell Regza technology, which we covered in news yesterday; it's the sole focus of the huge Toshiba stand here at CEATEC Japan 2009, which opened this morning. We took a closer look at what the technology can do, saw the impressive
Filed under: Toshiba, 3D TV, CEATEC Japan 2009, streaming TV, Cell Regza, internet TV, TV
Andrew Everard
29 September 2009 14:24
Panasonic will use the CEATEC Japan 2009 show, opening next week, to show its prototype 50in Full HD 3D plasma TV, which sees high-definition 3D coming down in size to more domestically acceptable screens. Used with high-precision active shutter glasses,
Filed under: Panasonic, 3D TV, CEATEC Japan 2009, plasma, Full HD 3D
Andy Clough
10 September 2009 17:10
Micromega owner Didier Hamdi (right) with Ricardo Franassovici I spent a fascinating day in Paris yesterday with Didier Hamdi, the new owner of French hi-fi company Micromega . Hamdi is an intriguing character: he was a world motorcycle champion in 1991,
Filed under: hi-fi, CD player, lossless, Micromega, amplifier, speakers, ripping, AirStream, wireless
Joe Cox
09 September 2009 17:45
UPDATE: A new iPod nano with video camera, a larger capacity iPod Touch and a larger capacity iPod Classic, complete with price cuts, a new iTunes 9, a new OS 3.1 software... There was plenty of news at today's Apple event. Read all the news as it happened
Andy Clough
04 September 2009 12:03
I've just had a full briefing from LG on all its forthcoming products for the remainder of 2009 and looking ahead to 2010, so here are the highlights: We've already reported on LG's 'Borderless' SL9000 and SL8000 LED and LCD TVs , positioned above the