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What turns people off from buying 3D TV |
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Written by Urszula
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Friday, 15 April 2011 13:52 |
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Try as they might, Panasonic and Sony have yet to convince consumers that 3D TV is a necessity.
Released today, a new study commissioned by The NPD Group found that while people know more about 3D TV now, they're not generally any more convinced of why they need one.
Since 2008, Sony has been one of the main forces behind
the 3D TV campaign. But so far many consumers have balked
at the high price and the need to wear glasses.
(Credit: Scott Ard/CNET)
A year and a half into the 3D TV era kicked off by Sony and Panasonic and since joined by others, 45 percent of people who said they wouldn't buy a 3D TV said the reason is it is too expensive. And 42 percent of people said the reason they wouldn't buy one is because they don't want to wear glasses. That's an increase in both categories--just six months earlier only 37 percent said price was the inhibiting factor in their purchase, and 32 percent said wearing glasses was. But interestingly, the increase of people who were hung up on 3D glasses was larger than people who thought the TVs were too expensive.
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Hollywood's 'UltraViolet' aims to replace the DVD |
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Written by Urszula
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Thursday, 06 January 2011 11:24 |
A group of stakeholders in the entertainment industry are poised to make a important sales pitch to consumers concerning the way they buy and watch movies and TV shows.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Best Buy are among the members of a consortium called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, which has come up with a set of standards and specifications designed to make approved digital content playable on certified devices. DECE calls the technology UltraViolet.
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Busting (or not) 10 top myths about technology |
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Written by Urszula
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Tuesday, 04 January 2011 17:26 |
For as long as I can remember, whenever I've needed to reboot my computer, I've always shut it down, counted off 15 seconds, and then started it back up.
Why? Because at some point in the distant past, someone somewhere told me that to avoid damaging them, computers need a minimum of 15 seconds of downtime whenever they're rebooted.
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Intel's next-gen chip arrives, with Hollywood in tow |
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Written by Urszula
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Monday, 03 January 2011 12:29 |
Intel is officially announcing its next-generation processor tomorrow--and Hollywood is playing a big role.
Sandy Bridge--or what Intel now calls the 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family--is a big step for the chipmaker because, for the first time in a mainstream product, the graphics chip is grafted directly onto the main processor, boosting performance. This design essentially provides the graphics function for free, allowing PC makers to bring out laptops that don't have to always rely on separate graphics processors from Advanced Micro Devices or Nvidia. (For more on the technical details of the new chip, see this companion report.)
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Last Updated on Thursday, 06 January 2011 11:32 |
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CompactFlash allies rally against dominant SD |
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Written by Urszula
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Tuesday, 14 December 2010 14:10 |
In the flash-memory format wars, Secure Digital has vanquished xD Card and Memory Stick. SD, as it's known, is supported by everything from Apple laptops to Panasonic 3D videocameras.
But CompactFlash, a rival flash-card format that prevails in high-end SLRs from Canon, Nikon, and Sony, is holding out. More than that: its backers are developing a high-performance successor. Nikon, Sony, and memory card maker SanDisk have proposed that the CompactFlash Association standardize a sequel that can transfer data at a rate of 500MB per second and reach eventual capacities of 6TB.
"This next-generation format is expected to be widely adapted to various products, including those other than high-end digital SLRs," Shigeto Kanda, a Canon executive and chairman of the CompactFlash Association board, said in a recent statement.
The technical specifications are important. But there's evidence that photographers are willing to keep CompactFlash alive for a much more mundane reason: size matters.
In electronics, miniaturization is almost the law of the land. Manufacturers work to shave each tenth of a millimeter off their phones, laptops, music players, and compact cameras. SD cards are small, and microSD and miniSD variations are even smaller.
Perversely, though, it's the greater bulk of CompactFlash that appeals to many photographers.
"It's quite amazing how small and light (and fast) SD cards are, but the size is actually too small," said Mark Gillespie of GHP Studio. "SD cards are just too small to be juggling around in a fast-paced situation--easy to drop, hard to find."
Adds Nicole Young, who shoots with both CompactFlash and SD, "The main reason I like CF cards is because of their bulkiness...I have lost a few [SD cards] in the past and then randomly found them in a side pocket of my laptop bag. They're just so little, and almost paper-thin so they're easy to misplace."
Transcend has begun selling 600X and 400X CompactFlash cards
with capacities up to 32GB and 64GB, respectively.
Faster, bigger sequels are under development.
(Credit: Transcend)
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 December 2010 14:19 |
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