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Ikonshop A-Cam3D for HD 3D Home Flicks

by Jay Garrett on February 5, 2010

If you want to get onto the 3D film bandwagon but would rather be behind the camera than stuck in a pub watching footie then check this out.

Ikonshop have developed a new camera that is is capable of shooting 3D video in Full HD at 1080p.

The Ikonshop A-Cam3D captures two separate video streams at once, in a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels in RAW files.

Colour depth is set at 12 bits at frame rates of between 25fps and 30fps.

The Ikonshop A-Cam3D weighs in at 2.8KG, this include the battery and the memory card for recording the videos.

Unfortunately there are no details on pricing but these are built to order – I’m guessing that means it’s painfully expensive ;)

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Blu-Ray Flippers – DVD on The B Side

by Jay Garrett on December 2, 2009

bourne-ultimatumI’m going to have to try and resist the urge for water-based mammal puns throughout this article.

Righty – the story.

Universal has unveiled the first Blu-ray/DVD ‘flipper discs’ – so named because they’ll be packing both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of a film on the same platter.

No accident – they did this on porpoise.

Gah!

Anyhow, A flipper disc is a single, dual-sided disc that has Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other.

This means that you can watch the movie on your fancy la-di-dah Blu-ray player but also loan it to a poorer friend who can only afford to own a humble DVD player or even use a laptop to watch the flick as Matt is showing in the pic.

The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum have been given the seal (sorry) of approval to be the first films to benefit from the new technology.

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Star Trek and Transformers Films Released in Collectors USB Editions

November 17, 2009 Click to read more →
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We like Sci-Fi don’t we? So when there’s a gadgety release of two of this years Sci-Fi hits it needs to be written about.
The two flicks in question are Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Paramount Digital Entertainment is releasing 20,000 of each movie on a 4GB USB drive (leaving around 3GB free space) [...]

Microsoft Zune Really Coming to the UK at Long Last

November 17, 2009 Click to read more →
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Zune coming to UK?
Yeah – that’s what I thought when I was told this.
I reckoned that these very shores were going to get a taste of the MP3 player that was designed to take on Apple’s iPod.
Ok, so almost four years later the Zune only owns 2% of the US MP3 market – a [...]

Nintendo Bringing Hollywood to Wii Worldwide

July 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Nintendo is about to bring you another reason to buy their family friendly Wii.
The Nintendo Wii movie store is heading worldwide by the sounds of things and that will bring you the Hollywood greats right to your Wiimote!
Japan has the Wii movie service in place and the PS3 (via PlayStation Store) is already [...]

iPhone Hand-Steadiers For That Non-Shakey Film Moment

July 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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Oh, really!
Come on – I know it’s all rather neat that the Apple iPhone now can take moving pictures, but now this?
There’s actually a top end $300 shoulder mount that made me laugh so hard people though that I had actually won a large sum of cash.
If you think that was silly and too expensive [...]

iPhone v3 / 4G / 2009 Could be iPhone HD!

April 20, 2009 Click to read more →
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I’m still not bored with all these iPhone rumours and this one is no exception!
It looks like the next gen iPhone will not be outdone by the new Zune and will also feature HD playback.
According to PhoneNews Apple is having its retailers clear out the Apple Composite AV Cable and Apple Component AV Cable becuase these [...]

Sony Blu-ray Recorders That Send Your Vids To PSPs and Mobiles

March 31, 2009 Click to read more →
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Sony has announced that they’re releasing a couple of Blu-ray Disc recorders.
Yeah? So?
Well, as well as recording your fave tele shows they’ll also have the power to export the video to portable devices such as the PSP or Walkman.
The models in question are the 500GB BDZ-A950 and 320GB BDZ-A750.
As well as the neat exporting trick they can also whip [...]

Carl Zeiss Cinemizers Get iPhone Stamp

March 26, 2009 Click to read more →

Remember the Vuzix iWear?
Well these have got one over on them as they’ve been officially stamped with the ‘Works with iPhone’ tag!
I’m talking about the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer Plus range and as well as that iPhone stamp it also has gained the ‘Made for iPod‘ compliance so you can use these specs with any video-friendly iPod,
The [...]

Asus Eee Box 206 HD Comes to UK

March 1, 2009 Click to read more →

The Asus Eee Box 206 has landed in the UK and is out now!
Inside this latest incarnation of the small deskop, the Eee Box 206, you will find an Intel Atom processor, 160GB of hard disk, 1GB of RAM and Windows XP – Vista, it seems so, would’ve just slowed this machine down too much.
They’re [...]

iPod to Home Cinema With Xitel movieCENTER Dock

June 30, 2008 Click to read more →

EuroTech have just launched their new iPod docking station, the movieCENTER.
As the name suggests you can connect your iPod to the dock and then get your iPod content through your stereo or TV.
They claim that the device incorporates
“powerful processing technology that transforms iPod movies and music into a more realistic and immersive experience”.
This technology includes:

TruBass processing for [...]

Sling for iPhone and iPod Touch

June 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Sling have just released some interesting information which means that you could watch Sling-ed (?) flicks on your iPhone or iPod touch (albeit on a jailbroken version at the mo).
According to Sling,
“Ever since the Apple iPhone hit the market, we’ve been receiving inquiries as to when we’ll have a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the platform. [...]

Apple TV? Make Mine Archos TV+

March 23, 2008 Click to read more →

If you’re not entirely convinced by Apple TV you might want to wander over and check out Archos’s TV+.

Kinda like a cross between a PVR and the Apple TV it can record shows from Freeview and such but will also stream your choonz and flicks from your puter.
You can also feed its hard-drive via the [...]