Officially announced today, iRiver HD Smart (also known as the iRiver K1), is the first media player iRiver that offers native support for Matroska files (MKV), well known and appreciated by those who put price on High Definition movies. iRiver HD Smart will be sold in four versions, different in terms of facilities (integrated tuner, storage capacity, connectivity), priced between $ 204 and $ 310, so:

* Basic 8GB – $ 204 DMB (Digital Media Broadcasting)
* 8GB – $ 248
* Education 16GB – $ 266
* Wi-Fi + DMB 16GB – $ 310

Here are the common specifications of the four versions of iRiver Smart HD:

* 3.5 inch screen, capacitive, multitouch, 480 x 320 pixels
* MicroSD slot
* Support: MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, APE, WAV, AC3
* Support Video: MKV, AVI, WMV, MP4, TP, MPG, ASF
* Photo support: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, RAW
* Other files supported: TXT, DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, HWP, HTML, HTM, MHTML
Battery Li-Ion 880 mAh
* Autonomy: 18 hour audio, video 6 o’clock.

IRiver PMP’s Smart HD is currently only found on South Korean territory.

Cowon on our land are known for quality MP3 players, but in their native ventures and other markets. W2 is a screen PMP with 4.8 “, but one equipped with Intel Atom MID Z520. The dimensions of 144 x 88 x 27.5 mm fit May 1 GB of RAM, a 60GB HDD or 80GB and a how wireless / Bluetooth. It weighs 450 g including battery listed with 7 hours of video playback. Do we have here a device comparable to the lightest laptop in the world?

The answer is no. Configurations are similar, but differ essentially rest. The screen has a resolution of 1024×600 classic, but the diagonal is two times smaller than a netbook. No on-screen keyboard will never replace the real one, but on the other hand, there is little netbooks that fit into a pocket. Cowon’s portability level W2 is superior to Sony VAIO P. Currently, MID’s will be released only in Korea at prices ranging between $ 533 and $ 658, depending on the hard drive’s capacity and version of Windows 7 installed.

Ultimate Ears clearly aims to live up to its name with the Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Custom Monitors that boasts the first six-speaker design from the company, offering musicians a new kind of sound definition and clarity. Each unit is handcrafted just like a fine instrument to make sure it fits comfortably, where its design is capable of helping reduce ambient noise by 26 dBs. Of course, you need not be a performing artist to appreciate what the Ultimate Ears 18 Pro can do for you, as any serious audiophile would also want to check it out for their collection as well.

Just like fingerprints that are unique to just about everyone, the Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Custom Monitors can also be customized to feature a proprietary six-speaker design which is capable of fitting half a dozen individually tuned drivers in each ear, capable of delivering audio sans distortion which are normally what artists look for whenever they are on a live stage performing. Regardless of how loud your gig is, while wearing the new Ultimate Ears monitors, you will be able to enjoy amazing instrument and vocal clarity in the mid range, extended sound reproduction of the high notes, as well as a powerful and visceral low end.

Not only that, Ultimate Ears’ latest monitors also merge four-way crossovers with acoustic and electrical tuning, patent-pending triple-sound channels as well as a new low-distortion cable which results in the Ultimate Ears sound signature. All sound channels will come with an acoustically tuned in-line filter which ensures the frequencies remain separate and balanced until they make their way to your ear naturally, and not within the monitors themselves. You would be pleased to know that the Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Custom Monitors will play nice with wireless transmission systems and portable media devices. Each purchase will come in a rugged, personalized aluminum.

The Ultimate Ears 18 Pro Custom Monitors can be picked up from next month onwards for $1,350.

The Hydrogen R/C Car Model Kit might just fit the bill then, where this latest prototype hydrogen fuel cell power kit was specially designed around Tamiya’s TRF 416 carbon fiber chassis. It is still in the prototype stage at point of publishing, so you won’t see it hit the stores anytime soon although we’re pretty sure that enthusiasts can’t wait for an official release. A couple of HydroSTIKs are able to carry around 15Wh of energy or 13L of hydrogen, where they are integrated to the fuel cell electric power-train on either side of the chassis which results in enhanced weight distribution for the car. Bear in mind the TRF-416 chassis is available as an assembly kit and will not ship with wheels, a brushless motor, a speed controller, a servo-motor, receiver and transmitter, as all of those can be purchased separately from your local hobby shop.

Koreans from Samsung presents Samsung Apps virtual store, their first “application store” in the world for HD sets. From here, users can download and obtain applications directly from the HD TVs, Blu-ray player they and Sony home theater systems, using Internet @ TV program – Content Service.

With this new platform for applications, content owners and developers will now have the opportunity to develop a functional application to multiple devices. Also, Nokia Apps platform is now possible to access more easily, quickly and flexibly to the content and the many applications created by developers.

Users can download and view the full information even while watching TV. Plausible scenarios are already worthy of SF until recently. Assume that the user is interested in an object that appears in the film followed. The few gestures, movie playback is stopped, and curiosity to meet user information is displayed, and the most complex scenario, he also provided the opportunity to buy that item of stores online. The first series of TV applications will be launched in the spring and will involve costs, and premium applications will be available for purchase through the transaction interface of the platform in the summer of 2010.

Access to Nokia Apps is not only at home, virtual store can be used on mobile phones worldwide. Apps Samsung Mobile has already been launched in England, France, Italy and Korea and will expand in 2010 to about 50 other countries. Nokia Apps will become an integrated channel service that will offer future applications for various electronic products Nokia.

Among those who will provide content for Sony’s App Store are AccuWeather.com, The Associated Press, Blockbuster, Fashion TV, Netflix, Picasa, Pandora, Rovi, Travel Channel, Twitter, USA Today, Vudu and YouTube. These services are available depending on the country where the product is marketed. More applications for international partners will also be available on parcusul year by region.

Intel unveiled the processors that will motorize new generation of laptops MacBook Pro – Intel Core i5. Mystery hanging over Apple laptop was removed by means of promotional material sent via email to all companies listed in Intel Retail Edge program, which provides traders tricks chip manufacturer to increase sales.

The current MacBook Pro are made up of Core 2 Duo. New generation of laptops Apple is expected on January 27, during an event held in San Francisco.

Intel’s 40GB X25-V Value line solid state drive begins shipping, and is now available for purchase from Amazon, among other online electronics retailers. The drive, like the Kingston unit from earlier today, is meant to speed up a system by putting the operating system onto it, while other files reside on a traditional hard drive. Unlike the Kingston SSD, however, Intel’s is slightly slower with sustained write speeds of 35MBps and read speeds of 170MBps.

The drive is otherwise capable of random 4KB reads up to 25K IOPS, and the same amount of writes up to 2.5K IOPS. It consumes 150mW when active and half of that at idle. Durability is rated at 1.2 million hours of mean time between failures.

The 40GB Intel SSD’s role as a system boot drive is mirrored in it’s cost, as it’s priced is just over $120 on Amazon.

Samsung Electronics presented at CES 2010, three new camera video compact ergonomic design and an elegant, fully equipped with a range of useful functions.
All three models, SMX-C20 (photo), SMX-M20-C24 and HMX, including Active Lens Angle of 25 degrees, mark the design of their predecessors and HMX-SMX-C10-R10.

Innovation Active Angle Lens folosesca device allows consumers to a more natural way and brought the company
awards and approvals from around the world from its first appearance last year, with SMX-C10 and HMX-R10.

All three cameras use the H.264 compression method, which enables a record longer than if using video cameras typically MPEG2 format. The new Samsung SMX-SMX-C20 and C24 were also an impressive 10x optical zoom, and all three models are equipped with Hyper Image Stabilization.

Samsung also ensure, various memory options for registration of scenes with the new SMX-C20, C24 and HMX-SMX-M20. With the help of SMX-C24, users can take advantage of flah 16GB internal memory. In addition, they can expand the memory camcorder using memory card slot for SD / SDHC. SMX-M20-C20 and HMX did not require the use of internal memory and media cards
SD / SDHC.

They say television adds at least about 10 kg. If true, about the same make and monitor, we all saw different pictures of the new Zune HD from every angle, from the start. But something else was to see him and I play with it in reality. What really proved downright shocking, Zune HD is much more flexible than I could tell from the picture.

Of course, the first thing you see the Zune HD is design, which is a huge leap forward for Microsoft, compared with the first Zune’s (you remember your brown Zune? Blah!). Case is not thicker than a USB stick next generation, just as the dimensions need to sit perfectly in your hand and is surprisingly easy. And this despite the metal used generously in the construction, the entire back and sides of the metal plate. Has a total of three large buttons and wide (well, not too high, but wide enough): one below the screen, the position of “home”, which takes you into the main interface, wherever you are in the menus, and you and out of games or other applications, a second button is positioned on the top side of the player, having the screen lock function (at a short press) but also on / off (if you hold down a few seconds), the third button is placed on the left side without having the function of media in the foreground controls (play / pause, next and volume). On the down side is a proprietary connector for USB cable connects with PC and standard 3.5 mm connector for headphones.

Beyond these elements, the design is dominated by an excellent 3.3-inch OLED screen with a resolution of 480 x 272 pixels. The images displayed are simply superb, with vibrant colors and exceptional clarity of detail, hence the capability to display HD video flawlessly thanks Tegra chip integrated graphics, which also can get HD movies at 720p on a TV screen . But about that a little later.

Another notable design element is a small inscription located on the left side, we send a “Hello from Seattle” in which we can reply only with a warm “go lucky”.

The most obvious of the Zune’s design elements of HD remains, however, the new interface based on touch, zooms and fade’s, which is not only very attractive in appearance, but it and moves extremely well. Zune sites old hard disk (HD Zune is flash storage) had a problem with the sync thumbnail sites where scroll at high speed due to disk access times too high. The new flash memory-based, problem is gone and how you can navigate quickly through large collections of music covers.

The new Zune’s 3.2 firmware comes with an excellent way to quickly sort the albums. If the old Zune to reach a ZZ Top album had to navigate the entire collection (even if your scrolling speed as the hold button was difficult to get exactly where you wanted), the new interface shows you a little quarrel that if you press occur letters of the alphabet and can go directly to the desired point without ever haunt the list. A solution much faster and precise, involving at most two clicks and a bit of a walk with your finger to get the album, song or artist you search. We have but to get used to datul back, because across the interface is intuitive arrow back. You will quickly catch the high points to hit the top of the screen, which, even if you only see half, you go to the previous menu. Average Checks disappear little by pressing Exit top left, which is more than evident, and appear if you press the button on the side or in some empty spaces in the interface. Otherwise, know that you have to navigate through menus by dragging a finger horizontally, left-right, including the view “Now Playing”. Overall, will last from minutes to, possibly tens of minutes to catch up how the whole interface, the function and the speed with which you normally plug the box collector spades. However a pleasure to discover all the ways you can reach the Zune and not much of how to remain locked, you press Home button and pick from the beginning, but not much you need to do this.

Pretty frustrating is that not much goes underground test, ie you can not change the volume without interface to start, or pull it completely out of pocket, thing that the congestion can be cumbersome and in Romania, in places, even dangerous. The same irritated me and the first iPod Touch, but the second was dedicated volume buttons on the side. I say little because you can change the volume and the pocket, but you blindly click on Home then button up or down the side and then on the screen (if you get in the way you give Pause) and finally block it in place, which eo much trouble just to give the volume down, especially since no one understand what you do with your hands in pants pocket (in case anyone cares). So maybe it’s better to get him out of sight for the entire operation. Anyway, it’s annoying, for a function so often used as volume change (or skip to the next item).

Like I said above, the OLED screen is one of the main attractions of the Zune’s HD and if you are passionate about video on-the-go, you’ll be very pleased, but not in direct sunlight, the screen is quite illegible. But OLED screens consume a lot, depending on what show (more white screens consume far more than more black screens, which explains the interface, although I choose to believe it was a deliberate choice of designers). But what makes the Zune so easy to run HD media in a housing so small is small but extremely powerful high-performance processor Tegra, Nvidia product. The processor was designed specifically to run high definition video and can decode video or flash with a much lower power consumption than any other chipset, which means better battery autonomy to enhanced picture quality. Maybe that’s why Microsoft claims that HD can play Zune music for 33 hours and 8.5 hours video (both without wireless enabled).

Unfortunately, the discovery of new music experience, which is a strong point of the Zune’s, is only available in America or there everywhere, I came across a Canadian position that the story and he did get the Zune fully operational, but with a friend from the States, on whose behalf Fri bills. So I will not insist on this.

But still other characteristics with which to have fun, for example if you drag the main screen from left to right, is a quick list of album you listen at that time, all the stuff you’ve recently watched the newest albums added. Additionally, you can “stick” albums or videos here that you want to have immediate access, without having to navigate the directory structure. A small gesture, but matters. I found it very hard and displaying data about artists, they get directly from the Zune online store. Even for bands that you know better, do not hurt a full discography and biography information about artists.

Zune HD has no speaker and Bluetooth, so you have to limit yourself to wired headphones. Included are OK, but not sensational but if you have your favorites and keep the audio quality, do not hesitate to use them too. I for one have a pair of intra-ear, all accessories for the Zune, but I like much more than those included in the package. HD Zune supports WMA, WMA Pro, WMA Lossless, AAC without DRM and Fairplay, of course, MP3. FLAC lossless audio not but know audiobook sites. On the video, the Zune supports WMV, MPEG-4, and H.264 transcodând everything from 720p to a low quality before copying to the player. But I dream Divx or Xvid. You can get a television signal either via HDMI or via composite, but the cables must be purchased separately. Video runs at an excellent quality, only in landscape mode. If you are a 4:3 video button that extends across the screen, but it cut the image up and down. All hardware on the accuracy and speed must necessarily those of the accelerometer, which is by far the best that I’ve seen so far.

Applications of Zune HD is and will remain free, but will be written and supervised by Microsoft. What Microsoft has excelled this time of sotfware the Zune to the PC already reached version 4.0 and that I only now I discovered. The interface looks super cool and has all the functions you need and some extras that you did not know that you need. How Smart DJ appropriate function, which chooses songs that sound like to you, including local music collection. Has a mini mode, it works just like Windows Media Player 11, but the Zune is the only software that can transfer music player, quite surprising that Media Player can not do that. But honestly no no to grasp for the desktop Zune player I liked so much (as I like iTunes once before to take the weight) that remains, for now and the foreseeable future, the default player for music on the system my (you can download from Zune.net, if I was curious).

Panasonic introduced at CES 2010 the largest plasma display capable of full HD 3D world, with a diagonal of 152 inches (about 386 cm). The screen has a panel composed of PDP (plasma display panel) to indicate quadruple luminous efficiency.

Autoiluminare panels used to make this model the plasma have a great response to playback of moving images with high resolution, perfect for displaying 3D productions. The 3D technology ultra high-speed drive and having a luminous efficiency index quadruple, new panels have a light rate of close to four times higher than normal HD screens.

Screen incorporates and Crosstalk reduction technology, essential for clear 3D image rendering. Compared with other technologies used for playback method display line by line, PDP screens display images in the system frame, which provides a large plasma TV advantage in obtaining a clearer picture.

Plasma 152 inch Diagonal Full HD 3D movie viewing experience to provide the viewer a 3D cinema and is the successor of the first 3D Full HD Plasma 103 inch diagonal launched by Panasonic in 2008, but the 3D screen 50-inch full HD PDP, part the 3D full HD home theater system launched by the company in 2009.

Panasonic will launch the first 3D full HD TVs in 2010. All models will be produced based on PDP technology, very suitable for 3D TVs and playing the most beautiful high definition images.