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D’cube announces the release of their new D9 mobile TV, combined with a media player and a 3.5-inch LCD TFT 260,000 color screen (320 × 240). The D9 features a Micro SD / SDHC card expansion, a built-in speaker, T-DMB tuner to watch/record your videos from digital TV (Korea only), 2GB or 4GB storage capacity, and more. It supports wide variety of formats, including AVI, WMV, MP3, WMA, OGG and JPEG files. The measures are 109 × 78 × 11.8 mm - 108 gm and the battery lasts 15 hours of audio or 8 hours of video. This digital TV-PMP device is priced at $130 for the 4GB model, so if you have planes to go to Asia, you can get one immediately. 

[via imp3]

Myka HD multimedia player is a nice streaming box with built-in BitTorrent feature, allowing you to download and play your favorite torrents via TV. This advanced Linux-based device sports an Ethernet connection, WiFi 802.11 b/g, and internal SATA HDD, housing 80GB to 500GB. The box includes video outputs like HDMI, Composite, S-Video, and optical SPDIF audio port, for maximum sound quality. The sleek and stylish whitish design gives the Myka a nice tech look with a price range of $299 and $459, respectively, so if you consider heavy downloading device that can stream video, it might be the right solution.

[via gizmodo]

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Finally, after 18 weeks of closed beta, Hulu.com opens its doors to everyone in the U.S who looks for free video streaming service. The site offers over 100 full-length movies, full-length episodes, and other content line-up from libraries of giants like FOX, NBC Universal, MGM, Sony and Warner Bros. Among the videos, You can find hit shows like The Simpsons, The Office, classics like The incredible Hulk, Miami Vice and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Arrested Development, Firefly and Friday night lights. Among the full movies you can find The Usual Suspects, The Big Lebowski, Myself & Irene, Three Amigos and many more. As for the sports, it seems the guys from Hulu have teamed up with the NBA management to bring you the best moves and clips, and we expect more events to be added soon. Mind you, the TV episodes will be available for only 5 weeks after broadcasting date. Meanwhile, you can enjoy hours of fun clips, videos or movies, read users reviews and share them with others in your web site - COOL !!

[via Hulu]

Mobile TVs become very popular in the Far East countries, as  more and more models are coming out on recent months. This time, it is Kodak to introduce in Japan, the new ELiTe Vision KTEL-30W AMOLED TV with a mono speaker, headphone jack and a lithium battery, providing 3.5 hours of continuous video.  The new KTEL-30W design features a 3-inch 1Seg TV and merely 8-mm thick. The TV is expected to be available later this month for $287.

[via engadget]

Celrun TV HD multimedia player is an all-in-one box with outstanding capabilities. This top-notch device features Ethernet, WiFi 802.11 b/g, 2 USB ports, a USB host, digital and analog TV tuners, IPTV support, and a PVR function. The box houses HDMI, RGB, S-VIDEO, component and optical audio outputs, storage size climbs up to 320GB internal HDD. The Celrun TV premium HD player can handle almost any format on earth, including H.264, WMV, AVI, Xvid, MOV, VOB, MPEG1/2/4 and many more. No word on price or availability, but I’d like to have one without a question.

[via akihabaranews]

Archos launches a new pack of 4 games for the Archos 605, 705 media players and the TV+ recorder. The new games include Reversi, Brix Fusion, Captain Ozone and Video Poker. The new pack joins the previous eight games release and priced at 10$.

[via Archos]

Asus intros a new HDTV box, providing a TV tuner and some nifty inputs like s-video, component, and HDMI for your computer’s monitor. The Asus box is capable of upscaling any signal source up to 1080p, for maximum picture quality. It is also equipped with DVI or VGA outputs and sports PIP functionality. The device supports both NTSC and Pal tuner so you can use it around the globe. Price and availability details are missing.

[via slashgear]

If you own a wifi enabled device such as iphone, ipod touch Nokia N-Series, HTC smartphones or any other wifi media player, this is your moment to cheer up, as PacketVideo introduced its new mobile broadcasting receiver, enabling mobile TVs to be displayed wirelessed on any mobile set with wifi connectivity, so if you’re making your favorite dish in your kitchen and afraid of losing your favorite show, just connect your unit and stream the video all the way to the cooking area. The PV will support DVB-H/MediaFLO broadcasting and TDtv/WiMAX streaming. The 6.4 x 1.8 x 4-cm block is expected to go live at the end of the year and i have the feeling it might change some of our TV watching spots.

[via engadget]

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Nokia unveils the N96 3G Quad-Band GSM and HSDPA smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new handset is replacing the N95 and has the same N81 design, including the dual-slide action. The N96 is considered as the new flagship mobile from Nokia and will be competing on the multimedia-cellular spot. The device features the following specs:

• Display: 2.8” LCD, 16M color (320 x 240).
• OS: S60 3rd edition.
• Internal Memory: 16GB flash and 128MB RAM with microSD extension.
• Camera: 5MP with dual LED flash light.
• Connectivity: WiFi, aGPS, GPS with photo tagging and Bluetooth2.0 + EDR A2DP.
• Music: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+ and WMA support.
• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, RealVideo, WMV9 and Flash Lite 3.0 support.
• Other Features: DVB-H TV tuner, Nokia Maps, stereo speakers.
• Dimensions: 103×55×18mm, 125gm.
• Availability: Q3 2008.
• Price: $797.

[via Nokia]

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Motorola wants to go all the way with the new DH01n portable 4.3-inch DVB-H TV, sporting GPS navigation system and Tele Atlas maps. The new DH01n is a personal DVR device, including pausing and playing back live TV signals, automatic channel scan, High-quality widescreen LCD display with stereo sound, SD/MMC slot and more. No details concerning price and availability.

[motorola via engadget]

Toshiba announces an update release for its Gigabeat lineup, including the Gigabeat V81, T802, U407 and U408 players.

Gigabeat V81 (Replacing the V41 model)

• Display: 3.5″ LCD TFT screen (320×240).
• TV Tuner: 1Seg (Japanese digital signal).
• Storage: 8GB.
• Audio: WMA , Lossless, MP3, WAV.
• Video: AVI, WMV.
• Pictures: JPEG.
• Features: portable digital TV, USB 2.0, SD slot.
• Battery: audio - 40 hours, video - 13 hours, broadcasting - 10 hours.
• Size: 115 x 75 x 14.2 mm 168gm
• Price: $330. Available in Japan from this month.

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I really like this new XDV-D500 and XDV-G200 mini Bravia TVs, released by Sony few days ago. Both devices features scanty body design and scheduled EPG guide with program recording in the D-500 model. Unfortunately, the TVs can get only 1Seg digital signals, so here goes my dream to have one.

XDV-D500

• Display: 3″ WQVGA, 160 degrees viewing angle and 1:500 contrast (432 x 240).
• TV Tuner: 1Seg (Japanese digital signal).
• Internal Memory: 2GB.
• Features: EPG program guide, AM / FM tuner, ext. speaker, scheduled recording up to 10 hours.
• Battery: up to 8 hours.
• Size: 98.0 x 59.3 x 14.3 mm 107gm
• Price: $355.

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Sandisk finally announced on its new USB TV video player. The new Sansa presents an easy way to take your video from your PC to your TV, as simple as using a USB flash drive - just drag files to your TakeTV player, slip it into the TV cradle, and press play on the included remote.

The TakeTV player comes with 2 sizes configuration: 4GB (100$) & 8GB (150$). The player supports DivX, xVid, MPEG-4 formats, with Resolution of up to 720×576, in 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios and a range of viewing modes.

Despite its 320×240 screen resolution, the new Zune will be able to play video on TV, via TV-Out connection, in a full DVD quality (720×576 in 25fps and 720×480 in 30 fps).

This means you can carry out with you your dvd’s, and play them on any tv without downgrading the quality.

[via: Zune-Online]