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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Sony's 'Mr 3D', Tim Page
We caught up with Sony's 'Mr 3D', Tim Page – senior manager, Technology Marketing of Sony Europe – at CES last week, and quizzed him about Sony's plans for 3D TV. Here's what he had to say:1. What do you think will be the biggest content types to ...
USA: The top-selling TV manufacturer you've probably never heard of
Amidst all the hullabaloo of the 2010 International CES, dominated by the massive stands of the best-known global consumer electronics companies, one of the biggest-selling TV manufacturers probably got overlooked by the majority of ...
CES: Leaving on a Jet Plane... to Las Vegas
I know Mondays can drag, especially when it's the first one back after a break, but this one has been more protracted than most - 32 hours, in fact. My flight from Gatwick left at about noon on Monday, and after a full ten hours sitting ...
JAPAN: New Year sales are just massive!
Morning. Happy New Year and all that.Bit confused today, not least because by the time you hit the big bongs and the Auld Lang Syne, we were already having breakfast.The slight sake hangover didn't help, and neither did the memory of a four-hour ...
Is 3D the future of TV?
With 3D movies hitting cinemas, and the new screens, broadcasts and games arriving as early as 2010, we ask if TV is really about to enter another dimension 3D is fast becoming one of the buzz words of 2009: thanks to Hollywood's ...
iPhone Wars: O2 vs Orange
O2's exclusive contract with Apple for the iPhone is coming to an end in a little over a week, with Orange set to be the second provider available from November 10th. Vodafone will be joining the party in 'early 2010', so it's no surprise that ...
CEATEC 2009: Panasonic's 3D seminar lacks depth but comes up with all the standard answers
(Caution: the following may cause dizziness)Like it or not, 3D TV is coming, and soon. The CEATEC 2009 show has 3D firmly on the front-burner – a burner 30% more energy efficient than last year's, of course... – with even those companies not ...
Incredibly, more on last week's amazing Apple launch
Just in case you think I went a bit OTT when I asked whether last week's Apple launch was more hype than hardware, click the pic...
BDA Taskforce is go!
During our trip to Europe's biggest consumer electronics show (IFA) last week, we had a chance to listen to the latest developments in the Blu-ray market with representatives from Disney, Sony and Amazon all present. Together, they head the ...
The Apple Launch: was that it?
I suppose by now I should be used to every utterance from the people in the Infinite Loop being hailed as the Second Coming. But even by the usual standards of a lot of hoopla about not very much, Apple's latest world-shaking announcements of ...




