Hardware – Page 15

Rogers to Customers: “Hey, at least it ain’t France.”

June 27, 2008 Danny X 2 Comments

Rogers has quickly responded to the overwhelming ire from would-be happy Canadian iPhone owners with an interview in which they justify their data plans and costs as being more than accommodating to the “vast majority of consumers.” “Unlimited plans could end up costing customers more for what they don’t use,” the spokeswoman argues. “Our iPhone plans more than accommodate the vast majority of customers.” In the article, the Rogers representative argues that because plans in Europe, including France’s carrier Orange, are arguably more expensive and offer less than Rogers’ plan…

Canada opens arms for a Rogers hug. Rogers responds with swift kick to nether regions.

June 27, 2008June 27, 2008 Danny X 10 Comments

Well, as has been blogged about ad nauseum by this point, Rogers officially reselased its iPhone 3G pricing plan today. You can see it here, but you’d probably rather not. But let’s break it down anyway.

AMD ‘Officially’ Launches Radeon 4870, declares cinema dead.

June 25, 2008July 25, 2009 drsquid AMD0 comment

In a previous post Doug mentioned the spiffy ‘real-time rendered’ animation AMD (ATI) showed at a press event, declaring it the birth of ‘Cinema 2.0’. Hyperbole aside this week AMD has annnounced their new ‘King’ of graphics cards, the Radeon 4870. Ringing in at the $300 USD range it is certainly a much better buy than the new Nvidia GTX 280 launched last week, at $650! However unlike the Nvidia card the 4870 is not available in stores yet (due at the end of June), whereas the GTX 280 could…

AMD’s Next Gen Graphics Card

June 17, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 2 Comments

Shortly after the details of Nvidia’s new chipset leaked out, AMD’s demoed their new RV770 chipset. The short clip above is real-time game play using their Ruby character and was rendered by a single PC equipped with two “RV770” codenamed graphics cards powered by an AMD Phenom™ X4 9850 Processor and AMD 790FX Chipset. AMD is planning on introducing the RV770 ‘this summer’, along with a more detailed demo of it’s capabilities. Though the ‘consumer-level’ card is clearly aimed at gamers, I can’t help but wonder how it’ll perform when…

NVIDIA: GTX 280 News, Pics. Plus: Gelato GPU Render Software Freely Available

June 6, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Nvidia0 comment

It seems every day, more information about NVIDIA’s GTX 200 series cards is coming out. And pics… The cards will be manufactured using a 65 nm process, with a die size of 576 mm2, which is almost double the current G92 series (9800GTX et al), which have a die size of 330 mm2. The GeForce GTX 280 will have a core clock of 600MHz, and the 1GB of GDDR memory will be running at 0.8ns, on a 512-bit memory bus. It’s no small potatoes, either as it’s a full-size 10.5″…

RED Announces New Cameras & Accessories

April 14, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Red1 Comment

RED, the makers of the hard to come by, 4K digital camera RED ONE, have made a number of new product announcements at the latest NAB show. The first big announcement is of their mini version of the ONE, dubbed the Scarlet, which shoots 3K footage to dual Compact Flash cards, at the cost of about $1000 per K (or $3000). If you’ve been drooling over the ONE, but found the $17,500 price tag a bit steep, the Scarlet might be the next best thing to sliced bread, until you…

Newtek on Scoblizer TV

March 31, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves newtek, Tricaster50 Comments

This is a pretty cool 19 minute video with Scoble interviewing Newtek’s Philip Nelson (Senior VP of Strategic Development), talking about the TriCaster, the all in one video production box that fits in a backpack. A worthwhile watch for those wanting to look at powerful live production tools that don’t cost an arm and a leg.

Wacom Announces new Cintiq 12WX

October 25, 2007April 17, 2009 Doug Groves tablet, Wacom3 Comments

I’ve always been a fan of Wacom tablets. There’s really no better input device for uses such as Photoshop or ZBrush, and now they’ve introduced their newest – the Cintiq 12WX. It features a hi-resolution 12 inch wide screen display, and 1024 levels of sensitivity. From the press release: Pressure-sensitivity with 1,024 levels Create natural-looking pen, brush, and eraser strokes. Tilt Sensitivity Tilt your input device in either direction and create natural-looking pen, brush, and eraser strokes. Rotation Sensitivity Some input devices can be rotated along their axis and with…

Sony’s PMW-EX1 solid state camera

September 24, 2007April 17, 2009 Doug Groves PMW, Sony0 comment

Sony announce their latest HD camera last week in New York. The PMW-EX1 uses Sony’s SxS PRO ExpressCard for recording and playback. The format should lead to lower power consumption than PCMCIA cards. With two SxS slots loaded with 16GB each, the camera can record over 100 minutes of high quality HD footage at 35Mb/sec, or 140 minutes at 25Mb/sec, in MP4 format. The estimated price of the new camera is expected to be about $8000 US. You can read more about the PMW-EX1 at the Sony site.

Will the Red Camera become the category killer, simply a model to follow, or neither?

September 21, 2007March 26, 2009 James Moore Red0 comment

It seems like a good idea – A ‘black box’ with high res imaging chips (12-megapixel Mysterium™ CMOS sensor) that you can stick your own lens on. Elegant, high quality, and pretty cost effective. It seems like an elegant solution which could get even cheaper as others emulate it. Visit Red to see more.