Wash those images of the live-action movie from your eyes!
With any blockbuster movie, the inevitable animation tie-in sprouts up. But the Japanese know to leave a classic, basically, alone. Co-inciding with the release of the live-action American Dragonball Evolution movie, the original Dragonball Z TV series has been re-cut and re-mastered into the HD Dragonball Kai.
So either the economy has helped to stop the creation of another Dragonball travesty (GT anyone?) or the Japanese really do worship the House of Toriyama. Dragonball Kai basically remasters 100 of the original 261 episodes of Dragonball Z (no young Goku) and are airing now in Japan, but disregarding all the filler that deviated from the manga. Sound good? Nothing planned this weekend? Great, you can watch the first 3 episodes right here, and they are subtitled in English for you.
The series is being extensively “refreshed” for Japanese TV. It is not new animation, but simply a remastering of the original film. Part of this will be reformatting and extending the picture to 16:9 Widescreen (the Jump image says it will not be a cropping of the series, at least not completely). Through digital processing, the image will be made vibrant. All the grime, damage and noise remaining on the “Z” film will be removed, making the image much clearer in HD.
We’ll definitely be looking forward to a DVD relase of this for our own Dragonball collection.
Behold, these are Samsung’s newest invention– LED iDTVs
Samsung’s newest HDTVs boasts better performance while going greener. That’s what the LED iDTVs are all about.
Instead of the traditional Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFL), these new HDTVs are lit mainly by LEDs. Not only do LEDs consume less power, but they also produce darker blacks, and they use up less space. Samsung was able to cut down the size of these TVs to only 29.9mm, which is just a little over an inch. Now, you’ll be able to redefine the “slim” compared to when you saw the first flat-screen TVs.
The new LED iDTVs come in 3 different series– 6000, 7000, and 8000 series, ranging a variety of sizes. The 8000 series offer a blazing-fast 200Hz Motion Plus technology, while the 6000 and 7000 series offer a still-good 100Hz Motion Plus technology. This ensures that you’ll be able to catch every moment of the fast-action pictures in sports.
Yo Joe! The publicity machine begins for the Real American Hero.
With G.I. Joe‘s live-action debut coming in August, Habsro with help from Cartoon Network, is building excitement with this new PG-13 animation called G.I. Joe Resolute. We’re sure many Neonpunch readers remember watching G.I. Joe as kids, with the famous battlecry: “Yo Joe!” will now see the Joe’s grown-up and actually getting killed. The first webisode is below, and yes they are here to sell more action figures too!
Thanks all, for a successful second event in Lan Kwai Fong.
Our second iPhanatics meet-up was another great success. Thanks to the speakers, Bill So of Headnix, William Taysom of Jade Tower and Leon Ho of Stepcase for their iPhone app demo’s and to MC’s Casey and Mingles for showcasing their Top 5 Favorite iPhone games.
We’re now planning how the next event will unfold and will let you know the details as soon as we figure them out. Until then enjoy the pix by our master photographers Justin and Lester, and as well the Keynote presentation in this easy to read PDF file with all the links to the news, apps and games featured at last nights event, for your easy reference.
One more of the LEGRIA line of camcorders is available:
Remember when we first announced Canon’s LEGRIA line of camcorders? Well, at the time, we only had details about the HF20 and HF200. Well, now, the new LEGRIA FS22 camcorder is available to be purchased.
Here are the specs of it:
Built-in 32GB Flash Memory, up to 21 hours video can be recorded*
Using SD/SDHC memory card as recording media
Canon 45x advanced zoom lens and 2000x digital zoom
DIGIC DV II Imaging Processor
1.07 megapixel CCD senor
New Video Snapshot function
3-sec Pre Rec function
Quick Start function
Quick Charge
* In LP mode
The FS22 is the flagship model, and the most powerful model, of the LEGRIAFS-Series camcorders. Besides the 32GB of built-in flash memory, it also supports SDHC cards, expandable to a total of 48GB of memory. It also offers an awesome 37x optical zoom along with a totally ridiculous 2000x digital zoom, to give you all the long-range shooting options you’ll ever need. You’ll be able to watch whatever you’re recording on the big 3.7″ LCD display.
The Canon LEGRIA FS22 camcorder is available in Hong Kong already. It has a suggested retail price of HK$5,980, which is not too expensive for a camcorder like that. You can find more information about this camcorder on Canon’s website.
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