Watch ‘Avatar,’ glasses and all, this time: in your underwear!
Avatar blasted on to local cinema screens at the beginning of this year in full blown 3D loveliness. So will we be able to enjoy all of Avatar’s 3D-ness in our own homes when it finally comes out on Blu-Ray.
So how can we replicate the amazing 3D cinema experience in our living rooms? A number of electronics makers have announced that they will be releasing 3D televisions this year to answer the demand for home 3D theatres.
JVC Hong Kong is the first electronics manufacturer out of the gate and introduces the GD-463D10 a 46-inch full HD 3D LCD flat screen television that is capable of displaying natural-looking 3D images. The GD-463D10 features JVC’s original 3D visual system, which includes an advanced picture engine and 3D decoder circuit. The new screen is compatible with line-by-line and side-by-side 3D input methods, both of which are popularly used for 3D content production.
If you haven’t already, get ready to trash your NowTV box forever.
Tired of watching old shows on your NowTV? Wait, you still have your NowTV box? Ok, we know the Apple TV is a bit expensive, but here comes the Boxee Box to the rescue.
Stop flipping from your TV to your laptop to your favorite mobile device to watch music videos, current TV shows, movies and all your favorite YouTube clips! The Boxbee Box helps to put all your entertainment in one place so that it’s always accessible and easy-to-share through social networking sites. It’s entertainment without limits.
Hook D-Link’s Boxee Box to your high definition TV and you can start enjoying all your favorite shows and clips, plus a whole lot more. The Box comes ready-to-work with a vast Internet library of lectures, presentations, online videos and lots more. You can even add your saved RSS and XML feeds to get the content you want as soon as it’s published.
Hong Kong’s original web-only fantasy thriller to kick-off new web TV channel.
Keanu Reeves is doing it. So is Ridley Scott. Web series are being created by some big name Hollywood talent! Offering viewers just a tidbit at a time – teasing them into loyalty with short form narratives (typically four to eight minutes) in a serial format (ten to thirty “webisodes”) each. And now we can put Hong Kong on the map for having its very own high-end web series too, in the thriller: Lumina.
KoldCast TV has selected Lumina to launch KoldCast TV’s International channel because it is “a thrilling fairytale about love, longing and greed… a timeless story that just so happens to be taking place in Hong Kong.” Thanks Christopher Nolan, for making us appear more than just a place for cheap chop sockey flicks!
Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym is grateful for the opportunity to be seen by an international audience and states:
“Web series is still a burgeoning medium, and KoldCast’s strategy of being selective about its programming and pro-active about marketing is exactly what the field needs right now. I’m so excited that LUMINA is now on their slate – it’s a big step for a new Hong Kong production like ours!”
The storyline features a stressed-out workaholic (played by the beautiful JuJu Chan) who discovers a dark power within herself and flirts with a new life in a dangerous secret-world. And you thought it would be about tai-tai’s talking or gangsters killing.
The biggest and most interesting thing is that they are filming this using The Red One camera. We didn’t even know they had any here. We’ve posted about The Red One before but we are impressed that a local web series is shooting high-res for this. This means they have potential to stream this through your PS3 to your HD-TV and it’ll look super sharp. The other cool thing is that its bi-lingual, so its both in English and Cantonese with Chinese and Western actors playing parts together.
New webisodes will air every Monday and the series is free to view on www.koldcast.tv and on www.luminaseries.com. We have the trailer for you below:
No more cables with this Seagate TV docking station.
After a somewhat disappointing initial release back in February, hard-drive manufacturer Seagate has released an updated version of its FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player called, simply, the Seagate FreeAgent Theater+.
The FreeAgent Theater+ makes storing and using your media files a breeze. Simply load the hard-drive with your selection of movies, music, videos and pictures from your home PC and slide it into the FreeAgent Theater+ docking system to get instant access to your digital media library on your HD TV.
Like its first generation, the FreeAgent Theater+ still allows users to slide and exchange modules between your PC and home-theater; but unlike its predecessor, the FreeAgent Theater+ actually acts as a home-network, drastically simplifying the process of streaming your content directly from your PC to your television.
We use Seagate drives to back up our data because they are small and cheap, now we can just take it to our TV to watch all our vides on a bigscreen. This changes movie night at a friends house, or even how you will lend out your DVD collections in the future.
Sony covers all the bases with the green & portable s5500 and S5700.
Sony has some new runnings at the HD LCD TV Market with the new Bravia S5500 and S5700 series of TVs. Both HD’s use the Bravia Engine 3 image processor, Live Colour and built-in digital tuner and Advanced Contrast Enhancer. Included, also, are the S-Force Front Surround sound systems which we’re told are nice.
There’s a few cool features and accessories for this day and age are the Bravia Sync remote which can sync with a variety of your electronics including your TV. There’s also power-saving abilities like the automatic Ambient Light Sensor which brightens or dims the light depending on the current light levels in the room and the TV switches to standby mode when no input signal from the remote or PC is detected for 30 seconds.
Interestingly enough, the S5500’s 32″ (no confirmation yet on the 26 and 37) comes in 3 colors: black, brown and blue while the 22″ comes in silver and is designed to be more portable for your children who apparently like to watch TV in every single room of the house.
Prices are down below, and all are affordable to folks who want to see Kanye and Serena’s tirades in HD:
