When HD arrived it came with a bang and people all around came flocking to the stores to see how amazing it made the picture quality and they knew they had to have it. When Blu-ray hit the market it was almost quite the opposite. It seemed to have come out of no where and not many people understood exactly what it was.
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According to the recent global TV market report, Samsung Electronics won Triple Crown in LCD, flat and all over TV sectors. The company maintains leading place for 7 continuous quarters in terms of sales (market share of 17.7%) and consecutive 5 quarter in terms of production (market share of 13.8%). Most brilliant is that Samsung appeared second by holding a 21.3% market share, a 1.9% increase, in the sales of PDP TV in 3Q. Thus the company tapering the gap with Panasonic (32.9%) from 16.2£¥ point to 11.6£¥ point. Especially the LCD TV, company has ranked first for 5 successive quarters with a 16.8£¥ market share, followed by Sony (11.3£¥) and Sharp (10.8£¥). In terms of sales, Sony (15.1£¥) and Sharp (12.5£¥) went after Samsung (18.4%).

To summarize, after a remarkable performance Samsung is probable to maintain the world’s best place in upcoming years as well.

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Sony has lowered the price of their PS3 hardware kit and making it easier for independent gaming developers to purchase. The price will decrease to almost half. But that isn’t the only thing that Sony is cutting back on. Sony did the same thing to the PS2 hardware kit a year after it had been released back in 2000.

The price cut will be available to those in Japan, Europe, United States, and Australia. Greg Bondar – who is part of the Game Development Association of Australia – was excited to hear the news knowing that it would give otherwise unknown developers the chance to show their stuff and to compete with some of the larger companies.

“A lot of the larger, established studios can get into it, even they find it cost prohibitive, but in general it now gives us and our members a broader base of access to such technology and opportunity to develop. I think it has been a prohibitive factor,” Bondar said.

“If we have access to such development kits, it allows us to produce a better product, so we welcome it; [we] highly welcome it and congratulations to Sony.”

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Caller ID installed into your phone is something that has been around for some years now. But what if you could know who was calling without having to get up off the couch and looking at the phone.

It seems that many different cable companies have been trying to create a way of enabling the caller ID feature on a person’s television. So whenever someone was to call you a little box would appear at the corner of the screen telling you the name and number of the person calling.

Cablevision Systems, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable are the only cable providers that have enabled this feature. Cablevision Systems (in New York City) will be offering the feature to all 3 million of its customers. The best part of having this feature (through Cablevision) is that they don’t charge any extra to enable it and you can always turn it off when you want.
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All of you computer lovers it’s time to run out to the nearest Best Buy and pick you up Dell’s newest invention the XPS One computer. It is one of the most compact desktop computers to hit the market. Dell has combined the monitor and the CPU into one box.

There are four different models available to consumers the Essential One, Music One, Performance One, and Entertainment One. Each have been equipped with a 20inch screen, wireless mouse and keyboard, Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, 250G bytes hard drive, face recognition web camera, and 2G bytes of memory.

The Entertainment One will most likely be the most popular model. It has been created specifically to be used as a home media center and will include a Blue-ray HD DVD burner and ATI Radeon HD 2400 graphics card that will have 256M bytes of memory on it.
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