techdigest.tv - 12/5/2008
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techdigest.tv —
Medion, the mid-range laptop producer who sell great
machines at surprisingly low prices, yesterday announced the Akoya...
P8610 at Dolby's sound laboratories in deepest darkest Soho. It's a whopping 18.4" beast of a machine, with Blu-ray drive, and ...
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Medion launches Akoya P8610 18" media centre notebook
pocket-lint.co.uk - 12/5/2008
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pocket-lint.co.uk —
Dolby, Nvidia and Blu-ray onboard Originally seen at
IFA this year, Medion today announced the UK price...
for its new desktop replacement model. The P8610 is packed with home entertainment technology and offered at a credit crunch defying ...
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NEWS: Medion confirm Akoya P8610 for UK
engadget.com - 12/5/2008
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engadget.com —
Medion's netbooks and GPS units may have been
garnering the company the most attention as of late,...
but it's also still in the traditonal laptop business, and it looks like it's new 18-inch Akoya P8610 model should turn at least a few heads, and ...
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Medion rolls out 18-inch Akoya P8610 media center laptop
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Did YouTube Just Turn On HD For Real?
TechCrunch —
After teasing us for a year with the option to watch “higher quality” videos that weren’t quite high-def, it appears that YouTube is making the switch to HD, at least for some videos that have been uploaded in that quality. Earlier this month, there were reports of YouTube testing this feature, but this morning it seems to be more widespread. (This comes after YouTube adopted a widescreen format for all of its videos last week).
There is nothing on the YouTube Blog yet, but people are starting to notice the new feature on Twitter this morning. You can find a bunch of HD videos on YouTube by searching for ...
YouTube goes High-Def
SlashGear —
YouTube have switched on High Definition viewing for online content that has been uploaded in suitably high-resolution. Although there has been no official comment from the company as yet, a search for “HD” shows multiple clips with the option “watch in HD” where once it said “watch in higher quality”. Comparison screenshots after the cut.
It’s unclear exactly what resolution the videos are now being streamed in, but what’s patently obvious is that the image detail is far improved. Edges are much sharper, and text is more readable. High-bandwidth broadband is essential, given the size of the ...
YouTube goes HD, finally!
Engadget HD —
Filed under: Internet
Be still our hearts! Just days after a YouTube "hack" was discovered to view what appeared to be 720p content, and even fewer days since seeing the famed online video sharing site adopt a widescreen format, in comes the real deal: HD. Forever we've waited for the site to catch up with smaller entities ...
Facebook, YouTube Now Offering The Best-Quality HD Video Sharing
Podcasting News —
TechVideoBlog has measured the HD qualities of the various video services now offering HD video sharing, and it looks like YouTube and Facebook are now the leaders.
Here are the specs they measured, along with links to example videos:
Youtube HD: 1280×720 - 2mbit/s H264 - full framerate - 44hz stereo 254kbit/s AAC audio
Facebook HD: 1280×720 - 2.5mbit/s H264 - full framerate - 44hz 146kbit/s AAC stereo audio
SmugMug HD: 640×360 - 1.4mbit/s H264 - full framerate - 48hz AAC stereo audio
Sevenload HD: 1280×720 - 1.8mbit/s H264 - full framerate - 48hz 96kbit/s AAC ...
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