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Great for presenters and home theater enthusiasts
If you're looking for a versatile projector that's equally at home in the boardroom for presentations and in the home theater for HDTV, NEC's HT1000 will satisfy both needs. We found it to be a stellar performer at displaying computer video as well as HDTV images with crisp resolution, vivid colors, tremendous brightness and deep, dark blacks. Here's our review.
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Home Theater Installers Thrive, Sony Keeps Polysilicon LCDs to Itself
Earlier this month, I attended my eighth CEDIA show and was thoroughly impressed. CEDIA, the leading home theater and home automation show in the world, is like an older person's toy store. It's full of all those gizmos and gadgets that we all want in our home.
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Image editing and Web graphics creation software
Macromedia Fireworks is one of about a dozen applications I use every single working day of my life. Designed originally as a relatively simple Web graphics tool, it has developed over the last few years into a more general-purpose graphics creation and image-editing application, along with the original Web animation and and optimization tools that have allowed it to survive and thrive amid the wreckage of those who have ill-advisedly made a play for a piece of Adobe Photoshop's market share.
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15 decorative mesh shapes
This week we return to the process of overtaxing your processor with yet another series of custom shapes for Adobe Photoshop, this time with 15 new styles to add to your ever-increasing library. As with previous collections, this new library includes a variety of decorative mesh styles, from wavy grids to complex, spiraling lines. Also in this article, I've decided to provide links to all of our previous free Photoshop downloads, including shapes, brushes, patterns and actions, to save you the time of hunting through the ol' archives.
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You say you want a revolution?
If you've ever reluctantly plunked down the coin for an upgrade that had nothing to sell but an "Improved User Interface" and "Increased Stability," then you're in for a pleasant surprise. Final Cut Pro 4 would be a substantial step even if it didn't come with Four Fab free programs! They tell you that it's evolution but this is one upgrade that wants to change the world.
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Announcement Signifies Forward Momentum in Creation of Defacto Standard for Wireless Projection and Presentation Systems
Margi Systems, a provider of mobile presentation technology, today announced its Wireless Presenter-to-Go has been incorporated into the new HP Digital Projector mp3130. This collaboration marks the expansion of a licensing agreement between Margi and HP, which was announced in June 2003 and focused on the incorporation of Margi's wireless technology in HP's line of digital conference room projectors.
Plugin simulates film effects
Digital Film Tools has released Digital Film Lab for Adobe Photoshop. Digital Film Lab is a plugin for simulating various film looks and was previously available for motion graphics and video editing applications. The new Photoshop version is available now for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows.
Entire Plasma Line Now Dominates the Market
Less than a year after launching its first thin television, Gateway, Inc. has become America's top seller of plasma screen TVs to consumers across all product sizes, surpassing Sony, Panasonic, Samsung and other traditional industry leaders, according to NPD Retail Point-of-Sale data and Gateway's own sales figures.
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) have taken an important step towards producing standardized test material for evaluating the performance of digital projectors and other elements of digital cinema systems. The test is being produced under the auspices of the ASC Technology Committee in partnership with DCI, which represents seven Hollywood film studios.
Digital Film Tools has released DIGITAL FILM LAB, a unique plug-in from Digital Film Tools meant to simulate a variety of film looks, popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses and optical lab processes--all in a controlled digital environment with either 8 or 16 bits per channel processing.
Optima-30 first large screen HDTV using LCD panel technology
DigitalTech Displays is now shipping the ultra thin, multi-purpose flat panel display. The Optima-30 is the first large screen HDTV using the power efficient and reliable LCD panel technology.
Finalization of 802.15.3a standards process is critical to driving mass-market adoption of UWB
Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications systems, which enable short-range and robust wireless connectivity between devices, will propagate within the next five years, exceeding 150 million devices by year-end 2008, according to Personal Area Connectivity Solutions: The Next Generation, a report from Parks Associates in Dallas.
AMD today marked the next frontier in computing, introducing the world's first and only Windows-compatible 64-bit PC processor -- the AMD Athlon 64 FX processor -- and paving the way for a jaw-dropping PC experience.
Dell today added more desktop functionality to its Inspiron notebook line with the introduction of Hyper-Threading Technology (HT) to the Inspiron 5150.
The Multimedia Cookbook: Business Start-up Guide by Dan Titus
Music Sales Corporation announced the release of a new book showing how to set up a video business. The Multimedia Cookbook: Business Start-up Guide by Dan Titus is part of the Artist Series. This definitive industry guide will take users through theessential techniques needed to start and run a successful video productionservice. From the business plan, financial advice, to loan tips; strategies offeredwill have users making money quickly and easily.
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