Articles about hd playback

Maybe the Blackberry Playbook lacks when it comes to the huge amount of apps available for competing platforms like Android and iOS, but some of the default apps are worth mentioning, including the browser, Facebook app and the subject of this post: the video player.One of the things I enjoy most on slate tablets is the video player functionality and here the Playbook doesn't disappoint. The way the app works is pretty simple: each video you download from the Internet or transfer from other ...

You thought that the Dell Streak is one small tablet, measuring just 5 inch in diagonal? It seems Archos is preparing an even bigger surprise, or should I say smaller, as the Gen 8 Tablet will feature a very small 3.2 inch screen with an aging 400 x 240 pixels resolution, powered by an ARM Cortex A8 CPU capable of 720p video playback at 24 pixels.Things like WiFi, Bluetooth EDR, and composite video output are also included in the (small) package of Archos Gen 8 Tablet. It's interesting to se...

Most gadgets now come from China, the best and the worst at the same time. It's not something you didn't knew already and I bet you don't care if the price is right. Chile T7-3G is another 7 inch tablet, this time with 3G connectivity out of the box. It's a slate tablet that looks rather interesting and isn't trying to copy any successful product already on market, as design is concerned.This doesn't mean the Chile T7-3G is a contender for the iPad, far from it, but if the price is right (no...

The JooJoo tablet is clearly not one of the best but one of the most controversial IT products of this year, as it begun as a fruit of collaboration between CrunchGear's Michael Arrington and Fusion Garage, but managed to become the item that separated them, with the latter taking credit and the former filing a law suit with an outcome that isn't clear yet.Anyway, some of the few people who bought the JooJoo 12.1 inch tablet didn't particularly like the Flash interface and managed to softwar...

Notion Ink Adam is one of the most awaited tablets of 2010, mostly because of its Pixel Qi screen that allows the device to function in two modes: normal LCD and eReader with backlight off, which reduces screen consumption to around 0.5 watts. Recently there were rumors about the device being delayed by manufacturing problems and lack of investors. Today the founder of Notion Ink announced that there are no problems (they have investors willing to finance up to 100.000 units produced every month...

ARM CPUs are traditionally specially designed for mobile phones, smartphones, MIDs and such, but not for big screen computing. It seems that things are going to change with the Mali 200 chipset, that's on its way to compete with Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform. The Mali 200 features graphics processing capabilities that can power huge HD displays and render objects in Open GL, can accept multi touch gestures like pinch and zoom and can compute physics interactions.We have below a video demo, filme...

VIA was traditionally the chipset maker to choose for a low power, price and sadly performance system. Now they're trying to wash this blemish on their brand name by releasing the VX900 chipset, a competitor for the ATOM platform, meant for netbooks and nettops but with higher performance when it comes to Full HD playback (just like the Tegra 2). To demo their statement VIA allowed a blogger from Netbooknews to test their prototype platform against a HP Mini 10 with a Broadcom chip that barely m...

Netbooks are great as portable devices and can help you get some work done when traveling, but don't expect too much from such a small screen and slow CPU, so almost anything is possible but in small amounts. Even if battery life is great there's not much you can do if you want to watch a HD movie (I'm not encouraging piracy) or watch Flash HD playback on Youtube, Hulu, Vimeo and other websites. The problem lies in the integrated graphics, Intel kind, that is not powerful enough to support such ...