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Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd

Crave Video is offered in 640x480 pixels at 30 frames per second, 320x240 pixels at 30fps. With roughly 230,000 pixels, it's a clear and bright monitor. Pinch, punch, first of the month -- no returnsies! Today's wintry Crave is the 10-megapixel Fujifilm...

1 December 2008, 10:06

YouTube videos now available in widescreen

Crave We're expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. YouTube announced on Monday that it has expanded the viewable width of all videos appearing on...

Tags: youtube, length, videos, viewing

25 November 2008, 9:22

YouTube videos play in HD with a simple hack

Crave Wired, with the help of users on the VR-Zone forums, has uncovered a simple way to get high-quality uploaded videos to display in 1,280x720 pixels -- also known as 720p. YouTube has long been expected to roll out high-definition video playback, and...

Tags: problems, playback, high quality, hd

21 November 2008, 10:13

Toshiba Regza 42ZV555D: 'World's first' upscaling TV

Crave If you were watching something with dimensions of 720x576 pixels, it would float in the middle of a 1,920x1,080-pixel screen. That's right, you read the headline correctly: Toshiba just claimed to have created the first upscaling TVs, the Regza...

Tags: toshiba, cell, processor, definition

11 November 2008, 11:59

Photos: Hands-on with the Sanyo Xacti CA8 waterproof camcorder

Crave You can choose from VGA-resolution 640x480 pixels at 60 or 30 frames per second, or dial it down for the Web to 320x240 pixels at 15 or 30fps. It also captures up to ten sequential 8-megapixel shots -- that's 3,264x2,448 pixels according to Sanyo...

5 November 2008, 11:27

Netbook showdown: The top 10 mini laptops rated

Crave The Picobook has a relatively large 8.9-inch screen with a native resolution of 1,024x600 pixels, and that's large enough to view the majority of Web pages in full. The 1000 series' girth allows it to have a 10.2-inch screen, running at 1,024x600...

31 October 2008, 9:06

Netbook showdown: The top 10 mini laptops rated

Crave The Picobook has a relatively large 8.9-inch screen with a native resolution of 1,024x600 pixels, and that's large enough to view the majority of Web pages in full. The 1000 series' girth allows it to have a 10.2-inch screen, running at 1,024x600...

30 October 2008, 15:55

Opinion: Why Freeview is better than freesat

Crave It's also using a smaller frame size on freesat: 544x576 pixels compared to 704x576 on Freeview. While watching some freesat recently, we noticed that the quality was terrible. On closer investigation, we discovered that people using freesat for...

Tags: air, rate, channels, frame

17 October 2008, 11:30

Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display: Hey, good lookin'

Crave This 24-inch LED-backlit widescreen display has a resolution of 1,920x1,200 pixels, built-in iSight video camera, mic and speakers. In a short aside at tonight's Cupertino launch of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro, Steve Jobs casually introduced a...

Tags: macbook, apple store, cinema display, store

14 October 2008, 18:42

Sony Vaio CS series laptops: Beautifully ill-conceived

Crave The bad news is their screens -- like the screens on the other colours, they only support a native resolution of 1,440x800 pixels, so you can't enjoy full 1080p Blu-ray goodness. Sony has announced a gaggle of new 14.1-inch laptops this month...

8 October 2008, 12:34

Incoming: Samsung Pixon vs Sony Ericsson C905 vs LG KC780

Crave There's not much info on the KC780 yet, but if you're keen on LG's camera-phone stylings, the LG Renoir, which is set to hit the shops very soon, also packs 8 million pixels on its sensor. Forget iPhone killers -- it's the camera killers you need...

30 September 2008, 12:42

Photos: Hands-on with the 3MOS Panasonic HDC-HS100

Crave Each sensor packs 610,000-pixels. The HS100 also captures JPEG stills, up to 1,920x1,080 pixels, or 2.1-megapixels of 16:9 goodness. The Panasonic HDC-HS100 we first met in Monte Carlo has arrived in Crave Towers with a raft of features, and even...

30 September 2008, 10:14

Sigma DP2 and SD15: Sensors say bigger is better

Crave Most image sensors are laid using the Bayer pattern, which basically splits the sensor into red, green and blue pixels, like a three-coloured chessboard. Learning is fun, mmkay? So today we're going to learn about the Sigma DP2, a 14-megapixel...

24 September 2008, 12:05

Samsung HZ1: High zoom kicks off Photokina

Crave It also does HD video at 1,280x720 pixels and 30 frames per second. Camera'd out yet? We've had announcements from just about everybody, and Photokina has only just started! In a novel twist, Samsung held off announcing its new swag until the show...

Tags: samsung, zoom, detection, optical

23 September 2008, 15:07

Photos: Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix F60fd

Crave Resolution this enormous may be the figure used by the marketing chaps to convince you which camera is the bestest, but without a decent-sized sensor to support all those little light-collecting pixels there'll be ugly noise all over the shop, and...

5 September 2008, 10:47