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Hitachi DZ-HS300E review

Reviews Hitachi's goal of an inexpensive camcorder, combining the long recording times and stability of a hard disk drive with the easy playback and distribution of a DVD, merits attention. You can choose from among a broad selection of 80mm optical media...

Editor's rating   5.6

Tags: hitachi, pixel, distribution, inch

26 March 2007, 14:55

MPEG-4

Reviews Two major versions are MPEG-4 Simple Profile for low-resolution digital video content, usually for distribution over the Internet, and MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding), which offers faster and higher-quality compression than MPEG-2 for HDTV...

21 December 2006, 14:55

Sony HDR-FX1 review

Reviews It also has some very well thought out features that make it an ideal vessel for riding out the transition to HD: it can shoot standard-definition DV, and it can downconvert HD footage to SD for viewing or editing with current standard-definition...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: sony, preset, dv, tape

2 May 2005, 22:54

Acer Travelmate 8204WLMi review

Reviews Many laptops have a very scattered distribution of ports, but most of the 8204WLMi's ports can be found at its front edge. It has much to live up to following Apple's claims that these processors do "a whole lot more" in an Apple MacBook Pro than...

Editor's rating   9.2

Tags: acer, ports, connectivity, cpu

2 February 2006, 15:04

Hitachi UT42-XV700 review

Reviews The LCD panel is a 100Hz, 1080p (24p compatible) using IPS-alpha technology to improve viewing angles and with a new backlight diffuser to improve the distribution of light across the screen. When flat panel TVs first went on sale, it was pretty...

Editor's rating   8.2

Tags: hitachi, equipment, tuner, hdmi

13 June 2008, 14:06

Marantz ES7001 SSX review

Reviews Marantz doesn't provide any information about the ES7001's OPSODIS (OPtimal SOurce DIStribution) surround technology, so we can't comment about it. Every few months another manufacturer unveils a new single-speaker surround system, and now it's...

Editor's rating   7.4

Tags: marantz, connectivity, speaker, listening

4 December 2008, 13:58

Kodak Zi6 review

Reviews The lower VGA setting is useful if you're low on memory (files sizes are much smaller when you capture in lower resolution) or if you know you're going to be compressing your video for Web or email distribution.

Editor's rating   7

Tags: kodak, camcorders, vga, capacity

7 October 2008, 16:38

Sony Handycam HDR-HC3 review

Reviews Editing HD content is easy, if somewhat slower than working with DV, but you eventually have to downconvert the final footage to DVD resolution (720x480-pixel 480p format) for distribution. The Sony Handycam HDR-HC3 brings down both the size and...

Editor's rating   7.6

Tags: sony, microphone, camcorders, spot

24 May 2006, 11:22

Shuttle x27D review

Reviews Both Vista Home Premium edition and Windows XP Home will cost £80, but Linux fans might want to consider saving that cash and installing a free copy of Ubuntu or an alternative Linux distribution.The x27D's networking capabilities are fairly limited.

Editor's rating   7

Tags: shuttle, ram, ports, hard drive

21 November 2008, 14:59