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Taking the digital billboard to the next level

Do you think a 10-story building wrapped in your company's video would help get your message across? That's the goal of San Francisco-based marketing company Obscura Digital. Besides cool projection technology, the company is exploring touch and interactive tech to help advertise products with pop.

Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, obscura digital, video domes, igoogle, marketing, san francisco, video projection, touch, screens

Videos 2008-07-18

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Are cheap LCDs a good choice for classroom sharing?

Are viewing angles an issue? ntntRE: Are cheap LCDs a good choice for classroom sharing?I have a substandard sized classroom for my lab. A 40" screen would be great to have, even have hdmi on one computer to connect.What we've found in the LCD vs Projector issueLCDs are better for...

Tags: Projectors, Monitors & displays, LCD, projector, whiteboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

More electronics salespeople recommend Samsung, not Sony LCD HDTVs

Why Samsung?Inquiring minds want to know.Is it just because Sammy makes Sony's panels?RE: Why Samsung?Good question. MAYBE - Samsung reaches out to them more? Just speculating, but when I did retail computer sales (15+ years ago) we had vendors reps that were in the store all the time. They did...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sales force management, Salesmen, Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., electronics salespeople, Sony LCD, Sony LCD HDTV, HDTV, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Samsung SP-A900B

Samsung, with the help of video guru Joe Kane, again delivers outstanding performance in the high-end front projection DLP category with the flagship SP-A900B. This 1080p resolution, one-chip DLP projector sports the latest Dark Chip 4 chip from Texas Instruments, but otherwise appears virtually the same as the SP-A800B that...

Tags: Projectors, Network technology, picture menu, menu system, Samsung SP-A900B, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., projector

Product reviews 2009-09-14

Mitsubishi WD-82737

Photo gallery: Mitsubishi WD-737 seriesIf the heyday of the gigantic-screen rear-projection HDTV is over, somebody needs to tell Mitsubishi. The company is the sole remaining proprietor pushing out 60-inch-plus TVs too thick to hang on the wall and too inexpensive to merit a cameo on MTV's "Cribs." Its...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsubishi WD-737, TV

Product reviews 2009-07-07

Mitsubishi WD-73737

Photo gallery: Mitsubishi WD-737 seriesIf the heyday of the gigantic-screen rear-projection HDTV is over, somebody needs to tell Mitsubishi. The company is the sole remaining proprietor pushing out 60-inch-plus TVs too thick to hang on the wall and too inexpensive to merit a cameo on MTV's "Cribs." Its...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsubishi WD-737, TV

Product reviews 2009-07-07

Mitsubishi WD-60737

Photo gallery: Mitsubishi WD-737 seriesIf the heyday of the gigantic-screen rear-projection HDTV is over, somebody needs to tell Mitsubishi. The company is the sole remaining proprietor pushing out 60-inch-plus TVs too thick to hang on the wall and too inexpensive to merit a cameo on MTV's "Cribs." Its...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsubishi WD-737, TV

Product reviews 2009-07-07

Mitsubishi WD-65737

Photo gallery: Mitsubishi WD-737 seriesIf the heyday of the gigantic-screen rear-projection HDTV is over, somebody needs to tell Mitsubishi. The company is the sole remaining proprietor pushing out 60-inch-plus TVs too thick to hang on the wall and too inexpensive to merit a cameo on MTV's "Cribs." Its...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsubishi WD-737, TV

Product reviews 2009-07-07

Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVs

Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVsIt costs $800 more...and is probably worth itFluorescent backlights suck energy and burn out, while LED's sip power and last virtually forever. If one LED fails you probably wouldn't even notice the faintly dimmer onscreen spot. Figure a service call and bulbs plus power...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TVs, Toshiba Corp., LED-backlit LCD HDTV, first LED-backlit LCD HDTV, light-emitting diode, LCD, TV

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Iomega Corp., Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely' Will Become a 'Paid System'. Time Projection: Within 5 Years

The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue. ...

Tags: Billing, IAC/InterActive Corp., Billing System, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Projection Connection: Sanyo's PLC-WXU700 LCD projector comes with built-in 802.11n

Here's an idea that more TV manufacturers should be adopting. Sanyo's new home theater projector, the PLC-WXU700, is the first one that comes with built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, opening up a host of streaming video options that don't require you connecting a computer directly to the projector....

Tags: IEEE 802.11n, Sanyo Electric Co., Projectors, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Distance Lab seeking couples to test drive 'intimacy' device

Cheap air travel and the Web undermine the impact of distance, but geographically separated couples could use a better alternative than technologies like text, email, and video chat when physical intimacy is not an option. Enter Mutsugoto, a device designed to communicate intimacy by allowing for couples,...

Tags: Device, Lab, Distance Lab, Wiki, Digital Media, Strategy, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-22

State of the Art Microsoft Conference Experience - Online...

Microsoft are doing a terrific job of demonstrating how to run a conference with their Mix09 conference, which is happening in Vegas right now. Click on the conference url while the keynotes are on and it is as if you're there. A live...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Conference, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Games, Strategy, Marketing, Personal Technology, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-18

So, who wants a 1,250W PSU?

So, who wants a 1,250W PSU?Don't some of these supplies need special power connectorsThat are not usually found in a regular home? Heck, one person I was reading about said that anything above 1000W maximum draw in most homes, even very new homes, would need a special dedicated circuit hooked...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Amps

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'

Imagine drawing on floor-to-ceiling office windows with your finger, using them like a whiteboard, aided by contextual information right at your fingertips, translated as necessary. You haven't lost your marbles -- you're participating in a global corporate meeting, and your colleagues are doing the same thing on four other continents....

Tags: Software, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Consumer Quality, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Sanyo PLV-Z3000

The front projection category continues to grow and become more affordable to the masses. These days you can get a decent 1080p front projector for cheaper than most 60-inch plasma TVs. Of course, you do have the additional cost of a screen to factor in, but that screen can be...

Tags: Projectors, Monitors & displays, TVs, Sanyo PLV-Z3000, Sanyo Electric Co., projector, picture quality

Product reviews 2009-02-17

Studies: more mobile traffic, mobile video in coming years

Mobile computing is here - and it's only going to get bigger, according to projection studies released this week. Cisco Systems today released the results of its Visual Networking Index VNI Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013. The big projection in that study is that global mobile traffic will...

Tags: Mobile, Video, Mobile Traffic, Mobile Video, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Welcome to the Consumer Electronics Show. Sales Are Flatlining.

The semi-annual forecast of industry sales for consumer electronics makers just came out. And the projection is that, despite the transition to digital TV and lust for portable electronics of all types, sales are going down this year. Not by much. Percentage-wise,...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-08