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RCA introduces slimmest Small Wonder camcorder ever: EZ209HD

Darren Murph — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:05:00 EST

If you were taken aback by RCA's EZ300HD, you'll serious consider marrying the EZ209HD. Said device is the company's slimmest, sleekest and "sexiest" Small Wonder ever, enabling users to grab HD footage and view playback on the 2-inch LCD display. It's also packing an HDMI socket, a rechargeable battery good for two hours of use and a microSD slot. It'll hit this quarter for $119.99 alongside the standard-def EZ207.

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General Electric partners with Tatung for "premium" GE-branded HDTVs

Darren Murph — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:19:00 EST

Filed under: Industry, Displays, Others, RCA

Who says there are too many players in the HDTV realm? With current mainstays partnering up like it's going out of style, we've found two firms that see something no one else does. General Electric has just announced a joint venture with Taiwan-based Tatung in which the pair plans on making two million HDTVs annually when production gets going in 2009. The two hope to capture at least 5% to 10% of the global TV market in due time, and according to Peter Weedfald, president of North America and global chief marketing officer for the JV, the resulting product will be a "premium brand" that will be "very competitive with current leadership brands." We'll be interested to see what all becomes of this, and hopefully we'll have some prototypes to gawk at come CES / IFA / CEDIA 2009.

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RCA takes EZ300HD Small Wonder camcorder to 720p

Darren Murph — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:00:00 EST

Filed under: Other hardware, RCA

We won't front -- we weren't, how do you say, blown away with RCA's Small Wonder trio announced earlier this year, but we'll give this one a fighting chance. The EZ300HD can capture clips at 720p on the 2GB of internal storage or on any spare SD card you've laying around. You'll also find a 2.4-inch LCD, a low-res YouTube recording mode and a sure-to-be-awesome 4x digital zoom. Operation is supposedly dead-simple, and there's a USB port and video output just in case you feel like blowin' it up on the big screen. Grab it real soon for $159.99.

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Poll: Is your Wal-Mart scaling back its HD DVD player lineup?

Darren Murph — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:49:00 EST

Filed under: Industry, Polls, HD DVD, Players, Others, RCA

Rest assured, this certainly isn't the first time we've heard stories of certain Wal-Marts trimming down its HD DVD lineup, but a new report from TG Daily asserts that "industry sources" have informed the site that the mega-corp will be "phasing out the RCA HDV5000 as well as the Venturer SHD7000 models." If you'll recall, the latter unit has only been available at Wally World for two months (and change), but apparently, both devices are being heavily discounted and won't be restocked once inventory is depleted. By now, we've learned to see all of these "reports" through the eyes of a skeptic, so we're putting it to you to see just how widespread these supposed firesales are. Have you noticed any unusual price cutting or disappearing acts in your local Wal-Mart?

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JD Power ratings put BRAVIA LCD, Pioneer plasma, and Samsung DLP on top

Richard Lawler — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:34:00 EST

Filed under: Industry, Displays, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, RCA, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, DLP, LCD, LCoS, Plasma

JD Power and Associates has released the findings of their 2007 Large Screen HDTV Usage and Satisfaction Survey, and there are some very familiar names in the winners of the three categories. As judged on overall satisfaction, picture and sound performance, ease of use, features and styling, the HDTVs were then divided into 37- to 49-inch, 50- to 65-inch and rear projection 50- 72-inch ranges. Sony's BRAVIA LCD line took the smaller category with a five out of five rating in every area, but lost out to Pioneer's plasmas when competition went over 50-inches. Samsung's DLPs won the rear projection award, despite having a lower picture and sound rating than Sony, JVC, and Toshiba. Take a look at the overall results and then let us know how you think your HDTV measures up.

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ATSC/NTSC DVD recorder from RCA

Matt Burns — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:22:00 EST

Filed under: Recorders, RCA

It's not every day that a DVD recorder makes it onto Engadget HD's front page but sure 'nough, this boy has an ATSC tuner built in and can even record from it. Props needs to go out to the techs at RCA for recognizing that the digital transition is only a short two years and two months away and some people will not be able to use their current ATSC-lacking DVD recorders. The DRC8335 should be available in April at a MSRP of $249.99 and features all the standard VCR to DVD functions, plus that ATSC tuner that will pick up local digital broadcasts and even records those digital programs to a DVD. There is no word if you would be able to record 720p/1080i broadcasts onto a DVD but we would have to guess that you can't. But even still, this should be a great digital solution for those folks that still don't understand that a digital video recorder is still the best option.

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RCA releasing a slew of new LCDs

Matt Burns — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:58:00 EST

Filed under: RCA, LCD

RCA, who may not be the most exciting brand at CES, but when a company drops 18 LCD HDTVS, we take notice. Their new sets range in size from 720p to 1080p, 15- to 47- inches with prices at a modest $299 to $2,299. The RCA Scenium 280 Series get the honor of sporting 1080p at both the 42- and 47-inch models along with being equiped with two HDMI, component, composite and USB ports. These sets will hit the shelves come June with stickers of $2,299 for the 47-inch and $1,799 for the 42-inch. Follow the link for the rest of their new LCD HDTVs.

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What is so difficult about LCoS?

Ben Drawbaugh — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Industry, RCA, Sony, Toshiba, LCoS

LCoS is all the rage today in the world of projection TVs, between American's Favorite Sony SXRD and JVC's D-ILA. ExtremeTech even did a shootout recently of some of the latest LCoS TV's. It is now a major contender for most consumers who are considering a projection TV today.

LCoS hasn't always been all peaches and cream, for years fortunes were lost in attempt to cash in on this promising technology. Thompson was the first to to give up after releasing a commercial LCoS in 2001. The next to attempt to realize the dream was Toshiba, as well as Phillips and Mitsubishi. Intel even announced that they would produce LCoS chips at CES 2004, only to cancel those plans 10 months later. The most recent to announce that they were canceling their plans was LG, only 6 months after the annoncement.

We all know the great benefits of LCoS, but what makes them so difficult to produce?

Thanks Warren!

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CEATEC Japan 2005 preview

Richard Lawler — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:03:08 EST

Filed under: LG, Panasonic, RCA, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Zenith

CEATEC Japan 2005 starts tomorrow, with two days of anything to do with technologies providing Image, Infomation and Communications.

Everyone from Toshiba & Sony, to Sharp, Samsung and Intel will be showing off their latest devices and software. A good example of what types of things we can expect is Panasonic's "Ideas for life" booth, showing off a totally networked home with a large screen high-definition TV at the center. (How many HD Beat readers' homes does that sound like?)

Of course if what you really need is a new house to put that network in, our friends at Luxist know just the place.

With the transitional period we're in with media storage and display, it seems like there will be even more interesting debuts than usual, of products we might actually see on store shelves very soon. Check back for further updates and announcements.

What are you looking forward to/would you like to see announced at the conference?

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