This week Epson launched its latest home cinema projector on to the market. The PowerLite Home Cinema 720 is priced at US$1,300 making it a mid-range purchase, suitable for a home enthusiast looking for a hi-def projector. The PowerLite’s features include 1,600 lumens of brightness, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, 16:9 display ratio, hi def quality up to 120 inch display, 4,000 hours of lamp life plus numerous inputs including HMDI, Component Video, S-Video and Composite Video. It also sports 3LCD technology which according to the blurb

3LCD is the world’s leading projection technology, delivering unbelievable color, amazing detail and road-tested reliability. Using an advanced 3-chip design, 3LCD offers full-time RGB for brilliant quality images without the possibility of color break-up.

So how does this sucker stack up against other projectors

	Panasonic PT-AX100U	Mitsubishi HC2000U
Resolution	1280 x 720	1280 x 720
Brightness (lumens)	2,000	700
Contrast Ratio	6,000:1	3,600:1
Projection Size (inches)	200	250
Aspect Ratio	16:9	16:9
HDMI input	Yes	Yes
PC input	Yes	Yes
Component in	Yes	Yes
Price (US$) *	$1,859	$1,700

* Prices from Amazon

I deliberately picked higher priced projectors, but even so the Epson stacks well against these competitors. The only downside may be the 120 inch display with both the Panasonic and Mitsubishi giving at least 66% diagonal width to your movie. So it looks as if Epson have come up with a winner here.

If anyone has one of these suckers feel free to drop me a line and let me know what you think.

Source: PR News Wire

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As reported by InfoWorld it appears as if someone in the Zune team is having a bit of joke by setting up an amnesty bin for team member’s to deposit their iPods! This image was posted on flickr supposedly taken at Zune HQ. The bin’s probably a bit of a joke as Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, points out

“Most of the people [working on] Zune would want to have an iPod to keep track of the competition,” he said. “On that team, they’re all into digital music, so all of them probably have a bunch of players.”

Nice to see a sense of humour in the workplace!

Source: InfoWorld

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We’re not really into fashion accessories at our-picks.com unless they can do 0-60 in under five seconds but we spotted this little gem posted at The Gadget Blog. With mother’s day coming up it’s the ideal present for a geeky mother or a geek’s mom, either way she’ll be the talk of the town as she strolls down the main street of town with this slung over her shoulder!

The handbag is available from fractal spin, a snip at US$55. Apparently the sliding metal doors have been glued to prevent snagging on your clothing and a magnetic latch holds the top edges together! Other geek-inspired mother’s day gifts include resistor bunch earrings, a fan guard chain necklace and a circuitboard memo pad. Of course a real geek/son would make these from her old PC.

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The change from XP to Vista wasn’t as sudden as most would have expected. Despite the craze that has surrounded Microsoft’s newest product, not everybody was ready to drop their former operating system (namely Windows XP, because I doubt many Mac or Linux users made the change) and switch to Vista.
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After similar events in Turkey. This seems to keep happening to YouTube due to copyright scandals and calumniator content. Until Google bought it, this was not that much of a big deal but since then all who have something to gain from it can hit Google long and hard on the Youtube subject.

The ban was now established in Thailand, it seems YouTube editors refused to remove some offensive content, even though authorities from Thailand requested it in numerous occasions. As you well know this is not a first, YouTube got banned in the past in countries like Brasil and in state schools in Australia, for similar causes.

And legal matters are not the least of YouTube’s concerns now. Derived from all this copyright problems the video service from Google is facing a great deal of other sites of the kind offer video material that YouTube can’t show anymore. Here are a few examples AllSP or TV links or many more of the same sort that steal a increasing share of YouTube’s visitors.

YouTube is certainly traveling in some black waters, will be Google able to pull it off?

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Three years ago, Google was launching GMail, an innovating mailing service that was perceived as a practical joke at the beginning due its chosen launching day. Today, three years later, GMail is one of the most popular webmail options, directly competing with Yahoo’s Mail.

Even if recently, Yahoo offered unlimited space compared to GMail’s 2,9GB, I still believe that users are not looking just for storage space, and they want more flexibility and user-oriented features. That’s why GMail was and will still be my favorite.

Happy birthday ;)

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