In the year when every mode of entertainment wants to go 3d: Gaming, Movies, TV broadcasts, mobile augmentation, none of the users want to wear those Glasses. What is the way out? At this year’s CeBIT, lots of manufacturers have come up with solutions to tackle the problem. Developers have found various kinds of solutions, the major ones being: Attach Read further »

Youtube’s adoption of HTML5 will be painfully slow due to the constraints over change of codec to an open one. But does that mean that web should wait for HTML5 video embedding? No! Million and billions of Blogs, websites, portals can now have HTML5 video embedded into their content without worrying about compatibility. Thanks to HTML5 Media, you can now embed a HTML5 video that will automatically use Flash Read further »

Screencasting can be a handy widget for a no. of things: preparing a Tutorial, demonstrating a product, broadcasting your favorite software trick/hack to internet. But when it comes to choosing one to your needs, it’s not hard to be confused.

In this guide, I`ll walk you through Industry’s Best Free Screencasting tools along with the paid ones. We will cover all three platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.

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VideoLAN VLC is among the most popular video players on Windows, Linux but still not the best one. The decoding codecs used by current versions of VLC (1.0.x) are way too inferior in performance and quality as compared to the top of the line. The Proof of Concept comes when one tries to play a 1080p High-Def video in VLC vs. using other Codecs. Our previous post talks about superior contenders in Codecs: CoreAVC, that lets you play 1080p smoothly, even on low-end machines (1.5Ghz Dual core, low-end GPU). Well, the things are about to change for this open-player. Read further »

For what we have seen till date: DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort are the only effective standards of getting HD to work on an external display. Feel no pain, here comes the world’s most popular port ready to take over displays too: USB. DisplayLink, which enables monitors to receive signals via USB had some basic things running with USB 2.0. USB 3.0 is capable of giving out throughputs as high as ten times the bandwidth of v2.0, which makes it the right contender for streaming HD video, unconditionally. In fact, the HD video has been Read further »

Fring has been out there for couple of years and they have proved to us that they know how to evolve. The started as small company and launched first VOIP service on the symbian platform. Fromt then they have captured almost every mobile vendor in the world. The service works with a ton of different networks, including Skype, AIM, MSN Messenger and Twitter. Plus, you can make calls to landlines from your SkypeOut/SkypeIn account and place voice calls to your Skype and Fring contacts. The current launch brings two-way Video chat over 3G and WiFi for  Nokia. But it is limited to one side VIEW on Read further »

Nvidia ain’t holding back in the Graphics race. Last week, AMD knocked Nvidia to the second place by introducing ATI Radeon HD 5970 – World’s Fastest Graphics Card. Nvidia didn’t show anything on the typical consumer side,  but rather for Supers (HPCs), they gave AMD a big hit. At this year’s SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon, Nvidia unveils its plan for the next-gen Chip ‘Fermi’. Overall, the GPU co-processors aimed at personal supers and massive clusters were the stars of the show. This is something much more powerful than Read further »

Here is a million dollar question that you won’t get proper answer to, over several searches. But this one promises to answer all your questions. Can a PC with 1.6Ghz Dual core and Intel Extreme Graphics Play 1080p ?: Yes, read-on to find-out. Minimum Requirements for Running 1080p on PC: A. The minimum requirements to play FullHD content on PC are pretty high, with a standard Codec. Processor: 2.4Ghz (dual core) or 3.5Ghz Read further »

For Displays – First was LCD, then came LED and the future as we knew it as – till yesterday was OLED (Organic light emitting diode), the flexible and low-power displays. But something new came up that could even make OLED outdated before it even commercializes. A new LED display process could change the way you watch TV, monitor your health, and gaze out of windows. Developed by a team of international researchers, the new process creates tiny, ultrathin inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that shine brighter and last longer than conventional LEDs. Stretchable micro-LED display, consisting of an interconnected Read further »

Back in April, at the time of launch of iPhone 3G S, it was rumored that the next iPhone (current iPhone 3GS) would be capable and enabled to play true HD video in 720p and 1080p to television via the Apple Composite AV cable. When it was finally released the iPhone 3GS still played video like its predecessors only supporting SD 2.5Mbps Mpeg 4 or H264 video. As things turn out this is an arbitrary limit set by Apple possibly to conserve battery life or to simply match previous models. A user of chinese site WeiPhone did a lot of testing with the iPhone 3GS and discovered it can smoothly play back HD video at 30 Mbps in 1980×1080 resolution. The test was done by uploading various HD Read further »