February
23


Toshiba Corporation has unveiled their “REGZA H1000 series” line of liquid crystal television in 3 different screen sizes-42/37/32”.All the TV’s have built-in 160GB HDD, 1,366×768 resolution, terrestrial degree of /BS/110 CS digital and terrestrial analog tuner. It is possible to watch a different channel while recording a terrestrial digital broadcast. You cannot record 2 programs at the same time. The new improved image engine ensures high picture quality conversion just as the superior Z1000 series. The digital broadcast can be videotaped in MPEG-2 TS format.

As for input terminals- HDMI×1, D4×1,S image ×2, composite ×3, analog audio ×3. Also digital broadcast video recording output and S1 image output, head phone output and built in 10W×2ch speakers with SRS WOW technology. The H1000 series will be available in Japan from May 13th.

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February
17


Epson Direct (Japan) has come with a nice collection of laptops with favorite Disney characters-Tinkerbell, Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse. The Disney characters decorate outside of the new Epson Endeavor laptops with matching wall paper and screen saver. The new model is basically the same Endeavor NT2850 White Edition .The note book PC offers a choice of XGA (1024 x 768 pixel) or SXGA+ (1400 x 1050 pixel) resolution display on a 15″ LCD monitor. Running off a SiS M661MX chipset with Celeron M 370J (1.5GHz) processor, 256MB memory, 40GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM and OS Windows XP Home Edition (SP2) .The note book Pc comes with a 19 mm full-size keyboard, USB 2.0×4, Type2 PC card slot ×1,SD card /MMC/ memory stick (PRO) slot ×1, IEEE 1394, Ethernet card. The lithium ion battery lasts approximately for 1.5 hours.

With dimensions 332×287×35.6mm (width x depth x height), approximate weight 3kg the note book is available (only in Japan) for approximately 120,750 Yen.

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