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47 TOTAL WINS AND 108 TOTAL NOMINATIONS = TWO OSCARS®, A GOLDEN GLOBE®, A BAFTA & AFI "MOVIE OF THE YEAR BURBANK, Calif., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the year's most critically acclaimed and best reviewed motion picture dramas of the year, DreamWorks Pictures and Steven Spielberg's "LINCOLN" arrives in North America on Blu-ray(TM) Combo Pack, Digital and On-Demand platforms on March 26, 2013 and Internationally on Digital HD beginning on April 24(th) and Blu-ray/ DVD on...
EPA Recognizes LG for Protecting Environment through Manufacturing, Promoting Energy-Efficient Products for a Second Consecutive Year WASHINGTON, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics, a global technology leader in consumer electronics and home appliances, has been named 2013 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This is the second year in a row that LG has earned this coveted award for its efforts to manufacture and promote...
LOS ANGELES, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending February 24, 2013. RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY SALES* RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE...
Wake up to 2013 spring! In honor of this vigorous season, MacXDVD today announces a time-limited spring promotion boasting early bird giveaway and big saving deals from March 1st to March 20th, during which coveted 10,000 free copies of MacX iPad DVD Video Converter Pack and unbeatable spring discount offer on MacX Spring Video Converter Pack are available to all participants. (PRWEB) March 01, 2013 With winter finally going away, spring begins to creep in. To make this vigorous season...
Heavy Hitters from Samsung, Microsoft and Oregon State University Set Stage For Developments and Innovations in Display Industry CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society for Information Display (SID), the leading global organization dedicated to the advancement of electronic display technology, today unveiled the keynote speaker line up for this year's Display Week, which is taking place at the Vancouver Convention Center from May 19-24, 2013 in Vancouver, Canada....
Sharp continues to Go Big with the Industry's Largest 90" Class LED, big enough to showcase striking, life-size images in portrait view LAS VEGAS, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, is exhibiting its full line of professional LED displays, now available in screen size classes up to 90" (90-1/16" diagonal) at the 2013 Digital Signage Expo. Visit the Sharp booth, #913, to see the new line of...
Audio visual design leader, Control Audio Video has recently become a dealer of McIntosh Labs, a manufacturer of high-end audio products. Bedford, NH (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 Control Audio Video, a division of R.J. Finlay & Co., is now an exclusive dealer in the Bedford, New Hampshire area of McIntosh products. McIntosh is an exciting addition to the already impressive product line that Control Audio Video has established since its inception. Control Audio Video’s and McIntosh’s...
BuyDig.com now offers free shipping to all customers within the Continental United States. Edison, NJ (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 BuyDig.com, the Internet's Digital Superstore, has one of its biggest announcements yet: free shipping on all items store-wide within the continental United States. In an effort to help their customers save more, BuyDig.com has removed the cost of shipping from the equation. What the customer sees is what he pays with no additional shipping costs within the...
Innovative cloud-based virtualization technology delivers DreamGallery's award-winning video experience to a broader range of set-tops HORSHAM, Pa., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Motorola today announced that its award-winning DreamGallery(TM) technology is newly available on an expanded range of devices--thanks to new virtualization technology. DreamGallery now uses virtualized cloud-rendering to make TV experiences as rich and easy as surfing the Web--on a variety of devices,...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending February 17, 2013. RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY SALES* RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE ---- -----...
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The Magnavox Odyssey was the first home video console produced in the world. It was manufactured by Magnavox and released in August 1972. The unit was discontinued in 1975 with a total of 330,000 systems sold. Its successor was the Magnavox Odyssey 2. A working prototype of the console was finished in 1968, known as the brown box. This prototype is displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History located in Washington D.C.. The Odyssey connected to a...
The Kobo Touch is an eReader device produced by Kobo Inc., from China, revealed on May 23, 2011, and released in the U.S. on June 10, 2011. It is the third generation eReader from Kobo, and contained improvements from the previous versions. The Kobo Touch included 15 free previews of select books instead of 100 public domain books that were included on the previous versions. Other improvements were an E Ink pearl screen, faster CPU, and it was smaller and lighter. The display is a six-inch...
The Digital Reader 1000 (DR1000) was produced by iRex Technologies in the Netherlands and released on September 22, 2008. The DR1000 is an e-Book reading device made in three versions: the DR1000 does not have a touchscreen; DR1000S has a touchscreen; and the DR1000SW has a touchscreen with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Production of this device was discontinued in 2010 when iRex filed for bankruptcy. The unit has a 10.2 inch screen, uses Linux 2.6 operating system, has 128 MB of...
The Nook is a brand of e-reader developed by Barnes & Noble with the original device released in November 2009. It featured both Wi-Fi and AT&T 3G, with a 6 inch display and a smaller touchscreen for data input. Since then there has been multiple versions and upgrades. A Wi-Fi only version released in June 2010 and the Nook color using LCD in November 2010. The second generation Nook was released in June 2011, and in February 2012 an upgrade was released to the Wi-Fi only version....
Image Caption: The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Model. Credit: Espen Irwin Swang/Wikipedia (CC BY 3.0) The Xperia is a smartphone that has been manufactured by Sony since 2008 and accounts for half of the company’s mobile phone sales. The name was originated from the word experience with the first model the Xperia X1 and its motto “I Xperia the best.” The X1 was manufactured to close the gap on other smart devices produced by the competition. It was released in October 2008, and used...
