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LG Secret review

Posted by Charbax on 21st August 2008

This is LG’s latest new black design, durable and cool looking slide-out camera phone with a DivX Mobile certification, 120fps slow-motion 320×240 video recording, direct to Youtube HSDPA video upload, 5 megapixel photo camera with flash. With a tempered glass to protect the screen against keys and coin scratches in the pocket, Carbon fibre casing to make it durable against drops, bangs and other misuse. It has touch-screen mode only for some of its features, otherwise it has a blue neonlight touch interface below the screen.

LG Secret review

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download (272mb)

Flash versions: Blip, Sumo, Viddler, Metacafe, Vsocial, Google, Dailymotion, Youtube, Putfile, Veoh, Revver, Vimeo

You can see some slow motion video samples that I shot using the LG Secret:

Children dancing (with Charbax music)
Children dance LG Secret slow motion

Football (with Charbax commentary)
Slow motion LG Secret football

Basketball (with Charbax commentary)
Slow motion LG Secret Basketball

Volleyball (with Charbax commentary)
Volleyball slow motion LG Secret

Charbax dance (with Charbax music)
Charbax dance in slow motion LG secret

More dancing (with Charbax music)
People dancing in slow motion LG secret

More dancing (with Charbax commentary)
People dancing in slow motion LG secret

Posted in Mobile phones, Reviews | Comments »

MSI Wind - Medion Akoya Mini - review

Posted by Charbax on 7th August 2008

Showing this Intel Atom based Netbook in an HD quality video review, comparing it with the OLPC XO-1, comparing it with a large 14″ notebook, showing how it can playback 720p H264 9mbit/s video recorded using the Sanyo HD1000 using Coreavc codec in Media Player Classic. Talking about ARM based $100 laptops as well.

Going-Solo Lausanne

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download

Flash versions: Youtube

Posted in Laptops, Linux, Processors, Reviews | Comments »

Charbax reviews the Archos 605 GPS, TV+ Portation, Web TV and Radio plugin and the Flash9 update

Posted by Charbax on 26th April 2008

This is a 13 minute video review of the new features that Archos announced on the 22nd of April 2008 at a press event in Paris. Everyone who owns an Archos 605 WiFi now has a $99 GPS optional accessory for it to have a very awesome GPS functionality in the car. The Archos Gen5 firmware now has reached version 2.0, and this one brings new quite awesome features such as integrated access to the worlds streaming live Web TV and Webradio channels as well as millions of episodes from hundreds of thousands of podcasts though the Web TV and Radio plugin that will be available from the beginning of May at $19, the TV+ Portation feature which basically uses the TV+ or a 605 WiFi or 705 WiFi as a Slingbox server, and there are free client softwares available on the 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi as well as Windows Mobile smartphones and Windows XP/Vista computers. Archos also has upgraded flash support to version9 with the On2 codec support, so more streaming flash video sites are now working in awesome full screen streaming.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 389mb)

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Google, Metacafe, Putfile, Revver, Sumo, Vimeo, Vsocial, Youtube

Posted in Portable Multimedia, Archos, Reviews | Comments »

Review of the Archos 605 GPS - close-up in demo mode

Posted by Charbax on 26th April 2008

In this video, I am showing up close some of the features of the Archos 605 GPS in demo mode (not actually using it in a car). You can thus see some of how the Archos GPS Interface and the Archos In-Car GPS Holder looks like.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 380mb)

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Google, Metacafe, Putfile, Revver, Sumo, Vimeo, Vsocial, Youtube

Posted in Portable Multimedia, Archos, Reviews | Comments »

Mark Jaroski

Posted by Charbax on 14th February 2008

Mark Jaroski is the webmaster of the World Health Organization´s website at http://who.int. This video was filmed at the Lift08 conference using the Sanyo HD1000 and posted in HD quality at http://techvideoblog.com
H264 9mbitps HD from camcorder:    Play - Download
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Nina Christoffersen - 23hq.com

Posted by Charbax on 14th February 2008

Nina Christoffersen works for 23 Visual Blog which is Thomas Madsen-Mygdal´s company based in Copenhagen Denmark. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is the founder of the Reboot conference which you can see my video interviews from at http://techvideoblog.com/reboot/. This video was filmed at the Lift08 conference using the Sanyo HD1000 camcorder. You can watch this video in HD quality at http://techvideoblog.com
H264 9mbitps HD from camcorder:    Play - Download
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In the Tram - Guido Lang and Sebastian Hafenbradl

Posted by Charbax on 7th February 2008

Filmed at the Lift Conference using the Sanyo HD1000 and posted in HD quality at http://techvideoblog.com
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ArchosFans Christmas Video Review - Trashing the iPhone

Posted by Charbax on 25th December 2007

ArchosFans and TechVideoBlog presents this video review of the best Christmas present of Christmas 2007: the Archos 605 WiFi - showing also the iPhone and its competitors, the Amazon Kindle and the OLPC XO in the background. Trashing PDAs.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 221mb)

DVD quality: See the video in DVD quality (1200kbit/s, 640×360, DivX, 84mb) Download

Available at: Blip, Dailymotion, Google, Myspace, Photobucket, Putfile, Sevenload, Sumo, Vsocial, Yahoo, Youtube

Posted in PMP, Mobile phones, Archos, Reviews | Comments »

Review: Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2 camcorder

Posted by Charbax on 12th September 2007

In this 17 minute HD video, I review the Sanyo HD2 camcorder, which is the latest Mpeg4 H263 1280×720 6-9mbit/s camcorder from Sanyo, which was released globally within the last six months. Sanyo has announce the H264 1080i/720p60/720p30 successor called the HD1000 which I have shown in another interview with a representative at Sanyo Fisher Sales booth at IFA 2007 last week. Will Sanyo definately move away from encoding Mpeg4 H263 to exclusively encoding H264 in all of its future HD camcorders? That is to be seen. One of the specific useful features of the HD2, is that it records in the standard Mpeg4 format, which is recognizable by common editing and encoding software and thus might be a little easier to manage, also being easier to simply playback on any normal computer, the encoding algorithm also being easier for a CPU to decode. So my overall suggestion, although the HD1000 brings better optics, better low light recording, better resolution, better framerates and new features, the HD2 still stays a good camera, and which I recommend especially if you can find it at a sensibly lower price than the HD1000, for example at possibly 400-500€ within the next few months, it would be a good value for such very practical 720p Mpeg4 camcorder.

All the videos posted on this video-blog filmed at the IFA 2007 were filmed using the Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2 camcorder: http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/?year=2007. Those videos are all released in 720p encoded in DivX which shows you well the approximate full quality that can be achieved using this camcorder to release 720p videos on the Internet.

Sanyo VPC-HD2 camcorder review

DivX HD: Play, Download, Stage6

Flash versions: Google, Youtube, Revver, Vimeo, Vsocial

The first half of the video was filmed by Bogdan of http://digitaldreamsdesign.net

Posted in High Definition, Camcorders, Reviews | Comments »

Review: Archos 604 Wi-Fi

Posted by Charbax on 24th November 2006

Video review of the 604 Wi-Fi, showing close-ups of it in action, connecting to stream from a local video server, browsing the Internet, navigating the touch-screen interface, comparing the screen quality with the 504 and showing more details. This is the first review of the 604 Wi-Fi out of several that I will do each time a new important firmware release is available.

ArchosFans.com

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