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  February 12th 2008

  News 1-seg: the mobile TV success story

  Regular readers might have noticed a fair sprinkling of the odd term '1-seg' in news items over the last year or so. The mobile digital TV standard is popping up everywhere in the Far East, when similar systems (like DVB-H) are struggling in Europe

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  February 21st 2008

  News World's smallest digital TV tuner for phones

  Remember those Japanese 1-seg mobile digital TVs we told you about recently? They're already small enough to fit in most new phones, but are about to suffer even more winter shrinkage after Sharp created its smallest tuner yet.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones , Portable-media , Television

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  October 31st 2008

  News Dongle brings digital TV to iPhone

  Japanese iPhone users pining for the 1-seg mobile TV tuners common in home-grown handsets now have an option in the shape of a very odd combo dongle.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  April 9th 2008

  News USB digital TV clip comes with 4GB onboard

  Most gadget fans in the West have yet to get their hands on mobile digital TV devices like the 1-seg phones and mini TVs in Japan, but there's no reason why we can't give you a sneak preview of the goodies that might come our way one day

  Related categories : Television

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  November 6th 2008

  News Car sat-nav with built in digibox

  We've often looked at digital TV broadcasts tailored for mobile devices, such as the popular systems used in Japan and Korea, but rarely a portable gadget that uses a normal digibox.

  Related categories : Car-tech

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  June 12th 2008

  News Yahoo widget broadens digital TV appeal

  Yahoo Japan has clearly taken the whole widget concept to heart in introducing a new service that helps users get the most out of digital TV broadcasts.

  Related categories : Web

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  March 16th 2007

  News Sony's pocket digital TV offers slim design

  Portable mini television sets these days are nothing like their clunky predecessors of the last couple of decades and Sony's latest Japanese model is a perfect example of the new wave of good-looking, multi-functional devices.

  Related categories : Home-video

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  June 7th 2007

  News Mini digital set does TV and data broadcasts

  If any one thing makes it clear that the end of analogue TV broadcasts really is nigh, then it's the flood of digital tellys and tuners onto the market, especially in Japan.

  Related categories : Home-video

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  September 3rd 2008

  News Full-motion video at 30fps hits mobile phones

  Mobile digital TV tuners may be already installed in tens of millions of phones in Japan and Korea, but the networks have one major problem with the technology - it makes them absolutely no money.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  February 6th 2008

  News Sony releases first pocket-sized Bravia TVs

  The practice of branding gadgets other than large, flat-screen televisions with names like Aquos and Viera has been confined to mobile phones so far, which makes today's Sony announcement of a pair of mini Bravias a first. The Japan-only devices are a 3-inch pocket TV and a portable radio with a dinky 2-inch display

  Related categories : Portable-media

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  July 18th 2007

  News Sony launches digital TV tuner for PSP

  Just a week after we saw the much-ballyhooed, yet slightly disappointing, redesigned PlayStation Portable we have a much more useful addition to the Sony line-up in the shape of a digital TV tuner for the handheld.

  Related categories : Handhelds , Upgrades

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  October 19th 2007

  News Sanyo sat-nav loves all kinds of digital TV

  It would be easy to think that we get off on teasing our readers in the West by featuring Japanese products you'll never get your hands on, but that would be a mistake - we just get a kick out of sharing the latest cutting-edge gadgetry, whatever its provenance.

  Related categories : Satnav

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  October 31st 2008

  News Super high-res phone lacks only kitchen sink

  Japanese phone users may not have as good a selection of decent hardware as us in the West (they're big on services, mind), but they do at least now have one of the highest-resolution handsets in the business.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  September 3rd 2008

  News Sony does digital waterproof bathroom Bravia

  Just a week after wowing the world with its super-slim new LCD telly, Sony has gone to the other end of the innovation scale and given us a waterproof Bravia for the bathroom.

  Related categories : Tv

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  August 31st 2008

  News Real-time TV chatrooms for telly addicts

  If exhortations to 'Push that red button now' are already growing tiresome, then watch out for a novel twist on interactive TV that will have as all chatting online while glued to the goggle box.

  Related categories : Web

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  August 14th 2008

  News Olympic records tumble as TV sales surge

  With the Beijing Olympics almost a week old, we're being inundated by the usual floods of press releases from electronics manufacturers pointing out just how popular the games are making their products.

  Related categories : Tv

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  April 10th 2008

  News Anti-crime car satnav warns where not to park

  See that little red dot near the bottom of the display on Sanyo's newest car satnav system? That's a warning against parking your car there unless you want to have it broken into for all the high-tech goodies on the dashboard

  Related categories : Satnav

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  March 23rd 2007

  News World's smallest digital TV tuner on SD card

  Not that it really matters, but any idea how much your digital telly set-top box weighs? Bet it's a fair chunk heavier than the latest Japanese terrestrial digital TV tuner, which weighs just 5g.

  Related categories : Home-video

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  April 2nd 2007

  News Polaroid launches mini digital TV in Japan

  Here's something you don't see every day - a Polaroid-branded pocket terrestrial digital television and DVD player. The new model goes on sale for ¥35,000 (£151) later this week but will remain confined to Japanese shores.

  Related categories : Home-video

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  November 6th 2007

  News Sony delivers lighter PS2 and Deep Red PSP

  Just in time for Christmas we have two new additions to the PlayStation line-up - a glowing red PSP and the redesigned PS2 we've been expecting for some months.

  Related categories : Consoles , Handhelds