LG 42PQ70BR Bluetooth PLASMA TV Review
LG is one hard working company, always keeping the media in the loop amongst other things. They have newer and better signs each year, and also cool sounding and looking features. Performance wise they are more than decent too, and this time they have taken things a step further with the introduction of Bluetooth in a TV. Cross hybridization of technology is inevitable, and when it does happen it’s always fun to check out. So let’s check out this new Plasma TV by LG, with a couple of brand new features, called the LG 42PQ70BR.
Design
After the Scarlet and the Jazz, LG has come up with more ideas for aesthetic beauty. These Plasma TVs have no real frame around the screen; it’s a seamless transition from panel to bezel, thus having a very smooth and original looking screen. Then we have a regular back panel with grilles exposing the anatomy of the TV and a small, neat connection window on the bottom right, and side panel. The TV’s power on LED is also very neat, a crescent shaped button that glows red on standby and white when on.
The connections available are part of the full fledged bouquet, with 3 HDMI inputs, 2 component ins, PC input (Mini D-Sub), composite ins( 3 in total), plus the all important USB 2.0 input. One point needs mention here: the USB can play MP3s, JPEGS and also Div X, MPEG 4 movies, stored in FAT32. There is no head phone out, and comes with inbuilt stereo regular speakers that output 15 watts of power each at their loudest.
Moving images in 720p were obviously the best, as that is closest to the native resolution
There is a new feature called 600 Hz sub field driving introduced in this series, that helps in very precise motion video rendering, meaning there will be less motion blur, and so LG claims less optical fatigue. The response time due to this new tech is quoted as 0.001ms. Of course the other new feature is Bluetooth, so one can connect wireless headphones and stream media also to playback on the TV. They have not mentioned whether it’s Bluetooth 2.0 or not, we are not assuming anything yet. In the performance we’ll see how it fares.
The unit is actually a 24 kg machine though it looks much lighter. It’s a 42-inch screen, with native resolution of 1024 x 768, which is typical of plasma 42 inch screens. The brightness is 1500 Cd/m2 and dynamic contrast ratio is 20,00,000:1, a very high number, we cannot say how it is rated so high.
Alan Wake PC Plans “Up In The Air”
Sam Lake, lead writer for Alan Wake, has told us that Remedy is currently focusing all of its efforts on development of the Xbox 360 version of the game, and that it’s committed to hitting its spring 2010 release date.
Originally announced over four years ago for next generation consoles and PC, Alan Wake has in the past been demoed on Windows, but its PC release now appears far from certain.
“Yes, that’s correct. We are fully concentrated on the Xbox 360 version,” Lake said. “Other than that the plans are up in the air and open. Once we get this version done we’ll see.
Microsoft patches Activex
As usual on the upcoming Patch Tuesday next week, Microsoft will be issuing a series of critical patches to fix security vulnerabilities for its popular Windows computer operating system. But this time, the company is getting a bit more attention than it’s used to for its patch release schedule.
Three new “critical” security patches affecting Windows will be part of the patch package that will be available on Tuesday, as well as three “important” fixes for other Microsoft products – Publisher, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and Virtual PC and Virtual Server. The fixes affect machines running Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, according to details in the patch advisories.
If your computer is set to automatically receive Microsoft patch updates as recommended, then you should receive the fixes without any intervention on your part.
One of those fixes, for a security vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control affecting computers running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, though, has been awaited for quite a while. It appears that the first reports of the problem date back to early 2008.
Questions raised about first reports
“We’ve gotten some questions from customers about when we got the first report of this vulnerability and how long the investigation has taken relative to the outbreak of attacks against this vulnerability,” wrote Microsoft spokesman Mike Reavey in a Microsoft Security Response Center blog item yesterday.
“Before I go into the details, the key thing I want customers to understand is that this is an issue that was responsibly reported to us and we have been driving in our standard process towards a security update,” Reavey wrote. “While in the middle of that process, attackers found this same vulnerability and began attacks against it. We were far enough in the process that we could provide information that customers can use to protect themselves in the interim while we complete that investigation and deliver a security update that you can deploy broadly with confidence. ”
Oh yeah, I’m real confident now.
First report received in Spring 2008
What’s interesting here for consumers is that the first report of this ActiveX Control security vulnerability came in during the spring of 2008, according to Microsoft, and it’s just getting around to fix it now. That’s more than a whole year.
And Reavey even admits that in his blog post.
The reason the vulnerability is being fixed is because it can enable an attacker to take over a victim’s computer over the Internet as the logged-on user if the computer’s owner browses a malicious Web site.
Yet despite that danger, more than a year has passed for a fix.
Hmmmmm, another Tuesday, another group of Microsoft patches.
So is that Google Chrome OS ready to try out yet?
Source: pcworld
Google's Chrome OS: The Fight Begins
Google made an announcement on July 7, 2009, – an announcement that almost 30 million users were eagerly waiting for. Google’s Chrome OS. Yes, they’re finally talking about it, and so is the close-knit technology user community.
An excerpt from the blog post iterates Google’s vision. “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at Netbooks. Later this year, we will open-source its code, and Netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now, so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.”
Popular belief dictates that Chrome OS is set to make a dent in mega-vendors’ (such as Microsoft) OS businesses; however, although we’d like very much to believe the same, practical scenarios dictate otherwise.
Our sister concern, Biztech2.com spoke to technology research company Gartner’s principal research analyst Diptarup Chakraborti regarding the new OS. Chakraborti said, “Google’s Chrome OS, from what we’ve seen so far, is touted to be a Microsoft killer, However, a simple analogy is due here; Google Chrome is no more a Windows Killer; than Google Docs was an Office Killer. I don’t particularly see it as a threat to Microsoft’s business, primarily because all said and done, Microsoft has already built its entire business and strengthened it using its retailer and partner network.”
Although Google has mentioned that the Os will initially be released for Netbooks followed by an OEM x86 release; however, analysts believe this to be somewhat ambiguous.
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