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In the gallery is visible My Book Mirror Edition, a system of storage units with mirrored double 2TB.

Thanks to data protection based on RAID, the backup software automatically and the possibility of repair by the user, this product to become an automatic backup perfect for your irreplaceable data, those that normally we should never lose.

The interface used by the system has USB 2, a little ‘little for so much space (albeit niche, one FireWire 400 or 800 was certainly appreciated); second site producer, the space is quantified as 571,400 digital photos, 500,000 MP3 or 50,000 CDs, 150 hours of DV video, 880 hours of DVD-quality video and up to 240 HD video (although, as you rightly so, there is a forbita legend that explains what calculations is arrived at these figures).

Asus has recently presented Nova Lite, a computer Media Center very compact, which should enter the segment of entertainment pump magna.

Great only 9 “, about 23cm, is aesthetically attractive and cared for, as basic idea is to exploit it as a Media Center that, in view of its appearance, should not harm your living rooms. It runs to 24 dB, has an Intel Core Duo to 1.6GHz and 1GB of RAM, the hard disk is 80GB, but it can also operate in wireless streaming thanks to Wi-Fi integrated, has an ethernet port and four USB, DVD multidrive , DVI and HDMI.

It will be sold with fitted, at the choice, Linux, Windows XP or Windows Vista, from the end of July next year, at a price ranging between £ 320 and £ 400, which change with our currency becomes 400 € and 500 € . I leave you with an interesting photo gallery: how’ll have preferred to leave the marks Intel and Windows attacked at the shell, making it less “clean” the area. Too bad!

For all lovers of movies in high definition, which often require capacious blue-ray to be sold, comes good news on the front of compatibility. We all know the difference between NTSC and PAL or, in any case, we know that the first standard is not functional on our equipment.

Bluraymods.com however, took a Panasonic DMP-BD30 and has trasformanto player in the first region-free not only for DVDs, but also for the Blu-ray. This means having the ability to play all six regions of the first type and all three of the second.

The amendment applied hardware can be upgraded, whether they buy the entire player to 499 €, a price much lower than expectations, whether you accontentiate only mod kit, from 69 €. The only defect: the Panasonic DMP-BD30 does not support the profile 2.0 (bd-live), but the current 1.1.

The last two cameras born at home are the Panasonic HDC-SD100 and the HDC-HS100. The importance of these two models is not so much nell’apparenza or details quite common, but the sensor: are the first in which the company makes debut the 3MOS. The 3MOS are precisely sensors, which they say give an improved sensitivity to light, while remaining decidedly small in size, but this affect the levels of resolution, which affect 520k pixels in video (16:9). The zoom grows up to 12x, compared to the previous version that stopped at 10x.

The difference between the two models is roughly in the management of memory: the SD100 writes on SDHC memory card, without further choices, while the HS100 addition to this possibility also offers 60GB of disk; without counting the manual controls, both are accompanied by auto mode, control of contrast and scene selection in an intelligent manner, to get to optimize well as levels of exposure and focus (without considering the obvious presence of an optical image stabilizer).

The costs are not low, although not prohibitive for their target audience: the most simple, Panasonic HDC-HS100, along with a memory from 8GB is prezza around $ 1,100 (roughly 700 €), while the Panasonic HDC-SD100 get to touch the $ 1,300 (to exchange 835 €). In any case we will wait: their arrival on the market is scheduled for early September. Atri models that we talked in the past can be found here.