JVC SR-HD1500 and SR-HD1250 Blu-ray/HDD Recorder Decks

JVC announced the SR-HD1500 and SR-HD1250 Blu-ray / Hard Drive combo recorder decks at the CEDIA 2009. These are high performance professional combo decks with a built-in Blu-ray recorder and an internal hard disk drive for easy duplication and disc authoring without a PC.

These devices are not designed to record TV programs to hard drive or Blu-ray discs. Instead, JVC’s new recorders are used to record video from camcorder or other devices via USB, i.Link IEEE1394 or from SD/SDHC memoru cards. Composite and S-Video inputs provide interfaces for legacy analog devices as well. Unprotected DVD and Blu-ray discs can also be duplicate easily.

Using the SR-HD1500 and SR-HD1250, users can record and author professional BDMV (with menu) or BDAV discs. Advanced MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (H.264) encoding provides support for HD and SD sources, and a built-in format converter can downconvert HD content for recording to a standard DVD.The units support BD-R or BD-RE (erasable) Blu-ray discs.

The JVC SR-HD1500 has 500GB drive, RS-232C terminal and support for .MOV files while SR-HD1250 has a 250GB hard drive and comes without the RS-232C and .MOV support. They are priced at $2550 and $1995 respectively and will be available in October 2009

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convert string date format to other

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class StringToDate {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String str_date="10-Sep-2009";
DateFormat formatter,formatter2 ;
Date date ;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
date = (Date)formatter.parse(str_date);

String formattedDate = formatter.format(date);
System.out.println("dd-MMM-yyyy date is ==>"+formattedDate);
Date date1 = formatter.parse(formattedDate);

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
formattedDate = formatter.format(date1);
System.out.println("yyyy-mm-dd date is ==>"+formattedDate);
}
catch(Exception e)

{System.out.println("Exception :"+e); }

}
}

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Creative Zii EGG on its way

Zii EGG is not yet ready for public consumption but Creative has started sending units plus SDK to developers. Dapreview’s staffer was amongst the first ones to get it and he has posted his first impression about the device. He reckons even though the dev units are not as brushed up as the final product will be, the Zii is the best sounding Creative player, even without the EQ. He also felt the player is “rough around the edges” and the colors are “shockingly bright” and “alive”.

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Nokia N900

Normally, we'd take a look at something like this and say, "yeah, could be real, could be fake." Goodness knows there are enough mega-talented graphic designers in the world with the free time to craft this. Here's the thing, though: this phone / MID hybrid -- the latest in Nokia's Internet Tablet series -- has already been outedenough times so that we know this has to be a genuine press shot. If we had to guess, Espoo fashioned it in preparation for its Nokia World event in Germany early next month where theN900 will presumably be announced into officialdom; there's no sign on when or how the T-Mobile USA version will be unveiled, but we're getting pretty amped for it.

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