Win a chance to ride along with Engadget for a private briefing on Panasonic's 2012 home entertainment lineup!

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/win-a-chance-to-ride-along-with-engadget-for-a-private-briefing/

As you probably know, we're in a lot of exclusive, behind-closed-doors briefings of products that won't find their way to retail availability for months to come. We do our best in every post to give you the full experience and virtually bring you along with us, but for the first time we're doing something different. Next week, Panasonic will be giving the media an up-close look at some of its biggest home entertainment products shipping later this year, including the 55-inch WT50 IPS LCD and the VT50 plasma (successor to last year's HDTV of the Year). This time, we've been given permission to take a lucky few of you along for the ride.

The event takes place next Tuesday, March 27th in New York City at 7:00pm. To get a chance to attend, you need to email nycevents [at] engadget.com with your full name. If you make it, we'll respond back with details on the event, but it'll be up to you to find your way to Manhattan.

Winners will not only get to check out Panasonic's 2012 line of cameras, HDTVs, Blu-ray players and other home entertainment products but a few particularly lucky attendees will get to take some of them home. Yes, there will be giveaways, and they'll be good ones.

Here are the deets:

• The event is open to those 18 and older.
• The event begins at 7:00pm and will run for approximately two hours.
• This is not first-come-first-serve, so there will be no need t! o line u p.
• Please bring a photo ID and your confirmation with you for admission.

Send those emails in soon, and we hope to see you next week!

Update: We've received more than enough entries, so we're halting acceptance of new ones for now. We'll let you know if we need to re-open the flood gates!

Win a chance to ride along with Engadget for a private briefing on Panasonic's 2012 home entertainment lineup! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Opera's TV browser strides into Berryville, population one

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/opera-tv-browser-supports-berryville/

The lips of Intel's PR team have barely delivered the final superlative about its new Berryville set-top silicon, and already software houses are confirming support. In this case it's Opera, who has been quick to announce that its TV-based WebGL browser plays nice with the new Atom Media Processor CE5300 (to give it its full name), which given Opera's cross-platform proliferation, isn't surprising really. We're sure a slew of others will follow soon, but for now you can rest easy knowing that one of the internet's oldest living browsers will work on tech you don't even have yet.

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Opera's TV browser strides into Berryville, population one originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Xperia Neo L will be Sony's first ICS phone, but only for China?

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/sony-xperia-neo-l-is-first-ICS-phone-in-china/

While your Xperia might not have gotten its planned Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade just yet, Sony's come clean on its first phone to wield Google's latest straight from the factory: the Xperia Neo L. Appearing on the company's Chinese website, we wouldn't expect a redux of the mostly 2011 hardware to go on a world tour anytime soon. Those buying will be treated to a 4-inch FWVGA (854 x 480) screen that's a smidge bigger than the original yet still carries a 1GHz worth of Snapdragon coupled to 512MB of RAM. Unlike the archetype, though, the camera gets downgraded to a 5 megapixels in the rear while retaining the same VGA shooter in the front. Naturally there's no word on price or availability, but at least for diehard fanboys can have their ice cream and eat it too.

Xperia Neo L will be Sony's first ICS phone, but only for China? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung's WiFi-laced DV300F camera now available, priced at $260

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/samsung-dv300f-available-price-release/

After having launched in January, Samsung's WiFi-enabled DV300F camera officially hit the market today, according to a fresh announcement from the Korean manufacturer. As the latest addition to the DualView line, this 16 megapixel shooter features a 25mm wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom, and boasts a three-inch main LCD, along with that 1.5-inch front-facing display. The latter is specifically designed to make self-shots a bit easier to manipulate, but it also features some extra kids games in "Children Mode," to help keep the little ones at bay. And of course, there's onboard WiFi connectivity, allowing users to instantly upload shots to Picasa and Facebook, and an extra "Smart Face Recognition" function. According to Samsung, the device is now available on a "global basis," for a price of ₩299,000, or about $266. For more details, check out the full, but choppily translated PR, after the break.

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Samsung's WiFi-laced DV300F camera now available, priced at $260 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel refreshes set-top silicon with Atom CE5300 Media Processor, aka Berryville

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/intel-refreshes-set-top-silicon/

Intel's empire-building in non-PC markets could almost be considered Napoleonic, were it not so inherently rational. Having given us the lauded Medfield SoC for smartphones and tablets, it has now announced its next-gen processor for cable boxes. Nicknamed "Berryville", the dual-core Atom CE5300 is loaded up with integrated 2D/3D graphics, hyperthreading, virtualization and ultra-realistic car chases, which Intel hopes will allow Pay TV providers to offer smarter services, like gaming, home security and home automation. Can't let ARM have all the fun now, can we?

Intel refreshes set-top silicon with Atom CE5300 Media Processor, aka Berryville originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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