F1 Rocks fuses Formula 1 racing with music to create a series of live music events from the Formula 1 locations all over the world.The world premier of this music extravaganza will take place at the Singapore Grand Prix next month. The three day event is going to be headlined by Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas and ZZ Top.

Other artists confirmed Simple Minds, N*E*R*D and Chinese pop legend Jacky Cheung. The show will also feature guest appearances from top Formula One drivers and celebrities.

Two TV shows featuring celebrity interviews, stunts and music highlights from the F1 Rocks event will be also be produced.

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of LG Electronics said “F1 ROCKS with LG will allow us to further broaden global awareness to build a deeper understanding for our style and technology positioning with an even wider audience that embraces music and entertainment as a passion. It is a natural fit for us to become part of such a premium global music event!”

Tickets will go on sale from today priced between £65 and £90.

This boost is a result of price cuts and promotion for its high-definition TV service.

In January, Sky slashed the cost of its HD set-top box to £49, aiming to attract some of the estimated 9 million households with an HD-ready television. Since then it has signed up 534,000 HD customers and now has over 1.3 million subscribers.

They have attracted 124,000 new users in the three months to the end of June and over its financial year as a whole, Sky added 462,000 new customers, its largest gain in five years.

The high-definition service also helped Sky increase the money it makes from its customers, with annual average revenue per user at a new high of £464.

Not only did Sky attracting new users, but they have also been trying to persuade its existing customers to expand the number of its products they take.

This is positive news for the satellite broadcaster and also shows that more people are now buying HD Ready televisions.

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The TV set belongs to Jeffrey Borinsky a collector of antique television and radio sets.

He bought the 12-inch screen 10 years ago and is still working on restoring it to its original state.

Mr Borinsky said: “The cabinet was beautifully restored by the previous owner, but my aim is to gradually restore its electronics to its true 1936 magnificence.”

He has now hooked it up to a Freeview box so that it can show digital channels, but Mr Borinsky has had to install a standards converter so that a modern television signal can be seen.

The grandson of television pioneer John Logie Baird says this set would have been of huge interest when it was first bought at a cost of 60 guineas – £11,000 today.

He says: “Television was a very exciting thing; it was something that the whole neighbourhood would come over to watch. People would crowd into the home of the owner.”

Wow what a great piece of history, it is safe to say that technology has come along way since then.

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It now looks like NEC and Rohm have achieved a break through and developed chips that radically reduce power use during stand by mode. They have done this by making a chip that is non volatile – in layman’s terms this means when you switch them back on they continue from where the power was turned off. Rohm is shipping chips now and the first products using this new technology are expected by the end of the year.

Tadahiko Sugibayashi, from  the Devices Platform Research Laboratories at NEC says

“We’ll be able to cut dissipation for digital consumer electronics in the standby mode to just a few percent of what it is now.” In terms of annual electricity cost, he adds, “That could add up to hundreds of millions of yen in savings in Japan alone.” And of course the equipment would be able to return from standby to normal operating mode instantaneously.”

A source at Rohm commented

“Normally-off equipment will become possible, turning itself on only when power is needed.” In 2008 Rohm demonstrated its microprocessor prototype in normally-off operation, slashing dissipation by 70% from conventional designs. Rohm explains: “This technology has enormous potential in applications such as games, where the system is usually sitting and waiting for player input.”

With the current interest in reducing greenhouse emissions wide spread use of these technologies could help reduce the energy bills and CO2 emissions of the average home.

Of the 2,100 British consumers polled, Sony were placed at number 22 out of 500 recognised brands – understandably Sony were very pleased at the result.

The UK General Manager for Marketing said “It’s great to be recognised as the leading technology brand in the UK, especially as Sony not only develops and manufactures consumer electronics, but also content for those devices through our entertainment brands Sony Pictures, Sony Music and Sony Ericsson. I believe we are the only true entertainment brand in our field; it’s this united approach that (creates) Sonyness”.

Apple was ninth on the list which marks their first appearance in the top 10, many industry experts believe their profile was raised significantly after the debut of the iPhone 3G.

But perhaps the biggest surprise was Microsoft regaining their number 1 spot after Google (ranked third) whipped away their crown last year.

What are 10 brands that you recognise?

The memorial is due to start today during normal working hours in the US and because of this, it is anticipated that most Americans will be watching the memorial service via the internet. Today, according to many online experts, will be the internets ‘biggest day’.

MySpace will provide free live streaming of the event, with the ability to comment or link over to Michael Jacksons profile. Sarah Joyce of MySpace Music told the times that “We are picking up the stream and showing our support”.

Channel 5 will show a special news programme entitled “Michael: The World Says Goodbye” which will be broadcast from LA from 18:30 to 20:00.

How will you watch the ‘Man in the Mirrors’ memorial? Via the internet, LCD TV, or will you not be bothering to watch it at all?

Not only is it a super slim LED backlit LCD TV, there are some impressive eco features as well, including the 40% less power consumption required to operate it and the clear crystal neck gives a very cool floating illusion to the monitor.

According to their official press release the Samsung XL2370 will “open a new era of the LED monitor market,” said JaeYoung Lew of Samsung Electronics’ Visual Display Division. “Samsung will pave the way in the LED monitor market with beautiful design and superb functionality, while responding to the market needs for eco-friendly technology.”

This LED Samsung XL2370 LCD TV will be available from mid July in Korea with a European release date set for August 2009.

Interestingly, even after being released 6 months ago, The Dark Knight is still one of the most best selling blu-ray discs today.

The BVA (British Video Association) used data from the Official Charts Company and calculated a 231% year-on-year growth, however although the growing surge of blu-ray sales resulted in a drop of DVD sales (down by 9.5%), 100 million DVDs were still sold – which means blu-ray has a long way to go to catch up.

Blu-ray Top Titles to Date (Since January 09)

• Quantum of Solace
• The Dark Knight
• Planet Earth
• Taken
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
• Twilight
• Hancock
• Casino Royale
• Tropic Thunder
• Wall-E

Which way do you like to watch your favourite movies, DVD or Blu-ray?

Source: Techradar

The Ofcom report says that there are five million Sky+ viewers, 2.6 million freeview recorder viewers and 1.2 million viewers using either Virgin Medias V+ box, BT Vision or Top Up TV.

Of the secondary sets in kitchens and bedrooms, Ofcom reckons as much as 61% of these are capable of receiving digital TV. Freeview box sales have dropped by 28% due to TVs with integrated digtal tuners available, in particular LCD TVs, which incidentally have sales of nearly 20 million so far.

Despite these figures, Ofcom thinks there are still 27% of TV sets in the UK which can still only receive analogue signals.

Have you made the digital switch? If so, how do you view your digital channels?

Source: What HiFi

The 55 inch TVs are said by LG to have been “designed specifically to target the high-end segment and offer unmatched quality and design” – and at only 24.8mm thick they certainly got the design aspect spot on. LG hope to extend the LED TV sizes available by releasing the slightly thicker in design 4inch 2 and 47 inch LED models by the end of the year.

Working on the prediction that 5 million LED TVs will be sold in 2010, LG are expecting that as much as 40% of the current LCD TV market will shift to LED by 2011.

Simon Kang, the LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company President and CEO said “These new models will change the LED LCD TV market landscape and we expect these devices to reinforce the premium image of LCD TVs in general.”

Source: Home Cinema Choice