Kodak’s been on the decline for some time, but they’re showing some fight today with complaints against Apple and RIM, and two full-on lawsuits against the former in a US District court. The issue, as always, is patents.
The US International Trade Commission has ruled that some Sharp LCD displays violate a patent owned by Samsung and should be banned from being imported into the US. This ruling effects a large segment of Sharp’s product line—including Aquos.
SE2 Labs let us have a look at the ITC One, an integrated movie, TV, gaming and music system announced last year. The all-in-one approach purports to simplify setting up a high-end home entertainment system easier by cramming everything you could imagine into an expensive box. The concept is interesting, but so is the US$25,000 price. The system is beautifully assembled and impressively spec’d, but unless you’ve got that kind of money just floating around and don’t know what Blu-ray discs are, this probably isn’t for you.
When we last saw the $25,000 all-singing, all-dancing ITC One, the one component it mysteriously lacked was a Blu-ray player, throwing in its lot with an Xbox 360 HD DVD setup. Stepping to the times, it’s been updated to support our new optical overlords with a standalone Blu-ray drive. It’s a little bizarre they didn’t go with a PS3—it’s the most futureproof Blu-ray player on the market since it’ll support the 2.0 spec that most won’t, plus hello, games. But if you were opening your wallet before that sentence, it’s not like it matters to you anyway. [Crave via Kotaku]