Sony Releases a $2,000 Pair of Binoculars. Apart From Recording at 1080p, Sony's DEV-50V Also Record in 3D [Video]

Fancy yourself as the James Bond of astronomy? Here’s the super spy tech right here for you. Sony’s new DEV-50V, the next-gen successor to the DEV-5 Digital Recording Binoculars, packs in some Q-like gadgetry, with super zooming right up to 25 times and even 3D video recording thrown in. You won’t be bird watching with these.

The Sony DEV-50V packs in dual Exmor R CMOS sensors – like the ones you’d find in Sony’s top of the line cameras – which shoot 20.4-megapixel still images and full HD, 3D video at 60 frames per second. It’s also perfect for watching back 3D clips – when coupled up with the dual OLED viewfinders, playing back your stereoscopic videos through the binoculars shouldn’t give you a headache like some other 3D gizmos will.

Sony’s super binoculars also help you out if you don’t have the most steady of hands at high zoom thanks to the active optical SteadyShot, and they’re also water and dust resistant, which makes them perfect for any budding David Attenborough types out in the wild. The Sony DEV-50V binocs are set to hit American stores in June for $2,000 (A cool £1,310) but we’ll let you know as soon as we find out when they’re out over here.

Fancy these binoculars for your next spy mission or are you looking for something cheaper? Let us know what you think in the comments below. [Source]

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YouTube Adds VHS Tape Mode to Celebrate VCR's 57th Anniversary

YouTube’s never shy about changing its products in order to celebrate an anniversary of something it deems important, and today is no different.

Some anniversaries just cannot be missed, you just ask anyone who’s ever forgotten a wedding anniversary! Some aren’t quite so unforgettable, and we’ll have to put this one in that category. In fact, if it wasn’t for Google, we’d never know.

We are of course talking about the 57th anniversary of the VHS video tape.

Some reading this will be too young to fully appreciate the anniversary, but those of us getting on a bit will remember when the days of the DVD were just a figment of someone’s imagination. Back then, we didn’t really appreciate how poor VHS was, but today YouTube is aiming to remind us by adding a new VHS button to its videos.

One issue with VHS was always the video quality, or lack of it. Scrolling images, distortion and noise were the order of the day back in the early nineties, which is a stark contrast with YouTube’s streaming, 1080p HD video. If someone had tried to explain the existence of YouTube to me back then I’d have called them a liar, let alone the video quality afforded by streaming video.

YouTube’s new button adds a filter to existing videos which make them look all VHS-y, which may afford a little nostalgia for those of us old enough to remember the days of the video tape. We don’t think we’ll be using that button all that much, though!

Enable or disable the ‘tape mode’ to see the retro filter on select YouTube videos.

VHS itself was replaced first by the humble VCD, followed by DVD, which itself was replaced by the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD wars that ended in success for the Sony-backed video discs.

We’re big fans of HD video here at EveryThing Tech, so it’s safe to say that we were not too disappointed to see the end of VHS way back when, and we’ll be particularly pleased to see the back of DVD, too. It’s progress folks, but even so it’s always good to remember where you came from. For us media junkies, VHS will always hold a special place in our hearts.

We just don’t want to watch anything on it! [Source]

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