Denon shares more AVR-3808 HD Network 7.1 AV receiver specs
Offering remarkable value, the 3808 is the second in Denon’s new 08 range and shares many of the key features of the £2000 AVR-4308.
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Philips 7-inch PET722 DVD player: cause you'll never reach the top
Philips has this new 7-inch portable DVD player they're scheming to release from the cold, damp origins of their Holland HQ. The PET722 is said to support a “variety of disc formats” including JPEG and MP3 files. A “smart sliding design” will keep you comfy as you squander your remaining hours watching other people's adventurous lives from the safety of your own toilet. Gezellig!…
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Mustek's double DVD vision
Car too old to have built-in screens in the back seats? Don't worry – Mustek's new cheapo DVD system promises to add some spice to long distance trips
Car too old to have built-in screens in the back seats? Don't worry – Mustek's new cheapo DVD system promises to add some spice to long distance trips…
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Blu-ray disc wheels out its big guns for Christmas run up
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released sales numbers for the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray Disc release in the US. First week sales of the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray Disc, reached 130,000, which surpasses Casino Royale, the previous best seller for Sony.
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HP media maestro packs LightScribe
It's a given that HP's m7385uk Media Centre PC comes with a nuclear spec. The really cool bit, though, is a drive that let's you burn doodles and designs onto discs
With Microsoft giving Media Centre a big push, PCs lacking the entertainment-focused operating system suddenly seem about as popular as ice-skating in Trinidad.Not wanting to buck the trend, HP has unveiled a new high spec Pavilion desktop, the m7385uk. Described as a ‘total home entertainment system', it will come with a beefy Intel Viiv processor, Radeon X1300 250mb graphics card and LCD monitor to really do justice to movies and games, as well as 7.1 surround sound, a TV tuner and 250GB of storage.The feature that sets this apart from the rest of the bunch however, is the ability to print…
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Oppo's upconverting DV-970HD DVD player
Oppo's just announced a new upconverting DVD player, the DV-970HD, featuring HDMI and a very reasonable $149 price tag. The player will convert standard DVDs up to 720p/1080i and can output a native 480i/576i resolution over HDMI. Sure, it's no match for HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, but we're guessing most of you aren't ready to trade in your DVD collections just yet. In fact, the player should play just about anything short of HD or Blu-Ray, including DVD-Audio, SACD, DivX, and XviD — we remember when all that format support used to cost you a grip. It's also both PAL and NTSC compatible to boot, and …
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No HD DVD for Xbox 360
Microsoft says it has 'no plans' to add hi def HD DVD playback to the Xbox 360's capabilities
Xbox 360 fans agog at the console's hi def graphics might reasonably have expected to be able to play HD DVDs at some point in the future - just read this month's mag for our prediction. Microsoft, however, has just come out and said it has 'no plans' to add the technology to forthcoming versions of the 360.Given the fact that there's no HD DVD optical drive in the existing machine, such an upgrade was always going to be a long shot. Still, that didn't stop the likes of Bill Gates and Yoshihiro Maruyama – head of Xbox in Japan – hinting that they were looking at the technology.So we hoped,…
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Pioneer's Blu-ray burner reviewed, comes out looking good
We can complain all we
want about the price or the delays or the format war in general, but it all comes down performance for people who are
actually going to be picking up Blu-ray burners like Pioneer's BDR-101A, which
seems to come out a champ in PC Word's tests at least. Write speeds are at 45 minutes to fill a single 25GB BD-R disc
at the 2X max burring speed, and while you could get that much data onto multiple single-layer DVD R discs with an 18x
burner, it gives 10X double-layer DVD R burning a run for its money. The actual throughput for the burner clocks in at
67mbps, compared to the …
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Hands-on with Integra's DHS-8.8 HD DVD player
While Toshiba was off boasting about its third-generation HD DVD player lineup, Integra was quietly showcasing its very first player to handle the high-definition format. Interestingly, we had no issues getting a number of closeups, and while the player seemed to sneak under the noses of most folks there, we were able to get a little insight into the firm's future HD plans. 'Course, you'll have to visit our next door neighbor to find out more, and give those snapshots a look while you're over, will ya?…
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The $100 HD DVD player
US retailers are to shift $100 (£50) HD DVD players from tomorrow. We want them too!
Earlier this week, we brought you news of a sub $200 (£100) Toshiba HD DVD player, about to go on sale in the US. Well, now it seems it’s going on sale for $100. That’s just £50.The HD-A2 is a basic HD DVD player, churning out a maximum resolution of 1080i, missing out the highest setting 1080p. It also supports Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround sound, HDMI and has an Ethernet port. But for $100, its cheap at twice the price.The new price point, putting even Tesco’s penny-pinching DVD players to shame, is being backed by American retail super-giant Wal-Mart – the US o…
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