Polymer Vision, a spin out of Royal Philips Electronics, has announced first production level rollable displays from its recently acquired manufacturing facility, Polymer Vision Ltd in Southampton, England.

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Sim2 may have added a mere ‘E’ to its D80 projector, but such a meagre addition hardly does justice to the abundance of new DLP technology this ‘evolution’ status actually encompasses.

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Sony has announced a firmware update for the Playstation 3 that will give its owners the ability to download and play DivX videos enhances the Blu-ray drive by enabling ‘Picture in Picture’ – a feature that it has lagged in comparison with HD-DVD.

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MartinLogan has unleashed two new speakers that deliver exceptional sound, style and value for money. The US-based, hi-tech speaker specialist has refined its innovative hybrid electrostatic technology to deliver sonic clarity at prices far lower than expected for speakers of their type and quality.

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Sheesh — what's it going to take to get a decent portable DVD player? Just after we'd been tricked into believing that it couldn't get any worse, along comes Audiovox to take things to a whole new low. This so-called conglomerate doesn't even bother sharing its screen resolution with us, but does take the time to showcase its rechargeable battery, integrated stereo speakers, pair of folding headphones and credit card sized remote. Additionally, you'll find a car power adapter, carrying case, and a controller to play the 30 surely riveting games that are built in. Here's a tip: take your $123 …

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Sim2 Multimedia is working with Dolby laboratories to develop new prototype High Dynamic Range (HDR)- enabled liquid crystal display (LCD) flat screens using Dolby’s new light-emitting diodes (LED) local dimming technology. In addition, Sim2 will provide Dolby with manufacturing reference designs.

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While Onkyo has been a part of the HD DVD promotions group as long as we can remember, Onkyo really hasn't done much. We have heard rumors about a HD DVD player from Onkyo for some time, and there was even a mention of it at CES this year. Our friends over at FormatWarCentral have discovered a few details in an otherwise obscure Onkyo post on a UK site that we find very interesting. Apparently Onkyo expects to launch the DV-HD805 this autumn, and it will be based on the Toshiba HD-XA2 player — with a few yet to be mentioned tweaks. We are excited to see another HD DVD player on the market, bu…

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According to the latest GfK research released this week, the UK Consumer Electronics market in October 2007 has witnessed an impressive 13.1% growth on October 2006.

Month on Month growth October 2007

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Those familiar with the Helios name probably haven't forgotten the uber-cheap H4000 that landed late last year, but the firm has outdone itself once again by slipping under that oh-so-magical $100 price point with the H2000. This slim multiformat player can not only upscale your standard DVDs to 1080i, but MPEG2/4, DivX, and even XviD files can also be upconverted for your viewing pleasure via component, HDMI, or VGA. Moreover, this device also outputs unprocessed 480i / 576i signals via the HDMI port if you're sending it to an external video scaler, and while we're sure you may be willing to …

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3LCD Technology has announced that BenQ, a leading lifestyle device provider, has joined the growing list of manufacturers who utilise 3LCD projection technology to offer their customers the highest quality home theater projector solutions. BenQ ranked third in worldwide projector shipments in 2006 according to DTC, a leading market research company.

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