Tag Archive for 'blu-ray'
Back in March, Acer rather breathlessly announced that they would be pretty much revolutionising the laptop market; in the end, they produced a new range of media notebooks, the Aspire Gemstone Blue, which while not exactly earth-shattering were still vaguely attractive and capable machines. Now, two months later, the Aspire 8920 and 6920 are finally [...]
The Magnavox and Sylvania branded Funai NB500 Blu-ray player were spotted at Walmart. The NB500 is Profile 1.1 Blu-ray player and it is price quite low at $298. It sports HDMI version 1.3, HD audio codec’s, and DVD upscaling. These units are obviously low end BD players and somehow outdated, but again the price [...]
This week’s highlight has been the SlashGear team knuckling down to cover HTC’s London launch of the Touch Diamond smartphone. Our hands-on video of the Windows Mobile 6.1 device is pulling in some serious views, so if the thought of a 3G iPhone is leaving you cold then you need to be checking out the [...]
Panasonic have announced a new home cinema system offering 1080p Blu-ray playback and digital surround sound. The SC-BT100 supports the latest Blu-ray Final Standard Profile, has an iPod dock, and comes with out-of-the-box 5.1 surround; that can be easily upgraded to 7.1 with the addition of two wireless side speakers. It also appears [...]
News of three new ranges of upcoming Dell notebooks has leaked, together with details of the company’s new design languages and customization options. The Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 series are all set to launch this year, and reach just 1-inches thick at their slimmest point (rising to 1.5-inches at the hinge). Dell has described [...]
Pioneer have revealed their latest two Blu-ray players, the Elite BDP-05FD and BDP-51FD. Both supporting BonusView extra disc content and 1080p True 24fps output, they have HDMI 1.3a ports, four Wolfson Professional Audio 12-bit digital-to-analog converters and the proprietary PureCinema Deinterlacer for upscaling standard definition DVDs. The Elite BDP-05FD also has gold-plated connections and capacitative [...]
Panasonic have announced pricing for their upcoming BD50 Blu-ray player. Set to be the company’s flagship high-definition player, the BD50 will cost $700 and will launch, according to the company’s latest promises, before the end of Spring. The BD50 is the first unit from the manufacturer to support Final Standard Profile 2.0, which includes multiple internet-based [...]
Here’s a newsflash for you. Apparently Microsoft isn’t working on a Blu-ray player for the Xbox 360. I know this might be a bit of a shock to some of you, but apparently they really just don’t care about the format.
Samsung have announced a new, more compact Blu-ray home cinema system to accompany their existing HT-BD2T setup. The HT-BD2S uses smaller satellite speakers and has a accompanying smaller price: $1,000. What’s the same is the central box, complete with its 7.1 channel, 1,100 W output.
Alienware have released their latest gaming laptop, the m17x, and while it’s no ultraportable the specs more than make up for it. Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI graphics driving a 17-inch WUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD display, a choice of Core 2 Duo and Duo Extreme processors and an optional 1TB RAID0 array [...]
