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Acer Aspire AS8943G Series packs Core i7, Blu-ray, Full HD and Dolby Home Theatre

Chris Davies, Jun 22nd 2010 Discuss [1]

Acer has unveiled its latest multimedia behemoth, the Acer Aspire AS8943G Series, a range of 18.4-inch Full HD aluminum-clad monsters each packing Intel Core i7 quadcore CPUs and Dolby Home Theatre support. There's also ATI Mobility Radeon HD5850 1GB graphics and a nifty trackpad that doubles - thanks to some backlit icons - as a media controller. Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire AS5745 and AS7745 media notebooks debut, bring Aspire value line along too

Chris Davies, Jun 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Acer has announced two new sets of mainstream notebooks, with the Acer Aspire AS5745 and AS7745 offering up to Core i7 CPUs, discrete graphics and optional multitouch displays, while the new regular Aspire notebooks kick off from $429.99 and have a choice of Intel or AMD chips and integrated or discrete graphics. The AS5745 has a 15.6-inch display, Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M GPU, while the AS7745 gets a 17.3-inch display, Core i7 CPU and ATI Radeon HD 5650 GPU, Blu-ray and room for a second HDD. Read The Full Story

Samsung SH-B123 Blu-ray drive offers 12x read performance

Shane McGlaun, Jun 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung has been whipping out several new pieces of hardware today and the final new offering is the SH-B123 Blu-ray combo drive. The drive can read BD-ROM and burn to CDs and DVDs. The new Blu-ray drive is designed to be used inside a desktop PC. Read The Full Story

Sony BDV-HZ970W Blu-ray 3D Home Theater System Available in July

Evan Selleck, Jun 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

It just won't stop, will it? Part of that same press release we just mentioned, Sony's also making sure that your 3D HDTVs have the best 3D home theater systems on the market. At least, that's their goal. And, we imagine that if you plug it all into one another (don't break anything), you might just get a 3D experience that makes your comfortable couch way more appealing than the stuffy movie theater with all those strangers. Here's 3 (kind of) new options for you to choose from, all promoting plenty of features to make any 3D enthusiast drool at the mouth. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Gateway One ZX6900-01e Review

Ewdison Then, Jun 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

As people grow more used to reaching out and stabbing at displays with their fingers, the all-in-one touchscreen PC market keeps expanding. Gateway could almost be considered stalwarts of the segment; their latest model is the Gateway One ZX6900-01e, a 23-inch Full HD desktop packing Intel’s latest Core i3 processor. But is it a touch of genius? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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NEC NP216J-3D is a 3D-Enabled DLP Projector Unable to Play Blu-Ray 3D Movies

Evan Selleck, Jun 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

We can't get away from this 3D thing, can we? It's everywhere. Well, at least we have a few years before it becomes so mainstream that it's downright necessary. Hopefully by then we won't need the glasses. This new 3D-enabled DLP projector from NEC Display Technologies won't help the no-glasses cause, and we wish we could say the glasses looked even a little bit stylish. But, as you'll see after the cut, you won't be winning any fashion shows with these on your face. Read The Full Story

MvixUSA HDHome S2 and S4 HTPCs outed

Chris Davies, May 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

MvixUSA have unveiled their latest home media systems, and the HDHome raises the game from basic streamers of the past and delivers a full Windows 7 HTPC experience. The Mvix HDHome Media Center is available in two sizes - S2, with two hot-swappable HDD bays, and S4 with four bays - each offering a slot-loading Blu-ray player, embedded TV tuner, RAID, WiFi a/b/g/n and HDMI. Read The Full Story

Kaleidescape offers new M500 and M300 Blu-ray players

Shane McGlaun, May 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Kaleidescape is a name we have heard before, the company offers the Mini media server that landed in the UK last April. The company has now announced a pair of new players called the M500 and the M300. Read The Full Story

Lenovo IdeaCentre A700 and B305 all-in-ones get optional touchscreens

Chris Davies, May 11th 2010 Discuss [0]

Lenovo's IdeaCentre all-in-one range has been given a polish, with the IdeaCentre A700 getting an injection of Intel's Core 2010 processors (albeit from the laptop rather than the desktop range) and the IdeaCentre B305 raiding AMD's line-up instead, with a choice of Athlon II X4 CPUs. Each has optional touch-sensitivity, with the A700 using Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology more commonly found in medical settings. The A700 has a 23-inch Full HD widescreen display, while the B305 is a little smaller at 21.5-inches though still packs Full HD resolution. Read The Full Story

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360, Z560 and Z565 get official: $649 from June

Chris Davies, May 11th 2010 Discuss [0]

Lenovo have outed a new line of affordable mainstream multimedia notebooks, the IdeaPad Z Series, three new machines that kick off from $649. The Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 and Z560 offer a choice of Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors and NVIDIA GeForce 315M graphics, while the Z565 gets a choice of AMD Phenom II processors and ATI Mobility Radeon graphics. Screen sizes on offer include 13.3- and 15.6-inches, both supporting HD resolution and coming in at 16:9 widescreen. Read The Full Story

Samsung BD-UP5000 firmware 1.5 update promises Avatar Blu-ray support

Chris Davies, Apr 29th 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung's BD-UP5000 Blu-ray player and its problems coping with the new Avatar disc showed that not all media - or firmware - are created equal, but true to their word the company have swung into action with a firmware update. Posted to the Samsung support site this week, all that's mentioned in the firmware release notes is that v1.5 "improves playback compatibility in some movies." Read The Full Story

Denon DBP-2011UDCI and 166UD universal Blu-ray players debut

Chris Davies, Apr 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

Denon have outed their latest range of Blu-ray players, complete with 3D "readiness", which slot into the company's "universal" range. That means the DBP-2011UDCI and DBP-1611UD won't just play Blu-ray and DVD discs, but CD, DVD-Audio and SACD as well. In fact, Denon reckon the pair can handle "virtually all 5-inch silver discs", which seems like an invitation to a lawsuit to us. Read The Full Story