Tag Archive for 'dvd'
Rocking the budget-Bose look, iLuv’s latest surround sound home theatre setup, the i1255, gives you the choice between DVD and iPod audio and video playback. Your $149.99 obviously doesn’t get you a high-def powerhouse - outputs, for instance, are S-Video or standard AV - but there’s flexibility a-plenty if you’re not bothered with the 1080p revolution.
Apple’s MacBook Air is undoubtedly a thing of beauty, and its slender little companion DVD burner is not far behind. Unfortunately, until now only Air owners could enjoy it; despite the best efforts of many, only when plugged into the skinny Apple notebook would the SuperDrive play ball. Initial suspicions were that the Air’s solitary [...]
Ahtec have begun selling their Tiny TN120 Tablet PC in Europe, a 12.1-inch convertible powered by a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 processor. ToDo UMPC have been giving the notebook a good going-over, and put together a video demo which you can see after the cut. As tested, the TN120 had 2GB of DDR2 [...]
It’s not all Eee at Computex; ASUS have also unveiled a desktop PC bearing their own branding, the Mini PC Nova Lite PX24. The company is calling it “the world’s smallest high-definition PC”, by virtue of its compact dimensions - 242 x 184 x 51mm - and separate ATI RV620 graphics card. That’s capable of [...]
Panasonic’s latest Strada F-Class car navigation systems are yet another reason to lament not living in Japan. The CN-HX1000D and CN-HW1000D borrow the VIERA label from the company’s premium LCD TVs, though scaled down to just 7-inches, and throw in a DVD player, GPS, hard-drive, iPod link, Bluetooth and a 1-Seg digital TV tuner. Most [...]
Hitachi have announced a new Blu-ray burner that can create discs directly from the latest camcorders sporting eSATA ports. Bypassing the need for a computer, the DZ-WR90 plugs straight into the camcorder - and presumably you’d be using one of Hitachi’s hard-drive based high-definition models, to make the most of Blu-ray’s capacity - and automatically creates [...]
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 These units are obviously low end BD players and somehow outdated, but again the price [...]
If the most exciting thing about your car’s sun visor is the little light-up mirror, prepare to weep with envy. This monstrous replacement packs a 7-inch widescreen LCD, a DVD player and a games emulator complete with software and two controllers. A built-in FM transmitter means you can play audio back through your [...]





