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Pioneer AVIC-N4 In-Car Nav and Multimedia System

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Sep 5th 2007 No Comments

First let’s start with the fact that this thing costs $1600 and can’t do navigation and music at the same time. Nor does it have any integrated storage, which means for probably the same money or less you could by a better receiver and then get a TomTom.

AVIC-N4

However this unit does tuck things away nicely with its motorized 7” touchscreen LCD. Just don’t ever lose that navigation DVD. Oh yeah, that’s another function of the unit, not only can it play DVDs but it can play several other media sources including iPods, compressed audio (which formats?) discs.

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Pioneer HTP-S717

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Aug 17th 2007 1 Comment

If you were looking for high quality audio at a middle of the road price, Pioneer has got what you want. Their new HTP-S717 system offers up 5.1 channel DTS with a wireless rear speaker for under a grand.

surroundspeakers

The wireless rear speaker isn’t really completely free of wire, its still need power, but it doesn’t have to be connected to the receiver through wires. The two main speakers have 7.7cm cone woofers and 2.5cm semi-dome tweeters (no mid?).

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BDC-S02J from Pioneer – Plays Blu-ray, still doesn’t burn Blu-ray

By Chris on Tuesday, Jul 24th 2007 No Comments

Pioneer has just announced their latest Blu-ray player for your PC. Sadly, while it does have the ability to burn regular CDs and DVDs, it lacks the ability to burn Blu-ray disks.

BDC S02J

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New Pioneer Laptop Has Quad Core Inside

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Jul 9th 2007 2 Comments

The DreamBook Power D90 SLI is a 17” laptop with a 1920×1680 WUXGA display. The processors range from a Core 2 Duo E4300 at 1.8Ghz all the way up to the Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93Ghz quad core processor.

DreamBook

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Pioneer’s latest satellite radio PMP reviewed

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 5th 2007 No Comments

Subscription radio is not something that’s taken off over here in the UK, but if you’re in the US then there’s plenty of choice if you don’t like free-to-air FM or tire easily of what’s on your PMP.  The Gadgeteer’s Rob Tillotson has been trying out a chunky little XM receiver made by Pioneer, the inno, and has found that if you’re looking for a compromise between rocking your own tunes and sampling a bit of the mobile XM life then the portable device might be for you.

 Pioneer inno Portable XM radio

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Pioneer shows off new 8G plasma TVs

By Chris on Tuesday, May 8th 2007 1 Comment

If you’re thinking about buying a new plasma TV, you might want to wait just a little while. Pioneer has announced their new 8G plasma TVs, and they look like they’ll be worth the wait.

Pioneer 8G plasma

more pics after the jump

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Pioneer to release $299 Blu-ray drive next month

By Chris on Thursday, May 3rd 2007 No Comments

If there was one thing that could win the war for either of the two next-gen disk formats, it would be cheap players. Pioneer Electronics may have just tipped the scales in favor of Blu-ray with their new drive.

Blu-Ray

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Another boost for Blu-ray

By Chris on Wednesday, Apr 18th 2007 No Comments

One of the unfortunate things about being an early adopter is that you tend to fork over a lot of cash for technology that might not even stand the test of time. Such is the case with the current format-war contestants. However, an announcement by Pioneer yesterday might just make jumping on the Blu-ray bandwagon a bit easier on your wallet.

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Pioneer Announced Four New Media Recorders

By Staff Editor on Thursday, Sep 14th 2006 No Comments

Pioneer announced 2 new HDD and DVD media recorders with 250GB to 400GB storage space, and 2 new 3-in-1 media recorders with VHS, HDD, and DVD recorder. Those who always run out of space recording shows should be happy to hear that Pioneer and Buffalo is partnering up together to develop external HDD storage (HDD-S400) to increase recording space on these recorders. The DVR-DT95 and DVR-DT75 are the only units with digital tuner and capabilities to record HD programs.

Pioneer DVR

Pioneer [via akihabaranews]

Pioneer and XM Introduce Pink inno XM2go Player

By Staff Editor on Thursday, Sep 7th 2006 No Comments

pinkinnoPioneer and XM Introduce Pink inno XM2go Player With a Portion of Proceeds to Benefit Breast Cancer Research

Pioneer, XM and Circuit City Join Together to Support the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

WASHINGTON, Sept 06, 2006 /PRNewswire-

FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. and XM Satellite Radio today announced that the Pioneer inno(TM) XM2go, the world’s first portable player to combine XM’s acclaimed content with the flexibility of MP3 playback, will be available for purchase in pink beginning September 10. For each pink inno sold and activated, a donation will be made to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

“XM, Circuit City Stores, Inc. and Pioneer are coming together with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to deliver this pink Pioneer inno to market with the hope that we can help drive breast cancer awareness, an important issue to many of our existing subscribers and employees,” said Dan Murphy, senior vice president, Retail Marketing Distribution for XM Satellite Radio. “Music lovers now have satellite radio and MP3 music in a single, sleek device, as well as the satisfaction of donating to a worthy cause.”

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