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Amazon cuts Blu-Ray player and disc prices

December 14th, 2008 at 7:48 pm » Comments (0)

Amazon.com Inc is now selling a Blu-ray player and DVDs for over half-price. The Samsung BD-P1500 player is priced at $184. Amazon also has selected DVD movies at 50 percent off. Blu-ray BD-P1500 offers HD 1080p video output and features Dolby Digital Plus and TrueHD audio. The unit has a built-in Ethernet [...]



Nintendo Wii still dominating Xbox 360 and PS3 In Sales

December 14th, 2008 at 7:40 pm » Comments (0)

The Xbox 360’s strong performance on Black Friday wasn’t enough to help Microsoft close the sales gap with rival Nintendo in the gaming console market, according to research group NPD.In fact, Nintendo’s red-hot Wii system outsold the Xbox by almost 3-to-1 in November. Wii shipments in the month totaled 2.04 million, while [...]



MiFi Mobile Hotspot Will Bring 3G To All Wi-Fi Devices

December 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm » Comments (0)

Novatel has announced the MiFi, a small and portable Wi-Fi hotspot that will have a built-in 3G cellular-wireless access.Unlike the 3G cellular-wireless cards that are in wide use today, the MiFi will be usable with a wide variety of devices. Because it will function as a Wi-Fi router, it will be easily [...]



Onkyo intros high-end 7.1-channel PR-SC886 AV receiver

December 14th, 2008 at 12:30 am » Comments (0)

If you read the headline for this story and frankly had no idea what on earth we were talking about, then Onkyo’s new PR-SC886 probably isn’t for you.For as well as costing a rather serious £1500, the PR-SC886 is that most fanatical of things, a home cinema pre-amp/processor designed to decode multi-channel audio (up to [...]



iRiver photo frame is capable of MPEG4 AVC/H.264 encoded AVI

December 14th, 2008 at 12:26 am » Comments (0)

Wrapped in a lovely interchangeable clear acrylic or a brown wooden frame, this iriver Digital Photo Frame takes on digital still and motion images with its WVGA 7-inch LCD display. The 800×480 Framee-L is capable of 200cd/m2 display brightness and 500:1 contrast; it also packs an internal 1GB memory, and supports a variety of memory [...]