Sony has announced two new Blu-ray players that will be capable of accessing advanced interactive features such as BonusView and BD-Live. The BDP-S350 will feature an Ethernet port, USB port for connecting external storage and “BonusView” picture-in-picture capability. With the BD-Live firmware update and access to Internet-based interactive content features will be easy. The BDP-S550 [...]
Sony has announced its new range of DAV-DZ BRAVIA Theatre systems, each unsurprisingly styled to match the look and feel of the latest BRAVIA TVs. To increase the appeal of a Sony-branded home cinema set-up, the new systems use BRAVIA Sync, an enhanced version of BRAVIA Theatre Sync, to give greater control of the overall [...]
The HD DVD format was on the losing end of the blue laser battle, but the early adopters of this original HD disc format may be interested in a set-top player that supports the playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray high-definition discs. Until all HD movies make the transition to the Blu-ray format, a combo [...]
If our last Wi-Fi router roundup taught us anything, it’s that wireless-n running in the 802.11b/g-compatible 2.4-GHz spectrum works about as well as a skateboard on water. Although theoretically capable of up to 300-megabit-per-second throughput, wireless-n really manages only about 120 Mbps in optimal conditions. But drop your “n” speed demon into the overpopulated 2.4-GHz [...]
While we’re waiting for an official announce from Toshiba regarding the HD-DVD, Toshiba’s PR team is doing it’s best to divert our attention to another matter, like these 3 new portable DVD players. The SD-P91DT with its 9†LCD, and 1Seg Digital TV tuner (267x167x34mm for 1.2kg), the SD-P71DT and its 7†LCD 1Seg TV [...]
The Archos TV+ is a WiFi digital video recorder that provides easy access to content, and the most features of any DVR today. The box combines a WiFi Media Player with a high-capacity DVR for showing movies, music, photos, podcasts, Web video, the full Internet and more right on a widescreen TV. With up to [...]
The Escient Vision range offers incredibly capacious hard drives. The VX-600 media server is attributed as the largest-capacity one, for example it offers a massive four Terabytes worth, equating to the total storage available from 50 MacBook Airs! Now you can store, spin, import and stream not only music, but movies, too. Transferring files via [...]
Lets face it, we are a lazy bunch, sat in front of our home cinema setup armed with a multitude of remote controls. Logitech might no profess to make you fit, but it does think it has the answer for the multitude of remotes; The Harmony One. So can this all in one really have [...]
It seems that Elgato was most proud of its totally revamped EyeTV 3 software, but we couldn’t help but notice two rather substantial hardware updates that it also chose to announce (albeit quietly) at Macworld 2008. Starting today, the firm’s EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner and its EyeTV 250 Plus TV receiver / video converter (shown [...]
If you’re the happy owner of a 37 or 42 inches Sharp Aquos TV, then you have all reasons to be delighted by this piece of news! Sharp announced today the arrival early next month, in Japan, of the Aquos best friend: the AN-ACD2 Home Theater! The Aquos Audio AN-ACD2 produces 150W (2×25 + 100 [...]
