Philips Cinema One Home Theatre System Includes Everything!
By Rizmyn | August 28, 2008
Home theatre systems being big rectangular boxes were a thing of the past. As we redecorate our homes every other day, we need gadgets to keep up with the change in style (or perhaps it’s the other way round). Philips brings us a new home theatre system that may have the ‘tech unsavvy’ crowd wondering what wire to connect where. The Philips Cinema One is small round shaped home theatre system is barely has a width of 11” and a height of 7”.
The Philips Cinema One can fit an iPod dock, a five-channel amp, and has six speakers and a subwoofer built into its base. The DVD player can support DivX, MPEG4 and WMV format, and upscales to 1080p over HDMI. The CD player can read MP3 format and also has a USB-in. The five-channel amplifies and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) unit can process Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG2 multichannel or stereo sound tracks with amazing sound quality. It also offers high quality display of jpeg photos with a variety of viewing choices. Phew. The only information still unavailable about this awesome product is the launch date and the price.
Via: Gizmodo
DVD with scaling to 1080p Buffalo
By manoj | August 6, 2008
The Japanese Buffalo have launched a new external DVD drive, the unit DSM-SL20U2. The difference with the other units is that this is capable of climbing video DVDs that come with a standard resolution of 480p to the glorious 1080p, ie Full HD. It is also a DVD ± R 20x, 8x DVD + RW and DVD-RAM at 12x. It costs about 85 euros in Japan.
More Eee accessories: Hard disk, optical drive and 3G card
By manoj | July 25, 2008
Asus is planning to add accessories to their Eee PC us and we saw some of them as VoIP phone or even the 3G modem that now seem to present.
The new accessories would be an external DVD optical drive and an external hard drive. The hard drive is actually one of these small discs almost the size of a credit card as a SSD. The optical drive is similar to Apple SuperDrive for MacBook Air. Asus is completely convinced that the more encompassing its brand Eee better, but do not get tired both EEA?
Disposable DVD: an Eco-friendly step in DVD industry
By Andrew | April 20, 2008
Going against the concept of Movie rentals and cheap DVD promos, a German company is all set to launch what they call the disposable DVDs, which effectively begins eating itself after a couple of days, rendering it unplayable. Thanks to a special chemical present in the DVD that begins to erode the DVD once it is out vacuum packed casing the DVD will go useless.
Priced at €3.99 (£3.19) tht DVD is sure to come across a gamut of challenges both from the users as well as the environmentalists on questions like if it will disintegrate fully or not. I don’t know what’s going to be the fate of this innovation for if this kind of disposable DVD comes to market, the point why companies are investing so much in new manufacturing methods, particularly the not so eco-friendly ones.
Lets see what’s in store for the download and DVD industry.
Via: Techdigest
Sony Launches New Blu-Ray Recorders to Beat HD DVD
By Andrew | September 13, 2007
Sony Corp lately announced that it will hit Japan market with its four new models of Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders on 8 November. This move can be witnessed towards its ongoing combat with the HD DVD.
Sony plans to promote Blu-Ray technology with Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co that is in competition with the HD DVD format and is back sided by Toshiba and Microsoft.
The upcoming models are competent enough to store up to 16 hours of high-definition programmes on a dual-layer. The high-end model of the four comes along with a 500-GB hard disk drive and is expected with a retail price of 200,000 yen ($1,752). The USP of the Blu-ray recorders is its capability to handle traditional DVD discs.
Via Yahoo
