Posts Tagged ‘Blu-ray’
Toshiba launches an impressive new product fest in time for Christmas
It seems the technology wizards at Toshiba have been burning the midnight oil this year to ensure an impressive range of new products comes out in time for Christmas 2011. There’s the UK’s first glasses free 3D television for a start, a suite of new Blu-ray players, three new Camileo camcorders, an ultra thin tablet and an all in one PC. The 55 inch ZL2 is a glasses free 3D…
Pioneer BDP-140: Networking and 3D Blu-ray media powerhouse
The Pioneer BDP-140 is the first model from Pioneer’s new 3D Blu-ray player range. With the high level of competition, it’s a difficult market to enter, so Pioneer have picked a unique selling point: it’s all about the networking. The BDP-140 has an Ethernet port (for wired integration), as well as wifi (via the Pioneer AS-WL300 wireless LAN converter) to connect the 3D Blu-ray player to your home network. This’ll…
Pioneer’s latest quartet backs blu-ray all the way
Since it called time on its television production, Pioneer has seemingly been going full throttle on the audio and home cinema markets which can’t be a bad thing if they can maintain the quality of their product range. The result is a seemingly never ending supply of bigger and better creations catering for all budgets and preferences. In this latest batch, Pioneer is releasing no less than four blu-ray home…
Blu-ray gets the blue sky treatment from Sony
Man, those wizards at Sony know a thing or two about audio and visual heaven. Not content with just creating achingly glorious works of what could be termed as electronic modern art (their sleek black lines and slim bodies transforming our living rooms into cutting edge galleries) but they deliver the goods each time too. The wrappers are off Sony’s new affordable 3D ready Blu-ray 2.1 home entertainment range and…
DBP-2012UD: Denon promises top quality from a mid-range player
You might have guessed that when AV supremo Denon launches a ‘mid-range’ product that the price tag may well appear to rather more high-end to we more ordinary mortals. And so it is with Denon’s latest baby – the DBP-2012UD Blu-ray player – which comes in at an eye-watering £750. Having said that, you know that with this brand you are getting a high-end product, and as they say, you…
Packard Bell’s aesthetically pleasing ixtreme
There aren’t many interesting desktop PCs in the world. Desktops are lumbering beasts in a world where small is cool. So how do you make a desktop system compete for awesome-points against smartphones and laptop? Packard Bell things it has the answer: the ixtreme. Clearly educated by Apple’s marketing department, the ixtreme has copied two very iPad-esque features: putting an “i” at the start of the name, and coating everything…
Star Wars fans of the world unite with the best Star Wars gadgets available
Since it was released in 1977, Star Wars became an American epic, possessing a longevity only a handful of movies manage to achieve and crafting the very essence of the term a ‘classic’. Naturally such a blockbuster has been followed with a steady string of memorabilia, intensifying in sophistication and innovation with each passing decade. So recognisable is the Star Wars franchise, that when Darth Vader himself marched in to…
Kaleidoscope 100 Blu-ray: Fore-fronting a civilization of sedentary entertainment indulgers!
It seems apparent that from the onset of the TV set’s lustrous career, adverts have been the bane of television viewing. As in the late 1940s Eugene McDonald Junior, founder and president of the Zenith Radio Corporation, believed watching TV would be vastly improved if viewers weren’t forced to watch so many commercials. As a consequence of Mr McDonald’s irritation, in 1950 his company invented the first TV remote control,…
Plextor PX-B12OU: 3D movies when you’re on the move
3D films are definitely the next big thing and if you have a 3D-compatible display, but nothing to play them on this could be the solution. The plug-and-play Plextor PX-B120OU is a portable Blu-ray player that comes in at around £92. It looks pretty good, with its ripple design on the top, and can be used to playback in two different ways. First, the Blu-ray player can connect via USB…
Marantz Melody Maker: One box to rule them all?
Trying to cram all your audio and TV gadgetry into a suitable space in the living room can be a bit of a headache. With one box for this, another for that, it’s hard to fit everything under the TV, or in a small cabinet, not to mention finding space for all your CDs and DVDs. So combining all your audio and movie gizmos into one box is an inspired…
