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Review: Panasonic's Ultimate Video Recorder Expensive Say Critics But What's Under The Hood?

The Panasonic DMR-BWT800 has been billed as the ultimate video recorder, with a Freeview receiver...

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Toshiba HD DVD Gives 1080p Justice

We reviewed Toshiba’s HD DVD HD-E1 a few months back and we were quite surprised...

HD TV
 
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Panasonic Plasma Offers High Quality At Low Price

The best thing about this panel is easily its price. The number of features...

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OnLive Gets Socially Mobile With Facebook & Gaming Anywhere
As the live social gaming phenomenon gathers momentum, OnLive has announced new plans to make its gaming experience more mainstream, by launching a new game service with Facebook that gives users the ability to launch games directly from their Facebook pages, and allow them to shift seamlessly from social gaming on mobiles to PCs, Macs or even the TV.


Consumer Attitude to HD DVD Vs Blu ray Revealed
A recent research study shows that a great deal of consumers intend to buy a HD TV during the next 12 months however what vis interesting is their attitude to HD DVD Vs Blu ray.


Who Will Win The Format War? Sony Boss Talks
The next few weeks are critical to the warring HD format camps Blu-ray and HD DVD. Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer has admitted that the battle is going and that he once wanted to bring the two camps together.


Who Will Win The HD format War Sony Or Toshiba?
As Sony cranks up marketing for its Blu-ray offerings in Australia, it has been revealed that the next generation of the Sony PlayStation is set to incorporate new Blu-ray management features as well as new software for the storing and management of content in the home. Don Eklund, executive VP of advanced technologies for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment let the cat out of the bag at a recent conference in the US.


Can HD-VMD Rival Blu-ray And HD DVD?
US-based publicly-listed home entertainment manufacturer New Medium Enterprises (NME) has entered the Australian market with a High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD-VMD) player and media which it believes has the capacity (pardon the pun) to rival the Blu-ray and HD DVD high definition disc formats, in part due to its extraordinarily low selling price.


Samsung Says HD Tick Won't Answer Confusion In Market
Consumers who purchase high definition televisions remain confused about both the different standards of the technology and most of all about available content, a problem which won’t be fixed by the new HD Tick logo which has entered the marketplace, according to Samsung technical marketing manager, John Fragidakis.



 



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