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Optiarc* has unveiled its BC-5500A Blu-ray reader for laptops. It’s a all-round drive which provide Blu-ray playback on top of regular DVD and CD burning and playback functionality. It’s available now, retailing for around $320. —- *Optiarc is a joint venture between Sony and NEC.

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Pioneer has unveiled its new high-end Blu-ray player, BDP-95FD. The BDP-95FD features full 1080p output, including 24fps mode, decoding of Dolby Digital Plus, bitstream output for Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD Master, HDMI 1.3, xvYCC support, a “Home Media Gallery” function which allows streaming of content over a home network via its Ethernet port. The [...]

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LG is ready to present its second HD DVD / Blu-ray standalone player, dubbed the BH200. The new HD DVD / Blu-ray combo player will support BD-Live functionality, HDi, and “1080p output at 60Hz / 1080p upscaling of standard DVDs.” The BH200 will support MPEG1/2, VC-1, H.264, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS and DTS-HD, [...]

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Loewe has announce its new Blu-ray player from the German technology company – the BluTech Vision. Available in a black or silver finish, the BluTech Vision Blu-ray player features HDMI, 24p, TrueHD, DTS HD, 7.1 surround, although not much else is known – like where the hell you put the discs, or where the front [...]

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Philips has present its new Blu-ray player, called BDP7100. Features include 1080P picture res. and audio support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD High Resolution Audio. There’s also support for native 24fps cinematic resolution input via HDMI and HDMI CEC. Expect it in the coming weeks.

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Buffalo, Japan based company, has announced a new combo drive for Japan customers. The Buffalo combo drive is a external USB drive and can playback either HD format and it can burn BD-RE and BD-R discs as well. There is no HD DVD burning capability built-in, but the drive can burn both normal CDs and [...]

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Sharp will be unveiling a range of new high-definition products at IFA exhibition in Berlin. These include the Full HD line up of large screen HDTVs and its new Blu-ray player. The HD1 Series is available in 46in and 50in models and comes equipped with an integrated 160GB hard drive, 100Hz technology, USB connectivity and [...]

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LG cuts the price of its Super Multi Blu dual format player. The hybrid player that features both Blu-ray and HD-DVD drives has been reduced from $1,999 to $999. The reduction is possibly a response to Samsung??™s new dual format player, the BD-UP5000, which is being released this autumn for around $1049.

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As you know, Samsung already unveiled a Blu-ray players line. Today company announced that the new BD-UP5000 will be released in the US later this year along with two new standalone Blu-ray players, the BD-P1400 and BD-P2400. Reid Sullivan, vice president of Digital AV marketing at Samsung, say: Samsung is excited to introduce a new [...]

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Denon will release its first Blu-ray player later this year. The DVD-3800BDCI BD-ROM and the DVD-2500BTC BD-ROM will be the first BD-ROM Profile 1 version 1.1 Blu-ray players featuring the 10-bit Silicon Optix Realta chipset. The key features of the new DVD-3800BDCI (which will cost around $2000) include Full HD 1080p support, as well as [...]

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