The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place in Las Vegas last week as manufacturers from across the globe gathered to unveil their latest innovations. Blu-ray technology was no exception, so we thought we’d compile a mini round-up of the major BD announcements from the show. Sony Sony unveiled a new version of its Google [...]
If you’re in the market for some top quality home entertainment to enjoy your Blu-rays on this Christmas, you might be interested in Bang & Olufsen’s latest offering. The audiovisual aficionados announced this week an upgrade to its BeoVision 7-40 HDTV, adding an integrated Blu-ray player to the system. The Blu-ray player has BD Live [...]
Blu-ray players will outsell DVD players this Christmas, according to British supermarket chain Asda who is also now selling its own entry level BD player for £40 in its larger stores. With HDTVs being more common in UK homes, Blu-ray’s superior 1080p picture quality and ability to ‘upscale’ standard DVDs have been cited as the [...]
Looking for a new Blu-ray player with a good range of features at an affordable price? If so, look no further than LG’s BD670. But don’t take our word for it; why not listen to those impartial tech gurus at Trusted Reviews who put the LG BD670 through its paces recently. Trusted Reviews praises its [...]
Today we’ve got part two of our round up of some of the new Blu-ray products showcased at this year’s IFA conference in Berlin. Panasonic was in fine form this year announcing it will be offering VIERA Connect, a new and enhanced cloud-based Internet service for its BD player and BD home cinema systems in [...]
Pioneer has unveiled four new Blu-ray home cinema systems, all of which come complete with 3D Blu-ray Disc support. Providing a ‘basic’ and ‘regular’ series, the latest line up caters for a range of budgets with prices starting from £299. Jam packed with specs for high quality BD3D viewing, Pioneer’s exceptional ‘basic’ models, the BCS-414 [...]
Research carried out by the GfK Group, one of the largest market research companies in the world, has revealed that Blu-ray sales continue to rise in Germany and across Europe. German consumers snapped up seven million Blu-rays in the first half of 2011 (an increase of two million on the figure last year) while throughout [...]
Back in May we brought you a full run down of the special features Lucasfilm has confirmed for the Star Wars Blu-ray Disc Saga available throughout Europe on September 12th. Well the galaxy far, far away just got a bit closer this week, when a new trailer for the Blu-ray editions emerged online. Including all [...]
20th Century Fox has announced a new feature that will appear exclusively on the company’s Blu-ray Disc releases from October this year. Blu-ray viewers will already be well familiar with the digital copies of films that often appear in Double Play or Triple Play packs. 20th Century Fox has now announced that it is expanding [...]
Pitched at the top end of the Blu-ray player market, Onkyo’s new BD-SP809 model was recently given top marks in a review by TechDigest. Praising the player’s excellent sound and picture up-scaling technology, TechDigest also highlights the number of high-end features on offer, saying that it will leave wannabe owners ‘looking under the sofa for [...]
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