January 2010 will see Canadian electronics group NAD, more famous for their high-performance, low-aesthetic amplifiers, roll out their Blu Ray player – the T557. The T557, featured here, plays everything. BD, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, CD, CD-R, and CD-RW and support for JPEG,...

Told you these guys at Buffalo Technologies weren’t going to keep quiet. And no, “SuperSpeed” isn’t my lack of imagination at work, its the given name for USB 3.0, the technology that sets Buffalo’s latest offering apart. USB 3.0 allows for data transfer at 10 times the...

Bang & Olufsen today launched the largest BeoVision 7 HDTV yet available –55″ large. The set adds in 120 Hz motion refresh and a built-in Blu-ray player with digital surround sound. The new BeoVision 7 also features LED locally dimming backlighting, two three-way bass reflex speakers,...

The Buffalo BR-X816U2-EU is quite a mouthful, so for now, I’ll call it the “Buffalo Blu Ray drive”, until more products from the Buffalo stable (Punintended) create the need for me to refer to their … “given names”. This black Buffalo beauty, expected to be out...

This week’s Blu Ray player is a budget Bluy Ray player, the Insignia NS-BRDVD3.  From the Insignia house brand of Best Buy, after the accomplished HDTV/player combo, this  Blu-ray deck upscales DVDs to 1080p HD, supports decoding of lossless Dolby TrueHD sound, though, unfortunately,  it...

From $135, 000 Goldmunds to $499 Denons, we’ve seen the entire gamut of Blu Ray players. This one’s a little different. Discount brands have long been touting TV-DVD player combos, it does look a lot more tempting to get that kind of thing with the high-def quality of Blu Ray. Sharp got...

If computer owners cite the “what about my CDs and DVDs?” excuse for not switching to Blu Ray, we can’t blame them, but looks like Samsung is doing its bit to make things easier for both users and Blu Ray. Samsung Electronics Co.’ s SH-B083 COMBO  is its first dual-function...

This October, dressed in traditional black, sashaying down the Denon ramp is the  brand new Denon DBP-1610 Blu-ray player, a classy high-def baby with a heart of a gold (read, a relief in the pricing area, at least by through-the-attic Denon standards). The elusive one The Denon DBP-1610 Blu-ray player,...

Toshiba has confirmed to Australian publication Smarthouse that the 2160p Cell LED TV will hit shelves soon in both Japan and Australia. First tipped at CES 2009, the Cell TV uses the same 64-bit Cell Broadband Engine used by the Sony Playstation 3, can record 6 HD TV channels at once to its built-in...

What’s made of brass and aluminium, weighs 66 pounds, costs $135,000, will only ever have 50 of its kind made, and has ‘Gold’ in its name? No, it’s not the wrestler GoldDust; he weighs more than 66, and they only ever made one of him. And I wish I was talking about a Lamborghini,...

Are you the type of person who hates the wires that are running behind your player? If you are then you might like to look at the LG Sound Bar Blu-Ray player. A sound bar contains all the circuitry needed to process the sound along with an amplifier and the speakers needed to reproduce the sound. The...

Sony’s latest PS3 Slim proudly announces that it “Does everything.” However, Sony’s standalone Blu-Ray players, with their lack of support for streaming media services, such as those provided by LG and Samsung Blu-Ray players, have never quite come close to claiming anything of the sort. It...

When Toshiba , once a strong proponent of HD DVD, hinted at ‘keeping their options open’ as far as building a Blu-Ray player was concerned, this was definitely what they had in mind, but we first knew they were seriously contemplating getting it done, when they applied for BDA membership in early...

The race for the best Blu-ray player on the market is on. Last week at the Philips Conferences four new Blu-ray players were introduced. The following are listed below and here are the tech specs. The BDP3000 •The entry level player. •Upscales DVD and has built-in DivX decoding. •DTS-HD and Dolby...

Extra! Extra! Toshiba’s first Blu-ray player is out!  The BDX 2000.  It all started when they put in an application for BDA membership in August and now at the  IFA show in Berlin they showed it for the first time ever. Although it is not as fancy as we may all  like it to be, it does have...