A source tells us that in May, Pioneer will announce two new Blu-ray players, including the Elite BDP-05FD you see above. Surprisingly, they won’t be Profile 2.0, just 1.1 (so PIP but no Ethernet), but they will have some other talents:
• Internal decoding of all high-res audio formats • 8-bit to 12-bit Deep Color conversion [...]
Now this is the DVD player to buy when going on long trips. The Philips DCP951 can play DVD’s, DVD +/-R and DVD +/-RW, VCD, DivX, and MPEG4 movies. It will also play videos from your iPod touch, and charge it at the same time. In addition there is also a SD/MMC slot you can [...]
So, here’s the thing. In February, HD-DVD breathed its last. In March, Netflix announced that it was quadrupling its Blu-ray selection. And now! Mid April! Blockbuster announces it is rolling out Blu-ray throughout its 4,000 stores in the US, as well as over the border in Canada, after a successful trial run in 1,700 of [...]
HP’s not one to let its laptops sit on the shelf too long without a revamp, and it’s now let loose yet another raft of updates for its Pavilion line, albeit only in Europe for now. The big news here is the addition of Blu-ray drives across the board, which obviously replaces the HD DVD [...]