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  Panasonic makes your Blu-ray discs portable

  While DVD players are virtually everywhere and portable DVD players are cheap, when you buy a Blu-ray disc you're typically limited to watching it in your home theatre. The Panasonic DMP-BD15 looks to address this; it is the first portable Blu-ray player and it's also designed to be used easily around the house with a built-in stand.

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  Panasonic rolls out Blu-ray and VHS players

  Panasonic's new players, the DMP-BD60, DMP-BD80 and DMP-BD70V are mostly incremental updates to the existing Blu-ray players, except for the addition of VHS playback on one of the players.

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  Samsung's wall-mountable BD-P4600, DB-P3600 with Wi-Fi dongle

  The Samsung BD-P4600 is a wall-mountable Blu-ray player, unveiled at CES this year.

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  Samsung DVD-H1080: Portable-size DVD player for the home

  Samsung has a nice little iPod Shuffle clone called the S2 Pebble. Well, the company must've liked that river-smoothed-stone look, because it's adapted it to the DVD-H1080 DVD player.

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  Sharp intros two new sub-US$300 Blu-ray players

  In case you didn't know, Sharp makes Aquos Blu-ray players, and it's got two new models lined up for the first half of 2009, the BD-HP22U and BD-HP16U.

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  Toshiba upgrades portable DVD player offerings with 9-inch screen

  Toshiba just announced two new portable DVD players hitting this March. While we weren't thrilled with the SD-P71S, it seems the high-end SD-P93S has gotten quite a makeover.

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  CES 2009 preview: Home entertainment

  For the last few years, the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray has monopolised home entertainment coverage at CES. Now that HD DVD is dead, we can finally get back to focussing on new technology, rather than which studios are backing which format. Blu-ray should have a big presence, along with its new competitors, internet-powered video-on-demand boxes.

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  LG Blu-ray box to offer CinemaNow, YouTube videos

  LG Electronics will add video streaming features from CinemaNow and YouTube to its 2009 line-up of networked Blu-ray players, the company said on Tuesday.

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  Best technology of 2008

  As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at some of our favourite gadgets and goodies from 2008.

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  Why HDMI? What you need to know before going digital

  Tired of all those messy home theatre cables ruining your living room's feng shui? Wondering why analog cables are still connecting your all-digital gear? There is a solution — HDMI.

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  Five of the best Blu-ray players

  With this year tipped to be a "Blu-Christmas", it feels like a pretty good time to do a round up of some of the best and most interesting Blu-ray players on the market.

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  CES 2009 preview: Home entertainment

  For the last few years, the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray has monopolised home entertainment coverage at CES. Now that HD DVD is dead, we can finally get back to focussing on new technology, rather than which studios are backing which format. Blu-ray should have a big presence, along with its new competitors, internet-powered video-on-demand boxes.

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  Sony cuts costs, but not brand problems

  Big layoffs may save pennies, but they won't fix what's really wrong with the Japanese consumer electronics giant.

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  Seven reasons you shouldn't use the PS3 as your Blu-ray player

  While Sony's PlayStation 3 is arguably the best Blu-ray player on the market right now, we offer up a few legitimate reasons why you might want to get a stand-alone player instead.

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  CES 2007: A shotgun marriage for Blu-ray and HD DVD?

  The key number in the battle between the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps is 250,000.

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  PCs now ready for Blu movies

  Playback software supporting Blu-ray (BD) commercial movies, and video cards certified for High Definition Copy Protection (HDCP) are now readily available, which means BD disc drives can now be used to their full potential.

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  Who decides if Blu-ray or HD DVD will triumph?

  At the official launch of Blu-ray, proponents of the optical disc format tell us how much of a role consumers, movie studios, manufacturers and the porn industry play in the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray.

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  High-def buyers face upgrade headaches

  Australians may be snapping up high definition (HD) capable equipment, but movie studios and technology vendors face a potential public relations disaster if they can't help consumers avoid compatibility problems that could potentially force consumers to repurchase equipment down the road.