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Blu-ray technology, the high definition format of DVDs, has had a rocky path to adoption. Having had to fight a long, protracted and expensive battle with HD DVD to become the format of choice, it now faces an even greater threat in the form of digital content delivery services. It’s unlikely that it will ever be to this generation of televisions what DVD was to the last generation. (more…)

Why to buy only a flat TV when you can get a TV/DVD combo at almost the same price. You can buy the recently launched Toshiba 19DV615DB which includes a 19 inch television and a very powerful DVD player. The television supports two different aspect ratios which include 16:10 and 16:9. The television offers a fantastic resolution of 1,366 X 768 Pixels. The clarity of the television is fabulous and will take your breath away. The response time of this television is around 6 ms which is quite low. This television offers superior clarity from all angles. The 300 cd/m² brightness of this television further enhances the picture quality. (more…)

The JVC NX-F3 can be defined as a 2.1 speaker entertainment system which has an awesome DVD up grader, good quality sound, a great selection of connections and a very simple installation. This JVC product consists of a controller unit, two 50W speakers and a 150W subwoofer. Putting this system together can be a very simple issue as every connection is colour-coded. Apart from the slot for DVD, other connections are a USB port, digital optical sound in/out, stereo / analogue RCA connections, component video in/out and composite video in/out. When talking about the audio quality, the NX-F3 is a very strong home cinema player. (more…)

This Philips home  cinema system can be called as style-system which is compromised having a little convergent feature. This player is designed for the people who like handiness wrapped in a stylish cover. Improved sound and picture performance makes the HTS6510 home cinema system an excellent option to the customers having a very limited budget. The SonoWave speaker system makes magnificent attempt in recreating the surround-sound effects. Images from this player are amazingly impressive also.  (more…)

The Pioneer Corporation has produced rather decent and reliable products from time to time. It is reliable, does the perfect job, well built and will be with you for years. The interface of the player is intuitive and simple. That is pretty much enough to summarise the Pioneer DVR 650 player. This one is Pioneer’s Digital Video Recorder which came into market recently and stands on the top position of the chain. (more…)

The LG RHT398H is a Digital TV recorder with a 250 GB of memory storage space and is also a DVD recorder. This device from LG Electronics received around 40 digital channels and can also record 7299 hours of video just at the touch of a button. The recording does not require any extra tapes, or discs for storage. The LG DVD recorder can record on multiple forms of Discs or formats like DVD-RAM, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, CD-RW and CD-R among many others. The new upcoming technologies everyday demand that you have a recorder that can accommodate any format, thus LG lets provides you with all those disc compatibility. The device weighs around 3.5 kg and consumes power of around 27 watts when in use and 1.0 watts when kept on standby. (more…)

The DV-BD606 is the first Blu ray player by the Japanese electronics manufacturer, Onkyo. The unit weighs around 4.1 kg and is sized 435 mm in width, 82.3 mm in height and 359mm in depth. The blu ray player consumes 30 watts when in use and 0.8 watts when on standby. The Onkyo Blu-ray player DV-BD606 is a High definition ready set with a 1080 pixel video resolution. This model can playback blu ray discs with full HD 1080p resolution for video of any forms of discs. It can play CDs in DivX, MP3 and as well JPEG formats. The blu ray player can take any blu ray disc and perform with full brilliance and finery of HD resolution at a speed of “24 frames per second”. (more…)

It is a proven fact that most of the available Blue Ray Disc Players available in the market are all too overpriced. The main reason is that these players fail to fulfil customer expectations and, as a matter of fact, do them an injustice, is the players’ contemptible price tag. For this reason the BDHP21H Blu-ray disc player from Sharp is a very good option and it can definitely be recommended to others. (more…)

If Blu-ray is currently the very best of storage technology, then Sony is the master of players that run it. BDP-S550 is not just another Blu-ray player, it’s the Player. I always keep Sony players at the highest pedestal and this one only reinforces that opinion. (more…)

January was an important month for Pioneer Electronics as it finally announced the launch of its much anticipated Blu-ray disc player, BDP-LX91. The company has worked quite hard on the last product and it was expected that the player woul be well worth the wait; and indeed it was. (more…)