Displaying items by tag: Blu-ray

Outdoor home theatre is becoming the new must have 'room' in a modern house, yet permanently committing backyard space for a cinema may not compete well with the other summer demands on a suburban backyard.  HandiTheatre is an inflatable projection system, allowing us to grab some beanbags and enjoy the big screen under a big sky.

Samsung's CES announcements include a raft of new products heading for Australia this year. Heading the list are TVs with voice and motion control plus face recognition, somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, but there's a lot more in the company's latest home entertainment ranges.

Australia's love affair with digital technology isn't fading, despite our reportedly reduced appetite for spending.

It seems Australians' home networks are underutilised. Many Internet-enabled devices are not being connected, and therefore do not deliver to their full potential.

The Samsung Music Hub streams music from all four major record labels and some independents to a variety of devices including PCs. Music videos are also available.

Panasonic has announced a marketing campaign for its new Blu-ray recorders.  They will prank an 'unwitting' Sydney man every day for a month.

Ah huh...

Lite-On's latest Blu-ray burner gets an ultra-fast 12x rating for data writing, resulting in what's claimed to be 'the shortest possible time to easily burn high-capacity, high definition content'.

Record holiday downloads at Telstra's BigPond Movies: despite piracy, people really are willing to pay to legally and conveniently download video content, with record numbers great evidence of that!

It's been a long time coming, but there's finally a program that will play Blu-ray movies on a Mac. It's unimaginatively - though aptly - named Mac Blu-ray Player.

There have been many attempts by a variety of manufacturers to hit the all-in-one media computer sweet-spot, but none have come close, until now.

Australia's e-tail revolutionary, Ruslan Kogan, has just unveiled a new line of 3D TVs with 2D to 3D conversion and a new 3D Blu-ray player.

The new generation of Intel's Atom platform that was codenamed Oak Trail is now shipping and will being appearing in devices next month.

Kogan has ripped retailers a new one claiming that when Apple decides to cut third party retailers such as JB HiFi out of the loop, a huge part of their business will simply evaporate.

Imation has launched a a range of secure removable storage products with FIPS certification. The Defender Collection includes solid state, magnetic and optical media.

A long time ago, on the 6th of January 2011, on a web site far, far away, the minions of George Lucas announced that both Star Wars Trilogies would be available on Blu-ray Disc, with today's news being the announcement, at last, of local Australian pricing.

The Koganator has gone on the attack again, presumably striving to continue being the anti-Gerry Harvey, this time by delivering what he calls 'Australia's cheapest and most feature-packed LED TVs'.

If the extra digital TV channels such as 11 still don't give you enough choice or aren't to your taste, seven BigPond TV channels are now available via the Internet on certain Samsung (and soon LG) TVs.

WD says its new HomePlug AV compliant adaptors provide sufficient throughput for seven HD video devices.

PoINT Software & Systems GmbH provides a new version of its software products