Sony shows off its first 3D Blu-ray play... At CES 2010 the S370 and S570 were shown but the S470 was absent. Fear not, the 470 has shown up and its their first 3D capable Blu-ray player. Expected is not only Blu-ray and 3D blu-ray playback but streaming 3D programs with Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD audio decoding. The player boasts, DVD upscaling,...

Sony annouces two more slot loading Blu-... The KDL-40EX40B is a 40″ LCD screen with an Ethernet port, Wi-Fi ready USB port and DNLA support for streaming video over your home network, equipped with Bravia Internet Video and Widgets suite for all your online video services as well. The TV has three HDMI ports and an ambient light sensor...

Hot Deal: Sylvania NB530SLX Blu-ray Disc... Today only in the gold box Amazon is offering up the Sylvania NB530SLX Blu-ray Disc Player for only $89.99. The player is bonus view compatible but no BD-Live compatible. For someone trying to get into Blu-ray at a budget price this could be a good player for you, or for a person just needing a bedroom...

LG Drives ‘Hard’ into the Bl... Bad pun. Okay, worse than my usual puns. Simply put, LG has introduced the first serious Blu Ray player with a hard disk, unless of course you consider the PS3 a ’serious Blu Ray player’. If you’re serious about the Blu Ray with HDD part, have a serious look at this one. Why so serious?...

Denon’s S-5DB Receiver Coming In M... Coming to the market at a lofty $1799 Denon comes to compete! Packing the 2.0 Blu-ray profile this deck aims at the high end market consumers. Here is a list below of some of its features. Support for Dolby Pro Logic IIz, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master audio 2-source, 2-zone distribution BD Live connectivity 3...

NAD’s M56 – Beauty is not ch... Coming on the heels of the fast-loading T557, NAD’s latest offering, the NAD Master Series M56 is the A/V nut’s box of Blu. Make that a rich A/V nut – though that sounds repetitive. Being an ‘A/V anything’ isn’t the privilege of the cash-starved. Especially if you’re...

Panasonic’s complete 3D Blu Ray so... CES 2010 was Panasonic’s time in the 3D limelight, and deservedly so. Having come up with the first 3D screens by end-2009, the Japanese electronics giant was all gung-ho, and so are we, about their latest 3D Blu Ray offering -  A complete set that includes a 3D Blu Ray player (duh), video camera,...

New Blu-ray 3D Logo Revealed!... Hot off the plate! The Blu-ray Disc Association has finally revealed their new logo for 3D software and hardware. It’s nothing too complex or anything of the sort, it’s just the simple addition of “3D” at the end of the already available Blu-ray logo. 3D ready software and hardware...

Denon’s affordable saga continues ... I distinctly remember talking about Denon’s DBP-1610, another ‘affordable’ baby from the makers of $7200 players. So if you walk into Denon World intending to splurge, this one might just seem affordable too . All that money has to ensure a rock-solid player, and Denon delivers. Have...

The NAD T557 – The Blu Ray Quick-l... 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,...

Buffalo’s SuperSpeed External Blu ... 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...

55-inch BeoVision 7 HDTV with built-in B... 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,...

Buffalo technology External Blu Ray driv... 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 by...

Another Best Buy – Insignia NS-BRD... 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 doesn’t...

Blu Ray’s ‘Best Buy’ &... 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 into...