March 9, 2010
- SAMSUNG Announces Pricing and Availability of 2010 Blu-ray Player Lineup (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.—-Samsung Electronics America Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today announced the U.S. availability and pricing of its ground breaking 2010 lineup of Blu-ray players, beginning at $179.99.
- Samsung Officially Announces First Ever Application Store For TVs, Blu-ray Players, and Home Theater Systems (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.—-Samsung Electronics America Inc., market leaders and award-winning innovators in consumer electronics, have launched Samsung Apps, the first HDTV-based application store where users can download applications from select 2010 Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Home Theater systems via the upgraded Internet@TV – Content Service.
March 8, 2010
- Toshiba prices up Blu-ray Disc patent portfolio (The Register)
Pools tech resources with Warner, Thomson and Mitsubishi Consumer electronics and entertainment companies Mitsubishi, Thomson, Toshiba and Warner Bros have together begun charging for their intellectual property that is "essential" to Blu-ray Disc players, drives and recorders.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
March 1, 2010
- Infinitec officially launches IUM ad hoc streaming device: ships in July for $129 (Engadget)
It's been a long time comin', but the little startup-that-could has just gone official with its first major consumer electronics peripheral, the IUM . First introduced at CES , this ad hoc streaming stick creates a local WiFi network (802.11b/g/n; 2.4GHz to 5GHz) for all sorts of media and data to flow from your PC to, well, pretty much anything .
February 27, 2010
- LG Blu-ray disc player promotion (Gulf Times)
LG Electronics has announced a promotion for its network Blu-ray disc (BD) player model BD370, which is available at all Jumbo showrooms and leading hypermarkets and dealers across the country.
January 16, 2010
- THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player (Slashdot)
SchlimpyChicken writes "Lexicon and THX apparently attempted to pull a fast one on the consumer electronics industry, but got caught this week when a couple websites exposed the fact that the high-end electronics company put a nearly-unmodified $500 Oppo Blu-ray player into a new Lexicon chassis and was selling it for $3500. AV Rant broke the story first on its home theater podcast with some …
January 14, 2010
- Philips launch new blu-ray disc player BDP7500 for truly cinematic experience (Thaipr.net)
Philips Electronics (Thailand) Ltd., introduces its new sleek sibling, the Philips Blu-ray Disc Player BDP7500, with a stunning design made from real aluminum for the best performance in high definiti
January 6, 2010
- Zoran Demonstrates New HDTV, Set-Top Box, Blu-Ray and HD Media Player, Digital Camera and Printer Technologies at CES … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire - 01/06/10) - Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ: ZRAN - News ) announced it is demonstrating its newest digital entertainment and digital imaging platforms and technologies for consumer electronics manufacturers at CES 2010 opening in Las Vegas Thursday, Jan 7. In addition, President and CEO Levy Gerzberg will participate on the SuperSession panel "Big Thinkers and Disruptive …
January 4, 2010
December 22, 2009
- Oppo Releasing Lower Cost Blu-ray Player in 2010 (Audio Video Revolution)
Cable news channels funnel information from Twitter on a daily basis. Most of the time it just comes off as sloppy, and many of the newcasters are clearly unfamiliar with the service.
November 14, 2009
- Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals. (ZDNet)
For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hopeis this year an exception
November 9, 2009
- Sony Brings Box Office Hit 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' Home for the Holidays to Networked BRAVIA HDTVs and Blu … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Sony Electronics today announced that owners of Sony networked BRAVIA® HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc players will be able to enjoy an exclusive in-home opportunity to rent the Sony Pictures animated hit, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," four weeks before it is available at retail.
November 3, 2009
- Best Buy Will Connect Most Electronic Items To Movie Sites (ContactMusic)
Buy a new TV set, computer, telephone, DVD or Blu-ray player, or game console from consumer electronics giant Best Buy later this year and you'll likely find that it will…
October 27, 2009
- CES : LG to show dual HD DVD/Blu-ray player (IT World)
LG Electronics Inc. will soon begin selling a high-definition video disc player compatible with both the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc standards, it said Thursday.
October 20, 2009
- Best Buy's Blu-ray players now stream Netflix (BetaNews)
In the last year, Netflix on-demand video streaming has made its way into connected optical media players by LG, Samsung, and Sony, and at the beginning of the last quarter, CEO Reed Hastings said the public could expect new Netflix-enabled consumer electronics products every quarter . Today, Best Buy's Insignia brand became the latest to support Netflix streaming with a firmware update to two …
October 14, 2009
- Samsung and Blockbuster Roll Out BLOCKBUSTER On Demand(R) Services for Select Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Blu … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, and Blockbuster Inc. , a global leader in entertainment, today announced the immediate availability of Blockbuster's vast and growing library of premium digital entertainment for rent or purchase on select 2009 Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Blu-ray integrated Home Theater Systems.
October 8, 2009
- Samsung releases its first dual function Blu-ray drive (Computerworld)
Computerworld - Samsung Electronics Co. announced its first dual function internal Blu-ray disc player , the SH-B083 COMBO, that reads Blu-ray discs and reads and writes to CD and DVD format discs.
September 18, 2009
- LG Unveils WideBook Notebooks with Blu-ray Drive (PDA Buyer's Guide)
LG Electronics today unveiled its new WIDEBOOK notebook range. Each model in the series features a wide 16:9 HD LED-backlit display and Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The LG WIDEBOOK range comprises five models - the R580/R560, R480/R460 and …
September 14, 2009
- HDTVs, Blu-Ray Players Push Web Connections (PC World)
Consumer electronics vendors add more Internet services to their new HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc players.
September 10, 2009
- Pioneer Showcases the World's First THX Certified Blu-ray Disc Player (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ATLANTA—-Pioneer Electronics Inc. announces its Elite® BDP-09FD flagship model has become the world’s first Blu-ray Disc® Player to achieve THX® certification and that its Elite® EX Series in-wall speakers have attained THX Select2™ certification.
