Sharp's new Aquos players mash Blu-ray and 1TB DVR together in unhappy marriage

Posted in News by Nicr on the May 21st, 2008

The popular DVR / DVD combo trend continues with Sharp's new, just-released Aquos players. The three new combo machines — updates from last fall's models — pack Blu-Ray playback with DVRs of various sizes ranging from the 250GB BD-HDW22, to the 500GB BD-HDW25, to the 1TB BD-HDW30 big daddy of TV-r……

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Hitachi intros DZ-WR90 Blu-ray burner for hard drive-based camcorders

Posted in News by Nicr on the May 21st, 2008

It looks like those wanting to churn out some high-definition media away from their computers now have a new option to consider courtesy of Hitachi, which has just introduced its DZ-WR90 Blu-ray burner designed to be used with hard drive-based camcorders equipped with an eSATA port (which Hitachi just happe……

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Xbox 360 Blu-ray console shipping by September?

Posted in News by Nicr on the May 7th, 2008

For all of Microsoft's denial, the Xbox 360 Blu-ray console rumors just will not die. In fact, they are getting more and more specific. The Chinese language Economic Daily News is reporting that Pegatron, an OEM subsidiary of ASUS, has won the order from Microsoft to assemble the Xbox 360 with Blu-ray Dis……

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Microsoft denies Xbox 360 Blu-ray reports yet again

Posted in News by Nicr on the May 7th, 2008

We're beginning to lose count of how many times we've been around this carousel, but just in case you thought yet another rumor would bring the Blu-ray-infused Xbox 360 any closer to reality, Microsoft's out to put the kibosh on your wildest hopes and dreams. Following up on the latest round of ……

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