Sony ships its BDP-S350 Blu-ray player, which has been mentioned before. The Sony BDP-S350 features the BonusView (picture-in-picture), BD-Live, support for 7.1 channel Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and Master Audio bit-stream output.

The new Blu-ray …

Pioneer announced that they have successfully developed a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 GB for the first time in the world. The new 400GB disc has the same per-layer capacity of 25GB as the Blu-ray.
“As for the …

Sanwa, from Japan, offers the CD-RE1AT optical disc repairer. Looks like a portable CD player, the device is able to repair discs and removes dust, fingerprints, and oily spots from the surface of discs. Sanwa CD-RE1AT will also apply a protective layer on the …

The Tohoku University in Japan has developed a new technology to record up to 42GB of data in a single DVD disc. The 42GB capacity is acheived by recoding data in V-shape pits.

What’s good about this technology is that we can make our current DVD burner …

Pioneer introduces four new Blu-ray players, including the following:

BDP-LX91: LX Line Reference Blu-ray disc player (BD-Live / Profile 2.0)
BDP-LX08: LX Line ‘Designer’ Blu-ray disc player (BonusView / Profile 1.1)
BDP-LX71: LX Line Blu-ray disc player (BonusView / Profile 1.1)
BDP-51FD: Blu-ray disc player …

LG introduces three new Blu-ray burners, BE06, GBC-H20L and GBW-H20L. The LG BE06 is an external blu-ray drive that can burn BD-R at 6x and BE-RE at 2x. It can also record DVD+/-RW at 16x.

LG GBW-H20L is another blu-ray burner. Like …

BestBuy presents the Insignia NS-BRDVD budget-priced blu-ray player, which costs you only $349.99. The Insignia NS-BRDVD supports 1080p Full HD output, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD, and 2 channel Dolby TrueHD.

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Hitachi introduces the DZ-WR90 Blu-ray burner for you to store your HD videos recorded in your hard drive-based digital camcorders. Just connect the DZ-WR90 to camcorders with eSATA interface, users can then transfer movies to Blu-ray discs.

In addition to Blu-ray discs, the WR90 can …

Hitachi offers in Japan the Wooo DV-BH250, a Blu-ray/HDD hybrid recorder. The BH250 comes with a 250GB hard drive and is able to record HD videos on BD-R/RE media as well as DVD-R/RW/RAM discs as it is AVCREC compatible.

You can also expect HDMI …

Marantz is going to release its BD8002 blu-ray disc player in June, but in Japan. The Marantz BD8002 is equipped with the Silicon Optix Realta 10-bit chipset and supports Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio output. BD8002 can deliver 1080/24p …