HomeTheater Mag has reviewed LG BH200, a HD DVD / Blu-ray Dual format player. LG BH200 is a player that can play both HD DVD and Blu-ray High Definition Video discs. It comes with also an Ethernet jack and USB port.

Conclusion from HomeTheater Mag:
- Stunning image from Blu-ray and HD DVD discs
- Superb video processing makes this an excellent upconverting player
- The convenience of one machine that will play all the most widely available SD and HD video discs
- Seriously limited in its ability to play back the newest, high resolution audio codecs
- Playback gamma is atypical
- Expensive

Canon is going to launch the DW-100 Autonomous DVD Recorder in March next year. Canon DW-100 is a DVD recorder that let you record videos from your camera to DVD discs and it supports both MPEG2 SD videos as well as HD …

Scitec, a Japanese company, offers the DVP-120CP portable DVD player. Scitec DVP-120CP plays DVD-RAM, DVD dual layer, MPEG videos and also MP3, WMA, CD music.

It has 2.5 hours of battery and it measures 151×196x40mm.
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Samsung announced the new TruDirect SE-S204S DVD burner which features “easy and fast real-time recording from nearly any digital device”. Samsung TruDirect SE-S204S offers fastest writing speed on the market, “20X DVD+R and DVD-R writing, 16X DVD+R Dual Layer writing, 12X DVD-R …

Trusted Reviews gives a review on the Samsung DVD-SH855M HDD / DVD recorder. The Samsung DVD-SH855M has a 250GB hard drive and it can also record in DVD+/-RW/, DVD RAM, and even Dual layer DVDs. The recorder supports 1080i up conversion, DVB-T with MHEG, HDMI …

Toshiba announced the new RD-A301, a HD-DVD and HDD recorder. The Toshiba RD-A301 has a 300GB hard drive built-in and it can record HD Videos on HD-DVD or on the 300GB hard drive. Actually, it can also record on DVD and …

Toshiba is preparing the new Vardia RD-RX7 HD DVD recorder with integrated hard drive. The Toshiba Vardia RD-RX7 can record HD videos to not only HD DVD, hard drive but also DVD.
Apparently Toshiba can even fit about 2 hours of HD …

TrustedReviews has reviewed the Pioneer BDP-LX70 Blu-ray player. BDP-LX70 plays DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD+R as well as Audio CD in addition to Blu-ray discs.

Verdict from TrustedReviews:
Overall the LX70 makes us sad. For while a big part of us wants to jump up and down …

Trusted Reivews gives us a review on the Panasonic HDC-SX5 which uses both DVD-RAM/RW and SD cards as storage media. The Panasonic HDC-SX5 features three 1/6″ CCD sensor, 10x optical zoom with Leica Dicomar lens, Advanced O.I.S image stabilizer.

Verdict from …

Panasonic introduces the 7mm thick DVD burner, which is the world’s thinnest. The Panasonic 7mm DVD burner can write DVD-RAM, DVD-R, +R, DVD-RW, +RW, CD-R, CD-RW discs. It weigths only 99g.

The 7mm DVD burner is actually used by Toshiba in its …