Archive for the ‘Electronics’ Category

Blu-ray has almost gotten its act together. After putting the stake in the heart of HD DVD, prospective buyers have had to deal with confusing Blu-ray profiles, varying audio-decoding capabilities, and standalone players with prices above $500. As we head into the 2008 holiday season, however, we're finally starting to see fully mature Profile 2.0 players with high-resolution audio decoding at prices that don't exceed the cost of theSony PlayStation 3. The Panasonic DMP-BD55 is a perfect example, hitting almost all the essential features we look for and pairing those up with pristine image quality. That being said, Panasonic also offers the cheaper DMP-BD35, which (from what Panasonic engineers have told us), will offer all the same features and identical video performance--with the exception of the 7.1 analog outputs and analog-audio enhancements. As good as the DMP-BD55 is, unless you intend to use the analog outputs on your Blu-ray player, go with the less expensive DMP-BD35. Full story

Hitachi announced it's new Full HD Camcorder called DZ-BD10H which will be available on August 9th in japan for 160,000 Yen ($ 1600). This new HD Camorder will feature a 7 Megapixel CMOS Sensor, 10X optical zoom lens, 2.7 inch screen, image stabilizer and a brand new technology which can recognize ... Full story