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Digital Easter Eggs Hidden Your DVDs...

| April 2, 2010 | 183 Views |

Easter eggs come in many shapes and sizes, as well as in many form factors. So if you’ve had enough of the traditional chocolate Easter eggs this weekend, perhaps it’s time to dig through your DVD collection and treat yourself to some digital Easter eggs that are hidden away on disks you may already own. A digital Easter egg is simply a little treat, or secret feature, that has...

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Blu-ray Sale Rise As Prices Drop...

| May 11, 2009 | 685 Views |

The battle for supremacy of the new high-definition format slowly unraveled over the last two years, and towards the end, it became clear that Blu-ray was to take the crown over HD-DVD. With more and more notebooks, desktops and consumer electronics incorporating the new HD format, its not surprising that Blu-ray is becoming the industry standard. Now a new report conducted by NPD...

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Acer AspireRevo With NVIDIA Ion GPU...

| April 24, 2009 | 841 Views |

Acer has recently unveiled its new AspireRevo Netttop featuring NVIDIA’s new Ion graphics processors. The Atom-based AspireRevo will be the first consumer computer system to incorporate the Ion GPU from NVIDIA, and coupled with Intel’s Atom 230 processor running at 1.60GHz, the AspireRevo can “handle a wide variety of computing needs including high definition video,...

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Japan Gets Hybrid Blu-Ray DVD Discs...

| December 24, 2008 | 897 Views |

Infinity Storage Media has released the first hybrid Blu-Ray/DVD discs in Japan. The new media has a total storage space of 33.5GB and is backward compatible with existing DVD and Blu-Ray players. The technology is based on JVC’s 2004 Blu-ray/DVD combo disc, a medium that layers one format on top of the other, making it possible for different lasers to penetrate to the desired...

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The New ATI Radeon HD 4800 Graphics Card...

| August 8, 2008 | 3,347 Views |

There is a lot to talk about when reviewing AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 4800 graphics card. With the addition of a new Custom Filtering AA technology, AMD have brought the “power of graphics super computing to gamers,” setting a new standard in visual computing with break though technology that doesn’t compromise performance. The new ATI HD 4800 boasts more than twice the power of...

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Sony and Nichias Compact Blu Ray Player...

| March 20, 2008 | 3,502 Views |

As Blu-Ray seems to be leading the high definition format war over rival HD DVD, Sony and Nichia have teamed up to develop a new Blu-Ray player that is smaller and more cost efficient. Sony Nichia Blu-ray Laser The new laser unit is just 3mm think and is compatible with normal DVD’s. Standard Blu-Ray players can not read DVD’s that contain organic dyes in the recording...

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Blu-ray Vs HD DVD...

| December 25, 2007 | 3,586 Views |

High Definition has already become the next generation format, many products already support the crisp resolutions of HD 1080i but there is still one thing undecided, Blu-ray or HD DVD? Both support high definition with similar technologies but they are not compatible and require different hardware to work. With the two formats so closely matched in this head to head battle, it is...

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