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Qrio has a job. The little fella was last seen working at the Sony Ginza store as a greeter. At least he has a job. Look what happened to Aibo…

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Ever ones to spot a trend, the British Federation of Audio (BFA) – the UK ’s specialist audio-visual consumer electronics trade body – says it’s becoming increasingly apparent that consumers are not getting the enjoyment they could from their portable music devices or Hi-Fis. ‘There is considerable consumer apathy to high quality sound reproduction from [...]

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It’s all change for REL. The UK ’s best known subwoofer brand has changed hands, having been bought out by its US distributors, Sumiko. Richard Edmund Lord, the mastermind behind all the company’s previous award winning products, and affectionately known as The Lord of Bass, is no longer involved. Rising from the ashes of REL [...]

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Class-leading headphone maker Sennheiser has released two cool-looking open-back headphones – the £30 HD 415 and £40 HD 435. The latter comes with an in-line volume control, a detachable single-sided cable and a protective pouch, but beyond that’s there’s not much between them. Bundled with both is a 3.5 mm gold-plated jack plug for portable [...]

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Denon has upgraded its battleship DVD player, the A1X. The new A1XVA (a snip at £2700) now upscales to 1080p, using technology from.Anchor Bay, aka DVDO. The previous iteration only managed a paltry 1080i (with probably the best scaled results ever seen from DVD). It’s joined by the brand’s proprietary Pixel Image Correction (DPIC) system [...]

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Donald MacDonald, vice president of the Digital Home Group and general manager of the Digital Home Group for Intel Corporation, is in no doubt that HD DVD is the future of home entertainment. ‘The reason why we think HD DVD is the best option is simple. As a consumer, I want to be able to [...]

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When it comes to the next generation format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray, it seems everyone has an opinion on what system is best. No surprises for guessing which camp Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, is routing for. He cites the impact the first two iterations of Playstation had on the take [...]

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