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Denon stole the show at this year’s UK CEDIA Expo, held at the ExCel centre in London. The Japanese AV specialist unveiled a range of 1080p upgrades for its high-end home cinema products, led by a new iteration of the huge AVC-A1XV receiver (pictured below), the A1XVA. The new model now sports a custom Faroudja [...]

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According to market research firm Park Associates, the number of home media servers sold in the US will leap from an anticipated 10 million this year to almost 50 million in 2010. The boom in network hard drive platforms with media-sharing software is anticipated as ever more digital entertainment content is stored for home use. [...]

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Toshiba wants unified DVD format | Reuters.com A rather bizarre quote from Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida has been carried by Reuters (click link above), in which he suggests that there might still be an opportunity to unify the rival HD DVD and Blu-ray disc formats. “We have not given up on a unified format. We [...]

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Ongoing product delays and software disappointments are derailing the Blu-ray hype machine. Even hardened BD format supporters must be wondering what the heck is going on. In what is proving a protracted series of delays for the product, Sony has confirmed that its debut BDP-S1 Blu-ray player will now not ship until October 25 at [...]

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China will shortly announce its own digital terrestrial TV broadcast standard, to be known as DMB-T/H, or Digital Multimedia Broadcast-Terrestrial/Hand-held. The standard will allow both fixed and mobile digital TV reception and is expected to cover half of the country’s TV viewers. As part of the announcement, China will formally reject the DVB-T system employed [...]

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Seven months after its launch in South Korea, the number of subscribers to DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) has topped one million. Portable units and in-car systems are selling around 10,000 units a day, says Kim Hyuk, part of the lobby group for the free go-anywhere TV services, thanks largely to the draw of the World [...]

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The vice-chairman and CEO of leading US CE retailer Best Buy, Brad Anderson, has blasted the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray, claiming it is making it impossible for retailers to get behind next generation disc formats. Talking at a trade summit organized by the CEA, he declared: “It creates so many problems. With DVD [...]

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SED, Toshiba’s revolutionary alternative to plasma and LCD, will never come to market. So says Philips’ head of Product Marketing and Strategy for flat TV, Danny Tack (pictured): “Too many PDP factories have been built, too much money has been invested,” he says. “And even more has been invested in LCD. Every new factory is [...]

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