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Visible benefits from the technology may often be hard to spot, but that hasn’t stopped 1080p becoming a powerful badge when it comes to drumming up consumer interest in LCD and plasma TVs. Market analyst Pacific Media Associates has revealed that one-in-three screens sold during May in the US offered Full HD resolution, and says [...]

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Visitors to the Comic Con in San Diego are to be given the chance of winning one of ten 300-themed Xbox 360s in a promotional raffle. The Expo will be covered extensively on the US Xbox Live network, with cast panels, movie trailers, celebrity interviews, show exclusives and downloadable themes made available.

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Denon has announced its first Blu-ray player. The model, due in the autumn, looks likely to be the first machine to comply with Profile 1.1, the mandatory new specification for the BD format which enables picture-in-picture playback of a separate audio and video streams for full BD Java interactivity. Expected to sell for 1,999 dollars, [...]

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They’re vital to a great cinema sound, but if they’re not used responsibility, subwoofers can bring nothing but grief. So much so that in Australia, the authorities want stricter controls over their use. Syndey’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore says that the use of subwoofers in apartments has led to health concerns for suffering residents. The [...]

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JVC’s acclaimed D-ILA video projectors and camcorders have provided the only highlights in its otherwise grim first quarter financial results. Total sales were 159.0 billion yen, which was 90 per cent of sales in the same period last year. Operating income posted a loss of 6.3 billion yen, worsening by 4.4 billion yen year-on-year, while [...]

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Sony says that sales of the 60GB PlayStation 3 have risen 133 per cent in the US after its recent price cut to 499 dollars.  Online retailers such as Amazon have seen sales spike and SCEA president Jack Tretton says that sell-through has doubled at all the leading US high-street retailers. Video games sales overall [...]

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Microsoft says that the installed user base for the Xbox 360 has now risen to 11.6 million consoles. “Month over month, consumers’ commitment to Xbox 360 continues, with record-breaking attach rates of 6.1 games and 3.2 accessories sold per console. Since launch, we’ve sold 20.1 million games, more than our next-gen competitors combined,” the company [...]

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Hitachi has announced the world’s first Blu-ray camcorder. The model, which most likely will debut at September’s Ceatec tech-fest in Tokyo, writes to 8cm BD-RE/-R discs via a new mini BD writer (pictured above), as well as DVD-RAM/-RW/-R discs. In Blu-ray mode the camcorder records to full 1080×1920 1080p resolution using MPEG4 AVC/H.264 encoding.

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