Medion has unveiled a super-cheap PC equipped with both Blu-ray and HD DVD drives. What’s more the Medion Akoya MD8828 will sell forfor less than £630. Available now at Aldi, the MD8828 offers a comprehensive specification making it a tempting digital entertainment centre for the modern home. For more details click here.
Despite sluggish growth in many other retail sectors last month, sales of video game hardware and software grew 28 per cent in December, compared with a year ago, according to market research firm NPD Group, which said Thursday that shoppers grabbed hot items such as Nintendo’s Wii console. But NPD warns that the overall 43 per cent growth rate of 2007 will be hard to sustain this year when the emphasis will change from introducing new hardware to selling games.
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Panasonic has announced the first home theater in a box (HTiB) system with an integrated Blu-ray Disc player. The new model, SC-BT100, is the perfect complement to a flat panel, large screen TV. The new model epitomizes Panasonic’s emphasis on media friendly capabilities.
It is made for iPod and features an advanced integrated dock which not only recharges an iPod but plays music or video through the home theater system, displays audio tracks and menus on the TV screen and operates with the supplied remote control. Its SD Memory Card slot offers simple playback of digital images or original video footage in either standard or High Definition AVCHD format. The optical input offers simple digital audio connection for set-top box, digital video recorder and game system.
The Panasonic SC-BT100 home theater system is the best of both worlds,” says Paul Sabo, national marketing manager for Panasonic Home Audio. “It combines the installation ease and user-friendly operation of an HTiB plus the features and performance of high-end audio/video components, including full High Definition 1080p resolution Blu-ray video, wireless rear speakers and 7.1channel or multi-room/multi-source upgradeability.” For more click here
AP News : Sony to innovate the Walkman way
Sony chief Sir Howard Stringer intends to stay in the company hot seat for the next three years. He says in an interview via AP, that a policy of innovation will restore shine to the Sony marque and cites the commercialization of the world’s first OLED TV as an example of things to come. For more, click the link above.
According to new data from WitsView, the hottest FullHD screen size is now 40-inches. The biggest penetration of Full HD panels in the fast-growing 37-40-inch segment is Japan where more than 50 per cent of screens sold offer 1920×1080 resolution.
