| Mobile does not necessarily mean portable, when it comes to DVD players | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:07:18 AM by Rose Martins | DVD players have become a household appliance that most homes cannot do without. According to recent reviews, portable DVD players are not just geared at business men on the move. Personal portable DVD players are a hot item for teens.
And Disney have recently launched a DVD player aimed at kids younger than 10. 
The personal portable DVD player for teens is smaller in size than a regular portable DVD, and the portable DVD player aimed at young kids, comes in a variety of really bright funky colours.
Most DVD players come together with the necessary software, but DVD software updates can be downloaded from the internet. DVD movies can also be downloaded from the internet. Some at a cost and some for free.
Be careful when downloading free software, as it can be corrupt. Free DVD movies also sometimes come with spyware and undesireable add-ons. Mobile DVD players are not just limited to portable.
One can now install a DVD player in your car. The mobile DVD player can be installed into the dashboard of the car, or in the headrests. The existing headrests simply need to be replaced by headrests that feature the Roadwire Mobile DVD System.
One can now watch a DVD movie on your car DVD player, whether sitting in the front seat or backseat, during those boring traffic jams or long distance journeys.
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| | | Consumers Get Unexpected Break In High Definition Disc War | | Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:54:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | It looks as if there may be some common sense breaking out in the home electronics marketplace. And it's about time! As you may know, there's a format war in the high definition DVD world right now. Two competing, and incompatible, high-definition DVD formats (HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc) are fighting for supremacy in a high stakes battle that so far has looked a lot like a replay of the old VHS vs. beta battles. Back when home theater was still a gleam in the technophile's eye, two incompatible systems of videocassette recorder/players slugged it out for several years before VHS finally won, leaving millions of betamax owners with boat anchors in their living rooms. But the consumer electronics industry was smart when it introduced DVDs back in the late 90s. There was only one format, so nobody had to choose between two potential white elephants, and that's undoubtedly one of the reasons why DVDs took off so quickly, virtually killing off the videocassette as a movie watching medium in only a few years.... | |
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| | | HD players hand over DVD keys | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 2:56:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | A consortium backing the encryption system for high-definition DVDs has confirmed hackers have stolen "title keys" and used them to decrypt high-definition discs. Both the title keys and a number of decrypted films have been posted on peer-to-peer websites, a spokesman for the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Authority said. The large size of the files and the high cost of writable hi-definition discs made large-scale copying of high-definition DVDs impractical. But the attacks on the new format echoed the early days of illegal trafficking in music files, AACS spokesman Michael Ayers said. "We want to make sure we address this now. It has a potentially limited impact now but some sobering possibilities," Mr Ayers said. The hackers did not attack the AACS system itself, but stole the keys as they were exchanged between the DVD and the player to strip the encryption from the film.... | |
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| | | Netflix launches 1000-title online movie feature | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:58:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS GATOS, Calif. (Reuters) - Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc is unveiling its long-awaited online movie delivery service which allows subscribers to watch about 1,000 movies and television shows on their personal computers at no additional charge.Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings is set to demonstrate the "instant viewing" feature on Tuesday at the National Retail Federation convention in New York, where the company will receive an award for retail innovator of the year.Hastings told Reuters in an interview on Friday here that the feature was aimed at under-30 Internet users who made video-sharing sites like YouTube.com popular. .... | |
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| | | Microsoft and Broadcom Deliver Combined Hardware and Software Platform for More Cost-Efficient HD DVD Players | | Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:55:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. and Broadcom Corp. announced a joint effort to support a hardware and software reference design for more cost-efficient HD DVD playback. The new platform uses Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE 6.0 and Broadcom's BCM7440 system-on-chip solution, allowing consumer electronics manufacturers, original design manufacturers and systems integrators to more easily and affordably deliver HD DVD playback. Several of the more innovative, high volume electronics companies that plan to use this new hardware and software platform to speed the production of HD DVD players include Lite-On IT Corp. and Zhenjiang Jiangkui Group Co. Ltd./ED Digital. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO ) In less than a year, HD DVD is already transforming the way people watch movies.... | |
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| | | NPD Group Reports More Blu-Ray Players in Homes Than HD-DVD | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:55:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | In a story from Variety, it seems that Blu-ray has penetrated more homes than HD-DVD. This is because the "PlayStation 3 comes standard with a Blu-ray player, whether buyers want one or not, there's no way to tell whether that lead will translate into DVD sales for studios."NPD Group reports sales of "197,000 PlayStation 3's in the U.S. in November, following the console's Nov. 17 launch."As for HD-DVD, it is reported that Microsoft "sold 42,000 units of its new HD-DVD player add-on for the Xbox 360 in the U.S. last month." Things are a little different as far as the Xbox is concerned "because the accessory has nothing to do with gaming," those 42,000 people buying that add-on are doing because they want to watch HD-DVD movies. .... | |
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| | | Toshiba debuts second-gen HD DVD players | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:53:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | TOKYO ? The introduction of two new HD DVD players by Toshiba represent the company's second-generation system that it hopes will boost sales above a half-million units by next spring.The players will be introduced in Japan, the US and Australia beginning in December as Toshiba targets holiday sales. The basic model, HD-XF2, will sell of about US$425 while the high-end HD-XA2 will sell for about US$950. The pricier model will for the first time display 1,080-line progressive video."Considering that the number of titles has just reached 100, with some in the United States, we have also sold tens of thousands of HD DVD players," said Yoshihide Fujii, president of Toshiba Digital Network. Brisk sales "encouraged us to introduce two models to the world market." .... | |
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| | | DVD-enhanced Wii also hits US "latter half of 2007" | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:54:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | While Nintendo confirmed the release of a DVD-enhanced Wii for Japan yesterday, the company also confirmed the same for the US to be released next year (latter half of 2007). Sonic Solutions will provide the necessary DVD navigation software that "requires more than a firmware upgrade." GameDaily.biz reports: "Nintendo of America's Public Relations Manager Matt Atwood said that a price has not yet been determined, but that the DVD-enabled Wii would come at a higher price than the standard Wii console ($249) because of the 'extra cost required to implement DVD playback [read QA testing, software development, and licensing fees].' Keep in mind that Nintendo had originally announced the Wii with DVD playback, but later removed the feature because of cost and because most people have separate DVD players nowadays anyway." More @ source.... | |
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| | | US Company Touts Universal Chip | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:09:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | Consumers who can't decide between the two warring formats for high-definition DVD players might want to wait till next year. That's when a new universal chip from a band of engineers in Massachusetts, will allow electronics firms to make a single player to handle both types of disk -- HD-DVD and Blu-ray. "We've been thinking universal from day one," said Don Shulsinger, vice president for business development at the consumer electronics unit of Broadcom Corp. "We have maybe as much as 150 people here who've been working several years on this." Broadcom, based in Irvine, had 2005 sales of $2.5 billion and designs chips for a host of telecommunications devices. Its Andover facility specializes in chips for consumer products; its first-generation decoder chip is already in several early high-definition DVD players.... | |
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| | | Tech Gift Guide: Digital music players | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:01:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | Digital music players continue to be wildly popular among people who enjoy having hundreds, even thousands, of songs available on a tiny device.Although Apple's iPod may be the single-most recognized such player, there are dozens of choices, including the highly-anticipated Microsoft Zune, which will be released Nov. 14 as an answer to the iPod. Deciding which player is best for you typically comes down to how many songs you want to be able to hold and what music software program you're most comfortable with.THE BARGAIN: Creative Labs Zen Nano or Apple iPod ShuffleWhy these: Both the Zen Nano and the Shuffle are good entry-level players for people who don't need or want to carry around more than 240 songs.What's cool: The low price makes them a good option for kids or teens, as long as they don't lose them, and the small size makes them easy to tote while exercising.What they don't tell you: The main drawback to these players is you can't set up custom playlists.... | |
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| | | Wal-Mart's Black Friday deals uncovered | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:04:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | Wal-Mart is setting deep Black Friday doorbuster deals on high-definition TVs, DVD players, home computers and toys, according to a copy of the retailer's ad obtained by CNNMoney.com. Wal-Mart (Charts), the world's largest retailer, already signaled its intention to be very price aggressive over the November-December gift-buying period by being be the first out of the gate to chop prices on toys and electronics. .... | |
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