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Okoro OMS-BX300 home theater PC delivers high performance, high price

While companies like Dell and Lenovo are trying to enter the home theater PC market at the low end, with unassuming processors and nary a Blu-ray drive to brag about, Okoro is heading in the opposite direction with its new OMS-BX300 "Blu-ray Digital Entertainment System." Forget an Intel Atom or...

Tags: Home Theater, PC, High-performance, Price, Blu-ray Drive, Blu-Ray, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, DVD, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-08-23

OWC announces external Blu-Ray drive

OWC announces external Blu-Ray driveA couple of points* Contrary to what this blog post would like you to believe, this drive is not just for the Mac, but also works on XP and Vista.* You can't watch Blu-Ray movies with this drive on a Mac, although you can on a...

Tags: Blu-ray, Desktops, OWC, Blu-ray drive

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

OWC announces external Blu-Ray drive

Other World Computing OWC today announced its new line of Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drives for the Mac. They're the first Blu-ray external drives on the market that offer four interfaces, including FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA. The OWC Mercury Pro drives feature...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Blu-ray Drive, OWC, Other World Computing Mercury Pro, FireWire, Blu-Ray, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-22

First reviews of HP's HDX 16- and 18.4-inch laptops

No sooner had I completed a post on new desktop replacements with 18.4-inch displays then HP introduced its own version. The HDX18 is one of two new laptops HP announced today. The other, the HDX16, has a 16-inch display. Both are geared toward digital entertainment with high-resolution displays, TV tuners...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, Blu-ray Drive, HDX18, PC Magazine, Blu-Ray, Notebooks, Processors, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Laptops are bringing the Blu-ray

With HD-DVD dead and buried, computer makers are moving to Blu-ray. Dell is now offering 15.4-inch laptop with a Blu-ray drive for less than $900--impressive since some standalone Blu-ray players still cost nearly as much. HP, Acer and Asus are also offering laptops with Blu-ray drives. The...

Tags: Intel Core 2 Duo, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Blu-ray Drive, Inspiron 1525, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-04-01

LaCie d2 External Blu-ray burner (2X BD-R/E)

The LaCie d2 External Blu-ray drive is a decent though expensive burner. It supports all optical media formats except HD DVD. The LaCie d2's performance beats that of Sony's newest internal offering, the BWU-100A, though at just under $1,000, the LaCie is about $300 more expensive than the BWU-100A. Unless...

Tags: Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, DVD, Blu-ray disc, LaCie

Product reviews 2007-07-24

Blu-ray drives only $1 more than HD-DVD

Blu-ray drives only $1 more than HD-DVDAdd HD DVD Drive to HP Desktop for only $249Checking further on the HP site, you can add an HD DVD drive to the HP Pavilion media center (or any high-end Desktop model) for only $249. Navigate to http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=desktops&a1=Usage&v1=Entertainment+and+multimedia&series_name=m7690y_seriesand press "Customize".For a while,...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Blu-ray drive, Microsoft Corp., HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2006-12-16

Blu-ray drives only $1 more than HD-DVD

In the battle between competing next-generation optical storage formats, HD-DVD and Blu-ray have their advantages and disadvantages. HD-DVD supporters have long claimed their format was cheaper than Blu-ray, so I decided to put that to the test. The decision this week by Dell to add Blu-ray drives as an option...

Tags: Blu-ray, HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Blu-ray drive, Blu-ray disc, HD-DVD, Dell Computer Corp., GeForce Go, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Pro/Wireless, Nvidia GeForce, LCD

Blog posts 2006-12-16

Sony VAIO RC310G

A format war is brewing for the hearts and minds of media fans everywhere. In one corner, Sony stands ready to do battle with its next-gen optical format, dubbed Blu-ray. In the other corner, Toshiba is prepared to wage war with HD-DVD. While both formats have been hampered by product...

Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, Desktops, Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray drive, Sony Vaio, disc, Sony Corp., Sony VAIO RC310G

Product reviews 2006-06-09

Photos: Sony gear spotlights Blu-ray

Sony's first Blu-Ray DVD player, along with Vaio machines with Blu-ray drives, will appear this summer.

Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray drive, Sony Corp., Sony Vaio

Image galleries 2006-03-16

Pioneer to sell Blu-ray drive in early '06

Pioneer to sell Blu-ray drive in early '06blu-ray? hmm I think...blu-ray and hd-dvd get too much press. why not the holograph disks if you really want storage? http://www.inphase-technologies.com/yes, it'll cost a lot more than blu-ray and hd-dvd but I'm sure a lot of companies wouldn't complain. over time, costs of...

Tags: Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, DVD, Blu-ray disc, storage, media, Blu-ray drive

Discussion threads 2005-12-27

Additional Resources

10 bits of tech to get for the back-to-school student

Time is inching its way through the season, and is now slowly approaching the back-to-school month. With only a few weeks to go until you pack up your things, get dropped off by your parents or make your way cross-country to your academic residence, hopefully you'll be taking a whole...

Tags: Phone, Choice, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Toshiba Satellite M505-S4940

Editor's note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. Positioned as a midrange affordable laptop in the budget area of our back-to-school retail roundup, the Toshiba Satellite M505-S4940 is...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Toshiba Satellite, processor, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-07-24