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Some interesting Australian Blu-ray statistics
More than 5 per cent of Australian households have a Blu-ray player.Just under 1 million copies of Blu-ray movies have been sold in Australia to dateSales of Blu-ray players in Australia spiked from 3000 in August and September last year to…
Twilight Blu-ray Australian release date
For all you twilight fans out there, multiple Australian retailers are reporting that the release date for the movie twilight will be 22nd April 2009.The U.S. will be getting Twilight on March 21st exclusively at Best Buy and Target,…
Panasonic OZ Forced To Raise Prices Up To 22%
Panasonic Australia is blaming the Australian dollar's poor performance against the yen and US dollar as it announced plans for increases of up to 22 percent on its current range of consumer electronics products, from February 1 2009. Late…
CES 2009: Pioneer serves up trio of new Blu-ray players
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. recently unveiled their new series of BD-Live Blu-ray Disc players at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). An overview of their features are below.Key features of the Pioneer BDP-120:Profile…
CES 2009: Panasonic’s latest Blu-ray products
As well as the Panasonic portable blu-ray player we reported on earlier this week, Panasonic have some more conventional Profile 2.0 compatible blu-ray players as well as one very unique hybrid VHS - Blu-ray player that they announced at…
Blu-ray Statistics
Here are some interesting Blu-ray Statistics that came out of the Blu-ray Disc Association Press Conference held at CES.In roughly two-and-a-half years on the market, Blu-ray has sold over 10.7 million players in the United States market.…
CES 2009: LG Blu-ray players stream Netflix, CinemaNow, and YouTube
LG Electronics forges ahead with its initiative to meld streaming content with Blu-ray playback. At the Consumer Electronics Show today, the company introduced two Blu-ray players that offer access to on-demand streaming content from…
CES 2009: Panasonic Introduces World’s First Portable Blu-ray Player
Innovative Player Features BD Live and VIERA CAST® Internet Accessibility
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Panasonic, a major developer and contributor to the success of the Blu-ray format, introduced the world's first…
CES 2009: Sharp’s latest blu-ray offerings
Today Sharp announced a number of New products. Sharp spoke about Home theatre in a box 5.1 with built in Blu-ray, TV's with built in Blu-ray players. Environmentally friendly seemed to be the under tone of much of Sharp's press conference…
CES 2009: Samsung Reveals Two Sleek New Standalone BD Players
Samsung Electronics America, Inc., has announced two new players at the 2009 CES, including the BD-P4600, a wall mountable design which, at 1.5 inches, is also the world's slimmest BD player. This mounting capability garnered the 4600 model…