From Samsung US comes the world’s first portable Blu-Ray player that can handle new 3D discs. The black BD-C8000 however sleek, is a bit of a con if we’re being honest. The portable Blu-Ray player is indeed a portable Blu-Ray player but the attached screen is not actually 3D compatible. The device enables 3D playback, [...]

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If your one of those early adopters of a 3DTV you’ll be more than excited to hear that Sky have finally announced that 3D content drought will end on October 1st. If you have a 3D TV, and a Sky+HD box and  the top channel subscription package you willl be able to enjoy the new [...]

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With Avatar’s prolific success on the big screen, there has been a lot of rumours regarding the Avatar 3D launch. The most recent of the speculation is the announcement that the Avatar 3D Blu-ray will be bundled exclusively with Panasonic 3DTVs. According to a published report and confirmed from an industry source, the box office [...]

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Samsung is set to release its new line of 3D TVs and Blu-ray player in the UK as soon as next month. Blighty stores will stock the first 3D models: the LED 8 Series and 7 Series TVs as well as the BD-C6900 Blu-ray player in March. Samsung unveiled its world first in 3D Blu-ray [...]

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3D seems to be the big theme of 2010 in the gadget world. A plethora of 3D related gizmos, were unveiled at CES and now Sony are showing that they are in on the game with the announcement of two new 3D capable Blu-ray players. The BDP-S470 and BDP-S570 can be pre-ordered now but are [...]

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Toshiba have abandoned their HD-DVD format and instead want to tap the growing demand for Blu-ray in Japan with three new Blu-ray recorders, set to hit the Japanese market in four weeks. The three new VARDIA branded recorders which allow you to copy material from DVD to Blu-ray and vice versa, come with an HDMI [...]

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Do you have a Blu-ray player yet? Do you want one but are just waiting for the prices to drop further? If so what do you do when you want to buy a new film? You can’t buy the Blu-ray version yet as you don’t have a player, but you want to buy the film, so it has to be the DVD version. But it looks so nice in HD… What to do? The good news is that Universal Studios has announced a new hybrid dual-format disc which contains both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of the film.

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The worlds of home entertainment and the Internet took one step closer to each other this week when Samsung announced that they are integrating YouTube video playback into almost all of the their Blu-Ray players.

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