If you’re having trouble factoring both TV and web access into your budget, Verizon wants to help. The service provider just announced a few promotions for its triple- and double-play customers. The new promotion will feature high-speed web access, Verizon’s Freedom plan for unlimited calling, and DirecTV. Get all three for a low price of $80 a month for 12 months. If you need to shave a few bucks off,… View this story
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Samsung unveiled its BD-P3600 and BD-P4600 Blu-ray Player, the world’s first wall-mountable Blu-ray Player, at CES 2009. Both new players include BD Live (Profile 2.0) and Bonus View (Profile 1.1) support, 1080p playback with DVD upscaling and total HD soundtrack support. Each player offers instant streaming of Netflix and Pandora (subscriptions required) and have 1GB internal flash memory. They come with Samsung’s Touch of Color (ToC) design, and the BD-P3600‘s… View this story
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There was a slew of sub-$200 Blu-ray deals around the holidays. Now that the shopping storm has calmed, those kinds of hardware bargains are a lot harder to come by—until now. Vizio is throwing its hat into the Blu-ray ring, and they are giving it the inexpensive spin that has made them a serious competitor in the CE marketplace. The new VBR100 will run $199.99—everyday. The unit has a 108MHz/11-bit… View this story
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Sony is saying “bravo” to Bravia. Apparently the line is pretty popular, because they are adding a whole mess of them for 2009. The Bravia VE5 series will feature three new models: the 52-inch KDL-52VE5, the 46-inch KDL-46VE5 and the 40-inch KDL-40VE5. Each one boasts a zero-watt standby power switch, along with motion and light sensors that can save viewers a few bucks on the energy bill, even while watching… View this story
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One of the biggest hassles to putting together your 5.1- or 7.1-channel surround-sound system is all that wiring from the speakers back to the source components. Wanna get it done without the wiring? Here’s where you begin to get skeptical when we start mentioning wireless solutions—what about sound quality? Signal loss? Interference? Who better than the folks at THX to put their stamp on what promises to be a bulletproof… View this story
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Sharp certainly didn’t disappoint with its product unveilings during its press conference here at CES 2009. We’ll start with the AQUOS BD-MPC40 and BD-MPC30 HTIBs, which both include a Blu-ray player, an amplifier, five speakers (one center, two front and two rear) and one subwoofer. Both systems offer 720W of power and 5.1-channel surround sound. The BD-MPC40 features black wooden cabinet speakers, while the BD-MPC30 has speakers with a black… View this story
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There are a lot of products we’d love to see combine into one. TV/popcorn maker? Check. Web-enabled massage chair? Absolutely. Fax machine/meat slicer? Well, maybe not. However, there was one combo that we didn’t even think of: the projector/phone. Logic Wireless did, and they call it the Bolt. The unit is sort of like carrying a big screen in your pocket… one that can make and take calls. Logic says… View this story
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The one thing we miss about the days of HD DVD is the combo disc. It was nice to pop “The Bourne Ultimatum” into one player, and then also enjoy it on the go. Disney wants you to be able to have that same kind of freedom, so they are releasing select 2009 Blu-ray titles with the added bonus of standard-def. There is no combo disc; it’s a combo pack,… View this story
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Unleash the power of your digital music library and free it from your computer. Sure, you say, but where to route it all, and doesn’t that mean a whole bunch of wires to do so? No worries, says Cisco, all you need is any combination of the company’s new Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio family of products, which were unveiled at CES 2009. Ideally, you’ll let Linksys aggregate your… View this story
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Despite your cramped A/V cabinet, the idea of another set-top never seems to lose luster—at least when it’s packing web capabilities. Netgear announced two new Internet-enabled set-tops today. We had recently heard a few rumblings about the EVA9150; they also added the ITV2000. “Internet video consumption is at an all-time high,” said Vivek Pathela, Netgear’s VP and general manager of home/consumer products. “Just in the month of October 2008 alone,… View this story
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