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By Terence Huynh on January 9th, 2011

TECHGEEK Weekly 27: CES is driving us GaGa

And we’re back officially. CES was in full swing, and we saw a lot of tablets, 4G phones and 3D from Sony. We also had crazy Harvey Norman trying to put GST on our purchases online, Facebook being valued at $50 billion and the Mac App Store launch – and hack.

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By Stewart Wilson on December 8th, 2010

PlayStation 3 320GB Console under $500? [Bargain Hunter]

What’s this you see? That’s right – It’s a PlayStation 3 Slimline Console and for a fantastic price. This console is the latest from the Sony factory and it has a wealth of features. At for tomorrow only, you can grab it for $449. A saving of $100 at it’s RRP of $549. It also comes with the Gran Turismo 5 Game!

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By Terence Huynh on November 17th, 2010

Panasonic’s 103-inch 3D plasma – yours only for $104,000

This is Panasonic’s latest 3D television, an 103-inch plasma display that happens to have a contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1 and can support 1080p full HD resolution – despite the fact the screen would make it a bit stretched because of the freaking size! Also bundled are some 3D glasses and a stand. Yep. That’s it. No Blu-Ray player, movies to test out the 3D content or anything else. Just some 3D glasses and a stand. Guessing most of the money comes from the damn plasma screen then.

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By Terence Huynh on January 7th, 2010

LG brings out 250GB Blu-Ray player

LG has announced the first Blu-Ray Disc player to feature a 250GB hard drive – which is handy, especially when it is integrated with the VUDU service, allowing users to watch and purchase movies online. The BD590 can also copy their CD music collection, and use the Gracenote-powered MusicID feature so all the information of the album, including cover art and track listings, are added to the metadata.

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By Terence Huynh on October 3rd, 2009

TDK creates 320GB disc, stacks 10 layers on single disc

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TDK is known to push the boundaries in storage devices, as it showed of a possible 960GB laptop drive and a 3.2TB desktop drive – yeah, you heard that right. But in preparation of the CEATEC trade show in Japan, TDK has announced that it has now pushed the boundaries in the optical storage devices world with a 10-layer, 320GB disc, and it still looks like an ordinary disc.

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By Terence Huynh on January 11th, 2009

Memorex brings out $200 Blu-Ray Player with Profile 2.0

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CES 2009 : CES’s ending is nearly upon us, and we have some final things to post. Memorex has announced that a brand new Blu-Ray Player, MVBD-2520, that will have the new Blu-Ray Profile 2.0; which includes BD-Live, allowing owners to access additional content on the internet from the player via the player’s Ethernet port

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By Terence Huynh on January 9th, 2009

Pioneer announces new line of Blu-Ray players

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CES 2009 : Pioneer has unveiled a new series of Blu-Ray players; the BDP-120, the BDP-320 and the Elite BDP-23FD – all “outfitted” with expandable or built-in memory. All of them also have the new BD-Live functionality, allowing you to get additional content from the web.

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By Terence Huynh on December 27th, 2008

Adamo to have Blu-Ray, DisplayPort?

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RUMOUR MILL : Dell’s new Adamo laptop, which is set to be a competitor to Apple’s ultra-thin MacBook Air, is believed to have a couple of features – thanks to a Google cache search on its accessories for the new laptop. The new laptop is set to have a 45-watt power adapter, which is not really special; but will also feature the new DisplayPort and a 2X Blu-Ray combo drive.

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