Crave HTS7200 (left) and HTS7540 (right)
Philips has been making some pretty aggressive moves for its Blu-ray products in recent months. First, it debuted the highly affordable S$399 BDP3000 player followed closely ...
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Review In these cash-strapped times, plenty of people won't feel comfortable spending S$600 on a Blu-ray player. Thankfully, cheaper models such as the Philips BDP3000 have started to appear. Available for only S$399, the BDP3000 won't break the bank and so we were keen to see how well it performs....
Review Finally, Blu-ray players are coming of age. They've taken their sweet time, but we're now seeing players that will load a disc as fast as a DVD player, do all the things Blu-ray promised and don't cost a fortune. Pioneer embraced Blu-ray early on in the race and recently announced a couple of new...
Review Pioneer's Kuro range of plasma TVs were met with an avalanche of awards, but its Blu-ray players have also consistently been among the best performers of their type. The BDP-LX52 is the company's 2009 flagship model. Priced at about S$999, it's obviously designed to appeal to picture purists rather...
Review Ever since standalone Blu-ray players hit the market, there's been a great deal of anticipation for an Oppo Blu-ray player, mainly because of the company's reputation for making excellent DVD players. Oppo held out for quite some time, and in retrospect, it was a smart move. Almost all the early...
Review Blu-ray may have started out as a mess, with confusing "profiles" and painfully slow load times. But beginning this year standalone players have finally gotten their acts together. Sony's entry-level BDP-S360 is typical of the new breed of Blu-ray players. It has the basics covered, with Profile...
Review In 2009, it's not enough for a Blu-ray player to just play movie discs. With the ubiquity of online media streaming services, such as YouTube, consumers already expect such players to offer up a wide variety of instant-gratification online media options to complement their HD experience. Its...
Crave Sony has announced a new BDP-S765 Blu-ray player featuring key picture-processing functions originally developed for its flagship BDP-S5000ES kit. Firstly, the HD Reality Enhancer system provides real-time edge and detail ...
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Crave These days, what separates Blu-ray players from one another has less to do with how they play Blu-rays--they all do that pretty well--and more to do with the sort of ...
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Crave Looks like the Japanese manufacturers are going gaga over 2TB digital video recorders (DVR) this month. The latest entry came from Toshiba in the form of the RD-X9 which boasts ...
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Review Samsung was the first manufacturer with a standalone Blu-ray player, but in 2008 it often felt like the company was struggling to keep up with Panasonic. When Panasonic released the first Profile 2.0 player, Samsung was still shipping Profile 1.1 players with promises that future upgrades would get...
Crave The Mitsubishi BHR300-series LCD TV is ahead of the curve, featuring an integrated digital video recorder (DVR). This is implemented via both a Blu-ray disc drive and 320GB harddisk to ...
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Crave Nothing in this world makes sense. First Sega start making games for Nintendo, then Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected mayor of California, and now Toshiba--former peddler of HD DVD--releases a laptop with ...
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Review Many of the networked media players we've looked at recently rely heavily on interfacing with Windows Media Center, the digital media hub software that's available on many--but not all--PCs running Windows XP and Vista. Some models, such as the HP MediaSmart Connect, can operate in "WMC Extender...
Review Sony has made standalone Blu-ray players since the format's inception, but they've always been overshadowed by the company's game console, the PlayStation 3. In many ways, the Sony BDP-S550 is the company's first standalone that may be a smarter buy than the PS3 for non-gamers. The BDP-S550 is...
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