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The end of the VHS era - Dec 23, 2008

Crave I've never been very good at giving up on old technology. I held on to my audio cassettes well into the compact disc era; my old Handspring Visor is still sitting ... Read story »

VHS format bids adieu - Dec 26, 2008

Blogs I still remember the day when my mom brought home our very first Betamax player, everyone in the family was so excited to watch Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury right in ... Read story »

Google's Android to hit almost every household - Jun 12, 2009

Blogs Android on phone. Check. Android on X86 PC and Netbooks and laptops. Check. All this is fine. But it doesn't give Android the incredible reach which will really make Ballmer have ... Read story »

Getting Blu-ray on a new 27-inch iMac - Oct 26, 2009

Crave Apple's new iMac all-in-one desktops impressed us, especially the massive 27-inch model we reviewed this week. But we're left wondering what happened to the rumored Blu-ray drive option. Playing HD ... Read story »

Toshiba releases its first Blu-ray player - Sep 4, 2009

Crave Seeing Toshiba and the Blu-ray logo on the same player makes us think "Photoshop", but the BDX2000 is a real product. Toshiba officially conceded the format war in February 2008, but ... Read story »

Blu-ray ripping gets legalized with Managed Copy? - Nov 9, 2009

Crave Movie buffs may be able to copy (or rip in underground lingo) movies from Blu-ray Discs to PCs and gadgets come early December. This is after the studios, electronics makers and ... Read story »

Xbox 360 has no love for Blu-ray - Oct 23, 2009

Crave While Toshiba has reluctantly embraced the Blu-ray format, its former HD-DVD ally Microsoft is still refusing to budge. Earlier, its CEO Steve Ballmer had hinted at a Blu-ray addon for the ... Read story »

Philips unveils Blu-ray players with DivX Ultra support - Sep 7, 2009

Crave Philips BDP7500 Two new Philips Blu-ray players have been announced at IFA 2009 taking place in Berlin. The BDP7500 and BDP9500 are both armored like battle tanks, with the latter encased ... Read story »

New Universal Blu-rays come with iPhone interactivity - Nov 12, 2009

Crave 9 will be one of the new Blu-ray titles to feature iPhone interactivity. Excluding the recent Netflix PS3 disc, BD-Live has been a bust. Still, we give the movie studios credit ... Read story »

Samsung Blu-ray players to support YouTube and MKV - Sep 7, 2009

Crave The main menu of the YouTube client on Samsung's Blu-ray players. Add YouTube the growing list of streaming media services supported by Samsung Blu-ray players. Effective immediately, Google's megapopular online video ... Read story »

Toshiba's first Blu-ray laptop unveiled - Sep 4, 2009

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 ... Read story »

JVC (oddly) opts for Profile 1.1 for its latest Blu-ray player - Oct 30, 2009

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 ... Read story »

PS3 Slim makes dedicated Blu-ray players overpriced again? - Aug 20, 2009

Crave A US$300 PS3 makes us reevaluate the value of standalone Blu-ray players. For most of Blu-ray's existence, the PlayStation 3 has easily been the best value in home theater. Only ... Read story »

A Blu-ray addon for Xbox 360? - Feb 19, 2008

Crave Though Microsoft has been maintaining an Xbox 360 addon approach for the benefits of user choice, this may well be part of its foresight for a quick exit in the event ... Read story »

Panasonic optimistic about 3D TV - Oct 12, 2009

Features The company has tied up with famed movie director James Cameron to debut its consumer-centric 3D solution at Ceatec Japan 2009. Read story »

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