Posts Tagged ‘DVD’
Blu-ray
10 Most Anticipated Blu-ray Releases for 4/15-5/15 (list)
As part of a new monthly installment, we’ll bring you what we believe to be the 10 best (or so) Blu-ray releases that are arriving over the course of the next 30 days. As always, please weigh-in on the comments if you th...
News Stories
Red Box Instant Streaming Coming to the Xbox 360 “Soon”
Good news for those that are Redbox Instant beta testers and have an Xbox 360. The video game console will soon offer an app that allows you to stream the service to your big screen. According to reports, the service, at least...
Blu-ray
2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Blu-ray Players (list)
Don’t be befuddled by the “Cloud,” because having content local and at-hand guarantees you can watch what you want when you want. A Blu-ray disc not only provides an uncompressed high-resolution 1080p picture, but gives you cho...
Blu-ray
Sony BDP-S790 3D Blu-ray Player Review
There are those who say that a Blu-ray player should do more than just play discs, but also provide a conduit to the Internet and access to applications and websites in a manner similar to that of “Smart TVs” and mobile devices...
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Toshiba BDX5300 3D Blu-ray Player Review
It’s interesting to see a Blu-ray player from Toshiba if you remember your history: the company was a booster of the HD DVD high-def format from the get-go and made players that, at t he time, were less costly than that of the ...
Home Theater
Mitsubishi Diamond 842 82-inch 3D DLP Home Cinema TV Review
My neighbors put up with me because on occasion I help them out with their home theater problems. But I drew every askance look possible when the two guys wheeled this 82-inch HDTV over to my doorstep. Because it’s big — ...
Blu-ray Player Reviews
Toshiba BDX5300 3D Blu-ray Player With Built-in Wi-Fi Review
Business decisions are funny things. Take Toshiba for instance, they put all their eggs in the basket of the HD DVD format when it first went head to head against Blu-ray. Things went bad for HD DVD — you see them around ...
Accessory Reviews
TV Eyes 3-D Glasses Review
Back when I was a kid, I used to read a lot of comic books. Even the ads were fun — catalogs advertised crazy stuff like the “Hypno” coin and “X-ray” glasses and cardboard “tanks” you could buy. I didn’t have the money th...
Blu-ray Player Reviews
Sony Portable Blu-ray Disc/DVD Player BDP-SX910 Review
There’s a gee-whiz factor that some consumer electronics have — it doesn’t necessarily make the product “better” but it certainly makes it attractive to the consumer. Take the Sony Portable Blu-ray Disc/DVD Player BDP-SX9...
DVD
Sceptre E230BD-FHD 23″ LED TV / Monitor with DVD Player Review
I don’t want to shock you — but size still matters. As in put away that smartphone or tablet or laptop and look at a screen that’s bigger than your head already. Which in this case is Sceptre’s E230BD-FHD 23″ ...
Blu-ray Player Reviews
Sony BDP-S590 3D Blu-ray Disc Player Review
Blu-ray players have decreased in price to where getting a second one (or replacing one just a year or two old) is no longer a luxury. Sony led the way to affordable Blu-ray players early in the cycle with their PlayStation 3 &...
Blu-ray
Sony BDP-S580 Blu-ray Disc Player Review
Blu-ray players used to be exorbitantly expensive — my first was a PlayStation 3 because the price of the Blu-ray mechanism and a game console was actually more cost-effective than a Blu-ray player alone. But for most fo...
