Pioneer doesn't do things by halves. Whatever type of product it makes, whether it's TVs, DVD decks or Blu-ray players, it's sure to be packed with all the latest technology, offer astonishing build quality and more often than not deliver exceptional performance. Of course, you end up paying a higher price for the privilege but that's Pioneer's modus operandi these days - if you want the best, it's gonna cost you.

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Onkyo Announced they’re going to release its first Blu-Ray Disc Player for the international market in late 2008. It should feature Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding, as well as 1080p video. We don’t have further information at the moment. OSAKA (7/1/08 ) – ONKYO Corporation has announced that it will release its first Blu-ray Disc Player for the international market in late 2008.

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CyberLink has taken a good hard look at GPU transcoding capabilities last summer, and they have also been hard at work, adding transcoding to its own software stack. Fast forward one year and you will find the CyberLink PowerDirector 7 Ultra to be one muscular piece of software, shipping with GPU-accelerated video transcoding. In a tech demonstration (I am normally very reserved with the claims of such demonstrations since the results tend to be skewed).

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Remember that Disco Laser Pointer from a couple of weeks ago? This similar green laser mini projector also features a stand, allowing you to keep your hands free while projecting star patterns all around you.
Features:
* Controlable Disco Green Laser Projector Speed
* Stand Height: 8 cm
* Laser Projector Size: 8.0 x 7.0 x 3.0 cm.

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Nextar's T30 portable media player is strangely familiar, as it doesn't do anything out of the ordinary and apparently functions as it ought to be, carrying a $99 price tag in the process. You get 4GB of internal memory, an SD memory card slot to bump that up by another 2GB at best, a built-in FM tuner, voice recording capability and a 3.5" 320 x 240 resolution LCD display.

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The beautiful Nutouch is a digital photo frame with a blue LED touch-sensor control panel right on the 7-inch large high resolution screen. It has true aspect ratio which ensures it keeps your image the same size as a paper photograph without any stretching and weird looking heads, and the top quality resolution ensures every detail in the photo is crisp and bright.

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LG isn't going to rest on its laurels anytime soon, announcing a new line of Blu-ray optical drives that feature one of the fastest Blu-ray reading and writing speed of 6x. The new models in question are the BE06, GBC-H20L and GBW-H20L, featuring SecurDisc capabilities that offers data protection and content access control on all current optical formats, in addition to LightScribe technology.

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This video player from Ion allows you to easily convert your old VHS recordings into digital files. Simply put in a tape, press play and leave the rest to the USB-friendly machine. It doesn’t matter if you want to watch reinvigorated recordings on your computer, iPod, PSP or DVD because the included conversion software caters for stacks of formats.

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Iriver FANS, rejoice, behold the almighty L-Player a tiny litter DAP from Iriver which feature a 2” LCD, SRS WOW, support MP3, WMA, OGG and ASF audio files as well as MPEG-4, WMV, XVID video. Our L-Player is available in 4 different colors : Black, Chocolate, Pink or white and with either 2, 4 or 8GB of internal memory.

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Look out Microsoft, Pioneer's Linc series of in-dash and "on-dash" systems have their sights set on your voice controlled Sync. The first thing you'll notice is Pioneer's pixy-dusted UI which easily trumps the Sync's rather staid presentation. The videos show off Pioneer's real-time data feeds and natural speech recognition with the help of some smarmy actor-slash-models who'll probably be serving you lunch today if you live in LA. But we digress.

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Here you are new “Tiny” PMP from Korea which feature a 3” LCD and 8GB of internal memory. If unfortunately we do not have the full specifications of this Ken I, the Korean press release announced anyway the support of Video Files, Audio Files (Mp3, WMA, Flac), an eBOOK reader... for 50€.

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Ever felt the need to leave a television on to make it look like somebody is home while you’re out of town? This quirky little invention does just one thing - simulate the effect of having left your TV turned on. The $49 FakeTV uses an array of colored, flashing LEDs to create the illusion of the stroboscopic effect of a television. The compact box uses only a fraction of the electricity of a real TV, and doesn’t put unnecessary wear and tear on your precious plasma or flat panel.

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Although DISH Network's previous quarter wasn't anything to write home about, it sounds like the satcaster (EchoStar, technically) isn't going to allow its set-top line to grow stale in the process. During the recent Team Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, DISH's CEO Charlie Ergen reiterated that it would be beaming out "more than 100 national HD channels" by the end of 2008, and he also made mention that the EchoStar 11 satellite would lift off in July. Most interesting, however, was all the talk about the new STBs.

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This certainly isn’t the first time that I’ve seen a steampunk computer design, but it’s a quick way for you to turn your machine into something that H.G. Wells himself would be proud of. Recently sighted over on eBay, here’s a set of custom-modded steampunk accessories for your PC.

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Recent research in the US showed that the biggest challenge faced by Blu-ray manufacturers is not hi-def digital downloads or high hardware prices but the fact that people are perfectly happy with the picture quality from their upscaling DVD players. And judging by some of the upscaling decks we've tested recently, we can understand why - they might not be hi-def, but the pictures are sharp enough to make anyone think twice about paying £300 upwards for a hi-def deck.

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