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The Man Room has a short but interesting review of Samsung’s new BD-P1000 Blu-ray player and a comparison to the Toshiba HD-AI HD-DVD player. The BD-P1000 supports 1080p/1080i/720p and up-converts DVDs to 1080p/1080i/720p. It decodes MPEG2, VC-1, H.264, HD JPEG video and Dolby Digital, Dolby® Digital Plus, DTS®, and MP3 audio. It plays the following [...]

On the heals of last fall’s voice recorder and mp3 player combos, Olympus is releasing a new Voice-Trek G-10 voice recorder and MP3/WMA player with direct USB connection in Japan on July 6th, 2006. The G-10 will have 256MB, which isn’t much for a flash drive or mp3 player, but is fairly substantial for a [...]

Fascinating. A 17KHz ringtone that adults supposedly can’t hear. Developed as a teenager-repellent sound to rid areas of loitering little hooligans, an annoying, screeching tone marginally above the normal range of adult hearing was developed by a security firm in the UK, Compound Security, to repel teenagers. And, of course, the little punks heisted it [...]

The amazing mobiBLU DAH-1500i cube is a fantastic little (24mm or .94″ cube) MP3 and WMA player that’s packed with features: Blue OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) Display, built-in clock Plays MP3, WMA, and WMA+DRM (Digital Rights Management) FM Radio and Recorder, Voice Recorder with built-in microphone Usable as a USB 2.0 Flash drive Protective [...]