British company Passive Technologies has a new kind of media center–it’s called the LifeStation HD and it can deliver HD DVD and Blu-Ray DVD support, on top of a hard drive, all manner of video format-playing and a stack of other features. Sadly, the LifeStation HD’s webpage is not terribly specific about it’s features. […]

Here’s some irony–Sony’s Blu-Ray BDP-S300 DVD player has dropped in price to a pretty affordable $299 –ironic because the model number is “BDP-S300″. Change that “S” to a “$” and you’ve got the price–the BDP-$300. But all that is beside the point. What is the point has to do with trends. […]

Why would Samsung want to produce a DVD player that supported both HD DVD and Blu-ray DVD? Well, the obvious answer that comes to mind is: duh! This is something that they could never do back in the heady days of the VHS/Beta wars for obvious, mechanical reasons. Flash forward nearly thirty […]

You’ve heard of dual layer standard DVDs, well, get ready for triple layer HD DVDs that will be able to hold a whopping 51 gigs of data. What does this mean in practical terms? First, it means that the format wars are about to get even more confusing. Up until now, you […]

Samsung has achieved a royal coup of sorts by landing an order of 100 LCD and plasma screens to Buckingham Palace. The South Korean giant is only too pleased to heed the royal request and if the company is engaged in dealing with the British royalty for more than five years it wins the […]