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LG BD 300 Blu ray Player First To Stream Netflix Launches This Fall

The anticipated launch of the LG BD 300 Blu-ray Player will see another first for the increasingly popular format as it will be the first to be able to stream the Netflix on line Watch Now range of movies.

The latest LG Blu-ray was first shown at a New York Press event in August but was then shown to the rest of the industry at the CEDIA Expo 2008 in Denver, Colorado. Read the story »

Does Home Theater Need Yet Another High Definition Format?

With Blu-Ray finally starting to become finally become the accepted format for high defintion recordings amongst the majority. It comes as some what of a suprise to many that Sim2 (a high end projector company) have decided to partner with digital media producer Entertainment Experience who produce products for the professional theatres, universities and commercial display markets. Read the story »

Digital Switch Over Leaves Residents Up In Arms

The first town in the US to receive exclusively digital only broadcasting was met with mixed reactions by it’s residents as many jammed phone lines wondering what on earth was going on when their TV’s suddenly stopped working.

Many residents of Wilmington, North Carolina were either unprepared for the analogue switch off or were experiencing problems with their digital set top boxes designed to convert older non digital ready TV’s. Read the story »

Featured Equipment Reviews...

Hard Drive DVD Recorders

I have decided today to look at hard drive DVD recorders which are set to become the new standard of DVD recorder in 2007 and onwards or at least until something new in home theater land arrives.

So what is a Hard Drive DVD recorder?

Well that’s a good question so here’s the answer basically a Hard Drive DVD recorder is a combination hard drive and DVD recorder all in the one box. Typically they will offer a stylish finish in either silver or black and it seems the norm so far is a massive 160GB hard drive which in case you wondered is the equivalent of about 250 hours of recording time.

This set up allows you to record huge chunks of stuff and then if you decide to keep something you just wack it in the DVD recorder and make a copy simple really.

Most models allow you top pause live TV so no missing the crucial play in the [tag-tec]Superbowl[/tag-tec] when you need another beer or get caught short. Don’t forget though it doesn’t freeze time so your buddys might call you with the result before you have finished watching your [tag-tec]recording[/tag-tec].

Here are just a few Hard Drive DVD Recorders worth checking out if you have got one of these or another brand of Hard Drive DVD recorder let us know how you are getting on with it?

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Latest DVD Releases September 16th 2008 (Part 1)

Thanks to our friends at Onvideo.org for their help with my latest top 10 DVD releases for this week. I will look at a futher five of this weeks releases in a future post at Home Theater Fanatic but in the meantime here are my first top 5 releases this week in no paticular order. Read the story »