Gizmo Lovers Blog » AV Watch http://www.gizmolovers.com TiVo, Slingbox, Android, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever other tech I feel like blogging about... Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:16:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Strange Bedfellowshttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/08/26/strange-bedfellows/ http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/08/26/strange-bedfellows/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:32:09 +0000 MegaZone http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2872 Continue reading →]]> Panasonic has announced a new uber-box for the Japanese market. It is a combination 320GB DVR and Blu-ray & DVD recorder. But that’s not all, it also has a built in VHS deck. So you can dump your fuzzy VHS tapes to DVD, or Blu-ray to really capture the fuzziness in high quality. It isn’t completely clear from the translated AV Watch Japanese text, but it sounds like you can also record to VHS – though not from the tuner. You can also dump content to the hard drive, and then transfer from the drive to media. All this can be yours October 1st for the equivalent of $1,450 – only in Japan of course.

We need an HD DVD and Betamax combo deck just for the Epic Fail factor that would represent. (This system supports Digital Audio Tape, Digital Compact Cassette, and MiniDisc – it can’t fail!)

Picked up via Gizmodo.

]]> http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/08/26/strange-bedfellows/feed/ 0 PS3 To Get DTS-HD MA Decodinghttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/10/ps3-to-get-dts-hd-ma-decoding/ http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/10/ps3-to-get-dts-hd-ma-decoding/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:55:29 +0000 MegaZone http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2399 Continue reading →]]> AV Watch managed to sit down with the PlayStation3 firmware developers and came away with some interesting information. Two of the features that are in the works are 1080 deinterlacing and DTS-HD MA support on Blu-ray. DTS-HD MA is the only BD audio codec not currently supported by the PS3, so support for it would make the PS3 the most comprehensive Blu-ray player available. Now, due to the HDMI hardware limitations it will almost certainly be handled like Dolby TrueHD, internally decoded and output as PCM. There are a number of other details about the current and future software, the Beyond3D Forums and PS3 Fanboy both have summaries (in English).

Picked up from EngadgetHD.

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