As an effort towards greener environment, California Energy Commission has drafted out new regulations that would potentially ban HDTVs (High Definition TVs) especially those that draws excessive current and consumes much power from being sold in the state.

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The world’s leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions, Seagate has launched the next generation of home theater solution to offer consumers a rich, simple way to enjoy their digital media library on a TV – Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ (Plus) HD media player, which utilizes an unique docking system to connect your Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drives aimed to eliminate fumbling with cables and connections.

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The Japanese consumer electronics giant, Sony has announced the availability of its new Sony BDP-N460 networked Blu-ray Disc player, which able to offer full HD 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema output and instantly streams premium and free on-demand entertainment from Netflix (via an upgrade later this fall), YouTube, Slacker and BRAVIA Internet Video platform.

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Logitech has announced the availability of its two new Squeezebox Wi-Fi Music Players with streamlined interface – Logitech Squeezebox Radio and Logitech Squeezebox Touch, both of them provide users an intuitive access to wide range of music choices including free Internet radio, personal digital music files (such as DRM-free iTunes Plus downloads) and music subscription services including Napster, Pandora, Rhapsody, SIRIUS and Last.fm, supporting popular social networking sevices – Flickr and Facebook.

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Typically, a complete digital home is likely to consist of multiple set-top boxes that being used to decode and display the digital TV signals on huge LCD screen. It may looks messy with various cabling running across your TV cabinet and if you are looking for a neat solution that integrates those decoding modules into the TV system itself, then the latest BRAVIA HDTV (High Definition TV) models released by Sony may able to suit your requirement.

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Blu-ray is a new media format that is on the way replacing existing DVD especially when dealing with HD (High Definition) multimedia storage and playback, and it’s sole standard available after beating HD-DVD in format war. Although some of us may have already started to order one for digital home, but apparently the popularity is still very low in today’s PC and consumer market. According to recent iSuppli’s forecast report, the Blu-ray drive may only able to penetrate around 3.9 percent into existing PC market by this year, and not more than 16.3 percent of total PC market even in 2013, which is another four years down the road.

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Recalling a product always cause millions of dollars loss as well as inconvenience to end users. However, sometimes this situation is unavoidable especially a certain product generates safety concern to consumers. Just recently, Wal-mart has issued a recall action to recall china-brand DVD players that being sold in its chain-stores after received multiple complaints from users due to safety issue.

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Nowadays Blu-ray is a new format that is on the way replacing DVD format as storage media for multimedia entertainment system. While it has started to gain popularity in digital home, but putting it in in-car system is still not happening. Good news now for those that are looking for one to be installed in their vehicles, Panasonic has just announced the new Blu-ray player recently and dubbed as CY-BB1000D, it is claimed to be the world’s first in-dash Blu-ray player in the automotive industries.

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