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According to a Circuit City employee in Chicago, the consumer electronics chain is trading in HD DVD players bought into their stores "within 3 months of the announcement," as opposed to their 30-day return policy. According to the internal memo announcing the demise of the format, they will either give customers a Blu-ray player—paying the price difference, if any—or a gift card. The trade-in, however, will not be widely promoted and it will be only made available if the customer asks for it.In order to qualify for the trade in program, you will need your receipt, the original box the player came in and all of the accessories. Hopefully, this means that we'll see similar trade in programs from other retailers, like Best Buy, in the near future. Feel free to share your thoughts in the forum. Add a comment
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No word on price yet. However, the PX-PH320US will be available in Europe beginning in March 2008. Full details can be found here. Add a comment
Plextor is extending its range of personal storage products with the new 320GB pocket hard disk - Plextor PX-PH320US. Small enough to fit in your pocket, it not only looks stylish in a brushed aluminium case, but using the eSATA interface offers blistering transfer rates of up to 3Gbps.
Ideal for enthusiast users using modern cases and motherboards,the ultra-fast eSATA interface offers speed comparable to a state-of-the-art internal hard drive - yet in a highly compact and portable design.
Plextor high reliability, premium quality HDDs offer excellent value for money. Building on the existing drives with 120, 160 & 250GB capacities, the Plextor PX-PH320US comes with a huge 320GB capacity. It has dual USB2.0/eSATA interfaces (including eSATA cable) and is also Mac and PC compatible.
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CMC Magnetics will not start commercial production of blank Blu-ray Disc (BD) discs until the global BD market emerges to some extent, and will instead invest in BD R&D to cultivate its technological capabilities in the interim, according to company chairman, Robert Wong.Wong also predicts that, due partly to high royalty rates, the BD market will not take off for another 2 to 3 years. If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes. Add a comment
Since as many as 21 owners of BD patents plan to claim royalty charges, there are many problems that need to be solved while charge rates are expected to be high, Wong pointed out. In addition, production equipment for BD discs is currently very expensive. The cost of equipment and royalties, together with the small demand render BD investment unfeasible at the moment, which is why CMC will not to step into production of BD-R (recordable, write once) and BD-RE (rewritable) discs for the time being, Wong explained.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, announced today that it is shipping the world's first half-terabyte (500GB) 2.5" mobile hard drive - the new Spinpoint M6. The Spinpoint M6 is designed to fit the industry's standard 9.5mm height dimension and armed with a massive 500GB capacity, the drive is targeted to meet the growing storage needs of today's notebook computers as well as slim form factor PCs and high density mobile applications.The Spinpoint M6 is available now for a suggested retail price of $299. Full details can be found here. Add a comment
"Our customers require more and more notebook storage for their data, video and music files", said Andy Higginbotham, director of hard drive sales and marketing, Samsung Semiconductor. "Our Spinpoint M6 easily fits within notebook PCs with no modification to the notebook PC chassis, giving users more storage power than ever before."
Samsung's new Spinpoint M6 consists of three 167GB platters in a 2.5" hard drive frame measuring just 9.5mm in height. This critical feature gives notebook PC manufacturers the option of easily integrating the Spinpoint M6 into the tens of millions of notebook PCs that ship every quarter.
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The company's statement today notes that "now that Blu-ray has been chosen as the next-generation format, the consumer can move forward with confidence and enjoy the incredible experience that Blu-ray offers. Samsung believes that a multi-format player like the current BD-UP5000 Duo HD Player (Duo) offers the best and only solution for consumers that want access to all available High-Definition (HD) titles in the short term. It remains a practical solution, but the window of opportunity is smaller than it was before. In light of recent announcements, Samsung will not introduce the BD-UP5500 Duo HD Player."If you'd like to read more, the entire blog post can be found here. Add a comment
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AMD 780G Chipset & AMD Athlon X2 4850e Dual-core CPU @I4UAdd a comment
Antec Nine Hundred Case @ASE Labs
Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev 2 VGA Cooler @HardwareLogic
CoolIT Freezone Elite @BCCHardware
Honeywell SecuraDrive 1.8-inch 80GB USB Hard Drive @ThinkComputers.org
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard @ TweakTown
NZXT Cryo LX USB 'Trio Fan' Laptop Cooler @Everything USB
PNY Verto GeForce 9600 GT Graphics Card @I4U
SimpleTech 160GB SimpleDrive Portable 2.5 Inch Hard Drive @Techwarelabs
Yoggie Gatekeeper Pico Security Mini-Computer @ThinkComputers.org
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What are you waiting for? Head on over to the SlySoft website and take advantage of this sale! Add a comment
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If you'd like to read more, Transcend's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a worldwide leader in flash memory products, today introduced two new high-capacity USB portable storage devices - a 16GB and 32GB version of its popular JetFlash V20 flash drive. The versatile V20 features an attractively shaped pearlescent chassis with a semi-transparent color-band that lights up during use. Its smooth contoured design fits comfortably in your hand and slips effortlessly into any pocket or purse. With the V20’s copious amount of storage space, you can easily store all of your personal files, music, digital photos, and even full-length HDTV movies and still have space left over for work or school documents.
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Nero, leaders in digital media technology, have announced that they will be releasing Nero Linux 3.5, the latest update of the definitive burning solution for the Linux operating system, allowing users to access content on a variety of platforms. Nero Linux 3.5 further extends Nero’s technology expertise with a new command line client that lets users engage the powerful engine through scripts and third-party applications.If you'd like to read more, Nero's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
Nero Linux 3.5, available in mid-March, now also includes support and screen resolution enhancement for popular subnotebooks that are pre-loaded with the Linux operating system and have a very small screen-resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.
Based on the burning technology found in Nero 8, the award-winning digital media suite, Nero Linux 3.5 is also the only solution on the market to provide Linux end users with full Blu-ray/HD DVD data burning support.
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AMD 780G Chipset and Athlon X2 4850e Processor @Techwarelabs andHotHardware.comAdd a comment
Cooler Master COSMOS S @InsideHW.com
Cooler Master Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler @TweakTown
Landisk NS347 NAS @Review Spring
Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard @Tweaknews.net
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 512MB @Phoronix
OnAir USB HDTV-GT Receiver & DVR For PC @Virtual-Hideout
Patriot Memory PC2-6400 4GB LL DDR2 Kit @TweakTown
VIA ARTiGO Builder Kit @VIA Arena
