If you’re on the market for a cheap, yet function laptop you should definitely check out Gateway’s newly announced NV series.

The entire series will feature a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 LED backlit display, up to 4GB of RAM, 320GB HDD, DVD drive, WiFi, multi-card reader, HDMI and VGA out, 4 USB ports and a 6 cell battery. Operating system wise you’re looking at Windows Vista Home Premium. And, to spice up your computing, Gateway will offer the NV series in NightSky Black, Midnight Blue, Coffee Brown and Cherry Red.

Price wise the NV series starts at $499 for a 2.1GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor and Radeon HD 3200 graphic card and $599 for a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a GMS 4500MHD graphics card.

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The portable CD/DVD and MP3 player from Coby measures just 6″ in diameter and has a 3 1/2″ screen. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand and stores away perfectly in a purse or briefcase. It redraws images faster than typical LCD monitors which results in clear and detailed resolution.

It also comes with anti-skip circuitry so you can even watch during bumpy car rides or flights. A headphone jack allows for private listening. Included are AC adapter, DC car adapter, remote control, lithium-ion rechargeable battery pack that can last up to three hours and carrying case. Retails around. $150.00

Tags: Accessories, CD, Colby, dvd, music, portable

We have already covered a couple of Hello Kitty devices, like a DJ speaker, a phone, a laptop, a lighter, and to finish the list in style the last item is a portable DVD player made by Sanrio.

The Japanese company decided to shape the player with the kitty’s face, and put a 7-inch LCD screen in the inside with an average resolution of 480×234 pixels. It can play the following formats: DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW, and normal CDs in case you want to listen to some music.

The battery is powered by 200mhA, and can last two hours and a half.

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Tags: dvd, Hello Kitty, portable, Portable Devices

I found the head! Which means there’s an angry body looking for it as we speak. This Terminator DVD player in the picture above should fit perfectly any modern living room. The metallic skull will play your favorite tunes or videos. After all we are constantly battling technology and machines while trying to chose the right pill. Why shouldn’t we use this victory trophy to play our DVD’s? (more…)

Tags: cd player, dvd, Portable Devices, video

Slowly but surely we’re going to connect through everything to the Internet. Laptops and desktops, mobile devices and smartphones, GPS device, they are all able to go online at any time. I’ll be waiting for my toaster to get WiFi support but in the mean time Toshiba might have a DVD player that would also surf the Internet. Kind of a laptop you mean?

Apparently this DVD logo released by the DVD Forum started this rumor. Toshiba decided earlier not to go Blu-ray but instead to develop more and more affordable DVD players which will feature enhanced image scaling capabilities. Besides working on image quality Toshiba will introduce some sort of Internet connectivity to all their new DVD which will be branded with DVD Download/DL logo

It’s yet unknown how these new DVD Download/DL are supposed to be working with the Internet. There’s no news on future models so I guess we just have to sit and wait for more details.

Tags: dvd, mobile media player, Portable Devices, Toshiba

iLuv officially launched today their i1255 which is a 5.1 channel desktop iPod/DVD player. The i1255 will retail starting from $149.99 and it will be available from Circuit City, J&R Music, Fry’s, Micro Center and iLuv of course.
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Tags: dvd, iluv, ipod, iPod dock, Portable Devices

Hitachi unveiled two new HD video camcorders that can record video onto Blu-ray media. Touted as the world’s first Blu-ray Disc camcorder, Hitachi unveiled the new DZ-BD70A and DZ-BD7HA camcorders.

DZ-BD70A
The DZ-BD70A is a single drive camcorder capable of recording 1 hour of Full HD (1920×1080) high definition video on a standard 8cm single-sided Blu-ray disk (BD-R and BD-RE). For natural colors, the Hitachi camcorder uses a 5.3 megapixel CMOS image sensor and HD quality 12-element lens system. For additional media storage, the camcorder is equipped with an SD card slot - great for storing digital still images taken with the camcorder. The still image resolution is 4.32 megapixels, which is pretty decent. As is common to many other camcorders, the DZ-BD70A features a Photo Capture feature to grab a still frame from any video and save it as a photo onto the SD card (at 2.1 megapixel resolution). As an added bonus, the DZ-BD70A can also record videos onto DVD discs.

DZ-BD7HA
The DZ-BD7HA is a hybrid model offering both an internal 30 GB hard drive and Blu-ray recording capability. The 30GB is good for up to 4 hours of Full HD 1920×1080 HX mode video or almost 8 hours in HS mode (1440×1080). With the touch of a single button, videos on the internal HDD can be burnt onto a Blu-ray disc or DVD (thanks to the Transcoding feature). So you won’t have to wait until you get access to a computer when you want to share your videos.

Both camcorders feature 10x zoom (non-spherical lens), and come in a sleek, round body. HDMI and component video output are available for video playback. A built-in Interactive Guide available on the camcorders help those that are new to them.

The DZ-BD70A Hitachi Blu-ray camcorder is priced at US $1,299, while the DZ-BD7HA Hybrid HDD/Blu-ray camcorder comes at US $1,499. Both camcorders will hit North America in October 2007.

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