Someone at Panasonic must think retro is back in fashion, as the - the company’s latest Blu-ray and DVR combo deck - also manages to include VHS functionality. Presumably intended for people wanting to archive their old VHS tapes onto Blu-ray (or maybe just continue to view a large back-catalogue), the BR630V has a 320GB [...]

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Though it sounds more like a droid-designation than a useful product, the N4B1 from LG is a combined network HDD bay and Blu-ray disc recorder: Much better than pairing a BDR-recorder with a VHS drive. It’s got space for up to four HDDs inside (supporting up to 4TB total capacity) and three USB ports and [...]

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A Blu-ray disc recorder and a VHS video tape machine may seem unlikely bedfellows, but that hasn’t stopped Panasonic from wrapping them up together in the same box for the DMR-BR630V. The 630V can write BDRs at six times speed, has digital and analog tuners, new second-gen MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder chips as well as all [...]

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Vudu promises 1,000 HD movies, plus lifetime content warranty:Bluray

Vudu seems to be doing a fairly decent job of keeping their name out in the news lately, it was not that long ago that they announced their ” retail locations. Now they have come back promising a total of 1,000 HD quality movies to choose from, [...]

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