With the battle of the new formats decided in favor of Blu-ray Disc, position itself as an important element in this chain is vital for almost all brands that want to say something in these boom years of such discs. Having access to patents without paying royalties is therefore vital.

Philips and Lite-On have formed an alliance to do just that. On one side it has joined a brand, Philips, members of the association Blu-ray Disc and owns several patents relating to Blu-ray Disc, so you have free access to them. At the other extreme is Lite-On (acquired the business of optical storage BenQ), with its ability to produce hardware. Together, they want to become a benchmark in terms of equipment and Blu-ray discs.

The new partnership leads by name Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions, and strengthen the presence of both brands in the world Blu-ray Disc. For example, for the second quarter of this year and is scheduled to arrive at the market a version of the external unit reader Blu-Ray discs cost of Lite-On. We hope that such unions always benefited the user leaves, which relates interest of marks for bringing products to market-related economic Blu-Ray to avoid thinking that winning the war as soon was the best thing that has happened to this format and the worst thing for the user.

With portable players and laptop computers very interesting that every day put more emphasis on the content of video playback, portable DVD players seem somewhat marginalized. However, added as a DTT tuner can give them new air and return the time it was a product very defendant.

Airis has submitted the portable DVD player LW277. The display of this team is 7 inches, is compatible with DVD, DVD-R / W, DVD + R / RW, VCD, CD, High Definition Compatible Digital, Picture CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MPEG4, MP3, WMA and DIVX, and as we said, carries an additional tuner digital terrestrial television. To use it in mobility, incorporating a portable antenna that hopefully is efficient, because previous experience with this type of antennas has not been very good on our part.

The portable DVD player Airis takes Lithium-Ion battery and weighs 835 grams in total. It also carries USB port, SD card reader, stereo speakers, remote control and electronic anti-shock protection for the DVD player.

The price of this portable DVD player LW277 of Airis is 150 euros.

I love the design of the Panasonic D-Snap, but still I like it offers more autonomy and their characteristics. But we gradually giving in to see if this portable audio player that, at present, only puts on sale in Japan.

With a size of 9.1 x 3.5 x 1.2 inches, the player provides compatibility with MP3 files, WMA and AAC and has an internal battery lithium ion which offers a range of up to 100 hours Playing with a recharge time three hours.

It is accompanied by a noise reduction, which allows up to 83% lower and slightly reduced battery life, staying in a more than respectable 60 hours. There also the possibility of recording directly across the line input. Storage is done on SD cards, coming with a 2 GB, and connects to the computer via the USB 2.0 port.

Will be on sale starting in April at a price at the moment unknown.

To compete at Energy System, we find the FleaTech Wiggle V008, which also includes two headphone outlets to share the music we hear.

On this occasion, the screen is most suitable for viewing videos, with 2.4 inches, but remains somewhat fair. Its resolution is 320 x 240 pixels and allows the reproduction of files in AVI format and photos in JPG and BMP.

Its internal memory is also 2 GB, although we can increase it through SD or MMC card. Other features are identical receiver FM radio and voice recording via the integrated microphone.

It weighs 62 grams and a price of 79 euros.

As already advanced with Toshiba G55, this July promises to be very interesting when teams Toshiba with benefits and performance out of the ordinary. Or at least what we are accustomed in the area of laptops.

The Toshiba Qosmio G50 and F40 will also assemble the explosive cocktail SpursEngine, remember that it is changed by the Cell chip of the Playstation 3 that Toshiba has adapted to become a co-processor for its high performance multimedia portable highlights . This co-processor has 4 SPE, memory controller and works with hardware formats via high-definition video. Toshiba, in addition to their laptops, plans to incorporate it into more multimedia equipment for the home.

In fact, the task of this device (SpursEngine SE1000) in the new portable will be accompanied by a Core 2 Duo processor, and come into action for very intensive tasks to the processor, normally associated with high-definition video.

Among other tasks, these laptops will be able, according to Toshiba, reescalar in real time and smooth video standard definition to high definition, as well as record television directly in H.264 format.

Another feature that will take advantage of the Cell processor and we commented: identification of faces in real-time features as recognition of people in videos, and facilitate searches of audiovisual content, among others. They also control software by gestures will be integrated into new laptops.

Of which we speak now. The Toshiba G50 will be a model with 18.4-inch screen FullHD, with 500 GB hard drive, NVidia GeForce graphics 9600M.doble tuner DTT and weighing 5 kg. The battery life arrive until 4 pm. Its price, 2,700 dollars.

Regarding the Toshiba model F50, at a cost of about 2,500 dólars, will have 15-inch screen and 250 GB hard drive. As you can see, all Intel processor and the Cell, is paid.

Conceptronic has presented his new pileup in Spain for playing multimedia, which follows last announced that the Grab’n'GO Media Giant.

The Conceptronic Grab’n'GO Gigabit FullHD has, as you’ve deducted from its name, high-definition as raison d’etre, and it is therefore an ideal complement to the LCD and plasma TVs that support this resolution. But this is not a hard drive but a platform for the content of these disks or remote computers as a computer, the television.

The Conceptronic Grab’n'GO Gigabit FullHD can play files XviD, WMV9, MOV, MKV, H.264, MPEG 1/2/4, JPEG, MP3, WMA, AVI, SVCD, VCD, IFO, VOB and supports subtitles, something that not many media players bear but I find very interesting.

The team Conceptronic connection with hard drives or computer is done via USB or through a port Gigabit to ensure optimal image quality and fast network, mainly large files with high definition.

With HDMI connection (up to 1080p), component and digital audio output (SPDIF) for 5.1 sound, this gadget is behaving like a client UPnP multimedia.

After studying the differences between plasma and LCD televisions in relation to issues such as contrast, brightness and color, now we move around in a classic battle of televisions: the size and other negative aspects associated with plasmas and LCDs, as the effect of burning the screen, life expectancy or the issue of dead pixels.

Until recently, the size of a screen forced us to decide entry by a type of display. If we wanted teams with a diagonal over the 37-inch, the choice was clearly a plasma TV. Below that size, the LCD reigned at your leisure. The progress of both technologies has led us to be already on the market plasmas smaller, and above all, LCD televisions with no problem reaching the diagonals classic plasmas. In fact, we could still say that for large sizes, value for money still benefits the teams plasma.

Without wishing to enter absurd wars, choosing the right size screen can bring many benefits. There is nothing scientific item, but they are very sensible recommendations. Of course, this aspect comes into play what everyone wants, and if you prefer a television so much larger than can afford because they think that they are going to enjoy it more, as is their right.

Finally, in this part of the special on television, let’s see who wins in the battle for life. In other words, what we will run more TV without the image is resentment. As many know, wins LCD TV, because plasma technology has a lifespan smaller motivated by the progressive erosion of the matches, at some point that worsen the image up to a limit not admitted.

Thus, the average tells us that a plasma TV keeps an image of acceptable quality about 25,000 hours, compared with more than 50,000 hours of an LCD TV. Frankly, with the pace of updating technology, I do not think a determining factor even less, because it is fairly certain that in 10-13 years that we could in theory take a plasma TV, and we renewed the TV.

After seeing yesterday netBook which distributes Ahtec us today called attention to another of its products is characterized by a fairly tight price. We speak of Ahtec TabletPC Tiny TN120, as its name suggests, is a TabletPC, so it comes with touch screen that can rotate.

The simplest model has an Intel Celeron processor at 2 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, hard disk of 120 GB Sata graphics card and Intel X3100. Insufficient to run Vista with ease, but ideal if you install Windows XP. Anyway, there are models with configurations better if we opt for the latest operating system from Microsoft.

Its screen is panned and has a size of 12 inches, offering WXGA resolution, ie 1280 x 800 pixels. The tactile part is kind of passive.

The TabletPC Ahtec Tiny TN120 comes with a DVD recorder, as well as with 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 Firewire port, memory card reader 7-on-1 and weighing, including the battery, 2.1 kilos. It integrates Wi-Fi compatible with 802.11n, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, Bluetooth 2.0 and a fingerprint reader.

Its price is 739 euros, although this will add to the operating system, which does not come pre-installed by default. In the absence of their autonomy, we believe a successful relationship performance / price ratio.