Pioneer has announced the Pioneer DV-420V at CES 2009, an upscaling DVD player that has two tricks up its sleeve: the ability to rip tunes from a CD and store them as MP3 files onto a USB device (including an MP3 player or external hard-drive); and the ability to confuse the hell out of Engadget!

The Sony DAVDZ260 is a Sony DVD receiver that’s chock full of features, but is now available at a bargain price. A DVD receiver is simply a home theater system with a DVD player and radio built-in. Sony takes this concept one step further with the Sony DAVDZ260 (which I’m struggling not to [...]

Japanese researchers have been hard at work fiddling with discs and they have come up with a way to multiply the capacity of a CD or DVD by 9 fold. The researchers have managed this magnificent feat by reshaping the pits on the media surface, which are normally flat, into ‘v’ shapes.
Unfortunately you won’t be [...]