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Pioneer announce Blu-ray combo drive

At the International Consumer Electronics Show today, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. announced the new BDC-202 combination Blu-ray Disc® BD-ROM computer drive with enhanced DVD and CD writing and reading capabilities. The newly designed Pioneer drive offers playback of BD-ROM discs allowing users to view Blu-ray Disc high definition programs directly on a properly configured computer. The Pioneer BDC-202 can play multiple Blu-ray Disc formats, as well as provide high-speed reading and writing of DVD and CD formats.

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With a focus on BD-ROM playback, the new Pioneer combination computer drive will be a significant contributor in the emergence of the Blu-ray Disc format for both professional and consumer use on computers. In addition to BD-ROM playback, the BDC-202 allows users to access and transfer A/V and data files rapidly to DVD and CD.

With up to 50GB of storage capacity, the Blu-ray Disc format allows for copious amounts of high definition video and audio content on a single disc, including advanced interactive features and extensive bonus materials. The BDC-202 drive allows computer system builders to provide a cost effective playback solution for advanced Blu-ray content as well as DVD and CD recording and playback.

The Pioneer BDC-202 combines fast DVD and CD recording speeds with enhanced BD-ROM playback to the delight of audio video enthusiasts who now have the capability to view recently released film titles directly on a computer for times when they are not in a home theater environment.

Matt

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MircoCircuit review

MircoCircuit is by Viex Games and is available for both Pocket PC and Palm OS. It is considered a strategy game.

MicroCircuit

The basic idea of the game to get the different coloured cars safely around the track, by switching the crossroads, and return them to their garage within the time allowed.

MircoCircuit starts of very simply with one coloured car and simple figure-of-eight track with one crossroad. By the time you get up to level 12 there are four different car colours and 11 junctions to manage! You get an average of about 5 cars coming out of each garage on each level.

The game is over when two of the cars crash into each other (cars stop at the junctions if the road is the incorrect way!) or you run out of time on a level.

I enjoyed playing this as it my kind of game, however I think a little more thought could have been put in to the levels at it is really easy to start with and gets difficult very quickly, thus for me making it quite short lived. The thing I did like about it though was you could start at any level you had unlocked so you didn’t have to keep playing the basic levels and could come straight back to the harder levels. This makes it an ideal game to have on your phone as you can just pick it and continue from the level you were stuck on and it also means that you can complete just a level at a time and not have to worry about re-doing previously completed levels.

Overall a good game but does require some thought!

Check out MicroCircuit in our Mobile Game Shop.

Tracy

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Parrot Photo Viewer gets bigger

You may remember that I reviewed the Parrot Bluetooth PHOTO VIEWER a few months ago and one of the main criticisms was that it was too small. Well today Parrot announced a new version of the Photo Viewer this time with a 7″ Display.

Parrot Photo Viewer

The larger format Bluetooth-enabled digital photo frame will hold more than 500 images and have a seven-inch active-matrix TFT screen for exceptionally bright, crisp photo images. The new Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7″ joins Parrot’s 3.5-inch model introduced earlier this year that holds 120 photos.

The Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7″ will be available online and through retailers in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2007 with an MSRP of $249.

Photos can be transferred quickly and easily to the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7″ from a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, digital camera, laptop other storage device.

Parrot 7″ Photo Viewer Specification

  • Active-matrix (TFT) screen with 720×480 pixels
  • 262,144 color display
  • Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR
  • Bluetooth BIP, OPP and FTP profiles
  • 128 MB internal memory for storing more than 500 JPEG images
  • Software-controlled image resizing
  • Accepts JPEG images from 700 K to 7M pixels
  • Portrait or landscape position sensor
  • Light sensor adjustment of brightness, contrast and backlight
  • Fixed display and slide show functions
  • Size of the frame: 8.75 x 7 x 1 inches
  • Weight: 17 ounces

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