Archive for January, 2008

New Slimmer Samsung BD-UP5500 Blu-ray/HD DVD Combo Player

Published on January 8, 2008 in Blu-ray, Computer and Technology. 1 Comment

Samsung BD-UP5500 Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player

Samsung has announced its BD-UP5500 Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player at a press conference held at CES 2008 in Las Vegas.

The Samsung dual format BD-UP5500 supports both the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD soundtracks playback are supported as well. Other features include standard DVDs to full-on 1080p upconversion and out-of-the-box Blu-ray profile 1.1 support (which allows for picture-in-picture commentaries on newer Blu-ray discs), an Ethernet port new firmware downloads and accessing online content, and HQV processing for enhancing HD and SD video.

The samsung BD-UP5500 Duo HD player will be available in the second-half of 2008 for about $599.

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SanDisk USB Flash Drives to provide automatic Web storage

Published on January 2, 2008 in Computer and Technology. 2 Comments


Cruzer_Titanium_Plus_130 SanDisk has announced the Cruzer(R) Titanium Plus, a USB flash drive offering  automatic online backup for every file copied to the drive. The Cruzer Titanium Plus has a capacity of four gigabytes (GB) and is the first SanDisk flash memory device to offer online backup.

The BeInSync backup requires an initial registration. When the drive is plugged in and the user is online data will sync automatically with an online storage account. BeInSync uses Amazon’s S3 storage service provided by Amazon Web Services. BeInSync encrypts all files during transmission from Cruzer Titanium Plus to Amazon’s servers to protect user’s data.

Cruzer Titanium Plus will be available in March, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail prices of $59.99. The online backup service requires Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows XP or Windows Vista. After six months of free service, online backup costs $29.99 per year (credit card required).

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