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Daily Tech Deal: "Everything" under a fiver at Play.com
Money saving deals, offers and innovations 2 September 2009 13:00 GMT
Play.com is offering a variety of goods that retail for under £5 which include categories such as DVDs, music, books, technology, toys, mobile and clothing.

In the tech category you'll get the usual fare of dongles, headsets and mice, whilst the mobile section...
Daily Tech Deal: Woodstock anniversary deals at Play.com
Money saving deals, offers and innovations 7 August 2009 13:00 GMT
Woodstock is celebrating its 40th anniversary this August and Play.com is jumping on the bandwagon by offering deals on some albums of artists that performed.

Priced from just under a fiver up to around £10, Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Jefferson...
Pioneer launches DVR-XD08 portable CD/DVD writer
Angled as perfect partner for optical-drive-free netbooks 1 June 2009 16:40 GMT
Pioneer has unveiled a new slim, portable DVD and CD writer that offers a sleek, high-gloss black casing and the ability to write at speeds of up to 8x on DVD-R/+R, 6x on Dual/Double Layer DVDs and 24x to CD.

The DVR-XD08 connects to the PC through USB 2.0...
Amazon and Tunecore launching cheap on-demand CD sales
Partnership will help DIY musicians 22 May 2009 10:51 GMT
Digital distribution startup Tunecore has partnered with Amazon to offer physical publishing options to DIY musicians that will cost considerably less than traditional CD manufacturing.

It's claimed that the service will be launched in the US on 28 May, and...
New Danger Mouse album comes as blank CD-R
Dispute with EMI means enclosed CD contains no music 18 May 2009 13:41 GMT
Music producer Danger Mouse shot to fame in 2004 with "The Grey Album" - a mashup of the Beatles' "The White Album" and Jay-Z's "The Black Album".

EMI, who owns the copyright for the Beatles' tracks, weren't too pleased as he hadn't asked permission. They ordered...
Pure launches Sirocco 150
World's first "Works with iPhone" DAB micro system 18 May 2009 10:53 GMT
Pure has announced what it says is the world's first "Works with iPhone" DAB micro system, the Sirocco 150, described as a fully featured DAB/FM digital sound system with CD, SD, USB and iPod dock.

The Sirocco 150 comes with a matching black and silver iPod...
Niam Audio launches NaimUniti
All-in-one audio player 18 May 2009 9:30 GMT
Naim Audio has announced the launch of the new "NaimUniti" an all-in-one audio player with an integrated amplifier, CD player, DAB/FM tuner, internet radio player, iPod and MP3 dock, digital to analogue converter, USB and network-stored music file player and network streamer.
Yamaha launches its first iPod products
PDX-30 and PDX-50 clock radios, and TSX-120 and TSX-130 "audio speakers" 15 May 2009 11:31 GMT
Yamaha has announced the worldwide launch of four iPod and iPhone-compatible products. Two are traditional docks, and two are clock-radios.

Dealing with the clock radios first, the TSX-120 contains a DAB and FM radio, along with an iPod dock. There's a mini-jack...
Harman Kardon launches MS 100 audio system
High-end CD playing radio slash iPod dock combo device 12 May 2009 11:47 GMT
American audio manufacturer Harman Kardon has just dropped us word of a new audio system that it'll be bringing out this summer.

The MS 100 packs a CD player, an FM radio, an iPod dock, and a set of "high-end" stereo speakers.

The features don't...
GEAR4 launches CMD-100 micro system
CD player with iPod dock 30 April 2009 13:45 GMT
GEAR4 has announced the first of a new "diversified product range" for the company, the CDM-100, a CD micro system with dock for iPod as well as an FM/AM radio.

With a top-loading CD player, a universal dock for iPod that charges the MP3 player and an audio...
General Electric promises 500GB discs
Blu-ray facing obsolescence thanks to microholographic breakthrough 28 April 2009 11:04 GMT
General Electric has revealed a "breakthrough in digital storage technology" that could mean 500GB discs will be available soon.

That kind of capacity - said to be the equivalent of 100 DVDs - makes the supposedly next-gen Blu-ray disc's 50GB capacity look...
Re-mastered Beatles CDs to launch with Rock Band game
Digital distribution being discussed 8 April 2009 18:01 GMT
The original Beatles catalogue, digitally re-mastered for the first time, is to get a worldwide CD release on 09/09/09 - the same date as the The Beatles: Rock Band goes on sale.

However, there's still no news on the catalogue being made available for download....
Optical drive equipped Asus Eee 1004DN not for UK
No plans to launch 10-inch super multi drive model in Britain 30 March 2009 15:08 GMT
Asus has announced the launch of yet another Eee variant, the 1004DN, this one the first ever Eee with a built-in super multi optical disc drive.

The 10-inch model may be what a lot of consumers are hoping for as it offers netbook dimensions - but comes with...
Daily Tech Deal: Musicmagpie offering cash for games
Money saving deals, offers and innovations 27 March 2009 13:00 GMT
Back in January the tech deal slot brought you news that Musicmagpie were not only going to give you cash for old CDs but DVDs too.

Now it seems they are branching out again with the recent introduction of cash for old console games.

All you have...
Sony Optiarc launches 24x DVD burner
"High-end" AD-7240S announced 26 February 2009 11:45 GMT
Sony Optiarc Europe has announced the launch of a new "high-end" DVD burner.

The AD-7240S is the world's first DVD burner to achieve a 24x burning rate. Optiarc says this "speed miracle" is reliable thanks to "Auto Strategy Technology" that reads a section...
Pioneer unveils 8x Blu-ray writer for PCs
BDR-203BK compatible with DVDs and CDs too 25 February 2009 13:14 GMT
Pioneer has unveiled its latest Blu-ray writer, the BDR-203BK, which writes at 8x speeds to both single layer and dual layer BD-R discs.

In addition the BDR-203BK is compatible with DVD-R/RW, +R/RW, DVD-RAM and CD media types, with 2x write speeds for BD-RE,...
Marantz CR502 all-in-one music system announced
Boasts 100 watts of music power from its compact shell 24 February 2009 15:21 GMT
Marantz has announced a new all-in-one music system, the CR502 CD DAB receiver.

The compact music system is a space saver, but the company insists that this is not at the expense of sound quality or system functionality.

With an aluminium shell...
Harman Kardon launches HK990, HD990
New CD player and amplifier 19 February 2009 14:21 GMT
Harman Kardon claims to have set a "new standard" in home entertainment with the launch of its most powerful integrated amplifier to-date, the HK990 and its "next generation" CD player, the HD990.

The HD990 CD player is said to be "optimised for precision playback",...
Cambridge Audio One micro hi-fi launches
Complete with requisite iPod dock 22 January 2009 12:02 GMT
Cambridge Audio has launched the "One", a micro hi-fi system complete with iPod dock.

The One comprises of a 2.1 amplifier delivering 30 Watts per channel, matched to a bespoke iPod dock, hi-fi quality CD player, and DAB/FM tuner.

In addition,...
A quick guide to audio codecs
What, why, who, how explained 20 January 2009 17:27 GMT
What is it?
Standing for, COder / DECoder, although it's the second part of the word that most people are more familiar with, it's the part an MP3 player, iPod, mobile phone or computer handles whilst playing file-based music.

Without going really technical...
Pioneer launches DV-420V upscaling DVD player
CES 2009: With CD-ripping capabilities 9 January 2009 12:42 GMT
As well as new BD-Live-enabled Blu-ray players, Pioneer has debuted the new Pioneer DV-420V 1080p upconverting DVD player.

Pioneer claims the machine is the first to feature an exclusive MP3 encoding capability "for supreme music portability".

This...
Gartner says CDs are dead
"Will never again regain market share" 23 December 2008 9:26 GMT
The music industry needs to forget CDs and get 100% behind digital delivery, says Gartner.

Warning that music retailers need to move away from relying on pre-recorded CDs by next Christmas, the company suggests that a burn on-demand model might work with uncertain...
Credit Crunch Christmas: Wharfedale 160GB PVR
Pocket-lint's Advent calendar of gift ideas: 7 days to go 19 December 2008 10:21 GMT
Today's Credit Crunch Christmas offer takes the form of the Wharfedale 160GB DVD player and recorder with HDMI.

An especially nice piece of kit considering that eXpansys are offering it to you for £69.99, this is £60 off the normal price, but there's a catch,...
Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte on sale for £950
Or £560 on contract 18 December 2008 13:05 GMT
Got a spare grand kicking around to splash on a swanky handset? No, us neither, but there are folk out there who might like to know that the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte is on sale in the UK now for a shade under that.

Online retailer eXpansys is offering the high-end...
Roberts MP-Sound 53 launches
Dab docker with USB and SD 10 December 2008 13:04 GMT
Roberts has launched the MP-Sound 53 DAB/CD/FM sound system that comes complete with a universal iPod dock on top.

With an acoustically tuned wooden cabinet in a high gloss piano black finish and an "ice blue" display backlight, Roberts is angling the system...