BD-HDS43, Sharp new Blu-Ray HDD combo

Sharp just announced another Blu-Ray and HDD combo with the BD-HDS43. What so special about this new Combo, well in fact not much, the BD-HDS43 is a mid level Blu-Ray HDD combo with a single Digital and Analog TV tuner, 320GB of HDD and the capacity to record in dual Layer Blu-Ray disk.

This new BD-HDS43 will be sold within the end of this month in Japan at around 85000 Yen.

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PCL-ET-MA-S, I-O Data's Latest HD-PLC LAN Converter

Today I-O Data released a new set of PLC (Power Line Communication) LAN converters for easily connecting TVs (but not limited to) to the Internet, and to enjoy Japanese VOD services like acTVila.

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JVC’s New portable Speaker for TV

With a growing aging population, it's not strange seeing a manufacturer like JVC target a more mature audience. Today they're coming to us with a portable speaker for TV, the SP-A35M-S. It's designed to offer louder and clearer sound to your TV and you get closer to your TV’s speaker, thanks to a 5m long audio cable, without having to get closer to the TV.

The SP-A35M-S features a 57mm driver unit with a maximum output of 160mW and powered by 2 AA batteries.

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AU KDDI Winter Line-up Sanyo's SA001

The SA001 from Kyocera has no real killer features and offers pretty much what any other phone offers nowadays with a 1Seg TV tuner, Wi-Fi WIN, GPS, radio, Bluetooth, a 3.21Mpix camera module and a 3.1” WVGA IPS panel…

However, the particularity of the SA001 is its ultra slim 11.9mm body and a weight of only 119g

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