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Samsung Optical Smart Hub review

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

It's a DVD burner! It's a Wi-Fi hotspot! It's a media streamer! Wrapping your mind around the Samsung Optical Smart Hub - a unique storage and streaming product with a singularly unintuitive name, a perplexing appearance, and several very specific uses - is rather challenging. Ultimately the Optical Smart Hub presents an intriguing concept for making use of optical discs in a mobile world, but it stumbles in its design and presentation.
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Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 review

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Lenovo goes ultrasmall with its latest nettop, the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180. This compact PC's optional optical drive is detachable too, just in case you need its footprint to be even smaller. Unfortunately, tiny, space-saving PCs often come with less-impressive specs and performance, and the Q180 is no different, as this Intel Atom-based machine scored very low on our benchmark tests.
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Panasonic DMP-BDT210 Blu-ray player review

Friday, November 25, 2011

The Panasonic DMP-BDT210 has almost everything you could want in a Blu-ray player. It sends great-looking images to an HDTV - in 2D and in 3D. It has a huge selection of streaming Internet services built in, with more on the way. It can play media files off SD Cards, as well as off flash drives or a local network. Despite some poor design decisions, those features are enough to make the £130 estimated street price (as of 3 November, 2011) seem like a bargain.
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Lite-On IHAS524-T98 review

Monday, January 10, 2011

Labeling optical media has always been a sticky proposition: Printed labels throw discs out of balance and sometimes ruin the media, using a pen looks sloppy and you can't use LightScribe or LabelFlash to etch a label into the top of a disc unless you use specially coated (and pricier) media.
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Buffalo BR-PX68U2 review

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Buffalo BR-PX68U2 is a portable Blu-ray Disc drive with USB 2.0 connection, to add high capacity disc burning and high-definition film viewing to laptop and desktop PCs.
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Samsung BD-C6900 review

Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Samsung BD-C6900 is a 3D Blu-ray disc player that's packed with interesting and useful features.
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Plextor PX-B940SA review

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Blu-ray may still not be as popular as DVD, but if you want the fastest way to make your own discs, look no further than the Plextor PX-B940SA, an internal SATA Blu-ray Disc burner.
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Storage

Lite-On iHOS104

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Lite-On iHOS104 is an internal, budget-priced, SATA BD-ROM drive.
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Storage

LaCie d2 Blu-ray Professional BD-R, BD-RE optical drive

Monday, November 2, 2009

The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Professional BD-R, BD-RE Drive is a fine burner using FireWire but not so great using a USB connection.
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Storage

LG WH08LS20 Blu-ray Burner

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Blu-ray is on the road to becoming mainstream, if LG's WH08LS20 internal SATA-interface burner is any indication. My experience with it was sublime; the drive functioned smoothly, and came with all the software I needed to burn any disc I wanted, including Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and CDs.
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