Sony announced one of its concept speaker designs to be translated into a production device called the Sountina. It promises a radical approach to sound by outputting the same sound at 360 degrees from the speaker itself: an upward-facing driver vibrates a glass tube that in turn pushes sound outwards in all directions rather than in a cone, as with traditional speakers. The change both leads to a new look as well as reducing the horizontal footprint of the Sountina.

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The Logitech Pure-Fi Mobile speakers transforms your low-fidelity mobile-phone audio into high-fidelity, stereophonic sound wirelessly. Soon you can be listening to your favorite tunes on your mobile phone – even when your phone is in your pocket.
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Pioneer announced the Elite BDP-05FD and Pioneer BDP-51FD BonusView Blu-ray Disc players have been added to its line-up. Both receivers are said to offer the next generation in Blu-ray playback quality, with HDMI 1.3 technology, four Wolfson Professional Audio 12-bit digital-to-analog converters, and 1080p / True 24fps output. The players are designed to complement Pioneer’s other home theater products including the KURO line of plasma HDTVs and Elite receivers, to bring users a movie-theater like entertainment experience.

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Mvix Mvix MV-2500U is the latest HDD-based, hi-def media decoder in ultra small size. The new Mvix MV-2500U supports the small 2.5-inch PATA / IDE HDD hard drive up to 250GB hard disk, enough to carry 100 DVD quality movie titles.
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Sony introduces the new BDZ-A70 Blu-ray recorder in Japan. The Sony BDZ-A70 not only can record TV content with H.264 codec, it can also transfer TV content record directly to your Sony Walkman, PSP and mobile phones.

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