Samsung, a world-class electronic and digital product manufacturer, is pleased to launch its new Samsung Story Station HX-DU015EB. It comes with a 3.5-inch HDD embedded inside. Offering a 1.5 TB capacity, this new Samsung product also features USB 2.0 for enhanced connectivity.

The new Samsung Story Station HX-DU015EB features SafetyKey in order to protect all your precious contents. Apart from this, there is a SecretZone for securing the area for all your private contents. This product from the house of Samsung also incorporates LED brightness control by its knob switch.

Samsung’s Story Station HX-DU015EB also provides two ways of backup in real-time or scheduled timing. Its standby mode turns the screen off after 5 minutes of inactivity. With Samsung Story Station HX-DU015EB you get a full 3-year limited warranty.

Recently, Iomega announced the launch of its new eGo HDD Range. Majority of the HDDs in this new range come powered by a single USB cable. The HDDs in this new range of Iomega also features EMC Retrospect Express for keeping the backup for all your data plus applications and settings.

eGo HDD Range from the house of Iomega features McAfee VirusScan Plus with a free six month subscription and anti-virus, anti-spyware, web security protection and 2-way firewall. These HDDs also incorporate Iomega QuikProtect, a backup software. This range comprises of 2.5-inch HDDs with aluminum shell.

The new eGo HDD Range from the house of Iomega is available in 4 colors, including, blue, black, silver and red. The price range for these HDDs starts from $85 for 250GB up to $135 for 500GB.

After watching the success of the PhotoFast G-Monster PCle SSD that was designed to achieve stunning performances like 750MB/s reading speed and 700MB/s writing speed, here comes the new update in this PhotoFast product. G-Monster now comes with a maximum reading and writing speed of up to 1000 MB/sec.

The new G-Monster PROMISE PCI-Express SSD is actually a storage device that can be connected to an x8 PCI-Express slot. Available in 128GB/ 256GB/ 512GB and 1TB storage capacity, this new product comes featuring a ECCI DDRII and SDRAM memory of local cache 256MB.

G-Monster PROMISE PCI-Express SSD provides you a high read and write speed in servers, storages, security, video editing and digital content creations. It is a product designed to provide exceptional durability and system performance with power efficiency.

Now that Microsoft has unveiled its latest operating system, chances are other Windows-based applications will follow. And for their part, Roxio has unveiled the Roxio Burn for Windows 7, an intelligently styled, lightweight software application that addresses the primary burning needs of Windows 7 and Vista users.

With its unique ‘Desktop Icon’ user interface, Roxio Burn enables consumers to efficiently and effectively perform frequent burning activities, such as copying a data or audio CD and backing up files to optical disc, with simple drag, drop, and click actions.

Roxio Burn is part of a new generation of applications and services from Roxio that are the result of a design-led development initiative. The elegantly designed products, which are based on extensive usability testing, make digital media tasks extremely accessible and provide consumers a fun and intuitive environment in which to work.

Roxio Burn is expected to be available shortly on PCs from major manufacturers. The application is part of a new range of products from Roxio for Windows 7 and the emerging Touch-Screen and Netbook PC segments.

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Recently, GE proudly announced the development of a new optical storage technology, called Micro-Holographic Discs. Designed to be able to read and record on systems that are like a DVD player, these discs are capable of supporting 500 gigabytes of storage in a typical DVD size disc.

Micro-Holographic Discs can also be considered as the next Blu-ray with the amazing features. These discs feature such hardware and formats that are quite similar to optical storage technologies used to play back CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

The new Micro-Holographic Discs feature cost-effective and reliable holographic drives. These discs are also capable of supporting high-resolution formats like 3D television. To know more about Micro-Holographic Discs, you can feel free to visit www.ge.com/research.

Certainly, this development has pushed the era of Blu-ray discs to another level, further bolstering the storage capacity of discs with a major breakthrough in the development of next generation optical storage technology. GE researchers have successfully demonstrated a threshold micro-holographic storage material that can support 500 gigabytes of storage capacity in a standard DVD-size disc. This is equal to the capacity of 20 single-layer Blu-ray discs, 100 DVDs or the hard drive for a large desktop computer.

GE’s micro-holographic discs will be able to be read and recorded on systems very similar to a typical Blu-ray or DVD player. Holographic storage is different from today’s optical storage formats like DVDs and Blu-ray discs. DVDs and Blu-ray discs store information only on the surface of the disc; holographic storage technology uses the entire volume of the disc material.

Holograms, or three-dimensional patterns that represent bits of information, are written into the disc and can then be read out. Although GE’s holographic storage technology represents a breakthrough in capacity, the hardware and formats are so similar to current optical storage technology that the micro-holographic players will enable consumers to play back their CDs, DVDs and BDs.

GE initially will be focusing on the commercial archival industry followed by the consumer market for its micro-holographic storage technology.

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Western Digital recently unveiled the new eSATA edition of My DVR Expander. Now you can save more with deleting the previously recorded shows. The device offers recording up to 60hrs of HD video or 300hrs of Standard TV video and comes in two variants of 1TB or 500GB. The My DVR Expander has been tested and verified for TiVo service. The WD My DVR Expander eSATA is available now for a price of $199.99(1TB) and $129.99(500GB) respectively. 

Need a flexible digital media player? Would you like it to have built-in dual-band 802.11n WiFi, integrated 500GB and broad video codec support? Then you might want to order one of Netgear’s Digital Entertainer Elite players. It sells for $399 right now and it’s ready to be shipped to your location, no matter where you are in the world. The device works well with Windows, Mac or Linux so you won’t have any problems playing your favorite multimedia on your favorite system.

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IO DATA recently unveiled their new ultra-portable Express Card SSDs.  Featuring an ExpressCard/34 interface, the Solid State Drives achieve unmatched data transfer rates.

Weighing only 21g, the IO DATA Express SSDs are available in two variants. The 32GB EXC-32G and 64GB EXC-64G SSDs are the perfect choice for high speed data transfer of larger files.

With full support to Windows Vista, the IO DATA EXC-32G and EXC-64G are reasonably priced at 16,800 Yen and 24,000 Yen respectively.

Virgin Media has set up a new service for its home broadband customers that gives them the ability to store and share photos online, get “free” photo prints for up to a year, and auto backup and remotely access files. Virgin Media customers will get different levels of “V Stuff”, depending on their broadband contracts.

Those on medium, large or Solus packages will get 5GB of online storage, auto-backup and remote access, photo album creation, share tools and 25 free photo prints a month XL or Bundle 1 customers will get 10GB of online storage and 50 prints a month while those on the XXL package get “unlimited” online storage and 100 prints a month. The new service called “V Stuff”, is managed through a new site: my.virginmedia.com.

Portable hard drives are a must have and Transcend Information has a new one for us. It’s a new addition to its StoreJet line, the 25M-R. The new hard drive will be available in 250GB and 320GB capacities so you’ll have plenty of space for your files, your favorite movies and music. We have no arrival dates and prices so far but we’ll keep you updated on it.

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Videos lovers you should definitely be happy to hear that Eye-Fi has delivered that video-sharing capability which we’ve heard about since January. With the new Explore Video and Share Video Eye-Fi video cards you will able to share videos like you’re already doing with your photos. The new cards will also receive an extra 4GB storage space since you’re going to deal with more videos now. The new cards will cost $99 and $79 respectively and the old Eye-Fi Home and Eye-Fi Share cost not only $49 and $59 cards. The new cards are available for pre-order and they will be ready to ship by the end of March. So what you’re waiting for? The new Eye-Fi card should be exactly the upgrade you needed for faster WiFi video uploads.

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LaCinema Black MAX will bring you everything you need from the multimedia world. Watch movies, listen to music, record shows and even enjoy slideshows of your favorite pictures. The box will do a lot for you and it will do it all wirelessly. Here’s what’s to be expected from it:

• storage space 500GB / 1TB
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0
• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 / HD, MPEG-4, DIVX, XVID, H.264 HD, WMV9 HD video codecs
• AVI, DIVX, MPG, MP4, MKV, WMV, MOV, ISO, VOB, IFO, ASF, TS, TP, TRP, M2TS video format support
• 1920 x 1080p max resolution
• MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, AC3, MP4, WAV/LPCM audio format support
• JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF picture format support
• HDMI, Component (YUV) composite (CVBS)
• Optical Audio, Audio Stereo
• Analog composite video, S-Video
• Analog stereo audio
• Ethernet 10/100 Mbps, Wi-Fi (802.11n) connectivity
• PAL / NTSC
• Digital Terrestrial Television (DVB-T) TV tuner, High Definition supported

All that sounds just great so far. How much is one of those Black MAX boxes and when will they be available?

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The device in the picture is Thanko’s HDD Media Player 2. It will let you play media files straight from a HDD on your TV. The 3.5-inch SATA HDD will be compatible to AVI, DivX, VOB, MPG, MP3 and JPEG files. It will be compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Mac. The HDD must be acquired separately while the main unit will cost only $75. The Media Player 2 is available already and it might be just the solution you were waiting for.

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We have a new Blu-ray alternative coming from good old China. It’s a high definition disc format called the NVD. HD NVD players went on sale today in Wuhan. The HD NVD will bring you 12GB of storage on a red laser disc format.

Will this new device make money for China? As we speak, 80% of the world’s DVDs and players are produced in China, but the profit doesn’t go to China. These HD NVDs can increase by 4-5 times the profit. But will these NVD succeed?

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Apricon has just introduces its latest external hard drive, the DVR Xpander which is supposed to be the biggest DVR external hard drive on the market. At 1.5TB it will hold 843 hours of standard definition movies or 187.5 hours of high definition movies. The drive comes with an eSATA or USB 2.0 port for fast connectivity. As for prices the DVR Xpander comes in 500GB, 750GB, 1TB and 1.5TB which will cost $119, $149, $179 and $239.

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It’s not only TiVo that can be controlled via an iPhone application. Those of you using a Vudu box, can control it now with a free application ready to be installed on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can browse the catalog and download titles to your Vudu box straight from your cell phone. It’s not a remote control, but it will really help you control that Vudu content you are looking for.

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Ready to finally go SSD or are you still waiting for cheaper, bigger versions of those solid-state drives? Corsair is ready to step up to that challenge or at least part of it. The company has a 2.5-inch 128GB SSD which is big enough but not cheap enough yet. This MLC NAND-based drive will cost $449 which is a little too much, isn’t it? And those 90MB/sec read and 70MB/sec write speeds won’t impress us either are they?

We’re counting on Corsair to bring us bigger SSD drives in the future now that they showed us they can make them.

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Weather we like it or not, SSDs are going to slowly replace HDDs in the future. And if the SSD becomes way cheaper than it already is, then what’s not to like?

And it looks like experts are saying that SSD performance might double, quadruple or more if they were built-in the computer motherboard instead of being connected through something else to it. Is this how the future will look like? Well what will happen when we will want to change our motherboards? On the other hand think about how our future all-in-one computers or DVRs could perform with one of these new SSD concepts inside?

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Those HD shows you constantly keep recording sure are taking lots of space aren’t they? And we all want HD content to be safely stored on our DVR box until we’re ready to watch it.

With all these in mind Sony has decided to upgrade its BRAVIA BRX-series DVR to 320GB. That much storage space will get you 90 hours of HD content and it’s mountable on various Sony displays. This model will be released in about a month but we have no pricing details on it yet.

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