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Blu-ray: we’re sort of stuck with it now, aren’t we? We love our movies with …

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Oppo opts not to sell its BDP

You may not have heard of Oppo before — it isn’t a huge company — but we’ve reviewed, and loved, several of its high-end DVD players. The company, based in China but with an emphasis on the US market, concentrates on quality, so its DVD players use excellent scaling hardware to get the best possible quality out of standard-definition material. …

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LG SL8000, SL9000, LH9000 and LH9500: TVs without borders

You see some funny things at gadget trade shows, but the highlights are often the overblown multimedia launches. LG excelled itself at IFA with a video on the theme of removing borders, with footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall segueing neatly into a discussion of the invention of the Internet — followed by some tellies. Our hogwash detectors …

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