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Blu

The story that dominated CES this year was the standards war around high-definition DVD. This is no longer a phony war: both Blu-ray and HD DVD players will arrive in less than six months. What’s clear from talking to people at the show is that this format war is bad for everyone, most of all the consumer. Toshiba’s HD DVD player …

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Pioneer DV

We’re cheeky little minxes here on Crave — when the mood takes us, we’ll ditch the all-in-one HDD/DVD combi recorders and keep it old-school with a ridiculously expensive dedicated DVD player. The Denon DVD-2910 was our last extravagance, a £550 player that was less a mere DVD player and more of a universal disc spinner — there wasn’t anything that baby couldn’t …

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