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Blu-ray's next barriers: DVRs, thinner notebooks

Ross Rubin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:00:00 PST

Sales of standalone Blu-ray players are soaring, but the format has inherited an unfortunate legacy from DVDs that could hinder the players' mainstream adoption.

Originally posted at Crave

No movable feast for portable TV

Ross Rubin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:11:38 PDT

Consumers are scooping up cheap portable televisions even as a new standard stands to improve broadcast reception on the go.

E-readers seek frame and fortune

Ross Rubin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:00:55 PDT

Multifunction e-readers are, in some ways, an evolution of the digital picture frames of years past. Will they turn out to be a fad overtaken by multimedia slates such as the iPad?

No Flash flood in iPad avoidance

Ross Rubin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:57:27 PDT

Among other things, NPD finds that consumers have no shortage of reasons to embrace or reject the iPad, but lack of Adobe Flash isn't a major inhibitor.

Navigating the future of GPS devices

Ross Rubin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:02:00 PDT

The growing screen size and touch capabilities of smartphones, in combination with some great apps, are making them formidable rivals to standalone navigation devices.