The UNIDISK SC player from Linn is a precision-engineered, high-fidelity audio and video source component with integrated surround-sound processing and control. The latest product to feature Linn’s SILVER DISK ENGINE universal disc playing technology, the UNIDISK SC player is designed to facilitate access to all the new high-definition music and movie formats and deliver high-quality multi-channel playback.

V Inc. has just announced the first high definition DVD player with Windows Media Video 9 and HighMAT formatted playback. Powered by Sigma Designs' EM8620L on-chip processor, the Bravo D3 also provides pure perfect DVD playback via DVI output in high-resolution 480p, 1080i and 720p formats. The Bravo D3 is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2004 with a retail price of $349.00. The Bravo D3 will also include DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW playback. The Bravo D3 is the first DVD player capable of playing MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV9 in High Definition. Audio decoding includes WMA9, WMA Pro, WMA lossless, Dolby Digital, MP3, MPEG-1/2 (layers 1, 2, and 3) and MPEG-4 AAC. The player supports Dolby Digital and DTS multi-channel audio pass-through on Toslink optical and S/PDIF coaxial digital outputs. The player features NTSC/PAL output in composite and S-Video formats with interlaced or progressive component video output in 480i, 480p, 1080i, 720p and user-definable ...

TGA Entertainment has just announced the details of The Rolling Stones four DVD set Four Flicks. Featuring over 5 hours of music and more than 50 song, it will be released November 10, 2003 by Warner Vision International outside of America. 3 DVDs will feature more than 25 classics including, "Satisfaction", "Brown Sugar", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", and "Sympathy For The Devil", as well as many songs never released live before including "Love Train", "Rock Me Baby", "Nearness Of You", "Monkey Man", "Worried About You' and 'Hand Of Fate". The fourth DVD presents two exclusive behind-the-scenes documentaries, "Tip Of The Tongue" and "Licks Around The World". The Four Flicks collection features the latest in DVD technology offering interaction, special viewing features and inside commentary. Bonus features include "Backstage Pass", which allows the viewer to cut back and forth from the performance on stage to what is going on at the same time backstage. "Select-A-Stone" allows the viewer ...

E-Online.com’s Bridget Byrne is reporting that the MPAA is pushing to take steps to stop the practice of sending home video samples of first-run, potentially Oscar worthy films to the voting public. While it might be hard to imagine for audio-video consumers, but those Hollywood power players who vote on who wins the Oscars, in fact get VHS or DVD copies of the movies being considered for the awards. Blockbuster has got nothing on this select group of “industry’ executives. Critics say that this proposed ban on samplers is a move by the major studios to collect more of the coveted awards over smaller, more independent studios. If these were records, there would be a discussion about piracy however the people who get such privileged DVDs know the value of what they have and use them for private home screenings of current films for their friends. Moreover, many of the studios encode the films ...

Meridian Audio has just announced the availability of Dolby Laboratories’ latest surround technology, Pro Logic IIx, in its new G68 and flagship 861 surround processors, making Meridian the first company in the world to offer this technology in their products. The G68 is part of the new G Series range of players, processors, amps and controllers recently announced by Meridian. G Series products will be shipping by October, 2003. The 861 and the 568.2 processors can be upgraded to include Dolby Pro Logic IIx by means of a firmware upgrade, available for download free of charge and installed via the product’s serial port. Dolby’s new Pro Logic IIx takes advantage of multiple amplifiers and loudspeakers in a 6.1 or 7.1 system, decoding and expanding stereo and 5.1 content for replay via systems with side and rear speakers in addition to the ...