Floating cinema sets sail in London for the summer season

Duggan Morris Architects has joined forces with British arts organization, UP Projects to launch this year’s "Floating Cinema," which will be gracing the waterways of East London until the end of September. For the project, Duggan Morris created an award winning design that converted a barge into a floating cinema.

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This year’s Floating Cinema is an upgrade from UP Projects’ original floating movie house that was launched back in 2011 but took a break in 2012 for the Olympics. Powered by a hybrid engine that runs on biofuel, the new floating cinema is currently touring the London urban waterways while hosting a range of summer events, including outdoor screenings, canal tours, talks and workshops.

The above-deck projection suite sits within a semi opaque cubic structure and is illuminated during evening film sessions. In addition to a small onboard movie theater, films are also projected from within the cubic cabin onto an exterior fixed surface, allowing more Londoners to enjoy an open air motion picture experience while taking advantage of the warm summer evenings.

The onboard auditorium is equipped with the projection equipment, audio-visual systems and a small movie theater for intimate floating screenings or events. And if you can’t make it to a specific event, worry not, live broadcasting of certain events and screenings will be streamed live on the Floating Cinema website.

UP Projects’ Floating Cinema is not the only floating movie theater in action at the moment. London based Floating Films is a film club that is located aboard the SB Repertor, a classic 1920’s Thames sailing ship. Currently docked at the St Katherine’s Docks in London, the ship screens a range of films in its intimate 40-seat indoor theater.

Meanwhile, the Archipelago Cinema, located off the coast of Yao Noi, Thailand is a more exotic version of the floating outdoor cinema. The project was launched last year during the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Festival, combining a large floating projection screen and a floating raft. Lucky patrons are escorted by boat to the romantic floating cinema that could lay claim to being the most picturesque movie theater in the world.

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Samsung launches blu-ray DVD player

Samsung today announced the launch of its next generation DVD Players in the Indian market, including its first Blu-ray player BD-P1400. The flagship model of the new 2008 DVD range is the Samsung Pebble (DVD F1080), which is a High Definition 1080p up conversion DVD Player.
The unit is small and slim and can up convert standard 480p discs to 720 p, 1080i or 1080p. It also features multimedia file playback capability, including DivX, MP3, WMA, MPEG4 and more. It is priced at Rs 5,900.
"The introduction of newest line of DVD and Blu-ray players signals to consumers that the home viewing experience will come with a more striking look, a clearer sound, more stunning color and easier connectivity than ever before", said R. Zutshi, Dy. Managing Director, Samsung India.
The new BD-P1400 Blu-ray player also seems impressive, with all the arsenal needed for a multimedia overhaul, like HDMI 1.3 and more. It comes in at the right time, and is not too differently priced from competitors. It is priced at Rs 29,000.
In addition to the Pebble and BD-P1400, Samsung today also announced the launch of seven new DVD players here. Some of the new features that have been introduced in the 2008 DVD line up include: Best Playability, FM Tuner, Power Resume Function, USB 2.0 connection, CD ripping and 14 bit Video DAC. These players also have the cool D2RS technology, which aims and claims to play all kinds of scratched DVDs.

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iLuv Launches iPod + DVD Player

iLuv today announced the launch of their new i1255 5.1 channel iPod/DVD player. The i1255 is an iPod music player and a DVD player with an iPod docking station that is compatible with 6th generation iPods, iPod Touch, iPod Classic and the iPod Nano 3rd generation. 

Features of the i1255 include fast and slow motion playback, multiple subtitles and zoom. It is also compatible with a host of formats including DVD, MP3 CD, Audio CD, JPEG CD, Kodad Picture CD and VCD. .

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iLuv Portable media player and DVD player combo

***iLuv Portable **media player **and **DVD player** combo ***
The LCD screen display with a color icon menu interface

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LG BD300

LG Electronics on Wednesday said this fall they will start selling a new Blu-ray DVD player that will allow Netflix members to watch as many as 12,000 films and TV episodes streamed directly from the Web to their TV sets.

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Sony DVD Recorder: RDRGXD360S

Sony RDRGXD360S DVD Recorder
Dimensions :(H)7.5, (W)43, (D)33cm
Weight 4.5kgSilver.
DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R double layer, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 CD and JPEG playback compatible.
DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R double layer recording capability.
Up to 8 hours of recording.
DV input socket.
Nicam dolby digital sound.
Supports region 2 coding.
2 channel stereo, multichannel digital output.
2 SCART sockets.
Remote control

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