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If you’re looking for a top quality feature packed Blu-Ray player that isn’t a PS3, but don’t want to pay a PS3 price, this could be for you.

On the outside the player is relatively thin and aesthetically pleasing, the inside packs power to load up your blu-rays quickly and in full HD. The player has profile 2.0, and can upscale DVD’s has USB connections and has the ability to pluck your favourite YouTube videos from the net and play them on your telly in SD.

Full Specs :

• Full HD 1080p Output via HDMI
• 1080p Up-scaling of Standard DVDs
• Wide Audio Format Support(Dolby True HD, DTS-HD)
• BD Live : Enjoy additional movie content via internet
• YouTube : Free access to YouTube where 15 hours of content is updated every minute
• LG SIMPLINK Multi-device Control
• USB 2.0
• Strong Circle & LED Indicator
• HD Movie Playback (H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC codec)
• Compatible Container Format : *.mkv, *.mp4, *.avi
• DVD, Audio CD, CD-RW/R
• JPEG, MP3, WMA
• DivX Playback
• Quick Start up & Disc Loading
• Instant Tray Open
• Bonus View

YouTube is said to be in talks with Sony Pictures about licensing full-length movies for distribution via the popular video sharing site.

YouTube already has deals in place that allow it to show full music videos (except the UK!) TV segments from several US networks including ESPN, ABC and Disney and some movies owned by MGM.

It is believed that YouTube will be requesting to show the movies for free which are paid for via advertising.

Unfortunately the outlook doesn't look great for us Brits as copyright law varies region to region and it is likely the deal will be restricted to US users only!

Ok the video is a bit cheesy and annoying but Samsung have had a viral video created to show of their Solid State Drives. Using 24 SSDs in Raid (RAID 0?) they managed to achieve 2GB a second throughput. In comparison your average HD will likely have speeds of around 100MBs a second.

Blackberry have released a pretty cool video for the Blackberry storm. The only problem I can see here is that when Apple made the Mac vs PC ads they kinda had a point, whereas I think it is generally regarded that the iPhone is much better than the Storm.

Oh well, it is a good advert anyway!

Chris Davies of precommunity.com has posted a great 26 minute long video of the palm pre at MWC 2009

Ok so not really gadget news but what gadget fan doesnt enjoy robots and s**t blowing up?

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is due for release on the 26th of June in the UK

Phones Review have posted 2 links to You Tube video reviews comparing the iPhone and G1.

The reviewer is quite thorough and basically shows you many features of each phone and compares the two together to see what one is better.

Personally I am not a huge Apple fan so I am a bit biased against the iPhone, however you can't deny it is a good phone. I feel that the G1 has more flaws than the 3G iPhone however this is the first incarnation of the phone, and if we look at the first iPhone that had even more flaws, especially the lack of 3G!!!

I think Android/G1 is more of a grower and not a shower at the moment. I do have complete confidence that Android will become the best Smartphone OS out there it just requires a hardware manufacturer to release something to make the most of the OS. It also means that Android could potentially have hundreds of different hardware options at any one time. This is where the iPhone is let down, there is only 1 company releasing hardware for it so the phone will always have people that don't like something about it.