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Pioneer's BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc Writer Reaches Write Speeds of 12x

The Blu-ray optical drive is slowly becoming a standard solution for computer systems and home entertainment devices, as technology improvements enable lower prices consequently providing a more affordable solution for consumers. On that note, Pioneer Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer e...

1 October 2009
06:18 GMT

Pioneer Launches Its First iPhone App - AVIC FEEDS

Pioneer has released its first application for Apple’s iPhone. Created for use with its new AVIC-U310BT and AVIC-Z110BT in-dash navigation systems, Pioneer’s AVIC FEEDS app establishes a link between the Apple and in-dash Pioneer products. According to the corporation that specializes in digital entertai...

21 September 2009
10:38 GMT

Pioneer Intros New A/V Receivers for iPhone and iPod

Pioneer Electronics, a big name in high-definition home theater equipment, has announced the availability of A/V Receivers that seamlessly integrate Apple's iPhones and iPods into a customer's home theater. According to the company, the receivers use proprietary technologies designed to restore compressed a...

26 May 2009
09:58 GMT

Pioneer Intros Its First Blu-Ray Writer for PCs with 8X Speed

Pioneer Europe has unveiled today its latest Blu-ray writer designed for personal computer systems and built to provide PC users with a speed of 8X for single-layer and dual-layer BD-R discs. As expected, the new drive comes in a combo package as it offers writing and reading support for other media types, such as th...

25 February 2009
08:39 GMT

Pioneer New 8x Blu-ray Burner Announced

Blu-ray players or burners are still considered a high-performance upgrade to today's computer systems, as most consumer PCs continue to be featured with the traditional CD/DVD combo optical drives. However, technology is advancing at a fast pace and Blu-ray solutions will slowly take over the market as the stan...

27 November 2008
09:23 GMT

Microsoft Jumps in the Driver Seat with Pioneer

Pioneer is the latest addition on Microsoft's collection of Intellectual Property partners. The two companies announced on September 16, 2008 a cross-licensing patent agreement focused on consumer technology. In the past year, the Redmond giant signed similar partnerships with Kenwood and Alpine Electronics, and...

17 September 2008
06:20 GMT

CEDIA 2008: Pioneer's Elite BDP-09FD Blu-ray Player Up-Converts DVDs, Is Very Expensive

Since this year's CEDIA expo in Denver is in full swing, it's no wonder that the biggest names in the A/V industry are coming out with their latest and most advanced products to date. And that's also the case with Pioneer, which has just unveiled its Elite BDP-09FD flagship Blu-ray Disc player, which i...

5 September 2008
03:41 GMT

Pioneer's Got 4 New Standalone Blu-ray Players for Your Viewing Pleasure

People over at pioneer decided that it was about time to shake things a little bit and announced the release of no less than four new models, three of which (BDP-LX08, BDP-LX71 and BDP-51FD) are compliant with the BonusView / Profile 1.1 specification, while the fourth (BDP-LX91) actually supports the latest developm...

26 June 2008
05:51 GMT

Pioneer Combines the Power of Voice and GPS Navigation

It's no secret that Pioneer's in-dash GPS navigation/infotainment systems designed especially for automobiles are among the most expensive, but at the same time, advanced products of this type are released in this specific market segment. However, it seems that the company has decided to take things even fu...

22 April 2008
13:56 GMT

New Low-priced Pioneer Receivers: Nifty and Affordable

Pioneer have just released their new series of audio/video receivers with the VSX codename, three models which are sworn to deliver all the great multimedia integration and the acclaimed pristine Pioneer sound in your home or office. These three new AVRs can be used as the core of a complex multimedia rack, comprisin...

11 April 2008
04:17 GMT

Intel's Centrino 2 Mobile Platform, Previewed Ahead of its Time

Intel's Centrino 2 mobile platform, previously known as Montevina, just got a sneak preview from the Australia-based PC vendor Pioneer. The new platform is an upgrade to Intel's existing Centrino architecture and is due to release this June. The preview was based on Pioneer's DreamBook Style 9008 Centr...

11 April 2008
03:00 GMT

Get Ready for the Pioneer KURO Invasion of High-Definition!

Pioneer has provided quite a pleasant surprise when it released the KURO line of high-end PDPs a while back. However, it seems that the Japanese company is keen on maintaining its products in the spotlight and that's why it has announced quite an important overhaul of the KURO family, which will also include a f...

9 April 2008
10:31 GMT

Nanotubes Could Convert Radiation Directly into Electricity

Usually, nuclear reactors use multiple stages to turn radiation into electrical energy. For example, first, uranium nuclei are split through nuclear fission, when energy is released in the form of heat and additional radiation. The heat resulted from the nuclear reaction is then used to turn water into steam, which i...

28 March 2008
05:16 GMT

Venus: Mysterious Haze Replaced by Violent Hurricane

Just a few days ago, ESAs Venus Express spacecraft reported the observation of a weird haze developing into the Venusian atmosphere for no apparent reason. The question about what really determined the appearance of the feature still remains, albeit the ESA has shifted its attention back to the eye of a hurricane rav...

13 March 2008
10:27 GMT

Laws of the Universe Not Working Properly Anymore?

On the 2nd of March 1972, NASA launched the first of the spacecrafts in the Pioneer space exploration program, Pioneer 10. All went incredibly well, with only one exception. After traveling about 20 astronomical units, NASA engineers observed what seemed to be an anomalous Doppler effect suggesting that the spacecraf...

1 March 2008
03:59 GMT

New Asus Eee PC Killer Spotted In the Wild: the Pioneer DreamBook Light IL1

If you thought that the ultra-mobile PC market could not be any crowded than it is being now, you were wrong. Eee PC clones are everywhere, in a desperate attempt to seize control over as many users as possible. Well, things are different with the new DreamBook Light IL1 from Pioneer Computers - it is not a clone, bu...

8 February 2008
06:14 GMT

CES 2008: Pioneer's "Project Kuro" Concepts Bring 9mm-Thick Displays, Absolute Black Plasma Panels

The International CES from Las Vegas is not only the place where most companies showcase their latest developments, but also a very good launchpad for future technologies, which, at some point, will become an integral part of commercially-available products. And in order to prep us for great things to come, Pioneer h...

7 January 2008
11:06 GMT

CES 2008: Pioneer Rocks with Volcanic Stone-Loaded Speaker Cones

Pioneer has announced at the CES 2008 their new line of in-car loudspeakers, the TS-D series, sworn to deliver even better audio than before, boasting new technologies and coming with intriguing manufacturing. Indeed, the new TS-D series loudspeakers have taken the cone-craftsmanship to a whole new level. If up until...

7 January 2008
06:13 GMT

Newest Pioneer Headphones: More Comfort, Better Life - SE-A1000

For comfortably watching your fav movies late at night without disturbing your roommates or your family, as well as for those cold days when you feel like the iPod's earbuds aren't enough, the new head gear from Pioneer seems like one of the neatest high-end solutions. The SE-A1000 are headphones that look,...

30 October 2007
11:30 GMT

Quad-Core CPUs and More in Notebooks

Nowadays mobile computing solutions are becoming very powerful indeed and some are even taking the performance crown from mainstream desktop systems, like the DreamBook Power D90 SLI notebook made by Pioneer that is said to have jumped over the 10,000 mark in the 3Dmark06 benchmarking suite.Of course, the new Pioneer...

3 October 2007
08:29 GMT

Pioneer Linux Line of Products Released

Technalign, Inc. has released a few days ago the Pioneer Basic 3.0 line of products, including MigrationSERVER and Stagecoach as announced by the producing company yesterday.Besides the above-mentioned products, another one, Basic Workstation, is included. Stagecoach combines a workstation solution with a server. All...

25 September 2007
09:16 GMT

The Age of Blu-ray

The past few days have brought quite a lot of interesting Blu-ray related news and announcements, partly due to the two important shows that took (or are taking) place in this period, namely IFA 2007 and CEDIA 2007. And since we've shown you a little IFA – Blu-ray roundup a few days ago, it's time to do the...

7 September 2007
12:36 GMT

The AVIC-N4 from Pioneer: GPS Meets iPod Meets Bluetooth Meets...

The people over at Pioneer have launched quite an extensive number of in-dash infotainment solutions over the past two years, each of them providing both enhanced navigation features and advanced multimedia playback capabilities. And that's exactly the case with the company's latest offering, namely the AVI...

30 August 2007
03:36 GMT

Pioneer's AVIC-X3 Sat Nav System to Hit Europe in September

Pioneer is one of the best-known manufacturers of high-end audio accessories for the car industry, so it's no wonder that the company also got involved in one of the most important segments of this market, namely that of infotainment devices, which provide both navigation and multimedia playback features. And th...

16 August 2007
04:11 GMT

Pioneer Announces HD-Audio Capable BDP-LX80 Blu-ray Player - But Is It Worth Your Cash?

Everyone's announcing a next-generation Blu-ray or HD DVD player these days, as they're prepping for the "back to school" and "holiday" sales season. And the latest to join this roll-out bonanza is the Japanese unit of Pioneer, who has just announced the imminent release of its BDP-LX80, a Blu-ray player th...

3 August 2007
03:11 GMT

New SACD Players from Pioneer: SWEET!

As for the end of the day one hot and neat piece of news from the guys you thought they ceased producing great gear many years ago... Pioneer. It's time to announce you that Pioneer weren't at all wasting time but have actually worked quite a lot and these days they're preparing to release not one but ...

13 July 2007
10:43 GMT

What Mysterious Force Is Making the Pioneer Spacecraft Change Its Course?

It's been years since NASA last heard from either of its two Pioneer probes hurtling out of the solar system, but scientists are still debating the source of an odd force pushing against the outbound spacecraft.A new study of the "Pioneer anomaly" suggests that there is an unknown but conventional force acting ...

22 June 2007
15:31 GMT

Pioneer's New AV Amps Pack the Next-gen Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Standards

After showcasing the new range of Elite receivers last month, Pioneer decided that this wasn't enough by far and now rolls out the new AV amplifier series. One could say that amps simply can't come with something cool...and be wrong. Pioneer may not be at their climax as they were some 15-20 years ago but h...

12 June 2007
05:32 GMT

20,000:1 Contrast Ratios with Pioneer's 8th Generation Plasmas

With laser HDTVs, OLED displays and SED/FED technologies just around the corner, the LCD and plasma displays look like they could use some enhancements if they want to continue their existence on the market. Sure, there has been a gradual price drop of the LCD/plasma HDTV displays but this just isn't enough to ...

9 May 2007
10:09 GMT

The $299 Blu-Ray PC Drive from Pioneer

We found out that Wal-Mart refused to commercialize $299 HD-DVD players a couple of days ago, apparently trying to keep a balance between the rival high definition formats. A puzzling scheme, I'd say, but now Pioneer is ready to tip the balance in favor of the Blu-Ray format, with the introduction of their bran...

3 May 2007
07:08 GMT

Pioneer Launched sub $500 Blu-ray Drive for PC

The modern day concept of a digital home implies having many things, any when I say many, that's what I mean. First you must have the 50-inch LCD TV, a security system that allows you to see everything that goes on the property, both in and outside, a remote control that, well, controls the lights, window blinds...

19 April 2007
08:50 GMT

Pioneer Announced the AVIC-S2 GPS Navsat

I'm guessing GPS manufacturers asked drivers during recent focus groups if they usually follow in-car GPS advice or just their common sense. "Well, both!", the drivers must've answered. So, no wonder on-board GPS are getting more popular than TVs. Let it happen!Here's the latest! Pioneer finally relea...

18 April 2007
13:18 GMT

Unexplained Forces Altered The Course of The Pioneer Probes

The US Pioneer program of unmanned space missions was designed for planetary exploration. There were a number of such missions in the program, but the most notable were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the solar system. Both carry a golden plaque, depicting a man and a woman and i...

30 March 2007
08:16 GMT

Matsushita Is the Biggest PDP Manufacturer

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd of Japan, also known for its most famous brand Panasonic, maintained the leadership in the Plasma Display Panels (PDPs) business in the fourth quarter of 2006. Not a bad thing taking into account that LCD panels have a much more interested audience.Riddhi Patel, principal analys...

22 March 2007
11:22 GMT


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