Chicago Tribune

DVD, VCR players need converter box to work with new digital system

Q: When TV stations change to the new broadcast system next year, will I still be able to use my existing VCR and DVD players? I have not decided between a conversion box or new TV. I also have a TV ...
Business Wire

Hitachi 2004 DVD Player/Recorder Line Completes the Home Theater Experience; Full Line Features Progressive Scan and Integrates with Award-Winning Hitachi Televisions and DVD ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004--The Home Electronics Division of Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), www.hitachi.us/tv, today ...
SFGate

Piggyback players / Electronics makers try to profit on success of DVDs with new generation of combination devices

It's a DVD player, a color TV, an AM/FM radio, a lantern, a compass and a thermometer. And if that's not enough, this DVD device will also shoo away mosquitoes. The portable DVD player, which is due ...
Newsweek

Technology: I Want My Dvd Player

They've been around for only six years, but DVD players are already one of the fastest-growing consumer-electronics products ever invented. From 2001 to 2002 alone, sales and rentals of DVDs increased ...