Everyone’s MP3 player of choice may be the iPod, but every now and then we do see something different in a concept, which we would like to own. The Play MP3 player doesn’t have a touchscreen or buttons. Instead it works by doing origami.

Fold the player in half to play. If you want to rewind, just slide one of the pieces. Sure it isn’t practical, but Origami fans should love it. Still, we don’t expect to see this one anytime soon.

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Panasonic is releasing the new DMP-BDT300. The 3D Blu-ray player uses the company’s UniPhier LSI chip which allows output of Full HD images of 1080p quality in the frame-sequential method. You simply need a pair of active shutter glasses and a 3D-ready TV and you are good to go.

The DMP-BDT300 will also upscale your DVDs. Some other features include DLNA support, USB, SD memory card slot and support for JPEG, DivX Plus HD, MP3, AVCHD, MPEG2 and JPEG content.

Nothing on pricing or availability yet though.

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Denon’s latest S-5BD Blu-ray player, called Cara, is a hefty device, weighing in at 7.8kgs. It’s hefty in price too costing you £1,999. The Cara features 5.1-channel surround sound, two-source, two-room distribution capabilities, BD-Live and HDMI 1.4.

Some other features include an SD memory card slot and iPod/iPhone digital direct playback through USB. The player also supports a huge list of formats. Look for it to be released later next month. That gives you some time to save your cash.

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Toshiba introduces two Regza LCD HDTVs with integrated Blu-ray player, the 32-inch 32R1BDP and the 26-inch 26R1BDP, both with 1366×768 resolution. The former offers 40,000:1 contrast ratio while the latter sports 30,000:1 contrast.

The 32R1BDP and 26R1BDP come with built-in digital TV tuner. Their’s internal Blu-ray drive supports playback of BD-ROM, BD-R/RE, DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW and audio CD. They are BD-Live compatible and offer Ethernet port. These Regza TVs have one HDMI and a USB port.

Toshiba will release both models

What do you get when you take a pretty decent Oppo $500 Blu-Ray player, strip off the black metal case, and then drop the entire thing (chassis and all) into a slightly fancier silver metal case with a different logo on it? Lexicon, apparently, thinks that you get a $3500 Blu-Ray player. After noticing some similarities between the front and back layouts of the Oppo BDP-83 and the Lexicon BD-30, Audioholics tore them both open to check and see what was going on inside:

As far as we could determine, Lexicon didn’t change a single thing in

Panasonic introduces its first 3D Blu-ray Disc player, the DMP-BDT350. The new player is equipped with PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus video processor and features 96kHz surround re-master for enhanced video and audio performance.

The Panasonic DMP-BDT350 has USB port for adding wireless LAN adapter and direct playback of MP3, JPEG and DivX video. There is also a SD card slot for showing digital still images and AVCHD video. This 3D Blu-ray player is compatible with the VIERA CAST service for online video and media

Philips showed at the CES 2010 its PET749 portable DVD player that comes with built-in TV tuner for receiving free-to-air TV. It has a 7-inch LCD display with 800×480 resolution and is compatible with DVD, DVD+/-R/RW and VCD, CD, CD-R/RW media.

The PET749 also supports playback of MP3 CD and DivX video as well as JPEG images. The built-in rechargeable battert offers up to three hours of video playback. To be released in March, the PET749 will be priced at $179.99.

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A new portable DVD player has just been released by Toshiba Japan named the Portaro SD-P12DT. Weighing in at 2.8kg and measuring 342 x 73 x 326 mm its equipped with a 12inch LED backlight screen providing a resolution of 1366 x 768.

I can also play DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW disks and has a SD slot for media if required. It also has a built in digital tuner, but unfortunately this will only work in Japan at the moment. Until the release of International versions, which have not been confirmed.

The internal

These days buying music and putting it on your MP3 player of choice is a pretty simple task. Unfortunately for some of the older generation, even that can seem like a daunting task. Instead they’d perhaps just prefer to listen to the radio. Well if you’re looking to bring them into the age of MP3 players without scaring them too much, here is an interesting device that I saw while roaming the floor of CES.

Myine has created a rather curious radio called the Abbee, which is essentially used to record music. At its very basics, it 

LG is going to release in April its XF2 HD media player that comes with 500GB internal hard drive. The player offers 1920×1080p Full HD output and 5.1-channel audio output via HDMI 1.3a. It also provides USB 2.0 port for external storage.

Supported Formats:

Video Container: mkv, asf, avi, rm, rmvb, dat, mpg, mpeg, vob, iso, lfo, ts, m2ts, tp, mp4, mov, flv, xvid

Video codec: MPEG-1/2/4, MJPEG(SD), H264, Divx HD, Xvid, VC1(WMV9), RM/RMVB(SD)

Audio Container : mp3, wma, asf, wav, flac

Audio codec: DTS(5.1ch),