Stories about: Yamaha

The Yamaha BD-S671 is a very well built Blu-ray player with a basic feature-set. It doesn't have the diverse range of Internet and video-on-demand gubbins that you can find in Blu-ray players from LG, Sony or Samsung (and Panasonic, to an extent), but it has some network capabilities and we can't fault its Blu-ray or DVD picture quality as well as its interface or design.

We all listen to compressed music on our computers and portable players and we all know that compression is supposed to hurt sound quality. But does it hurt it enough to affect our listening pleasure?

In this week’s show Acer unveils a netbook running Windows 7, Adobe announces versions of its Flash Player for mobile devices, a new and improved Muratagirl unicycles across a balance beam, KDDI shows off a 3D joystick for mobile phones, Mitsubishi builds an OLED screen of unlimited size, a Yamaha iPhone app plays a piano and eyeballs control a music player.

In this week’s show Toshiba announces its Cell Regza TV, Nissan shows off prototype car collision prevention technology, Kohjinsha displays a dual screen laptop, Yamaha develops a speaker made of cloth, NTT DoCoMo lets you pitch an email, Alps Electric sends data through your body and Fujitsu analyzes your golf swing.

The market for DAB+ digital radios is starting to heat up in Australia. We've taken a look at the best digital radios at three different price points.

The iPhone may be a runaway hit in most markets, but not in gadget-crazy Japan.

The speaker, which is printed with information about the Ceatec exhibition, looks like a very large poster hanging from a long frame.

Yamaha and two partners have developed an iPhone application that lets up to 10 people play a piano at the same time, among other features.

Yamaha has developed a prototype speaker that's made of cloth and just 1 millimeter thick.

Are the number of audio and video remotes at home getting out of hand? A new set of universal remote controls introduced in the last few months could help you take back control. The remotes include different features and functionality and are targeted at different audiences at different price points. Logitech's Harmony 900 remote is the latest in the company's line of universal remotes that can switch on up to 15 entertainment devices, including the TV, by pressing one button. Yamaha launched the NeoHD audio-video receiver, which moves remote control functionality to TVs. The Wand Co. is offering a funky universal remote shaped like a magic wand. And IBM is looking to bring social-networking tools to remotes through a patent application.