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Web Watch - 200-disc Blu-ray Changer, US Nuke Threat from US, iPod Hi-Fi RIP

September 6th, 2007

PC Magazine has reviewed the HP Blackbird and given the expensive beast a perfect 5 dot rating and an Editors Choice award. Personally I fail to see the point of the machine, the crowd it is aimed at will more likely want to build their own computer.
Akihabara News has some information on an expensive Sony HES-V1000 Home Entertainment Server that will sell for $3500 in October. The thing has a 200 disc capacity for Blu-ray games and movies as well as a 500GB hard drive for holding digital video and music.
CNN reports that last week six nuclear missiles were accidentally transported from North Dakota to Louisiana. While the Air Force maintains there was no public danger, a massive investigation is taking place and the commander in charge of transporting the missiles has been relieved of duty.
Autoblog has posted some videos from Top Gear, the UK dream show for gear heads. One of the videos is of a lucky SOB getting ready to test drive a Bugatti Veyron. The video also shows a small portion of an unreleased Bugatti as well.
TweakTown has reviewed the Shuttle SG33G5 SFF XPC computer. In the end they decide that it’s a decent enough media center rig, but they aren’t sure where it fits into the market.
Secret Notes says that the iPod Hi-Fi went the way of the Dodo yesterday when Apple announced the new line of iPod’s. A few other Apple products were also redesigned like the Nano Armband that was enlarged to work with the new Nano.

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