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Willing to pay anything for your home entertainment system so long as it’s Danish? There’s a good chance that Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 10 40-incher just wasn’t enough for you. If you’re dropping the kind of dough that thing costs ($8,700) you want something impressive, right? Enter the BeoVision 7, shipping in a few weeks. Despite having a lower model number it receives a 15-inch boost, up to 55-inches total, but drops the refresh rate to 120Hz from the 10’s 240Hz. It’s LED-backlit with local dimming to boost contrast, has not one but two different motorized stand options, and manages to make room inside for a Blu-ray player. The cost? $18,700 with (non-motorized) stand and the custom-tailored center channel speaker you see above — roughly twice the BeoVision 10 and a good bit more than this was originally supposed to launch for. Consider this the recession-buster cousin of the $93,050 BeoVision 4.

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Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 7 LCD grows to 55-inches, makes room for Blu-ray not frugality originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It wasn’t long ago that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was packing theaters, but given how quickly things hit DVD and Blu-ray these days we’re surprised to learn this one won’t be flinging vermicelli to disc until just after the holidays. Fear not carb-lovers: similar to the Hancock deal last year, new purchasers of internet-capable Sony TVs and Blu-ray players will be receiving one free stream of the film starting on December 8; that’s nearly a full month ahead of the retail release. The stream will be in 720p and will allow full control during 24 hours. What if you’ve already purchased your Sony setup? The company is happy to extend the streaming offer to you as well — so long as you don’t mind paying a mere $24.95. Yes, a one-time 720p rental that costs as much as a Blu-ray. That’s value.

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Sony streaming Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs free to new customers, expensively to existing ones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The egg had to come before the chicken right? Well either way, one of ’em came first and in the case of the latest Blu-ray feature, Managed Copy, the Blu-ray Discs will come before the hardware. Less than five months since AACS was finalized and the details of Managed Copy were revealed and so far we’ve only seen one demo and not a single product announcement. This doesn’t surprise us, but AACS-LA is apparently surprised because although all Blu-ray Discs sold after December 4th have no choice but to allow at least one copy to be made, the requirement to label the packaging as such has been postponed until Spring of next year. We’d expect at least a few products that support Managed Copy to be announced at CES and although we highly doubt any stand-alone Blu-ray players will sport this feature anytime soon, we do have our hopes on PC software and expect a few movie jukebox devices like Kaleidescape — that we won’t be able to afford — will be announced at the big show in Vegas.

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Managed Copy hits Blu-ray Discs December 4th, but you still can’t use it originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s not quite a $99 Xbox 360, but if this apparent Walmart scan via Kotaku is to be believed, that $199 Arcade version is getting a $100 gift card promotion going into effect this Saturday. In real terms, that boils down to a $234 Xbox 360 Pro for first-time buyers, seeing as you’ll be needing that $135, 120GB hard drive, too. Also listed are a Sony Blu-ray player for $148 (we’re guessing the currently-MSRP’d $199 BDP-S360), and a $298 HP G60-519WM, which touts a 2.2GHz Intel Celeron, 15.6-inch HD display, Windows 7 Home Premium, 3GB RAM, and a 250GB HDD — not a bad followup at all for that Compaq CQ60. Some interesting spy shots from the Slick Deals forum seem to give credence to the scan, although we’re still playing wait-and-see — that $100 gift card with the Xbox 360 arcade is almost too good to be true, even if it is just a clever tactic to clear shelf space in the lead-up to Black Friday.

Update: Sure as the sun, an official ad has popped up on Yahoo’s front page. Screenshot after the break.

[Thanks, just4onepost]

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Leaked Walmart ad reveals Xbox 360 Arcade with $100 gift card, $300 HP G60 laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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All you Blu-ray holdouts, will this tempt you? JVC has just announced the JVC XV-BP11, a $199.95 Blue-ray player, in time for holiday gift-giving. Besides Blue-ray, it can handle the AVCHD format used in many high-def camcorders. Naturally, it also plays standard DVDs and MP3 discs, and displays JPEG photos.

You’re not going to get a variety of high-end features at this level, but it looks like a good choice for people who simply want 1080/24p HD playback and Dolby Digital audio with no frills. The few extras include cinema zoom and a parental lock.