Samsung’s latest blu-ray player, the BD-D6900M looks great on the eye but can it deliver underneath that polished exterior? The stylish touch screen LED buttons and slot loading disk tray add to the sleek looks and shiny finish. Not only that but there’s DLNA, internet TV and a Freeview HD TV Tuner all included. One of the things that does let the BD-D6900M down slightly is the connectivity. A single US

Picture the scene if you will. It’s been a while since you’ve all sat down to watch a DVD or Blu-Ray movie, you all agree on which movie you’re going to watch, then the hunt for the remote begins. Let’s say you find that remote down the side of the sofa but you fancy listening to the movie using your surround sound system that barely gets a look in these days. Once again it’s grown leg

SC-BTT270EBK FULL HD 3D Blu-ray Disc Home Cinema System. The virtual speakers created by cinema surround compensate for the lack of a surround effect to provide natural, smooth surround sound. Starting with the 2011 models, the same number of virtual speakers are arranged in the vertical direction as in the horizontal direction. This offers an enhanced surround effect not only horizontally but also vertically, so y

VIERA Connect is the successor to VIERA Cast, it is important to point out there that VIERA Connect is NOT backwards compatible with it’s predecessor. It is an expanded version on CAST taking advantage of the “cloud” computing that is taking the I.T. world by storm at the moment. Here are the proposed features:   Various and expandable apps Select apps from a wide range of genres, includ

Here in Soundwave towers we do include a lot of Blu-Ray players which include several features. I’m sure sometimes you’ll glance at the technical details or even the title and go “wtf is that???” we have explained one or two on here, Allshare and Anynet+ from Samsung as an example but one that is cropping up more and more is VIERA Cast from Panasonic. So what is it? Well believe it or not, i