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DJmag’s annual Tech Awards honour the companies and products that keep the DJ technology world spinning. A selection:

• Innovative New Product: Allen & Heath Xone:3D Midi Mixer
• DJ Mixer (under £400): Numark 5000FX
• Top of the range mixer: Pioneer DJM-800
• Scratch Mixer: Pioneer DJM-909
• Ultimate Turntable: Numark TTX
• Single CD/MP3 Player: Pioneer CDJ-1000 Mk3
• Dual MP3/CD Player: Denon DN-S4500
• Portable MP3 Recorder: Creative Zen V Plus

Discover all winners & the jury’s argumentation at DJMag.

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Gizmodo: If the Xbox 360 can offer DVD playback at 1080p, so can Denon. Their freshly released DVD-3930 DVD players can take your old Lion King DVDs and upscale them to “near HD quality” at 1080p. We’ll skip the fancy tech mumbo-jumbo like Pixel Image Correction and Silicon Optix Teranex HQV technology. How much will this new-age trickery cost you? £1099.99 (1635 euro).

AVZombie: (…) Denon spokesman Rob Follis says: “It’s my opinion that the HD-Disc launch is a disaster, the early machines are dogs and the content is rubbish. Just Say No to dodgy HD formats and buy a serious DVD player instead!”

For a list of European distributors, please visit Denon‘s website.

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Akihabara News: Denon has a new 7.1 channel AV amplifier – the AVC-1930.

It uses the SHARC 32bit DSP, and has 2 HDMI outputs and one input. The amplifier supports 1080p and is compatible with the ASD-1R control station for iPod.

It also has the Room EQ to automatically tune itself for optimum sound experience.

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