5 inch lcd car stereo dvd playerTVs & DVD Players : How to Connect a DVD Player to a TV
18November
Hook up a DVD player to a TV with RCA connections by following color coding and making sure the cables go out from the signal source and into the monitor. Connect a DVD player to a TV by putting the red, yellow and white cables in the right inputs with tips from a digital technology specialist in this free video on TV.
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Philips DCP951 portable DVD Player: First Look Review
14November
Philips DCP951 portable DVD player with a nifty little inbuilt iPod dock…. but is the natty case a case of style over substance?
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Axion 8″ LCD TV/DVD Player Combo Unit - Item: 242-760
04November
Prices subject to change. Please visit www.hsn.com or call 1-800-284-3100 for the current selling price. Compact in size and lightweight, the Axion 8″ LCD TV/DVD Player Combo Unit is ideal for home use as well as in your office, hotel and car. The convenient, built-in SD slot makes it easy to show your favorite pictures, too. Axion 8″ LCD TV/DVD Player Combo Unit Features: Model No: AXN-7080A Screen Size and Format: 8″ LCD TV Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Playback Formats: CATV tuner, DVD, MP3 and Picture CD Inputs/Outputs: Stereo A/V (audio/visual) jacks with an In/Out switch - for game/camcorder input or supporting external TV/monitor. Built-in speakers and headphone output. Additional Features and…
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New R2-D2 Replica is DVD Player, LCD Projector and iPod Dock
27October
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This much functionality has its price. The Nikko R2-D2 DVD projector will sell for 388 000 Yen (~3,141).
Nikko also offers a light saber shaped wireless video camera as accessory for the R2-D2. The Star Wars gadget can also be used as Skype phone and as remote control for the R2-D2.
Chances are not too bad that Nikko will release this R2-D2 also outside of Japan. They are an international toy company. Meccano is for instance also part of the Nikko Group.
R2-D2 was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in 2003.
Notable appearances outside the Star Wars series
A R2-D2 themed mailbox in Boston, Massachusetts as part of the celebration for Star Wars’ 30th anniversary
A R2-D2 themed mailbox in Boston, Massachusetts as part of the celebration for Star Wars’ 30th anniversary
* R2-D2 was mentioned in the 2nd season episode of Stargate Atlantis, The Lost Boys. Major Sheppard is shown flying a wraith dart and the auto pilot activates. Sheppard asks “Artoo” to deactivate the auto pilot.
* R2-D2 and C-3PO guest starred in a series of segments on the children’s television show Sesame Street, aired in 1978.
* R2-D2 and C-3PO were featured as presenters at the 50th Academy Awards.
* Together with Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO appeared on The Muppet Show.
* R2-D2 and C-3PO have appeared in numerous Star Wars-based commercials, television specials, and productions.
* Both R2-D2 and C-3PO appear as hieroglyphs in the Well of Souls in Raiders of the Lost Ark.[3]
* It appears hung upside down over the bottom side of the UFO mothership of Close Encounters of the Third Kind when it slowly appears over the Devils tower, following the making of documentary in the extra disc of the DVD special edition of the Steven Spielberg’s movie.
* The PC video game Sam & Max Hit the Road features a bonus shooting gallery during the ending credit roll, and one of the moving targets is a miniature R2-D2. Sam & Max was published by LucasArts, which explains the cameo.
* Beepboopbeep is R2’s counterpart in the spoof, Thumb Wars.
* R2-D2 and C-3PO were the hosts of the Imax film Special Effects: Anything Can Happen.
* R2-D2 appears in three episodes of The Simpsons.
o In “The Regina Monologues”, R2-D2 plays bass in Bart’s “Moon Party” fantasy.
o In “Mayored to the Mob”, R2-D2 and C-3PO are presented as “the gay robots from Star Wars” who wrestle the Cylons from the original Battlestar Galactica. In a clip of the battle, it shows C-3PO being beaten up and him begging R2-D2 to help him to which he declines and runs off leaving C-3PO to suffer in Robot Wars.
o In the “Treehouse of Horror XVI” episode “I’ve Grown a Costume on Your Face”, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is dressed in an R2-D2 costume. He later becomes R2-D2 when a witch turns everyone into their costume.
* In the British television comedy series The Goodies, R2-D2 (played by Kenny Baker) guest stars as a robot called EB-GB (Electronic Brain of Great Britain). The episode, “U-Friend or UFO?”, is a spoof of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and has EB-GB (R2-D2) take on the personality of a Dalek. When asked by one of the Goodies characters, “EB-GB, how do you speak to aliens?” he replies, “Exterminate!”
* R2-D2 makes a brief appearance in The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
* R2-D2 (along with Chewbacca and C-3PO) made a cameo in “Blind Ambition”, an episode of the animated TV show Family Guy. The episode ends with a reenactment of the ending of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, allowing the appearance of these characters. He reappears in “Blue Harvest” and is portrayed by Cleveland Brown.
* In the final Pinky and the Brain episode, which includes many of the Animaniacs cast. A parody of A New Hope features Brain as a spoof of R2-D2 called Brain2 Me2.
* An R2-D2 likeness has been placed on numerous postal boxes around the US in anticipation of the release of a series of Star Wars-themed postage stamps.
* R2 appeared on the April 2, 2007 episode of Dancing With The Stars at Joey Fatone’s rehearsal for a Star Wars-themed Tango.
* In one episode of the cartoon series Muppet Babies Kermit the Frog was turned into R2-D2 and was on a couple of occasions mistaken for a trash can.
* In Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the droid can be seen on the music machine at the Bombchu Bowling Alley.
* R2-D2 is parodized in the online cartoon House of Cosbys. He is known as BCD2 (Bill Cosby D2) and is shaped similar to R2-D2, with similar voicings.
* R2-D2 is parodized in the 23 minute Star Wars spoof HardWare Wars. In this spoof, he is known as Arty Deco and is accompanied by 4Q2 (a parody of C3PO).
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