NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA 3DTV Play, its latest software solution that allows consumers to connect their GeForce GPU-powered desktop or notebook computer to new 3D TVs, for the ultimate in big screen 3D gaming action.

For the launch of 3DTV Play, NVIDIA is teaming up with Panasonic on its coast-to-coast 2010 “Panasonic Touch the Future Tour,” where consumers can test drive 3DTV Play-based PCs running on the new Panasonic VIERA Full HD 3D TVs, that just launched this month.

As a key benefit for NVIDIA 3D Vision™ PC owners, you can connect your 3D PC to a 3D TV for a high-definition, big-screen, 3D entertainment experience. NVIDIA 3DTV Play Software, included free with all 3D Vision PCs, powers the 3D PC experience when using a 3D TV and compatible 3D TV manufacturer’s glasses. Experience all of the same great 3D Vision PC content on your big-screen 3D TV!

3DTV Play software lets you connect any compatible NVIDIA GeForce GPU-powered PC or notebook to 3D TVs for the ultimate, high-definition, big-screen, 3D entertainment experience. By leveraging the processing power of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, 3DTV Play software delivers the best the PC has to offer: play hundreds of standard PC games in stunning 3D environments such as World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King, Battlefield Bad Company 2, and James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game.

You can also watch upcoming Blu-ray 3D™ Hollywood blockbusters, view digital 3D photographs, and even watch streaming 3D movies for the ultimate viewing party. The active-shutter glasses bundled with each VIERA full HD 3D TV sold work seamlessly with NVIDIA GPUs and off-the-shelf PC gaming titles and other 3D entertainment content.

If you already own Nvidia’s 3D Vision kit, you’re eligible to get 3DTV Play as a free upgrade. If you’d rather not bother, you can pick up 3DTV Play separately for $40. Since your 3DTV comes with stereoscopic glasses anyway, you may be better off with the standalone. It’ll also support Blu-ray 3D in 1080p, 3D photos, or streaming 3D movie content.

Features of NVIDIA 3DTV Play:

• Can be run on GeForce GPU-based desktop or notebook PCs equipped with an HDMI or DVI connector.
• Full support for all HDMI 1.4-compatible 3D TVs, including Panasonic VIERA Plasma full HD 3D TVs.
• Enables 1080p24, 720p60, and 720p50 3D formats.
• Advanced NVIDIA software and graphics drivers automatically convert more than 400 games to stereoscopic 3D in real time, without the need for special patches.
• Enjoy full HD Blu-ray 3D playback with real-time GPU accelerated decoding and playback on GeForce GPUsi.
• Watch streaming 3D movies.
• View 3D photographs directly on the 3D TV.

NVIDIA 3DTV Play software will be available later this spring and sold separately with an anticipated U.S. MSRP of $39.99. It will also be available for free for current NVIDIA 3D Vision customers.

“Star Wars” is finally coming to Blu-ray. It was announced at Star Wars Celebration V that Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will bring the complete Star Wars Saga to the Blu-ray format with a worldwide release in Fall 2011.

It’s the first time any of the films have been available in high-definition packaged media. A boxed set containing the Blu-ray versions of the movies, spanning from 1977’s “Star Wars” through the final 2005 prequel, “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” will mark the first time the films have been offered in a high-definition home format, and will include documentary features and previously unseen footage.

In a press release, George Lucas stated: “Blu-ray is the absolute best way to experience Star Wars at home – in pristine high definition. The films have never looked or sounded better.”

With “Star Wars” finally getting the Blu-ray treatment more than five years after the format’s middling debut, there are still a number of other classic titles that are pending.

Perhaps bracing for the reactions of fans who decried some of the changes made to the special-edition films – like, say, an exchange of gunfire between Han Solo and a certain green-skinned bounty hunter – Mr. Lucas said that to release the original versions of these films on Blu-ray was “kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good.”

The event is held in Orlando, FL, and this year commemorated the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and the ongoing, weekly adventures of Star Wars : The Clone Wars.

Toshiba, the leader company which fought war for HD-DVD against Blu-Ray, now turns to add Blu-Ray to its new Satelite Laptop named as ” Toshiba P500 “. After the HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray war, the company joined the BDA(Blu-ray Disc Association) and start making Blu-Ray drive for PCs, now they expand it to their laptops too.

The Toshiba P500 runs on an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU with 4GB of DDR RAM and an HDD storage of up to 500GB. As a true multimedia PC, there’s also NVIDIA graphics support too. In the way of connectivity, there’s three USB 2.0 ports plus an eSATA/USB too, 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 5-in-1 Bridge Media port, Express Card slot and even FireWire.

The device also integrated Harman Kardon speakers, a full backlit keyboard and a multi-touch track pad controller and It’s available from late October. The rate and other informations are not yet announced.

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Toshiba Satellite P500