Sony has revealed the name of its upcoming digital SLR brand, due later this year. The new alpha mount system, is in fact the old Minolta system and will be compatible with Konica-Minolta's DSLR lenses and other accessories. Konica-Minolta recently retired from the camera business.
For more info see www.sony.com/dslr

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TIPA - the Technical Image Press Association - has just announced it's 2006 winners for the European Photo and Imaging Awards. TIPA is a body made up of 31 magazines from around the globe. Winners in this year's awards included Nikon's D50 and D200, Canon's EOS 5D and IXUS 65, Epson's Stylus Photo RX640 and Panasonic's TZ1 big zoom compact. For the full list of winners in 34 categories go here.

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It's being hailed in some quarters as the best DVD player ever. It does everything you could ever want except pass you a beer. It's Denon's DVD-A1XVA and the lucky sods who buy one will have to pay $8,999 for the pleasure.

Those with a good memory for product codes will realize that the DVD-A1XVA is actually just an upgrade to last year's magnificent DVD-A1XV; apparently the only difference is that the new model offers 1080p scaling - not that an upgrade to an already near-perfect product is a bad thing at all. Though whether it's worth the extra $1,000 the A1XVA costs - the A1XV is $7,999 - will depend on your point of view. Denon says that owners of the earlier model will be able to purchase an upgrade to their existing players.

It's our birthday soon. Can we have one please?

More: Denon website

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We admit we're not generally excitable types, but even we were moved to pull out the hyperbole thesaurus when we got our ears around the new Jamo R909 loudspeakers.

The bare specs (full range, three-way open baffle dipole speakers with two 15-inch woofers, a 5 ½ -inch midrange and one-inch tweeter, offering a frequency range of 25Hz to 30kHz with frequency crossovers at 250Hz and 2kHz) really don't do justice to how good these things sound. The best way to describe them is to say that hearing them in action is not like listening to music through speakers at all; it's like being in the room as the music is being made.

And that's got to be worth the $20,000 or so these wonderful speakers will cost you.

More: Jamo website

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