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Due to its byline stipulations, beginning in December all Blu-ray titles will come with the option to make one "managed copy" (a legal backup).
However, for all current Blu-ray player owners ...
Date: 8 Nov 2009 05:11
Amazon, Pixar and Disney have started a deep Blu-ray promotion this week, as well as dropping the prices on the much anticipated titles Up and Monster's Inc.
The large e-tailer has dropped ...
Date: 7 Nov 2009 08:11 | 8 comments
The highly secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has been drafted under non-disclosure agreements and given to different nations with watermarks in case they choose to "leak" ...
Date: 5 Nov 2009 03:11 | 92 comments
According to a leaked ad, Sears plans to drop the prices of many brand name Blu-ray players on Black Friday, the notorious shopping day after Thanksgiving.
The retailer will offer Sony's ...
Date: 2 Nov 2009 22:11
The Sony Pictures blockbuster District 9 was given a release date of December 29th this week but more interestingly was the revelation that the Blu-ray version will include a demo of the upcoming ...
Date: 2 Nov 2009 22:11 | 11 comments
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the best selling Blu-ray disc of 2009, and likely of all-time, after moving 1.2 million discs in its first ...
Date: 30 Oct 2009 16:10 | 20 comments
JVC has launched the XV-BP11 today, an "ultra-thin" 1.5-inch tall Blu-ray player aimed at the entry-level set.
The player is only Profile 1.1 capable however, killing off all BD-Live features. ...
Date: 28 Oct 2009 18:10 | 23 comments
Electronics companies Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi confirmed today that their optical disc drive operations are currently under investigation for antitrust violation in the United States.
Sony's ...
Date: 27 Oct 2009 19:10 | 5 comments
The Fox blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine has quietly become the year's top selling Blu-ray release, surpassing 007: Quantum of Solace in just four weeks.
Fox would not give exact figures ...
Date: 26 Oct 2009 18:10 | 13 comments
Last week Reed Hastings announced that Netflix had a new consumer electronics partner who would be providing a client for their Watch Instantly streaming video service. Today they made a joint ...
Date: 26 Oct 2009 08:10 | 18 comments
According to VideoBusiness, Blu-ray Disc set-top players continue to drop in price, and one analyst expects to see at least one $50 USD player on Black Friday.
Last year was dominated by ...
Date: 25 Oct 2009 21:10 | 16 comments
Earlier this week we reported that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made comments that implied that the company would be bringing Blu-ray accessories to the Xbox 360.
At the time, the notoriously ...
Date: 25 Oct 2009 21:10 | 13 comments
Best Buy has teamed up with Netflix this week to bring the rental company's streaming services to Insignia Blu-ray players.
The streaming video will be available on the Insignia Advanced ...
Date: 21 Oct 2009 04:10 | 3 comments
Mark Wattles, the former founder of Hollywood Video and current owner of Mark's Video rental chains in Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona has announced across the board price drops on rentals ...
Date: 19 Oct 2009 01:10 | 5 comments
Despite Sony's marketing team deciding to change the focus of the PS3 more to the console's movie downloading and Blu-ray capabilities, it appears consumers are still purchasing the system mainly ...
Date: 19 Oct 2009 00:10 | 16 comments
Redbox has begun testing selling DVDs through their kiosks this month, offering new and catalog releases for about $20 USD alongside their $1-a-night DVD rental kiosks.
The sell-through kiosks ...
Date: 18 Oct 2009 22:10 | 8 comments
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced that work on a new way for connecting wireless devices directly to each other is nearing completion. Devices could start being certified for Wi-Fi Direct, as ...
Date: 15 Oct 2009 18:10 | 2 comments
Funai and Sonic Solutions have announced a deal which will bring online video to more consumer electronics devices. A client for Sonic's CinemaNow service will be built into an as of yet unspecified ...
Date: 15 Oct 2009 15:10
Roxio has released version 4 of their Popcorn video conversion software, adding support for AVCHD and Adobe Flash, as well as better preview and direct YouTube uploads.
Perhaps just as notably, ...
Date: 13 Oct 2009 18:10
Trying new marketing, Paramount and Papa John's have started a new promotion that will have the pizza chain selling pizzas in Transformers-themed boxes as well as giving some customers $3 USD ...
Date: 9 Oct 2009 18:10 | 1 comment
According to CEO Reed Hastings, physical DVDs will remain the prioritized movie delivery format for Netflix for the next two years, before the company moves its focus to either streaming video or Blu-ray.
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Date: 9 Oct 2009 05:10 | 6 comments
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Glossary
List of related glossary items. Click the item to read an explanation for the term.
- BD-J
BD-J (or BD Java) is the name given to the Java-based software that will be included on BD-ROM discs and all Blu-Ray Disc players. This will help provide the Blu-ray menus and many other features. ...
- BD-R
BD-R stands for Blu-ray Disc Recordable. It is a write-once form of blank media offered by the Blu-ray Disc Association. As of February, 2007, BD-R discs can be found with a capacity of 25GB ...
- BD-RE
BD-RE is a re-writable form of Blu-ray Recordable Media offered by the Blu-ray Disc Association . As of February, 2007, BD-RE offers capacities up to 25GB (single layer) and commercially available ...
- BD-ROM
BD-ROM discs are the physical Blu-Ray Discs. In 2006, many movies and game content (for the PlayStation 3) will be released on BD-ROM discs. A blue-violet laser that will operate at a wavelength ...
- BDMV
Blu-ray allows two basic formats for titles. BD titles authored with menu support are in the BD-MV (Blu-ray Disc Movie) format. BD-MV discs contain audio, video, and other streams in Blu-ray's ...
- Blu-ray
Blu-ray is a name for a optical disc standard which uses blue-violet laser instead of red laser used in CDs and in DVDs. This allows manufacturers to store more data using the same amount of disc surface.
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- Blu-ray Disc Association
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is an organization founded in 2003 to promote the Blu-ray Disc format as a successor to the current DVD technology. While DVD has been a huge success on the ...
List of most popular Blu-ray players found from AfterDawn's hardware section.
Software
List of related software items. Each software item listed here can be downloaded directly from our site using the links below.
- h264info alpha 0026
h264info allows editing of H.264 files' encoding and playback parameters without re-encoding the video file itself again. Things that can be edited include framerate, aspect ratio, pulldown info, used encoding profile/level and more.
- RipBot264 v1.14.5
RipBot264 is a simple and easy to use GUI for encoding video to iPod, PSP, Consoles and Blu-Ray.
- SmartLabs tsMuxeR v1.10.1 Beta
SmartLabs tsMuxeR the software utility to create TS and M2TS files for IP broadcasting as well as for viewing at hardware video players (i.e., Dune HD Ultra, Sony Playstation3 and others).
- SmartLabs tsMuxeR for Linux v1.9.1 Beta
SmartLabs tsMuxeR the software utility to create TS and M2TS files for IP broadcasting as well as for viewing at hardware video players (i.e., Dune HD Ultra, Sony Playstation3 and others).
- Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus
Ulead DVD MovieFactory is a disc authoring tool that allows users to create their own standard and high-definition discs.
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