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Sony's PlayStation 3 has hit a milestone in Europe by finally passing the Xbox 360 in total console sales despite the lowest priced PS3 costing nearly twice as much as the entry level version ...
Date: 7 May 2008 14:05 | 27 comments
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At Sun Microsystem's 2008 JavaONE conference, being held this week in San Francisco, one of the topics being discussed is the use of Java in Blu-ray movie (BD-MV) authoring. The keynote speaker ...
Date: 7 May 2008 05:05 | 1 comment
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Panasonic has showed off its latest BD-Live capable Blu-ray player, the DMP-BD50, finally letting some specifications out of the bag. The player was first introduced at the CES event in January.
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Date: 6 May 2008 22:05 | 5 comments
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Despite reports that a Blu-ray Xbox 360 is in the works from an ASUS subsidiary, Microsoft has once again moved to deny the rumors.
Microsoft had no comment when the reports hit last week, ...
Date: 5 May 2008 22:05 | 54 comments
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Sony's videogame unit, sometimes known as the "PlayStation" unit, has announced that it is expecting to see its losses shrink by about $956 million USD for the 12 months ended March 31, 2008. ...
Date: 5 May 2008 20:05 | 16 comments
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Samsung has introduced a new Blu-ray home theater system, the HT-BD2S which resembles its predecessor but has smaller satellite speakers and is available for over 30 percent less than its older ...
Date: 2 May 2008 22:05 | 8 comments
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Despite repeated denials over the past couple of months, more and more reports are surfacing that a Blu-ray integrated Xbox 360 is coming, before Christmas of this year.
Last month Microsoft ...
Date: 2 May 2008 21:05 | 44 comments
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Over the past years, the Canadian dollar has seen a steady rise in value to the point where it sits today, at almost equal to the United States Dollar. Despite that fact however, Canadians usually ...
Date: 1 May 2008 21:05 | 16 comments
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After officially announcing its return to Blu-ray yesterday, Paramount has decided to re-issue 8 of its previously-discontinued Blu-ray tiles from before the studio went HD DVD exclusive in August 2007.
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Date: 1 May 2008 20:05 | 8 comments
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Coming up on their deadline to become a Blu-ray only production house, Universal has unveiled its plans for the audio it intends to use on the format. Ever since their defection from the HD-DVD ...
Date: 1 May 2008 17:05 | 35 comments
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Despite Blu-ray's victory over rival format HD DVD, it seems Blu-ray player sales are falling or seeing little to no growth in various markets.
The latest figures, according to the NPD Group, ...
Date: 30 Apr 2008 22:04 | 66 comments
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Paramount Pictures has mapped out its Blu-ray roadmap, marking its re-entry to the Blu-ray business a year after it signed exclusively to the now defunct HD DVD format.
The first three movies ...
Date: 30 Apr 2008 22:04 | 20 comments
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Despite large growth in the high definition market, standard DVD sales continue to sag, and home video revenue will continue to fall, report a few notable analysts.
According to Reuters, ...
Date: 25 Apr 2008 22:04 | 41 comments
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Samsung has finally revealed the specifications for its upcoming fourth generation Blu-ray player, the BD-P1500.
The player was first talked about at this year's CES show in January and is ...
Date: 23 Apr 2008 21:04 | 22 comments
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GTA IV is sure to be the biggest title to ever hit the PlayStation 3 when it is released next week, and Sony definitely knows this. With that in mind they have officially announced a system ...
Date: 23 Apr 2008 19:04 | 16 comments
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Claiming increasing retail and wholesale price, Netflix has officially announced that it will be adding a "modest monthly premium" for access to the rental company's Blu-ray catalog.
Confirming ...
Date: 22 Apr 2008 22:04 | 44 comments
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Nikko Citigroup analysts have upgraded their rating for Sony Corporation citing their anticipation that the company will break even or even turn a profit on the PlayStation 3 beginning in August.
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 21:04 | 63 comments
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Sony Computer Entertainment said this morning that the oft-delayed PlayStation Home community online service was to be delayed again, marking the third official delay since the service was announced.
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Date: 22 Apr 2008 21:04 | 47 comments
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Over the last month I've been working on a number of MPEG-4 AVC related guides. Devices from mobile phones to Blu-ray players, and numerous others in between the two extremes, are designed with ...
Date: 21 Apr 2008 14:04 | 1 comment
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Universal has announced its roadmap for Blu-ray releases this summer and has added that its Blu-ray titles will see same day release dates as its standard definition counterparts.
The studio, ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 17:04 | 20 comments
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Driver Heaven has released an in-depth analysis on HD video playback by ATI's Avivo HD and nVidia's PureVideo HD. The main difference between this analysis and regular benchmarking software ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 12:04 | 1 comment
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Confirmed by the official Sony blog, the company will be bringing several prominent new updates to the PlayStation 3 console including a new video service and in-game XMB.
Peter Dille, the ...
Date: 16 Apr 2008 22:04 | 9 comments
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The BBC's head of digital media technology Anthony Rose has reported that the PlayStation 3 is on the iPlayer's "roadmap" and that official support will be coming, eventually.
Rose, writing ...
Date: 15 Apr 2008 19:04 | 4 comments
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At the NAB yearly meeting this week, Sony has reaffirmed its commitment to Blu-ray Java (BD-J) and announced new upgrades to all authoring software by Sony and third party sources.
With these ...
Date: 14 Apr 2008 21:04 | 1 comment
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Shuttle has announced the launch of its latest small form factor PC, the XPC G5 6801M Vista , which includes a dual format HD drive by LG allowing playback of bothHD DVD and Blu-ray films.
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Date: 12 Apr 2008 22:04 | 8 comments
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Blockbuster has announced that it will finally be expanding its Blu-ray offering. Despite Blu-ray's official launch in June 2006, the large rental service only began stocking the HD discs in ...
Date: 12 Apr 2008 22:04 | 3 comments
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Sony Electronics has announced another two Blu-ray Disc recorders for the Japanese market. The electronics giant will offer two new models with 320GB and 500GB hard disk drives in the territory ...
Date: 12 Apr 2008 01:04 | 8 comments
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The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA) has once again started a so called "proactive renewal", which would renew the protection system for the upcoming HD ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 09:04 | 28 comments
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The next update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console from Sony Corp., v2.30, expected to arrive next week, will add support for the DTS-HD Master Audio format, much to the delight of audiophiles. ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 03:04 | 13 comments
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Netblender will soon offer the ability to owners of an iPhone or an iPod touch that will allow the handheld devices to integrate with Blu-ray hardware. This new technology that will link Blu-ray ...
Date: 10 Apr 2008 04:04 | 4 comments
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President of Sony Corporation and CEO of Sony's Global Electronics Business, Ryoji Chubachi, has spoken of the corporation's plan to increase the market share of its Blu-ray Disc products dramatically. ...
Date: 8 Apr 2008 00:04 | 110 comments
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Following the fall of the HD DVD disc format, all eyes turned to Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, expecting a response to the news that could come in the form of a Blu-ray-equipped Xbox 360 unit ...
Date: 8 Apr 2008 00:04 | 25 comments
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WhyBuyGames.com,, the large European online rental company has announced that it will be adding Blu-ray movies to its current stock of video games.
The company secured external capital investment ...
Date: 7 Apr 2008 19:04 | 5 comments
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CyberLink Corp. launched the latest version of PowerDVD 8 last week. The company, which is an innovative solutions provider for the connected digital lifestyle, has fine-tuned the latest version ...
Date: 7 Apr 2008 02:04 | 9 comments
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According to Reuters, the media research firm Interpret has revealed that just about 60 percent of American consumers are now aware of Blu-ray as a disc format and that the number of households ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 19:04 | 14 comments
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DivX, Inc. announced that the latest Blu-ray Disc player from Denon, the high-end audio/video brand owned by D&M Holdings Inc., has been given DivX Certification. This puts the product in a ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 04:04 | 12 comments
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Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, Microsoft has once again denied that they are bringing a new generation of Xbox 360s with Blu-ray internal drives.
The rumor began again after DigiTimes ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:04 | 25 comments
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Although unconfirmed, industry sources are quoted as saying that Lite-On IT is currently developing Blu-ray Disc-(BD) ROM drives for the Microsoft Xbox 360 console and that they will begin ...
Date: 1 Apr 2008 21:04 | 16 comments
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The giant personal computer manufacturer Dell has announced that it will begin offering its Inspiron 1525 notebooks with an option for an internal Blu-ray drive, and that configurations will ...
Date: 28 Mar 2008 22:03 | 16 comments
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Although the format has been technically dead for over a month, HD DVD is now officially dead, as the HD DVD Promotion Group has formally dissolved itself, marking a quiet end to the High Definition format.
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Date: 28 Mar 2008 22:03 | 49 comments
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It seems that Best Buy is completely dropping HD DVD, and is pulling all titles and players from its retail stores.
Instead of putting the remaining discs through a firesale, Best Buy managers ...
Date: 28 Mar 2008 18:03 | 27 comments
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BCI/Eclipse, an indie movie distributor, has announced they have canceled all HD DVD titles and will be moving onto Blu-ray for future releases.
In 2006 BCI became the first indie distributor ...
Date: 27 Mar 2008 20:03 | 17 comments
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Citing strong sales of 'No Country for Old Men,', the Blu-ray camp has now topped 9 million discs sold since its launch.
BD sales for the first 11 weeks of 2008 is about 3 million units, ...
Date: 27 Mar 2008 20:03 | 28 comments
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Buffalo Technology has introduced its first ever external optical disc drive, a dual format HD drive dubbed the BRHC-6316U2.
The drive can read and write single or dual layer Blu-ray discs ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 20:03 | 7 comments
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THX chief scientist Laurie Fincham has been quoted as saying that despite its victory over HD DVD, Blu-ray will not become the next standard in the home entertainment market.
"Personally, ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 22:03 | 72 comments
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The next firmware update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console has gotten much hype over the past couple of weeks, as it turned it into the first official Profile 2.0 Blu-ray hardware. There has ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 21:03 | 9 comments
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Plextor made a surprising announcement today when it introduced two dual-format HD optical drives, the B920SA and B300SA, both of which can read Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.
Although the HD ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 01:03 | 7 comments
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Coinciding with an update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console to support Blu-ray Profile 2.0 titles, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be rolling out its first two BD-Live Blu-ray movie ...
Date: 24 Mar 2008 22:03 | 13 comments
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According to reports floating around the net, of which sources include PC World, the upcoming firmware update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console would allow a "Portable Copy" feature for the ...
Date: 24 Mar 2008 22:03 | 7 comments
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In a technological briefing held in Japan, Sharp revealed some of its plans relating to Blu-ray laser diodes. The company is a pioneer in the field after mass-producing the industry's first ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 22:03 | 7 comments
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CyberLink Corp. announced earlier this month that the latest update to the company's multimedia disc authoring software, PowerProducer Ultra 5, was ready to create high-definition compilations ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 22:03
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According to a survey conducted by the NPD Group during the week ending February 20th, millions are set to buy Blu-ray hardware within the next six months. Of all respondents, about 10.8% said ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 22:03 | 16 comments
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Mitsubishi has announced the development of two new Blu-ray recorder models that come with a touch-screen remote control. The two new and first models to the "REAL Blu-ray" series are the DVR-BZ200 ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 21:03 | 5 comments
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Roxio has announced the release of Toast 9 Titanium, the latest update in its popular disc burning software for Macs. Among the notable updates are Blu-ray support and remote Streaming.
The ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 20:03
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has announced that it will be investigating possible patent infringements related to Blu-ray players and peripherals, and that Sony was one of 30 companies ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 22:03 | 19 comments
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Philips has finally confirmed that it will be releasing a Blu-ray player in the UK, however if you are expecting it soon, you will be disappointed. The company will be releasing the BDP7200 ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 22:03 | 2 comments
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SlySoft is once again offering discounts to new users buying their products. This time, the company is offering a 20% discount on all its products to celebrate Easter (do you even need a reason ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 14:03 | 3 comments
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The upcoming PlayStation 3 Firmware update will make the console the first Blu-Ray Profile 2.0 capable player, among other updates.
The new version 2.2 firmware update will add Internet ...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 20:03 | 42 comments
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Best Buy has announced that it will be giving any BB customer who purchased an HD DVD player or the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on before February 23, 2008 a $50 USD gift card as a way to make amends.
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Date: 19 Mar 2008 22:03 | 28 comments
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SlySoft has been known in the past years for breaking and then poking fun at layers of protection released on DVDs with the AnyDVD application. It was no surprise that SlySoft would be among ...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 17:03 | 37 comments
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Last week we reported that Nikkei Business Daily had estimated that Toshiba lost nearly billion dollars (100 billion yen) developing and promoting their high-definition format. Now Toshiba has ...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 12:03 | 11 comments
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According to EngadgetHD, the latest version of the popular WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray (it actually supports HD DVD as well) has finally updated support for the latest audio codecs Blu-ray has available, ...
Date: 18 Mar 2008 21:03 | 5 comments
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Last week we reported that Panasonic announced two new DivX Certified Blu-ray players, DMP-BD30EG and DMP-BD30EE. Now DivX, Inc. announced in a press release that they have granted DivX Certificates ...
Date: 17 Mar 2008 08:03 | 3 comments
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Acer has launched a complete overhaul of their Aspire notebook line, dubbed the Gemstone Blue.
The new design revolves around "CineDash", a "touch-sensitive control that lets users navigate ...
Date: 16 Mar 2008 22:03 | 9 comments
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Fox has announced that it will be the first major studio to have extensive price cuts on its HD movie catalog by discounting 22 of its best selling Blu-ray titles.
The price cut, which began ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 21:03 | 89 comments
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Toshiba's high-definition format HD DVD, which was put to sleep three weeks ago, cost the company a whopping one billion dollars, reports Japanese source. After huge marketing campaigns, handful ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 13:03 | 28 comments
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After the obvious abandoning of HD DVD, Microsoft was said to be in talks with Sony to get a Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360. As we reported last week, Sony boss Stan Glasgow said in an interview ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 09:03 | 59 comments
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Starting on Friday, March 14, Microsoft will reportedly be cutting the price of the 20GB Xbox 360 in Europe to 270 euros. This represents a drop of 80 euros. Meanwhile, in the UK the price of ...
Date: 10 Mar 2008 17:03 | 5 comments
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The large Canadian retailer FutureShop has announced that anyone who bought a now obsolete HD DVD player now has the option to trade it in for a $100 CAD discount on the purchase of one of ...
Date: 8 Mar 2008 22:03 | 17 comments
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According to the Financial Times, Sony is currently in talks with Microsoft about a having the company offer an internal Blu-ray drive model of the Xbox 360 console.
Microsoft had backed ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 21:03 | 58 comments
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Image Entertainment has announced that it has canceled its upcoming HD DVD releases and added that it was dropping HD DVD completely to focus on Blu-ray.
Image is one of the biggest suppliers ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 20:03 | 7 comments
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This week has been a little slow for Glossary updates as I've been concentrating on some MPEG-2 editing guides. However there are two notable additions for the VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 18:03
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DivX Inc. has announced the DivX Certification of an upcoming Panasonic-brand Blu-ray Disc player. The Blu-ray player joined an array other Panasonic products that sport the DivX Certified logo ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 15:03 | 29 comments
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Samsung has announced that it has canceled the upcoming BD-UP5500 Blu-ray/HD DVD hybrid player and attributed the decision directly to Toshiba's decision to drop the format.
The company ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 19:03 | 4 comments
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Despite speculation by some that we may see a $200 Blu-ray player before year's end, no such product appears to be in sight. In fact, the Chinese companies responsible for the boom in low priced ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 07:03 | 84 comments
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Blue Underground, a giant distributor of cult and horror movies on DVD has announced that they will begin releasing their titles on Blu-ray later this year.
There was no word on which titles ...
Date: 5 Mar 2008 23:03 | 15 comments
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Sonic has announced that Global Digital Media Xchange (GDMX), an Authoring facility, will be using "Sonic's Scenarist HDMV and BD-J authoring and CineVision AVC video encoding systems" to ramp ...
Date: 5 Mar 2008 23:03 | 1 comment
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Toshiba CEO Atsutoshi Nishida has finally talked out about his company's decision to drop HD DVD and went as far as to say that the format did not "stand a chance" following Warner's decision ...
Date: 4 Mar 2008 22:03 | 44 comments
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The High Definition optical disc format war is over. You've read it here and elsewhere, and while some are upset that Blu-ray won, the overwhelming consensus is that a single format is best ...
Date: 3 Mar 2008 08:03 | 45 comments
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Although Blu-ray officially won the HD format war last week, in a pretty funny ironic twist, "American Gangster",an HD DVD-only Title was the top selling HD disc for the week, beating out new ...
Date: 2 Mar 2008 23:03 | 16 comments
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It seems Dreamworks has gotten the OK from Toshiba to drop HD DVD because they have cancelled all upcoming HD DVD titles including the anticipated "Bee Movie" that was set for release in North ...
Date: 2 Mar 2008 19:03 | 9 comments
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According to new data figures from Enterbrain, the ever popular Nintendo Wii has dominated the Japanese console market again, outselling the next closest competitor, the Sony PlayStation 3 by ...
Date: 28 Feb 2008 20:02 | 49 comments
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Dreamworks Studios has announced that they are still "locked" into an exclusivity deal with Toshiba to distribute their movies on HD DVD only and would continue to do so until Toshiba tells them differently.
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Date: 27 Feb 2008 23:02 | 96 comments
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At its annual retail and publisher conference Sony America has announced that new PlayStation 3 and PSP bundles will be hitting retailers beginning in April.
They company also announced that ...
Date: 26 Feb 2008 22:02 | 62 comments
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Sony has announced that its first Profile 2.0 Blu-ray players will be debuting this summer.
The BDP-S350 will be Sony's first new player since the demise of HD DVD last week and will feature ...
Date: 26 Feb 2008 21:02 | 72 comments
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Acer, the large notebook manufacturer has announced that it will be "pushing" Blu-ray notebooks beginning in the Q2 of this year.
The company, which had been signed to both Blu-ray and HD ...
Date: 25 Feb 2008 18:02 | 18 comments
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PLDS, the joint venture between Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions, has announced the DX-4O1S, a new, faster BD-ROM external drive set to hit stores by April.
The player is only a BD-ROM ...
Date: 25 Feb 2008 17:02 | 4 comments
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Microsoft has announced that will stop producing its HD DVD player add-on for the Xbox 360, citing Toshiba's end of support for the format as the key reason why.
The company said it would ...
Date: 24 Feb 2008 22:02 | 19 comments
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The high-end electronics maker Onkyo has also announced that it will be ending support for HD DVD and stopping all production of HD DVD players.
Although a couple of companies have recently ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 23:02 | 11 comments
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Contrary to other decisions by major companies, the manufacturer LG has announced it will not be dropping HD DVD and will instead remain format neutral.
"LG believes that at this present ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 23:02 | 13 comments
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Paramount has announced that it has become the final major studio to move to Blu-ray, after it had been HD DVD exclusive since last August.
"We are pleased that the industry is moving to ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 23:02 | 22 comments
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A new article by the GlobeandMail is saying that Sony paid Warner Bros. in excess of $400 million USD to drop HD DVD and move exclusively to Blu-ray.
Warner's decision, a week before this ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 22:02 | 73 comments
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Toshiba has officially announced that the company will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. After many unofficial announcements by different sources, the company ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 10:02 | 118 comments
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Microsoft and Paramount have announced a new partnership in which the movie studio will offer films via the Live Video Store beginning on February 19th.
The first Title to hit the service ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 23:02 | 16 comments
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Despite rampant speculation and rumor, it seems that Toshiba is not dropping HD DVD, or at least not for the time being.
The corporation has released a brief press release this morning in ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 21:02 | 35 comments
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Reuters is reporting that a source within Toshiba is confirming the company is planning to drop HD DVD, and is currently in the final stages of working out their exit strategy, although the ...
Date: 17 Feb 2008 03:02 | 34 comments
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First reported by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK and later confirmed by Toshiba itself, the next-gen format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is finally over, with Toshiba planning on stopping ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 19:02 | 112 comments
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Earlier this month, Plextor Europe announced the upcoming availability of its new Blu-ray burning / HD DVD reading optical drive that uses the faster SATA interface. The Plextor PX-B920SA (pictured ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 01:02 | 12 comments
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According to the NPD Group, year-over-years sales for the US videogame market fell 6 percent to $1.18 billion USD for January 2008.
Software sales for the month increased 11 percent however, ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 19:02 | 30 comments
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