HD DVD Sales Apparently Still Going Strong in States
HD DVD sales are currently strong in the States, reports the Financial Times.
The doomed high-def disc format was effectively cancelled by backers Toshiba and co earlier in the year, after the rival Blu-ray format emerged victorious, but “tough economic conditions” have breathed new life into the platform.
Aggressive price cuts for the hardware - said to [...]
Buffalo Announces 8X Blu-ray Burner
Buffalo just announced the world’s fastest Blu-ray recorder that is capable of burning through your data at an 8x speed. It’s available in Japan beginning next month. You can get an External version and an internal version. The BR-816U2 External features eSATA and USB port. The BR-816FBS can be connected by SATA.
CDs and DVDs are [...]
Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player Review
Samsung have been making noises in the Blu-ray market for some time now. But does their latest player offer enough to convince you to switch from your humble DVD? We get watching to find out.
Samsung have a reputation for delivering affordable technologies and the uptake of their LCD panels over the past few years is [...]
Pioneer releases BonusView Blu-Ray Disc Player and Elite A/V receiver
Pioneer has announced the Elite BDP-05FD and Pioneer BDP-51FD Blu-Ray Disc players and Elite SC-07, SC-05, VSX-03TXH and VSX-01TXH A/V receivers designed to give users that true theater experience in their own homes. The Elite BDP-05FD and Pioneer BDP-51FD BonusView Blu-ray Disc players support next generation high resolution audio and video formats, feature picture-in-picture [...]
A Blu-ray Wireless Home Theater: The Panasonic SC-BT100 Review
Panasonic have recently come with an exceptional piece of news for all those in search for the newest and niftiest trends in multimedia: the SC-BT100 home theater system, a full and rich package boasting a Blu-ray drive and wireless, surround sound architecture and a heap of other great features to integrate your multimedia needs. And [...]
Panasonic DMP-BD30 1.1 Blu-Ray Player Review
The Panasonic DMP-BD30 is the world’s first Profile 1.1 Blu-ray player.
A certain amount of deserved fanfare is in order, as some of you will be aware that the BD market has been cursed by dithering standards.
Profile 1.1 (also amusingly know as the Final Standards profile - which it isn’t) mandates for persistent memory and a [...]
Ballmer: Microsoft will support Blu-ray
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has stated that the company will now support Blu-ray, the winner of the next-generation DVD format war.
“We’ve already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like, and I think the world moves on,” said Ballmer at Microsoft’s Mix08 internet conference.
“Toshiba has moved [...]
Sony Annual Line Show, Las Vegas 2008
This year, as last, Sony held its annual line show at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. While it is intended primarily for dealers—which explains the introduction of everything from televisions to digital voice recorders, computers, cameras, cell phones, and alarm clocks (in short, everything you’ll see featured in Sony movies later this year)—the press [...]
Paramount Blu-ray movies spotted on Amazon.co.uk Images
Despite Paramount’s official statement that they are sticking with the flagging HD DVD format as their next-gen disc of choice, rumours still abound online that the company will go Blu-ray in the not-too-distant future.
Adding fuel to those particular flames of rumour is the recent discovery of some “coming soon” Blu-ray-flavoured Paramount discs on Amazon.co.uk.
The three [...]
