Jens Eckels sent in some badass news that for the week of June 8-14, Wal-Mart will be issuing $100 Gift Cards for anyone buying a Blu-ray Player. In addition to that announcement Wal-Mart is announcing super-low prices, some as low as $15, on Blu-ray titles to choose from if you decide to pickup some titles [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 2, 2008
Microsoft continues to deny a Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray drive to avoid letting 360s sit on shelves and collect dust while people wait… but rumor has it that a subsidary of ASUS has won the contract to build the Xbox 360’s with the Blu-ray drives in them for Microsoft, prepping for a Q3 release [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Ted Regulski sends in the scoop that Firmware 2.20 is released, this is the one that includes the BD-Live support that is part of the Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0. Some of the other stuff in this release: The ability to copy PS3 Music and Photo playlists to a PSP system. We introduced the ability to create [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 20, 2008
See, this is why I’m glad my Blu-ray player is my PS3… it’s infinitely upgradable. A new update coming at the end of March adds all the BD Live support stuff now: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that system software update v.2.20, for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3), planned for release in late March, will add [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
Thanks goes out to Todd Swarthout for this poll idea, check it over on the right hand side of the page. So now that Blockbuster is Blu, Netflix went Blu, Wal-mart/Best Buy/Target/Circuit City are all Blu… the question is, are you going Blu-ray this year? Possible reasons not to: You pissed your money away on a HD-DVD player [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
Ted Regulski, AKA Ted “The Ted Man” Regulski, sent in news that Susan Chronister from Wal-Mart has confirmed that the employee-raping giant will go Blu-ray exclusive by June with no plans to continue stocking HD-DVD media or players. So everyone that bought a $99 HD-DVD… yea… that freaking sucks
Continue reading...Monday, February 11, 2008
Laurence Hartje, staying on-top of the death of HD-DVD, sent in news that Best Buy has taken the official stance of recommending Blu-ray to customers over HD-DVD when asked about which HD format to support. We already covered all the major studios (except Universal) moving over to Blu-ray, and Netflix announcing Blu-ray only support (Blockbuster announced [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 11, 2008
Laurence Hartje just sent in news that Netflix has decided to go Blu-ray as a response to the trend of other major studios doing the same. While you can still add HD-DVD movies to your queue as of this morning, I don’t know how much longer those disks will stay in circulation. My guess is that [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 19, 2008
idoblu.co.uk has put together a matrix (for your reference) of all the Blu-ray players out there and their capabilities (thanks Engadget!) So next time you head over to Amazon looking for a Blu-ray player, you can quick-check this matrix and see which one you should pick up. TIP: PS3 FTW!
Continue reading...Friday, January 18, 2008
Engadget reports the stats from the most recent Nielsen ratings and it looks like game-over… game-over man… With a 85/15 split up from the last rating showing a 60/40 split or something like that, I think it’s safe to say HD-DVD is done as far as HD movie media is concerned.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 10, 2008
Ouch, it just won’t stop. First Warner announces it’s going Blu-ray exclusive, then it is noticed that Paramount can get out if it’s HD-DVD exclusivity contract due to Warner moving and many speculate it will. Now HBO says it will go Blu-ray exclusive and apparently Universal (the last studio left under HD-DVD) has it’s exclusivity contract come [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 7, 2008
The Financial Times is running a story stating that Paramount has a get-out-of-HD-DVD-free clause in their exclusivity contract… specifically if Warner moved to Blu-ray exclusively (but that would NEVER happen). Here’s the current break down of studio support:
Continue reading...Monday, January 7, 2008
Sony has been making the PSP cooler and cooler with each firmware update for both it and the PS3 this year. First we had streaming media/TV from PS3 to PSP, then we had streaming games believe it or not, then we got Skype support on the frigging PSP and now Sony has dropped the hammer [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 7, 2008
For the HTPC nuts out there or hard core folks that have been waiting for this, Sony has released it’s $200 Blu-ray reader drive for PCs everywhere along with bundled CyberLink PowerDVD BD Edition. So for folks still wanting to burn Blu-ray disks, you’ll still need to cough up the $400-500 for a reader/writer. Still, it’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 4, 2008
I was hesitating to report on this until more details emerged to make the decision more final. Basically here’s what happened: Warner Bros, one of the last studios on the HD-DVD/Blu-ray fence finally agreed to go exclusive to Blu-ray for the life of the studio after May. Rumors abound that they were paid $500 million to make [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 4, 2008
Well, we might actually be seeing the begining of the end of the format war (about time!). Warner, the last dual-format supporter has announced that they are moving exclusively to Bluray. Here’s a link to the Reuter’s article. Engadget is reporting that the HD-DVD Promotions group has canceled their CES press conference in response to the Warner [...]
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