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Netflix Bumps Blu-ray Access Price up 500%
Given the already impecable service we are receiving from Netflix, it looks like we are getting blessed with a price-hike as well for Blu-ray movie access. When HD disks (Blu-ray and HD-DVD) first dropped at Netflix, they were free for months. Then after Blu-ray won, Netflix shortly announced a premium price-hike for Blu-ray access that was [...]
Continue reading...Sony’s Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn’t Sabotage – It’s Just Sony
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Washington Times’s Sonny Bunch wrote an article recently that raked Sony over the coals for: No price cut this holiday season — instead they actually released a more expensive bundle Not properly promoting DVD-upscaling capabilities of the PS3 No Netflix (or other 3rd party) streaming movie support This is all in the wake of Sony’s falling PS3 sales [...]
Continue reading...Blu-ray is DOA: High Costs, Expensive Players and HD DLC
Monday, November 3, 2008
ZDNet’s Robin Harris takes a look at why Blu-ray is dead-on-arrival. Robin’s analysis, while starting with an inflammatory title, makes a lot of sense. Robing starts off by citing the first few key elements that killed the format: 2-year battle with HD-DVD took the steam out of HD Disks in general, making consumers a bit hesitant about [...]
Continue reading...Blu-ray BD+ Copy Protection System Cracked – Publicly
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Slashdot reports that the BD+ copy protection scheme used in Blu-ray media has officially been cracked by the Doom9 community. Slysoft had previously cracked the BD+ copy protection scheme and ship functionality in their existing product line supporting Blu-ray disk operations (copy, burn, etc.) Turns out one of the developers from the Slysoft group provided a [...]
Continue reading...Wal-Mart Gives $100 Gift Card for Blu-ray Player Purchase
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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...Xbox 360 + Blu-ray Rumors More Serious
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...PS3 2.20 Firmware Released
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...Upcoming Playstation 3 Firmware Adds BD LIVE
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...New Poll: You Going Blu-ray This Year?
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...Wal-Mart Going Blu-ray Exclusive by June
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...Best Buy Recommends Blu-ray over HD-DVD
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...Netflix picks Blu-ray (See ya HD-DVD!)
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 [...]
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Monday, March 30, 2009
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