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Blu-ray Player Capability Matrix
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...Nielsen Confirms: HD-DVD is Dead
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...Blu-ray Continues to Destroy HD-DVD
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...Paramount dropping HD-DVD?
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...CES: Sony Announces PS3 to PSP Blu-ray Download
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...CES: $200 Sony BDU-X10S Blu-ray PC Drive
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...Blu-ray Wins
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...Warner goes Blu
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 [...]
Continue reading...Resident Evil Extinction and Blu-ray Profile 1.1
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Blu-ray Profile 1.1 players have bee available since November 2007, but there were no Profile 1.1 discs. Resident Evil: Extinction has the honor of being the first Blu-Ray Profile 1.1 disc to be released. What do you get when you combine a Profile 1.1 player with a Profile 1.1 disc, and should you care? Lions, Tigers, [...]
Continue reading...Michael Bay: Microsoft Purposefully Harming HD Formats
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Engadget HD has the scoop on Bay’s response to an angry user that Transformers was going to be a HD-DVD only release by admitting he had the inside track to the high level politics going on with the studios. Bay claims that Microsoft is sitting in the background pulling the strings and purposefully backing HD-DVD, [...]
Continue reading...Wal-Mart to Offer 80GB PS3 + 10 Blu-ray Movies (+5)
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Laurence Hartje sends in a note that Boy Genius is reporting that starting November 24th, Wal-Mart will not be discounting the price of the 80GB PS3, but instead allowing you to pluck 10 Blu-ray movies off the shelve (under $30) to take with you when you buy one. They also mention this is in addition to [...]
Continue reading...SlySoft p0wns BD+ Blu-ray DRM, HD-DVD Securing Future
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Well that lasted long, the impenetrable copy-protection for Blu-ray media, BD+, has been cracked by the SlySoft crew and copying/ripping/backing-up/whatevering your Blu-ray media is now fully supported by the software. What I thought was interesting were some of the notes in the Changelog: Note to Twentieth Century Fox: As you can see, BD+ didn’t offer you any [...]
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
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