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CES: Sony Announces PS3 to PSP Blu-ray Download
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...Technology Reviews
Friday, November 16, 2007
Welcome to the Technology Reviews section. Below you will find reviews for computer software, hardware, online services and anything else related to technology. Hardware Dell 3008 WFP 30″ LCD Review OLPC (On Laptop Per Child) Laptop Review Onkyo DS-A2 iPod Dock Review Software Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives Blu-ray Profile 1.1 Features & Functionality Review Box.net: Great setup, huge let down Vongo [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Announces HD-DVD/Blu-ray Player
Friday, April 13, 2007
It’s official, Samsung has announced a dual-format HD media player: BD-UP5000. This looks to be the first real dual-format player as the LG dual-format player was a Blu-ray player with HD-DVD play-only support tacked on, and didn’t support the true HD-DVD specification; which, like the Blu-ray spec, defines additional technologies like the HDi interactive language, [...]
Continue reading...Samsung HL-S7178W Pictures
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Ok this one is for the Samsung lovers out there, ‘RayPaganJR‘ asked me to host these shots for him over on AVS and it was just too pretty of a setup not to share with all of you… notice the THX-ceritifed power amp, combined with the Samsung BluRay player and some hugely complex tuner… it [...]
Continue reading...Handy HD-DVD/BluRay Capabilities Reference
Thursday, August 3, 2006
This was originally posted over at Engadget but I thought it was damn handy, so here’s a reproduction of the best portion of it: Capacity Blu-Ray HD DVD ROM single layer: ROM dual layer: RW single layer: RW dual layer: Highest test: Theoretical limit: 23.3 / 25GB 46.6 / 50GB 23.3 / 25 / 27GB 46.6 / 50 / 54GB 100GB 200GB Single layer: Dual layer: - - Highest test: Theoretical limit: 15GB 30GB - - 45GB 60GB Codecs Blu-Ray HD DVD MPEG-2 Microsoft Video Codec 1 [...]
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