The “Break it Down” Blog

YouTube Turns on HD – And it Looks Fantastic!

Well YouTube has finally done it – they’ve turned on HD for select movies uploaded in a high enough format to support it. You guys probably noticed the new widescreen player rollout a few weeks ago, it looks like that was Part 1 of the transition. Part 2 was to actually enable a “watch in HD” [...]

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PS3 2.5 Firmware Adding Screenshot Capability

CVG is reporting that the 2.5 firmware update for the PS3 (coming somewhat soon, weeks? months?) will add the ability to grab screenshots of whatever you are playing. I imagine this will need to be some magic set of keystrokes to do so, because right now not every game pauses the action when you hit the [...]

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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!

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