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Amazon $199 HD-DVD Player + 10 HD-DVD Movies
Just got this in the mail. Amazon is running a $199 deal which includes a Toshiba HD-A3 ($169 by itself, or $99 from some retailers fufilling the $99 A2-backorders earlier) and 10 HD-DVD movies you can choose with the order. The HD-A3 doesn’t do 1080p, but should serve it’s purpose as a value HD-DVD very [...]
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...$99 HD-DVD Player at Walmart Friday
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Laurence Hartje sends in the raid-worthy news that Walmart will be kicking off the holiday season with a $99 HD-DVD player, specifically the Toshiba HD-A2 (CNET Review, Amazon Reviews). Just a quick reminder, this is not the super-high-end 1080p HD-DVD player, this is the mainstream 1080i HD-DVD player. So if you are not an AV-phile, go [...]
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...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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Thursday, November 22, 2007
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