advertisement
 

Articles on Blu-ray Disc

Blu-ray: Everything you need to know

Features It seems Blu-ray is finally ready to go mainstream in 2009. But what exactly is it? What does it do? And is it right for you? Read story »

When storage's all blue

Crave Like finally. According to Sony Electronics Asia Pacific, the first single-layer 25GB Blu-ray disc will hit Asia by late June. Priced at US$19.99 (S$31.94) for the BD-R (write once) and US$24.99 ... Read story »

Paramount goes HD-DVD exclusive

Features Transformers studio and fellow Viacom brands drop most support for Blu-ray format.  Read story »

Microsoft offers cash incentives for HD-DVD

Crave Microsoft is offering cash incentives called coupons to computer makers that sell personal computers with HD DVD drives, the next-generation DVD format the software behemoth is supporting over the rival Blu-ray ... Read story »

Pioneer ships first Blu-ray computer drive

Crave Pioneer Electronics announced today that it is shipping a Blu-ray computer drive, the industry's first. The BDR-101A uses blue laser technology to burn up to 25GB of data onto a single-layer ... Read story »

US porn studio and HD-DVD camp in divorce row

Crave It's one blow after another for the Toshiba-lead HD-DVD consortium. This time round, it's California-based Digital Playground Inc. turning its back on the red camp. A recent statement released by the ... Read story »

Bitch Blog online via BD-Live

Crave There seems to be increased traction on BD-Live (profile 2.0) implementations in some of the upcoming HD releases. Most notable Liongates' Saw IV with MoLog. The latter is a BD-Live-interactive Blu-ray ... Read story »

LG to sell first Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo player

Features The Korean chaebol says the television has a higher resolution than plasmas and lower power consumption. Read story »

More people renting DVD and Blu-ray Discs?

Crave I just noticed a New York Times blog post about the sales trends of DVD and Blu-ray discs. While numbers for DVD and Blu-ray weren't broken out, overall sales for ... Read story »

Good sign for Blu? Blu-ray theft on the rise

Crave I'm betting The Dark Knight was the most popular stolen disc. It's never good news that your products are being stolen, except maybe if you're selling Blu-ray. Video Business has an ... Read story »

Blu-ray sales nearly double from a year ago

Crave The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is one of the big Blu-ray releases slated for later this year. Blu-ray detractors and backers, here's the latest status report on the format: According ... Read story »

Can Sony get 50 percent market share for Blu-ray this year?

Crave Maybe that price cut in Blu-ray players is coming sooner than we think because Digitimes is reporting that Sony has set some very ambitious goals for Blu-ray in 2008. And by ... Read story »

Blu-ray player sales down despite format victory

Crave Looks like it wasn't the HD-DVD/Blu-ray battle that was keeping potential customers away from HD video players after all. The NPD Group released some of its retail sales tracking data Wednesday ... Read story »

Samsung announces "Duo HD" player

Features The Korean electronics giant has just made a u-turn, announcing plans to roll out a universal HD-DVD/Blu-ray player amid raging speculations, hopeful promises and high expectations. Read story »

BD-Live falls short again with Iron Man

Crave So far, BD-Live has been a pretty questionable feature overall, and last week's Iron Man mishap only makes matters worse. According to High-Def Digest, BD-Live servers were overwhelmed last week, making ... Read story »

Jump to page: 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11 12