December 15, 2009
- Combo discs boost Blu-ray (The Washington Times)
LOS ANGELES Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. Even people who already own Blu-ray players are still buying movies on DVDs
December 14, 2009
- Studios Add DVD, Digital Options to Goose Blu-ray Sales (E-Commerce Times)
Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below US$100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. Even people who already own Blu-ray players are still buying movies on DVDs. One big reason: Blu-ray discs won't play on standard DVD players found in cars, computers and bedrooms.
October 1, 2009
- Pioneer BDR-205 Blu-ray Drive for PCs Unveiled (I4U)
The first Blu-ray burner for desktop computers that I got my hands on a few years back was well over $1000.
- Pioneer BDR-205 Blu-ray Drive for PCs Unveiled (I4U)
The first Blu-ray burner for desktop computers that I got my hands on a few years back was well over $1000. Today you can buy a computer with a Blu-ray player for about the same amount. Pioneer has unveiled a new Blu-ray burner for desktop computers called…
August 10, 2009
- Toshiba Confirms Plans for Blu-Ray Player, Laptops (Tom's Hardware)
Toshiba has confirmed plans to launch Blu-ray players and computers.
- Toshiba seeks Blu-ray Disc Association link (MacNN)
Toshiba started the week by revealing that it hopes to join the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). The company explained the move as a reaction to "recent growth" in the amount of hardware supporting Blu-ray along with high-enough demand from the public itself. If accepted, the Japanese firm plans to make both Blu-ray movie players, drives for computers and notebooks themselves using the …
- Toshiba seeks Blu-ray Disc Association link (MacNN)
Toshiba started the week by revealing that it hopes to join the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). The company explained the move as a reaction to "recent growth" in the amount of hardware supporting Blu-ray along with high-enough demand from the public itself. If accepted, the Japanese firm plans to make both Blu-ray movie players, drives for computers and notebooks themselves using the …
July 1, 2009
- Alienware reveals own 16:9 mainstream LCD (MacNN)
Alienware today quietly introduced its own desktop display built both for gaming and movie viewing.
June 23, 2009
- Blu-Ray, I Hardly Know Ye (Network World)
There was a time when it looked like HD-DVD would be winner in the battle to bring high-definition to computers and video players. Then the momentum suddenly swung to a competing standard called Blu-ray. Now, it looks like Blu-Ray is in trouble, but not from HD-DVD.
June 22, 2009
- Blu-Ray, I Hardly Know Ye (PC World via Yahoo! News)
There was a time when it looked like HD-DVD would be winner in the battle to bring high-definition to computers and video players.
June 10, 2009
- ArcSoft Collaborates With VIA Technologies to Offer True HD Audio to Users When Watching Blu-ray Movies on PC (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
FREMONT, Calif.—-ArcSoft, Inc. announced today that its universal multimedia player, ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Theatre, now supports the VIA Vinyl HD Audio codecs to allow AACS protected HD audio output at its full quality, offering users exceptional sound effects when watching Blu-ray movies on their computers.
May 26, 2009
- Feature: Blu-ray player loading times compared! (cnet.com.au)
Now that Blu-ray players are essentially cut-down computers it can seemingly take forever to load discs. We rate players on how quick they are.
February 9, 2009
- The Evolution of Blu-ray: How the Blu-ray Disc Was Born
Titus Hoskins asked: Copyright (c) 2008 Titus HoskinsBy now, you have probably heard of Blu-ray or Blu-ray discs and players, but do you know how this high definition technology came to be born or developed? (…)
