March 8, 2010
- Toshiba prices up Blu-ray Disc patent portfolio (The Register)
Pools tech resources with Warner, Thomson and Mitsubishi Consumer electronics and entertainment companies Mitsubishi, Thomson, Toshiba and Warner Bros have together begun charging for their intellectual property that is "essential" to Blu-ray Disc players, drives and recorders.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
January 13, 2010
- Tom Beghin: The Virtual Haydn - Complete Works for Solo Keyboard (Blu-ray) (DVD Talk)
Highly Recommended The Product: When DVD first arrived, audio and video purists greeted the format with open arms. In their mind, the updated technology afforded the kind of sophisticated reproduction and sound/vision clarity the CD, VHS, and standard analog mediums lacked. Fast forward a decade, and Blu-ray is getting the same sort of scrutiny, being sized up for uses other than home theater …
January 11, 2010
- Win a Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray player (Daily Telegraph)
Be the envy of all your friends with the latest Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray player - high quality, great value and packed with extra features, you'll be hosting all the best film nights in 2010. We're giving eight lucky Telegraph readers the chance to get their hands on this premium piece of technology.
January 6, 2010
- Zoran Demonstrates New HDTV, Set-Top Box, Blu-Ray and HD Media Player, Digital Camera and Printer Technologies at CES … (Marketwire)
CEO Levy Gerzberg on "Big Thinkers and Disruptive Technologies" SuperSession Panel
- Zoran Demonstrates New HDTV, Set-Top Box, Blu-Ray and HD Media Player, Digital Camera and Printer Technologies at CES … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire - 01/06/10) - Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ: ZRAN - News ) announced it is demonstrating its newest digital entertainment and digital imaging platforms and technologies for consumer electronics manufacturers at CES 2010 opening in Las Vegas Thursday, Jan 7. In addition, President and CEO Levy Gerzberg will participate on the SuperSession panel "Big Thinkers and Disruptive …
January 4, 2010
December 25, 2009
- Hollywood hoping Blu-ray sways viewers (Chicago Tribune)
In push to win fans, compete with rival technologies, discs flip to play as standard DVDs Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, consumers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. One big reason: Blu-ray discs won't play on standard DVD players.
December 22, 2009
- Oppo Releasing Lower Cost Blu-ray Player in 2010 (Audio Video Revolution)
Cable news channels funnel information from Twitter on a daily basis. Most of the time it just comes off as sloppy, and many of the newcasters are clearly unfamiliar with the service.
December 17, 2009
- Blu-ray 3-D Coming Soon to a Tricked-Out Home Theater Near You (TechNewsWorld.com)
The Blu-ray Disc Association released the specifications for 3-D Blu-ray on Thursday, just over a year after Panasonic first publicly demonstrated its application of 3-D Blu-ray technology. The specifications are backward-compatible with standard 2-D Blu-ray players, and disks and will run on Sony PlayStation 3 consoles.
- Blu-ray 3-D Coming Soon to a Tricked-Out Home Theater Near You (TechNewsWorld.com)
The Blu-ray Disc Association released the specifications for 3-D Blu-ray on Thursday, just over a year after Panasonic first publicly demonstrated its application of 3-D Blu-ray technology. The specifications are backward-compatible with standard 2-D Blu-ray players, and disks and will run on Sony PlayStation 3 consoles.
- Blu-ray 3D specifications finalized, your PS3 is ready (Engadget)
In case plans by AMD and a slew of other tech vendors planning to showcase 3D Blu-ray compatible products at CES wasn't a tip-off, the updated specifications are done. The key details? First, that the Blu-ray Disc Association has chosen the Multiview Video Coding (MVC) codec to store 3D, so that even though it is now providing a full 1080p frame for each eye, it will only require about 50% more …
December 16, 2009
- Technicolor and Testronic Labs Join Forces to Offer Comprehensive Suite of Blu-ray Disc Verification Services (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BURBANK, Calif.—-Thomson , through its Technicolor Business Group, and Testronic Labs today announce that they have teamed up to offer comprehensive Blu-ray Disc testing capabilities that combine the unique areas of expertise that each company offers.
December 14, 2009
- John Farr: Is Blu-ray That Red-Hot? (The Huffington Post)
I suppose it was bound to happen.
December 7, 2009
- AMD readying a demo of the Blu-ray 3D standard, might not wait for it to exist first (Engadget)
AMD and CyberLink, which recently integrated SENSIO 3D technology into its PowerDVD player, are already touting a 2010 CES demo promising to show off their implementation of "the forthcoming Blu-ray stereoscopic 3D standard." While the world continues to wait for an announcement on what the 3D Blu-ray standard will actually entail (backwards compatible 2D combo discs, and Full HD stereoscopic …
December 3, 2009
- Blu-ray disc, player sales picking up holiday steam (Greater Baton Rouge Business Report)
(From The Daily Reveille ) The newest home video format, the high-definition Blu-ray disc, has become a big high-tech buy this holiday season.
November 9, 2009
- Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent (Ars Technica)
"Managed copy" has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films will finally come to all Blu-ray discs on December 4, 2009 . Unfortunately, no Blu-ray player yet has the ability to make one of these copies, rendering the whole scheme pretty pointless until consumers purchase the new players (available at some point in 2010 …
- OPPO Digital Chooses ESS's New Sabre32 Audio DAC For Its Flagship BDP-83 Special Edition Blu-ray Player (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
FREMONT, Calif.—-ESS Technology, Inc., a leading provider of high performance audio/video solutions, today announced that both its new ES9016 Sabre32 Ultra 8-channel Audio DAC and its ES9006 Premier Audio DAC are shipping in volume in OPPO Digital’s latest flagship BDP-83 Special Edition Universal Blu-ray Disc Player.
November 3, 2009
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Complete Season One on Blu-ray and DVD, Plus More (Animation World Network)
"There are a handful of things about the film, at least for me, that are unique and provided personal challenge," the overall visual effects supervisor suggests. "One was the Typhoon aircraft, which is the bladeless helicopter that uses vertical takeoff and landing technology.
October 22, 2009
- : DF: Blu-ray makes no sense for Xbox 360 (Eurogamer)
Digital Foundry considers tech implications. News this morning suggests Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has done it again, pre-empting official announcements by confirming to Gizmodo that the company is planning a Blu-ray expansion drive for the Xbox 360. When asked if forthcoming 360s will get an internal Blu-ray drive, he replied: "Well I don't know if we need to put Blu-ray in there - you'll be …
October 15, 2009
- PLDS iHES208 internal Blu-ray combo drive (The Register)
More than just an interim enhancement? Review PLDS is a joint venture between Philips and Lite-On that develops optical disc drive technologies and markets related products. The PLDS iHES208 internal drive is new take on the 'combo' drive concept, providing complete CD and DVD reading and writing functions, plus the ability to play Blu-ray titles at full 1080p quality
