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Category Archives: Blu-ray
The War is Over
The format war is officially over. Toshiba announced it was shutting HD-DVD down, but would support all currant players out there. They further said they had no plans [..]
HD-DVD Suffers More Losses
A few announcements today make HD-DVD a bigger looser than it already was at this point. Netflix announced that they would go with Blu-ray exclusively and phase out [..]
Warner Goes Blu-Ray
I haven’t covered the developments in the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray for a long time. Since I last covered it, Paramount and Dreamworks went to HD-DVD [..]
The HDMI 1.3 Connection
Thinking about getting a HD-DVD player, or the recently launched Blu-ray player? Just hold your horses. None of the players currently on the market support HDMI 1.3, which [..]
PS3 to be $499 and $599
There will be two versions of Sony’s PlayStation 3 when it launches in November. Check the table below taken from Sony’s website (in PDF): PlayStation 3 Product Name [..]
HD-DVD Out
The first HD-DVD players and movies are out. The Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD PLAYER and/or the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player are/is out in limited numbers, or so [..]
Playstation 3 in November
Sony’s Playstation 3 will launch in November. It was widely expected to be out in the United States here in November anyhow, so this is mostly just a [..]
Blu-ray Movie Prices
I’ll leave the details to the story at Ars Technica, but basically the wholesale price is $17.95 for catalog titles, and $23.45 for new releases, this will equal [..]
More Bias from the HD-DVD Camp News Machine
A Newsweek story says: Both sides came to Vegas ready to open fire. Toshiba announced it would ship the first HD DVD players in March, priced at just [..]
Blu-ray update
I haven’t talked about the Blu-ray/HD-DVD war for a while. So I update a few things to a small degree. Read more
Blu-ray 50GB discs in production
I saw in the comments for the previous Blu-ray post, and in the tech news that Panasonic has started actual production on dual layer Blu-ray discs. The current [..]
HD-DVD fans and their spin
I first saw this story which had the following blatant inaccuracy: This news comes on the heels of wavering support for Blu-ray due to recent reports of it’s [..]
Blu-ray update
I haven’t posted any of the updates on the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD battle lately. There has been a smattering of news, MGM announced it would officially support Blu-ray [..]
Warner Backs Blu-ray
It’s official, Warner Brothers, one of the early backers of HD-DVD will release movies on Blu-ray as well. This leaves only Universal as the only HD-DVD supporting studio [..]
Thank you HP
Hewlett Packard has formally asked the Blu-ray Disc Association to add Managed Copy and iHD to the final specs (HD Beat story). The addition of these two specifications, [..]
Another win for Blu-ray
The Blu-ray disc format got another win today as Paramount Pictures announced they will release movies in Blu-ray as well as HD-DVD if no unified format comes out [..]