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Tag Archives: Blu-ray
Justifying the Expense of WoW
Short of being rich, we all have to budget our money. Money has to be set aside for housing, utilities, automobile expenses (unless you are in a city [..]
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 [..]