Samsung and LG Say Goodbye to Combo Players
15 May 2008
Samsung and LG will no longer produce players that are capable of playing both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Discs as of this fall. This move will help both companies to cut costs. Here is what they have to say about this piece of news: “Surely, it is a very tough decision for us to halt the production [...]
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Disney Betting on BD-Live to Boost up Blu-ray Sales
14 May 2008
Disney has ambitious plans for the Blu-ray format. However, sales of the “blue” movies have not been impressive at all for the last couple of months. In a effort to improve the situation Disney has a strategy! They will start releasing old animated classics in high definition focusing on special features such as BD-Java and [...]
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Sony Will Have a Bloody July With Horror Releases
13 May 2008
Sony Pictures announced a July full of bloody horror releases. The company will bring some red to the Blu on July 22nd… Let’s hope that all that blood will look good in HD. You should expect: ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose‘ will come on 2.35:1 1080p with 5.1 lossless English soundtrack ‘Urban Legend‘ will come 2.40:1 1080p [...]
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Blu-ray Hits the $300 Mark with MagnaVox NB500MG9
12 May 2008
MagnaVox started selling a 1.1 profile Blu-ray player for 298 bucks, which has been spotted at Wal-Mart. This is definitely the cheapest option out there…Is this what many people have been waiting for to take the plunge and invest on a Blu-ray player? Maybe… MagnaVox is a second tier brand from Phillips but this player [...]
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Can Blu-ray Conquer China?
10 May 2008
China is a very important market to any product trying to get established in the world because of its humongous size. However, will the largest potential consumer market give in to the Blu-ray technology? The Blu-ray Disc Association is investing a lot of time negociating with Chinese hardware manufactures to start producing cheaper Blu-ray player [...]
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BD Media Coating
08 May 2008
We came across these 2 interesting videos demonstrating the coating technology used on TDK Blu-ray media. It is called DURABIS2 but initially referred to as Super Hard Coating. This is basically an innovative technology which reinforces and protects the recording surface of BD media products. This coating is what makes Blu-rays more resistant against smudges, [...]
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Lite-On Brings The DH-4B1S Blu-ray Writer to Europe
08 May 2008
By the end of May, PLDS (Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions) will have the new DH-4B1S 4x Blu-ray writer out on the European market. This new BD writer is the successor of the LH-2B1S, one of the first Blu-ray drives on the market. The new DH-4B1S offers twice the speed at a more consistent [...]
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Pioneer Announces Blu-ray Players: Elite BDP-05FD and BDP-51FD
07 May 2008
The new Elite BDP-05FD and BDP-51FD are definitely not following the trend! Pioneer is making a bet on higher component quality and while most other large manufacturers are releasing profile 2.0 (BD-Live) players, their Elite BDP-05FD and BDP-51FD will have only BonusView (profile 1.1). According to them, these quality components are nothing like the others [...]
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Price on the New Panasonic DMP-BD50
06 May 2008
Panasonic has just announced the price on their new profile 2.0 Blu-ray player. The DMP-BD50 will have a MSRP of $699.95. This is still a lot of money and certainly much more than most consumers are willing to spend to make the move from a DVD to a Blu-ray player. However, keep in mind that [...]
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Replace Your DVD Collection with Blu-ray Movies?
04 May 2008
DVD players have been around for some years and with them you probably have created a considerable DVD movie collection ranging from classics all the way to most recent releases. All of this, if you are a real movie fan! And then this thing called HD format comes along and you no longer have the [...]
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