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Blu-ray: A high-capacity optical disc that holds 4.5 hours of high-definition video (HD) on a single-sided, single-layer 25GB disk. Announced in 2002 by Sony, Hitachi, Philips and other vendors, the...; Full Blu-ray Definition >>

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Neil Young gives his name to a spider: Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University (ECU) professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...; Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Rumor Mill: What you should be saving up for: Howdy. It's Jake, Jason's evil, rumor-mongering twin. It's Friday, which means that it's time for a peek at the current raft of Apple rumors: iPhone 3G – This one is getting more persistant, so it's probably getting closer to being real. The latest word...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, MBP, 3G, Cellular Phones, Notebooks, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-11
The strange journey of HD disc formats: THe battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is firmly in the category of "old news." With the shift of Warner Brothers to the Blu-ray camp and the domino effect in terms of industry support that caused, Toshiba quickly decided to cease its backing of the format it developed and...; Tags: HD-DVD, Disc, Blu-ray, HD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-04-01
Laptops are bringing the Blu-ray: With HD-DVD dead and buried, computer makers are moving to Blu-ray. Dell is now offering 15.4-inch laptop with a Blu-ray drive for less than $900--impressive since some standalone Blu-ray players still cost nearly as much. HP, Acer and Asus are also offering laptops with Blu-ray drives. The...; Tags: Intel Core 2 Duo, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Blu-ray Drive, Inspiron 1525, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-04-01
Hooray! Blu-ray BD+ hacked!: The good folks at SlySoft announced last week that they'd broken the BD+ copy protection scheme: With today's release of version 6.4.0.0 of AnyDVD HD it is now also possible to make backup security copies of Blu-ray discs protected with BD+. Cool....; Tags: Hollywood, Blu-ray, Copy Protection, SlySoft, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-03-23

Sony PS3 getting BD-Live sooner rather than later: When I referred to potential Blu-ray player shoppers having an easy choice to make last week - Sony PS3 or, ummm, a Sony PS3 - I mentioned it was the only Blu-ray player currently on the market that could be upgraded to the format's Profile 2 functionality. Profile 2, or...; Tags: Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-03-20
SlySoft cracks Blu-ray BD+ encryption: [UPDATE 03/26/08 - Exercising its "Right to Reply" I have the following to share from Macrovision Corp, the company who currently owns the rights to BD+ technology: "Macrovision does not comment on specific techniques or procedures that may directly impact the BD+ security technology. BD+ is a...; Tags: Blu-ray Disc, Macrovision Corp., Crack, Encryption, SlySoft, Blu-ray BD+, Blu-Ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Xbox 360 owners - No Blu-ray for you!: Following the horrible death of the HD DVD high definition format, many had predicted (me included) that Microsoft would pretty soon be offering a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360. Seems like Xbox 360 owners waiting for a Blu-ray player are out of luck. The news was...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Blu-ray, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-13
Blu-ray player prices spike - wow, who could have seen that one coming?: I had put myself on a self-imposed exile of sorts on writing about high-def DVDs , but a post over at Tom's Hardware got me all riled up, so I'm lifting the ban. Turns out that since January 1 (right before the pre-CES announcement that Warner Brothers was leaving HD...; Tags: Player, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Ethernet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-03-13
Acer Blue laptop revealed: It turns out Acer's Blue is a desktop replacement laptop with a bunch of entertainment-oriented features. It's also not a "concept PC," as the invitation to today's press event suggested, but an actual product that will be available in about a month. The marketing department got...; Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Acer Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, Aspire 6920G, 6920G, Blu-Ray, Notebooks, Processors, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-03-12
RIA News Day - iPhone SDK, JavaFX on Blu-ray: While the RIA digerati are here at MIX there's a lot of other stuff going on in the world of rich Internet applications. The iPhone SDK was releasedY and it looks like Apple is making one heck of a platform play. The apps that they showed off look really cool...; Tags: Apple iPhone, SDK, Rich Internet Application, Blu-ray, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Recession buster: The perfect $25,000 consumer electronics device: My initial reaction to hearing about SE2 Labs' ITC One all-in-one media room device was to think about that Robin Williams line about cocaine being god's way of telling you that you have too much money. If you actually have $25,000 to plop down for an all-in-one unit that incorporates...; Tags: Electronics, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Hd Dvd, Blu-Ray, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?: As everyone already knows, the HD disc format war is over, resolved in true domino fashion by Warner Brothers' decision to back Blu-ray exclusively. Most of the studios in the HD DVD camp have now agreed to back Blu-ray, particularly now that Toshiba has announced it will cease pushing the...; Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Internet, HD-DVD, Movie, Disc, Blu-ray, Studio, HD, DVD Business, Sales Strategy, Hd Dvd, Sales Force Management, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-02-29
What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-ray: Our friends over at Wired have started a how-to wiki, explaining how to convert one's HD DVDs to Blu-ray - provided you have a Blu-ray burner on hand, and don't mind breaking a law or two (since you'll need to remove the DRM from your HD DVDs before you can...; Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Option, Hd Dvd, DVD, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Blu-ray add-ons, and free dev tools for students: Yesterday, I suggested that Microsoft would probably release a Blu-ray add-on for the XBOX 360, basing that on absolutely nothing beyond the fact that HD DVD, as a format, is clearly dead. Anton Philidor, a Talkback regular, questioned whether that would be a wise choice, asking "should the company...; Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nortel Networks Corp., Disc, Microsoft Corp., Blu-ray, Tool, HD, Productivity, Web Browsers, Games, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-02-20
HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?: On the face of it Toshiba's HD DVD format had a lot going for it. What went wrong? They had parity - or better - with Blu-ray: First to market with a high-def player by 3-6 months A great movie experience with plenty...; Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Mempile, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-02-19
Ding, dong, HD DVD is dead: Wow, that didn't take long. In just over six weeks HD DVD went from underdog to dead dog, with Toshiba making it official today - it will no longer "develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders." The announcement means that Universal, Paramount and DreamWorks Animation...; Tags: HD-DVD Player, Player, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-02-19
HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on top: The high-definition DVD wars are over and Blu-ray is the winner. While it doesn't happen very often, in this case the technically superior choice won out over the cheaper and first-to-market leader. One of the best features of Blu-ray is a Java virtual machine and platform called BD-J. ...; Tags: HD-DVD, Amazon.com Inc., Blu-ray, DVD War, BD-J, Blu-ray Application Development Site, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2008-02-19
Toshiba drops HD DVD: So, Toshiba has finally given up on HD DVD, leaving the field open to Blu-ray. For customers yet to hop onto the HD express, this is good news because there's no longer two competing standards to choose from. For customers who chose Blu-ray over HD DVD, then they...; Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., HD, Uptake, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-02-19
Ashampoo Burning Studio Free (exe): Now for FREE! Multi-disc file backup and restore on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, Create compressed backup archives with powerful password protection, Split archives automatically across multiple CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs, Restore archive contents to their original locations, Integrated Audio CD ripper store your audio tracks as WMA or...; Tags: CD, VCD, Disc, Ashampoo, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-02-18