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Blu-ray: A high-capacity optical disc for HD movies that fits on the same size disc platter as a DVD. In 2008, Blu-ray became the bona fide successor to the DVD...; Full Blu-ray Definition >>

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World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?: Buffalo just announced the world's fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x assuming you can find one. That's a funny bit of math, no? Available in Japan...; Tags: Recorder, Media, Blu-ray, BDA-approved Media, Advertising & Promotion, Serial ATA, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Apple's coming notebook transition: Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...; Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Pioneer ups Blu-ray discs to 16 layers, 400GB capacity: Pioneer's scientists have reportedly upped the Blue-ray ante with a 400GB optical disc. The capacity is stretched by manufacturing discs that are 16 layers deep, to be played with a player advanced enough optically to pick up the light scattered by all 16 layers. Conveniently, the player...; Tags: Blu-ray Disc, Disc, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Whither Blu-ray?: Blu-ray hasn't been setting any sales records, in no small part due to its higher price. That, however, doesn't alter the fact that Sony absolutely had to win the format war, even if media downloads end up supplanting video disc formats. by John Carroll; Tags: Blockbuster Inc., Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Games, Video On Demand (VoD), Game Players, Hd Dvd, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Nero 8 Ultra Edition (exe): Nero 8 Ultra Edition is a software solution that brings the digital world to your PC with features that make it fun and easy to create multimedia projects with high-quality, professional results. Create MP3 mixes and edit vacation videos in high-definition format. Share content around the world with simple Internet...; Tags: Nero, Nero 8 Ultra Edition, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-05-19

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
SwiftDisc Burning Wizard Premium (exe): SwiftDisc is a bundle of essential tools for burning and copying audio, data and video to CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc. Features: burns Blu-ray disc (BD-R and BD-RE); burns Double Layer DVD (DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL); works with multiple devices; burns and rips Audio CD; burns Data to CD,...; Tags: Blu-ray Disc, CD, Primo Software, SwiftDisc, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-03-31
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