HDscape Exchanges HD DVDs with Blu-Ray
February 22, 2008
For those of you not so much grieving the loss of the HD DVD format as you are grieving the loss of your suddenly defunct HD DVD collection, there’s some good news for you. At least, if you bought your movie from HDScape.
For a limited time only, the movie studio is allowing buyers to exchange their HD DVD titles for the same title in the Blu-ray format for $11.95 plus $.99 for shipping and handling — which also happens to be $13 more than you ever wanted to spend on a dead format.
Toshiba’s HD DVD Format To Be Pulled?
February 15, 2008
We’ve been covering the HD DVD/Blu-Ray battle for the last few weeks now, with Sony delivering a few key blows to Toshiba’s baby, the HD DVD. We also may have, in passing, made a few jokes about Toshiba pulling the plug and, you know, killing aforementioned baby.
So far, Toshiba hasn’t listened and kept on fighting vehemently — however, rumors are coming from someone close to the HD DVD faction at Toshiba says the company is expecting to let the HD DVD die in a few weeks.
Well, now that it may be real, it’s just not funny anymore.
Best Buy, Netflix Drop HD-DVD
February 12, 2008
LG’s Multi Hi-Def DVD player plays Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Human Soul
January 10, 2007
Do you have your aneurysm-preventing high price inhaler ready? Good — because LG’s Blu-Ray/HD DVD combo player is roughly as expensive as it is cool — so, it says quite a bit about the player when you find out it costs $1,199.
We’ll give you a moment to breath.
Inventors Create All-Playing DVD, Work On All-Knowing DVD
September 20, 2006
A patent has been filed for a new piece of technology that would allow companies to pack three different DVD formats into one, shiny, easily distributed disc. The technology, created by three Warner Bros. employees — Wayne M. Smith, Alan Bell, and Lewis S. Ostrover — is a godsend for Hollywood and its various companies, who have recently expressed concern at the fact that there will be three different types of DVD in the near future — regular DVDs, Blu-Ray, and HD-DVD. The companies fear the three varying types of DVD will not only cost them much more money (as they have to release their films in three formats, instead of one) — but will also confuse consumers to such a degree that it would send them into a mad fit of DVD eating and smashing.
New Blue 200GB Laser Disc Announced, Superduper HD Considered
August 31, 2006
TDK, a company so mysterious it only goes by their Ninja-like acronym pseudonym, has reached a landmark in the development of recordable blue laser technology — creating a disc capable of holding a mind-boggling, groundbreaking 200GB of capacity. The new disc doubles the capacity of TDK’s existing 100GB Blu-ray prototype — allowing their new discs to store approximately 18 hours of high definition video — creating a new market for really, really, superduper HD with cherries on top.
BD-P1000 Blu-Ray Player Released, Life Made That Much Better
August 14, 2006
Samsung has released the BD-P1000, one of the first Blu-ray disc players on the market and one of the first steps in sending the DVD to the coffin that had long been built for it, in the burial space right next to VHS tapes and horse-drawn carriages. Blu-ray discs come recorded in 1900×1080 resolution (versus the conventional DVDs 720×480 resolution) and will, unlike DVDs, be able to display real high-definition images — making the need to go outside and enjoy nature a thing of the past (because, hey — there’s the nature channel in HD.)
BDR-101A - first Blu-Ray writer ships
May 21, 2006
Pioneer has shipped what is claimed to be the first Blu-Ray DVD writer in the market, the BDR-101A.
Sony BDP-S1 Blu Ray Player Goes on Sale
March 20, 2006
Sony has just put the BDP-S1 Blu-ray player on sale, on Amazon.Com. Details from their product page on Amazon include the following.
