Sony announced last week it plans to release new firmware for its PlayStation 3 video game console. The new update will expose new capabilities in the PS3’s Blu-ray Disc player.
The free update for PS3 users in North America was to be posted by the weekend. Blu-ray Disc is the heir apparent to the crown […]
When Toshiba officially threw in the towel in the high-definition format war, eyes turned to Microsoft to see what the software giant would do about the Xbox 360’s support of HD DVD. Some expected Microsoft to quickly change gears and back Blu-ray Disc, but no such plans are in place.
“Xbox is not currently in talks […]
Perhaps not wanting to be the last off a sinking ship, Toshiba could soon be abandoning the HD DVD format it helped bring to market, if the Hollywood Reporter is to be believed.
According to the report’s sources, Toshiba will be pulling the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks. The official […]
The problem with Blu-ray drives is that the typical Blu-ray drive for notebooks is about 0.5 inches thick. The typical standard DVD drive for a notebook is only 0.28 inches thick. This represents almost twice the heft for the Blu-ray drive compared to the standard DVD drive.
Panasonic announced a new ultra-thin Blu-ray drive aimed at […]
Despite Sony Corp.’s CEO Howard Stinger calling the high-definition battle a simple matter of prestige, the Blu-ray Disc Association wasted little time in announcing yet another sales milestone.
Thanks the frenzy of buyers during the Black Friday shopping period, total Blu-ray Disc player sales have reached 2.7 million units in North America. The number, of course, […]
Home Media Magazine’s research branch, Home Media Research, announced that the between January 1 and September 30 Blu-ray sold 2.6 million units versus a total sales of 1.4 million HD-DVD discs.
This announcement, which indicates an almost 2 to 1 ratio of Blu-ray sales to HD DVD, was a bit of a killjoy for the […]
Sony NEC Optiarc, the joint between Sony’s and NEC’s optical disc drive business units, last week unveiled its first Blu-ray Disc (BD) burner model, the BD-M100A, for launch in the European market at 600 euro (US$808) in the third quarter, and the price may be an indicator for BD burner pricing by other brands/makers, according […]
Pioneer has announced it will launch DVR-S12J, its latest 18x DVD burner equipped with LabelFlash in Japan early in June, signaling a decrease of the lag in adoption of LabelFlash behind that of LightScribe, according to sources from the Taiwan-based optical disc drive manufacturing industry.
LabelFlash is a disc labeling technology developed by Yamaha Corporation and […]
Hewlett-Packard has long stated its intention to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD–the two next-gen formats vying to succeed DVD. Today, the company has unveiled plans to ship PCs that can both read and write to Blu-ray, and can read HD DVD discs. The PCs are the first announced to feature LG’s much-anticipated Super […]
In a bid to win the war against the Blu-ray disc (BD) format, Toshiba has started to license its HD DVD technology to manufacturers of very affordable players in China. The first of such products were demonstrated at CeBIT, but there are more coming, as Wal-Mart has reportedly ordered two million of players at $150 […]