G.E. puts 500GB on a disc - Blu-ray killer?
General Electric says its researchers have achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.
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27.4.2009 The 5 Reasons Why Blu-Ray Will Win
This week Stephen Speicher and his engadget column The Clicker discusses the five reasons why he believes Blu-Ray will win the battle against HD-DVD. Some of the major points made are format security, computer manufacturer support, and overall capacity.
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First 50GB Blu-ray Disc to Debut
Sony Pictures plans to make available the first 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray disc on Tuesday when it releases Adam Sandler's latest flick, "Click."
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10.10.2006 Blu-ray to Outline Launch Plans at CES
Blu-ray assured reporters and analysts at a demonstration Tuesday that the new DVD format is still on schedule for a spring 2006 release. The Sony-led group said it also planned to have specific launch plans available in the form of product announcements at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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30.11.2005 Dell Ships Laptop with Blu-ray Drive
Dell on Monday became the latest manufacturer to support Sony's Blu-ray discs in its notebook computers, a move that was largely expected as Dell is a founding member behind the format.
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12.12.2006 CES 2007: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray
With the realization today that the LG "Super Multi Blue" player is a bit lax on its capabilities in the HD DVD department, not to mention all-around, it's fair to say it's premature to declare the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format battle over by any stretch of the imagination.
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10.1.2007 Sony chops price on Blu-ray player
Sony has announced its plans to slash the price of high definition, according the Associated Press. At a New York press conference, Sony talked up its forthcoming BDP-S300 Blu-ray player. The big selling point? Its $599 price.
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27.2.2007 Blu-ray BD+ Copy Protection Cracked!
It would seem that there's absolutely nothing out there, no type of copy protection system that can resist the hard efforts of ingenious "security researchers", especially when the respective system is designed to protect valuable multimedia content (namely, movies).
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31.10.2007 Blu-ray Xbox 360 Planned By Microsoft
Rumours were circulating today that Microsoft is set to dump HD DVD and bring out a Blu ray Xbox 360 by as early as May 2008. The move will allow the Company to go head to head with the Sony PS3 gaming console which has been credited with being one of the main reasons that retailers have preferred Blu-ray over Toshibas HD DVD.
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18.2.2008 Bill Gates talks about Blu-Ray to Princeton University
DP: There has been a lot of debate about the next generation Blu-ray and HD DVD technologies in recent weeks. It seems more and more companies are backing the Blu-ray standard. The current debate seems to harken back to the Betamax vs. VHS format war in the 1970s and 80s, where Betamax was ostensibly the superior technology yet it did not gain wide acceptance. Why is Microsoft not backing Blu-ray today ? a technology that many consider to be superior?
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"Father of DVD" blasts Sony's Blu-Ray plans
Warren Lieberfarb, who is known as the "Father of DVD" for his efforts to standardize the format while president of Warner Home Video, spoke yesterday at the European Video Perspectives conference about Sony, Blu-Ray, and the battle for the next video format.
Lieberfarb launched right into Blu-Ray versus HD DVD, but his comments were somewhat surprising. He stated that Hollywood had been "duped" into blindly following a battle between game consoles instead of making a decision based on their best interests.
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13.12.2005 Blu-ray Disc Sales Surpass HD DVD
Data from Nielsen indicates that sales of Blu-ray media for the first time has outpaced that of HD DVD; however, as expected, both camps in the high-definition format war have different ways of interpreting the data.
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24.2.2007 Microsoft Adding Sony Blu-ray Support To Windows
CEO Steve Ballmer said his company is working on Windows device driver support for the Blu-ray high definition movie format.
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12.3.2008 Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray processing key
Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray "processing key" -- all HD titles now exposed.
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14.2.2007 Adding Blu-ray and HD DVD to Vista Media Center
As part of my ongoing Vista Media Center project, Im about to add Blu-ray and HD DVD playback capabilities to my living room system. I already know that the system is fully capable of recording and playing back over-the-air high-definition content.
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1.9.2007 Samsung Set to Launch Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player
Samsung Electronics, one of the worlds leading producers of consumer electronics as well as microchips, on Friday said it would release the Duo HD player capable of Blu-ray disk (BD) and HD DVD playback this summer.
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13.4.2007 Samsung Finally Shows Off Its Unholy Hybrid Blu-ray - HD DVD Player
Although the rumors regarding Samsung's hybrid HD DVD / Blu-ray player have been circulating on the web for quite a long time, the company decided to keep it all under wraps for the past few months (in order to increase the customer's interest, perhaps?).
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26.7.2007 Recover Files from Damaged or Corrupted CD,DVD,HD DVD,Blu-Ray Disks
CD/DVD are optical storage media easily gets corrupted or damaged. CD & DVD discs have low durability and single scratch on CD/DVD will permanently damage your data.
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4.9.2009 Is Plurk the Twitter killer?
With a lot of focus on social media sites these days one of the biggest newcomers that is becoming more and more popular is Twitter.
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5.6.2008 Malware Is the No. 1 Killer of Windows Explorer
Windows crashes and blue screen have become without a doubt the stuff of popular culture, with Microsoft's operating system being derided, criticized and mocked for its luxuriant variety of issues, independent
of the actual version of the platform.
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21.5.2008 Is Windows 7 the Linux-netbook killer?
When it comes to PCs and laptops, Microsoft had little to fear with Linux as much as it does the Mac. But now the new threat to Windows comes in the form of 'netbooks' - lightweight, low-cost laptops that typically use Intel's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM or powerful graphics processors.
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24.12.2008 Microsoft Halting Work on "Photoshop Killer"?
According to ZDNet, Microsoft is halting production work on software that had been described as a serious contender to Adobe Photoshop. Previously code named Acrylic, the software was released as a development preview last year, and is currently available for download from Microsoft (see link below).
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13.3.2006 Google Android, a Windows 7 netbook killer?
Rumours are spreading that Google is in talks with leading netbook producers to offer a version of Android in anticipation of competing with Microsoft's own Windows 7, an operating system designed to be flexible enough to target everything from the basic netbook market to high-end gaming PCs.
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7.4.2009 Silverlight 2, Microsoft's Flash Killer, Gets DRM, Just Like Vista
Microsoft's Flash killer, Silverlight, is on track to get digital rights management just like the company's latest Windows client, Windows Vista. Microsoft has faced a barrage of criticism over the content protection capabilities in Vista, and the subject is bound to yet again come into play with Silverlight 2.
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14.4.2008 Microsoft's Flash Killer, Silverlight 2, Released to Web
Silverlight 2, the next step in the evolution of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer, has been released to web. As Silverlight 2 has reached the RTW milestone, the Redmond giant announced that downloads would only go live on October 14, 2008.
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13.10.2008 Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 Non-Windows Microsoft OS Midori "The Windows Killer"
Windows is one product that is not lacking in Nemesis candidates. From Apple's Mac OS X to the open source Linux, to RIA cloud-based operating systems, potential Microsoft Windows killers are advertised in a variety of scenarios incongruent with reality.
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26.8.2008 The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie's Vision for Connected Software
Ray Ozzie has a long and storied history of technological innovation, with accomplishments that include creating Lotus Notes and founding Groove Networks.
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14.4.2007BD+ Unbreakable for 10 Years says Richard Doherty of Envisioneering Group
In the latest issue of HMM
Richard Doherty a Media
analyist with Envisioneering
Group says "BD+, Unlike AACS,
which suffered a partial hack
last year, won't likely be
breached for 10 years <...>
and if so the damage would
effect one film and one
player."
He also
said BD+ offers 4 time the
safeguards on top of AACS
against piracy. All Blu-Ray
Players are equipped with BD+.
Doherty cited Sony
theoretically releasing
Spiderman 3 on Blu-Ray and
allowing consumers to download
the film to an iPod or
streaming copy on a home
network. Should a breach occur
in digital or physical form,
Doherty said BD+ would let
Sony circumvent the damage
more quickly compared to AACS
because the hacked movie could
only be played on a particular
Sony Player.
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09.07.2007Blu-ray, HD DVD obsolete in 5 years says Microsoft
Blu-ray and HD DVD could be
obsolete in just five years.
So
http://avzombie.com/blog/2007/
06/12/microsoft-predicts-blu-r
ay-hd-dvd-obsolete-in-five-yea
rs/>believes Microsofts
program manager for Media
Entertainment Convergence,
Richard Doherty.
Speaking at the annual
Digital Hollywood conference
in California, he suggested
that advances in download and
broadband technology could
render the current format war
moot. I dont know that high
definition will be delivered
on an optical disc in five to
10 years. At Microsoft, wed
rather HD wasnt on a disc.
For the time being
however, he added that
Microsoft was happy to support
HD DVD, principally because it
has delivered interactive
content in a way that Blu-ray
hasnt.
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13.06.2007Blu-ray vs. Digital Download: Why Blu-ray is the Future
The war between the two high definition formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD, seems to have come to a bloody end. Company after company has pledged its
allegiance to Blu-ray, and things look grim for Toshiba. However, many in the industry claim Sony’s victory will be short lived in the face of a
new nemesis, digital downloads.
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01.02.2008First Blu-ray Movies Due June
20
Sony Pictures said Tuesday
that the first seven Blu-ray
movies would be released on
June 20, coinciding with the
release of the first Blu-ray
DVD player from Samsung, and a
Sony VAIO Blu-ray PC. Seven
titles are slated to launch
that day...
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14.06.2006Samsung sued over incompatible Blu-ray players
It's a story that's been hard to ignore, and now a class action lawsuit has been filed: early Blu-ray players had compatibility problems when new
features and DRM were introduced into Blu-ray movies...
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12.02.2008Blu-ray player sales on the rise
With Blu-ray winning the next generation DVD format war, and the format starting to go mainstream, consumer awareness and Blu-ray sales are on the
rise according to a report by the NPD Group. The report, collected via an online survey of 6,994 consumers between February 25 and March 6, states
that 400,000 units of standalone Blu-ray players, not including the Playstation 3 with its built in Blu-ray support, have been sold in the first
quarter of 2009. That's an increase of 72 percent over the first quarter of 2008. Furthermore, the intent to purchase a Blu-ray player has rose
slightly.
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07.05.2009Blu-ray Hardware Sales Pick Up After Warner Announcement
A new NPD Group report shows that stand-alone Blu-ray player sales benefited greatly from the recent announcement that Warner would be going Blu-ray
exclusive. The first week of January, before Warner made their announcement, there was a nearly 50-50 split between Blu-ray and HD DVD standalone
players. The following week, after the announcement, Blu-ray players grabbed 93% of the market.
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23.01.2008Hitachi introduces third-gen Blu-ray camcorder
Hitachi today announced the third version of its Blu-ray camcorder that is able to record and store video directly on a disc so it can be later viewed
on any PC or TV with a Blu-ray drive -- but not a PS3...
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25.07.2008Blu-ray recorders doing well in Japan, players struggle
While Blu-ray recorders now outsell their standard DVD counterparts, research firm NPD reports that outside of the PS3, Blu-ray players are not
selling well...
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28.05.2008Memorex Blu-ray tests the $200 price point
Following the prediction before the holiday shopping season that prices for Blu-ray players would fall further into the $150-to-200 range, Memorex has
announced its MVBD-2520, a Blu-ray player for $199.99...
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07.01.2009Sony Announces First Blu-ray
Laptop
Sony on Tuesday unveiled a new
addition to its VAIO line of
notebook PCs that is the first
to include a Blu-ray capable
disc drive. However, the VAIO
AR with 17-inch widescreen
display won't come cheap; the
Premium model with Blu-ray
will retail for around $3,500
USD...
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16.05.2006Target to Push Blu-ray Over HD DVD
Sony has scored another win in
the war for high-definition
dominance, signing a deal with
Target to promote Blu-ray
players and movies exclusively
in its retail stores. Sony is
paying a fee to have Blu-ray
featured in end-of-aisle
displays...
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26.07.2007New Blu-ray Features Freeze Older Players; Updates Coming
With the next wave of interactive features having been added to 20th Century-Fox's latest Blu-Ray Disc releases, there was always a certain level of
anticipation that some existing Blu-ray consoles would have trouble, especially the first-generation editions. Surprisingly, it's the second
generation which is seeing some early problems...
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06.10.2007HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems
Having finished speaking to
Blu-ray, BetaNews sat down
with a representative from HD
DVD to discuss how the
Microsoft-backed format will
compete with Blu-ray. Toshiba
HD DVD expert Tom Knox said
that because of Blu-ray's
complicated design, HD DVD
will triumph in the format
war...
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08.01.2006China selling Blu-Ray rip offs
If you're heading to China anytime soon be on the lookout for Blu-ray rip offs. Not that this is a surprise to you or I, but Chinese pirates
are attacking Blu-ray full force. The rip offs are actually DVDs but are encoded with AVCHD format on writable DVDs giving off a pleasant 720P. The
titles are selling for about $7 and contain the ever so recognizable Blu-ray banner across the outer casing. The movies
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17.11.2008How many titles, again, are available in BD-Live?
Andy Parsons, head of the Blu-ray Disc Association, said during the Blu-ray press conference Thursday that only 21 Blu-ray titles included bonus
features using BD-Live technology...
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10.01.2009Toshiba to join the Blu-ray Disk Association
Toshiba has announced that it will be joining the BDA (Blu-ray Disk Association) which is the final chapter to the format war of HD-DVD vs Blu-ray.
Toshiba who was the largest heavy-hitter backing the HD-DVD format was in a fierce battle against Blu-ray which was largely impart developed by Sony.
When Sony bundled a Blu-ray drive in its PS3 console it gave the format its entrance into millions of homes for which HD-DVD was unable to compete
against. "In light of recent growth in digital devices supporting the Blu-ray format, combined with market demand from consumers and retailers
alike, Toshiba has decided to join the BDA.
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10.08.2009Xbox 360 to get Blu-ray drive
Despite Microsoft previously denying any plans to ship Xbox 360 consoles with Blu-ray support, Pegatron Technology, an OEM subsidiary of Asustek
Computer, is reported to be preparing consoles with the next-gen optical drive built in.
Blu-ray support has been one of the Playstation 3's
strong advantages over Xbox 360 in the current console wars. It is estimated that 85% of Blu-ray players in use are PS3s.
Shipments of the
Blu-ray enabled Xbox 360 are to begin in the third quarter of 2008.
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05.05.2008Blu-ray Lures Customers with Free Movies
Learning from its HD DVD
rival, the Blu-ray Disc
Association has launched a new
promotion in which it will
offer five free movies to
purchasers of Blu-ray players
-- including Sony's PS3 --
between July 1st and September
30th. Customers can choose 5
titles out of a list of 21...
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28.06.2007BenQ to Deliver Blu-ray
Recorder
Taiwanese electronics
manufacturer BenQ has
announced plans to ship a
Blu-ray Disc recorder for PCs
in late August for a price of
799 euros. The estimated cost
is far less than recorders
coming from Blu-ray inventors
Sony and Pioneer, which are
aiming for $1,500 and higher
price points...
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