Samsung Set to Launch Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player
Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s 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 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 Toshiba’s HD DVD.
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18.2.2008 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 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, I’m 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 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 Samsung SPH-G1000 Gaming Phone
Samsung has recently launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in Korea. These phones are powered by powerful industry-leading 3D accelerator and vibration capability, make them quite promising for gamers. Controls which include a dedicated gaming joypad and a multi-key which operates in 8 directions are ergonomic and comfortable. For more detail, check out the specs below.
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24.11.2005 Samsung Pays $300m for Price Fixing
Samsung accepted terms of a plea agreement Thursday that finds the electronics company guilty of conspiring with other manufacturers to artificially inflate the cost of computer memory, thus unnecessarily increasing the prices consumers paid.
As part of the agreement, Samsung would pay a $300 million fine in exchange for prosecutorial immunity for both the company and most of its employees. Seven people, including president of the semiconductor division Y.H. Park, were excluded from the settlement and could still face prosecution.
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1.12.2005 Samsung monitors with Windows XP embedded
Samsung has introduced two new monitors who are capable enough to display pictures, movies and documents without an additional computer.
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27.7.2006 Samsung To Release 10 Megapixel Camera Phone
Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The mobile phone was first shown at Cebit in Germany in March this year and was originally due to launch in the second quarter.
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11.10.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Microsoft: Samsung Deal Could Improve Xbox, Zune
Microsoft executives said the patent deal struck with Samsung Thursday morning could have implications for the Zune MP3 player and the Xbox, as well as for Windows PCs.
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21.4.2007 Samsung Announced World’s First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 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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14.4.2007 Windows 7: more screenshots
WMPoweruser has come up with some screenshots which it believes to be of the upcoming Windows Mobile 7. Below are the alleged images of Windows Mobile 7 that appear in their site.
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24.3.2009 Windows 7 Screenshots
Paul Thurrott created Screenshot galleries of the final, shipping version of Windows 7.
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14.8.2009 OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here + Screenshots
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source.
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DOWNLOAD QUAKE 4 + Screenshots
Almost a decade ago, in 1996, Quake was first released. It brought with it a revolution in PC gaming. Actually, it was the first game in FPS genre that was really worth belonging there. It began the Epic that is the Quake series. The original game had both Single Player and Multiplayer and both were good.
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Samsung Completes Blu-ray
Drives
Samsung said on Thursday it
had completed development of
its Blu-ray disc drives,
paving the way for the company
to begin manufacture of a line
of players compatible with the
format. However, Samsung was
mum as to prices and a
specific date for launch, only
saying that drives would
appear in 2006...
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19.01.2006Samsung Cancels Blu-ray Player, Delays Dual-Mode Unit
Samsung confirmed Wednesday that it was canceling one of its Blu-ray players, while delaying its dual-format model until the end of the year...
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26.10.2007Samsung 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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12.02.2008First 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 Blu-ray PC drives coming in Q4
Samsung officials told reporters it will ship a Blu-ray write-capable PC drive in the first half of next year, preceded by a combo drive in the fourth
quarter of this year...
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19.06.2008Sony to Launch Blu-ray Movies
in May
Sony Pictures said Monday it
would target May 23 as the
launch date for the first
Blu-ray movie titles from the
studio. The date was selected
to coincide with the debut of
the first commercially
available Blu-ray player from
Samsung. Eight titles are set
to be launched that day...
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28.02.2006Samsung Blu-ray Player Delayed
Samsung said Tuesday it would
delay the launch of its
Blu-ray disc player to late
June in order to ensure it
could fully test the unit
before release. Orignally
scheduled for release May 23,
the player would now release
in the United States on June
25...
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04.04.2006Samsung Shares Blu-ray Disc
Plans
Company will launch a $1000
Blu-ray Disc player in April...
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06.01.2006Blu-ray Disc Drive Coming
Soon?
Toshiba Samsung Storage
Technology has completed
development of a Blu-ray Disc
drive for PCs...
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20.01.2006Blu-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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01.02.2008Samsung to Offer
Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Player
There is still no agreement in
the fight to become the
de-facto standard for next
generation DVDs, but at least
one company is preparing
itself for the possibility of
competing technologies and
will produce a DVD player that
will be able to play both
Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats...
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06.09.2005Samsung's Blu-ray players are next to get Netflix
Samsung today has announced two of its existing Blu-ray players, the BD-2500 and BD-2550, are eligible to receive a feature upgrade to support the
popular Netflix streaming on demand service today...
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23.10.2008Samsung makes Blu-Ray/HD DVD hybrid official
Samsung this afternoon
revealed final details of its
already anticipated UP5000
Blu-Ray and HD DVD hybrid
player.
Confirming
early details, the BD-UP5000
will solve many of the issues
with combo devices from other
companies by playing the
enhanced features of either
movie disc, including
picture-in-picture commentary.
It should also stand as the
best Blu-Ray player in the
company's line, Samsung
boasts. More recent decoding
can play movies at 24 frames
per second without triggering
pulldown conversion, and
output to HDTVs is sent
through HDMI 1.3 for deeper
colors when supported by an
attached TV.
The
UP5000 should go on sale in
late fall at a price of $1,049
and will be accompanied in
stores by the HT-BD2, an
all-in-one home theater kit
that includes both an
1,100-watt, 7.1-channel
surround speaker setup and an
integrated Blu-Ray player that
goes without the advanced
image decoder of the UP5000 or
the stand-alone BD-P2400. The
entertainment bundle should
sell for $1,499.
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25.07.2007Blu-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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07.05.2009Report: Microsoft Preps External Blu-Ray Disc Optical Drive for Xbox 360
Unlike Toshiba Corp., which is still strictly against Blu-ray disc (BD) format, Microsoft Corp. has always said that it might release an external
Blu-ray optical disc drive for the Xbox 360 video game system if there is demand. According to market sources, the software giant does have plans to
offer its customers a BD option.
Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp., a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and
Toshiba Corp., has been contracted to manufacture external Blu-ray disc drives for Microsoft Xbox 360 game console. While the exact specifications of
the product are unknown, it is rumoured that Microsoft aims at $100 - $150 price-point for the device in order to compete against Sony PlayStation 3
with Xbox 360 + external Blu-ray drive combination.
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08.10.2008Samsung shows slimmer LED TVs, slimmer Blu-ray console
In an era when HDTVs are being measured in terms of pinky-width, Samsung promises to squeeze that figure even more, while adding new interactive
features to its displays' built-in IPTV functionality...
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08.01.2009Blu-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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