First Blu-ray Disc Testing Center established in China

July 08, 2008 Category: News

A month after hearing rumors that the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) would be granting licenses to 11 China-based manufacturers, in flies official word that the very first Blu-ray Disc testing center has been established in that very nation. ESI Technology, a contributor member of the BDA, is the lucky winner, and as of today, “Chinese […] [ → ]

 

Panasonic Introduce the New DMP-BD50

May 06, 2008 Category: News, Panasonic Blu-ray Player, Players

Panasonic just introduced their new Blu-ray player, the DMP-BD50. Like we heard at the press conference, BD-Live is getting rolled out across the lineup and this unit has all the other goodies you’d expect in the latest from Panasonic.

 

Samsung HT-BD2S Blu-ray home theater System

May 03, 2008 Category: News, Players, Samsung Blu-ray Player

The new Blu-ray home theater System, HT-BD2S. Resembles its predecessor but has smaller satellite speakers and is available for over 30 percent less than its older cousin, BD2T’s. Retail price: $1500 USD. The “s” stand for “smaller speakers”.

 

Sony “Home” Virtual World release delayed, Again.

April 22, 2008 Category: Media, News

The version of “Home” promised for later this year is called an “open beta,” which means it isn’t officially finished and will keep evolving with new services and features being added later.

 

Blu-ray in Technorati

April 17, 2008 Category: News

Technorati is one of the best place to look for. Just go to Technorati and then search posts related to Blu-ray, with just entering a keyword blu-ray. You ‘d find more than 65,216 results for blu-ray.

 

Blu-ray Competitors

April 15, 2008 Category: Drives, Media, News, Players

Will Blu-ray replace previous DVDs? Its manufacturers hope so. In the meantime, JVC has developed a Blu-ray/DVD combo disc with an approximate 33.5-GB capacity, allowing for the release of video in both formats on a single disc. But Blu-ray is not alone in the marketplace. A few other formats are competing for a share of [...]

 

What is Blu-ray?

April 14, 2008 Category: News

Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The [...]