This is pretty cool, but I’d imagine a complete showstopper is not being compatible with today’s Blu-ray players. Hopefully that will be remedied by the time it hits consumer level. The new BDXL specification describes High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs which will write up to 128GB of content on each disc. These are write-once capacities, with the rewritable discs […]
Read moreOn the surface, this sounds like a terrible loss for everyone but Comcat, however, I predict that it won’t be long before Congress passes a bill granting the FCC the authority it currently lacks. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic […]
Read moreEDIT: Continuing from last week, I am noting the Warner Brothers titles which will have the 30-day rental window imposed on them by placing ** next to the title. Not a lot of new titles this week, but I imagine all us geeks should be giddy about the Battlestar Galactica complete series being released on Blu-ray. Since I never got […]
Read moreI haven’t worked at Best Buy in YEARS, but suffice to say if you are there at the right time with the right manager, you can get yourself one heluva deal. If you want the best deal, tell the sales associate straight up you WILL buy the PSP (performance service plan) and then make sure he goes to the manager […]
Read moreInteresting stat here, as DVD continues to be a dominating force, although no surprise that Blu-ray continues to climb. it’s still interesting to note that for the 1st quarter fo 2010, sales were up 68.5 percent over the same quarter last year. Overall packaged media was up 3.1 percent, which isn’t saying that much since overall sales were hit pretty […]
Read moreI’m sure most of you already know this, but for the sake of discussion…the iPad sold over 300,000 on launch day. Initial reports had it much higher, but still that’s a pretty solid number for a first gen product, right? Now, not all of those 300,000 were folks lined up at Apple Stores. Apple says the figure also includes "deliveries […]
Read moreHello to everyone from California. This week my family is on vacation in California. Yesterday we thought it would be fun to take the little tyke to Disneyland. She loved it. So did I. But the reason that I’m writing this post is because while we were there we went to the Innoventions exhibit in the Tomorrowland section. It looks […]
Read moreAnother week gone by, hopefully not too many of you fell for our little April Fool’s Joke. We had a busy week with Andy’s Moneaul HTPC case review , and then blogs from two of our newest Staff Editors–Skirge01 on Monoprice.com , and Josh (UMDivx) on Media Center’s continuing concerns . To go along with those great reads, we have […]
Read moreI haven’t had a chance to test it out, but given all the trouble reported with the last rev it has to be better 🙂 27/03/2010 New Features: Added AC-3 in MP4 support Fixed items: Show error code in GDSMux when muxing is aborted Accept more AAC media types in the muxer Use correct timescales when processing MP4 edit […]
Read moreLots of great stuff as usual to start off your month of April, enjoy! Seen in HD 28 – 3D hands on, LOTR & Avatar previews, GI Joe review After months of talking about it, speculating, and critiquing, Phil finally got a chance to actually check out a 3D HDTV and Blu-ray at his local Best Buy. Two of them […]
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