blu-ray

Plextor presents eSATA external Blu-ray disc burner with USB 3.0

Published on: 8th February, 2011

Plextor has presented its Blu-ray disc burner called PX-LB950UE. The new drive is among the first external Blu-ray burners with superspeed USB 3.0 and eSATA connections meant to maximize transfer rates for data and provide fast performance at reading and writing. The drive is able to write to double-layer discs with maximum capacities of 50GB, [...]

Skype calling support added to Blu-ray players at Panasonic

Published on: 15th January, 2011

Panasonic and Skype at CES announced they had teamed up to provide the former’s Blu-ray players with video calling capabilities from Skype. The functionality, no longer relegated only to the connected TV set of the company, is now available on 2011 VIERA CAST-capable Blu-ray disc players. The consumers do not need a Panasonic HDTV for [...]

New 1TB optical disc made by TDK

Published on: 16th October, 2010

TDK at the recent CEATEC exposition in Japan showed off its prototype of an optical disc having a 1TB capacity. The disc was made by creating sixteen recording layers, each of them with a capacity of 32GB. Compared to the new device, a usual Blu-ray disc has only 25GB capacity or 50 GB in case [...]

Samsung TVs and Blu-ray players get Napster

Published on: 1st September, 2010

Napster, the digital music service, is now available for download for Samsung’s web-connected HDTVs, home theater systems and Blu-ray players directly from Samsung Apps. Users have the possibility to choose from Napster’s library of over 10 million songs and stream to the set-top boxes or TV. Napster members can also access their playlists or even [...]

Steve Jobs – Most likely no hope for Blu-ray on Apple’s Macs

Published on: 6th July, 2010

Apparently, Steve Jobs left little to no hope that Blu-ray will be available on the Mac in the near future. According to an e-mail response posted by MacRumors, Jobs compared the Blu-ray to the high end audio formats, which allowed the CD; he has also declared that it will soon be beaten by Internet downloadable [...]

128GB BDXL format approved by the Blu-ray Disc Association

Published on: 28th June, 2010

On June 25, 2010, the Blu-ray Disc Association finalized the proposed BDXL format for Blu-ray discs. This will offer up to 128GB of storage space on both rewritable and write-once discs. BDXL will mainly target video producers and people who need to write a large amount of data to a removable backup; this will be [...]

Oppo has launched the lower-cost BDP-80 Blu-ray player

Published on: 31st January, 2010

Oppo has recently launched the lowest-cost Blu-ray player in its high-end line of similar products. The BDP-80, similar to the BDP-83, but dropping the second video processor, moves all the work to the main decoder and sheds 24p DVD upscaling in the process. It also differs from the more expensive BDP-83 in the same series [...]

Blu-ray players with extra Internet features from LG

Published on: 9th January, 2010

LG has suggested at its CES plans that it would update its Blu-ray players. The company did not give details of the hardware included in the players but claimed significant expansion of the online features apart the already existing Netflix, CinemaNow, YouTube and Pandora options. According to the Korean company, the players would let users [...]

Less costly Blu-ray player from Oppo Digital to be revealed in January

Published on: 30th December, 2009

Oppo Digital has used a Twitter update to announce the release of its new and lower-price Blu-ray player. Oppo Digital currently offers the BDP-83 Blu-ray player at $499 and the Special Edition of the same player at $899. More details about the less expensive Blu-ray player, as well as the official announcement will probably come [...]

Universal presents dual-format discs – DVD and Blu-ray

Published on: 5th December, 2009

A new dual-format disc has been presented by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The disc contains both standard DVD and Blu-ray content and is meant for users intending to upgrade from DVD to Blu-ray format in the near future or for those owning multiple systems that use both formats. The full film and special features also [...]

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