 | Report: Blu-ray Adoption Ahead of DVD’s (Format War Central, 10/05/2009 9:05pm) |
| A recent report put out by Futuresource research claims Blu-ray adoption in the U.S. is slightly out-pacing that of DVD. The report used both 2002 and 2010 as they were the 5 year mark for both DVD and Blu-ray respectively, claiming DVD in 2002 reached 32.6% market penetration while Blu-ray should reach 34.1% in 2010. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dragon's Crown wasn't always a PS3/Vita game. (Kotaku, 7/24/2013 11:20am) |
| Dragon's Crown wasn't always a PS3/Vita game. Back in the olden days, it was slated to become a Dreamcast title—sadly, the project was ultimately shelved for a long time. This piece of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| 'Rollerball' Explodes onto Blu-ray this June (High-Def Digest, 4/02/2009 11:20pm) |
| Another remake gets the high-definition treatment when MGM/UA’s 'Rollerball' skates onto Blu-ray in early June. On June 2, the 2002 reimagining of the 1975 cult classic 'Rollerball’ hit Blu-ray. The... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony 4K Ultra HD TVs Start at $5K (CE Pro, 4/23/2013 1:00pm) |
| Sony will sell its 55- and 65-inch 4K Ultra HD TVs for $4,999 and $6,999, respectively, beginning on April 21, 2013. Both TVs come with Sony’s new “Mastered in 4K” Blu-ray discs of Spider-Man (2002), Ghostbusters and Angels & [...] (Read Full Article) |
| 'The Rookie' Bound For Blu-ray This March (High-Def Digest, 12/13/2007 9:10pm) |
| Disney has announced a March Blu-ray debut for the hit 2002 sports drama 'The Rookie.' Starring Dennis Quaid as a retired baseball coach who gets one last shot at pitching for the majors, 'The Rookie'... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Return to Never Land' Dated for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 5/21/2013 6:00pm) |
| The 2002 sequel to 'Peter Pan' will soar on Blu-ray in August. In an early announcement to retailers, Disney/Buena Vista will be releasing 'Return to Never Land' on Blu-ray on August 20. Let your [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'The Blue Planet: Seas of Life' Announced for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 2/08/2013 7:00pm) |
| The 2002 documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough is bound for Blu-ray in April. In an early announcement to retailers, BBC says 'The Blue Planet: Seas of Life' will be available on [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Next Wave of Disney Animated Blu-rays Coming Out June 11 (Home Media Magazine, 3/28/2013 11:48pm) |
| Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will bring three more of its animated hits to Blu-ray Disc June 11.
The release of 2000’s The Emperor’s New Groove, 2001’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire and 2002’s Lilo & [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | The Big Picture at NAB (Digital Video Editing, 7/01/2005 7:19am) |
| The Big Picture at NAB Question Isn t How Do You Shoot It? But Where Do You Put It? Film & Video Magazine Yes, there were cameras at NAB this year. But the news wasn t about how you ll be acquiring images in the future, but what you ll do with them once you get them. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Review: Men in Black III - 3D (High-Def Digest, 11/26/2012 5:05pm) |
| Before seeing 'Men in Black 3,' I had many concerns. First, Sony originally wasn't going to screen the movie for press until the Thursday night before it opened – which is never a good sign. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | My Big Fat Greek Wedding: 10th Anniversay Special Edition Blu-ray Review (Big Picture Big Sound, 11/13/2012 12:36am) |
| Opa! This anniversary edition of the 2002 sleeper hit will have you breaking a few plates, but not really out of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Review: The Amazing Spider-Man - 3D (High-Def Digest, 11/27/2012 10:20pm) |
| Too soon? I'll admit to more than my fair share of sour grapes when it was announced that Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man 4' wasn't to be, despite the finished script, when Sony decided to reboot a franchise [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Sony Celebrates Shipping of 1 Millionth Grand WEGA From Sony Technology Center - Pittsburgh (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 8/16/2005 4:00pm) |
| Sony today announced that it has shipped the company's 1 millionth Grand WEGA® micro-display HDTV from its Sony Technology Center - Pittsburgh, where they have been primarily manufactured since 2002. ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV sports junkie (Sports Illustrated, 7/19/2005 7:37pm) |
| They tell me Tiger Woods put on a great show Sunday at the British Open. I'll have to take their word for it because I couldn't watch the final round for more than five seconds. That's how long it took to realize the telecast had one fatal flaw that even His Tigerness could not fix: It wasn't in HD. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Digital Spy: Saturday night experiment (Digital Spy, 7/16/2005 10:26pm) |
| Was there a golden age of Saturday night television? Not in July there wasn t. Not ever; unless of course you have a particular penchant for Seaside Special. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Review: Fantastic Four (High-Def Digest, 11/13/2006 11:56pm) |
| Call me a heretic, but I actually liked 'Fantastic Four.' Having missed the film when it hit theaters last year, it wasn't until I sat down for this Blu-ray review that I became aware of how much it seems... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | TV TODAY: Skiers go bump in the night on NBC's Olympics recap (Detroit Free Press, 2/15/2006 10:20am) |
| "Olympic Winter Games 2006" (8 p.m., WDIV-TV, Channel 4, NBC). Bump City. World Cup moguls champ Jeremy Bloom , the former Colorado football star and freestyle skiing ace, goes for the gold as part of an American freestyle crew that includes 2002 Salt Lake moguls silver medalist Travis Meyer . Love those freaky cool HDTV pictures, but a slightly disconcerting Torino sight is what appears to ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray: What's New? (Format War Central, 5/08/2008 8:45pm) |
| Blu-ray is having quite an eventful week, isn’t it? First we heard that Blu-ray wasn’t doing all that hot. Next, we were graced with a B2G1 from Amazon, and a B1G1 from Costco. Later, we got wind of the finalized MSRP for the ultimate Panasonic Blu-ray player — the DMP-BD50 — which [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| HEATHER NEWMAN: Tune in to HDTV (Detroit Free Press, 1/15/2006 10:03am) |
| When Jan and Dale Walker built an addition on their Ann Arbor house, they bought a small high-definition television for their bedroom. But the furniture wasn't in there yet, so they put the HDTV in the living room next to their old TV. For kicks, they turned on both at the same time. They were impressed. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sony Banking On Selling 11 Million PS3s By March 08 [Sony] (, 12/17/2007 10:00am) |
| The PS3's start? Slow. Reeeaalll slow. Wasn't always going to stay that way, though, and as we near the end of 2007, Sony are feeling confident. Bullish, even. Kaz Hirai, speaking with The Yomiuri... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New trailers for Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Bayonetta 2 (Joystiq, 2/14/2014 1:00am) |
| We got quite a bit of 3DS news from today's Nintendo Direct, but it wasn't without a few tender morsels for Wii U owners. In addition to Little Mac appearing in Super Smash Bros, Game Boy Advance games hitting Virtual Console and the announcement [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Review: Dino King - 3D (High-Def Digest, 6/11/2013 1:30pm) |
| I wasn't quite sure what to expect with the arrival of 'Dino King 3D'. On one hand, I could see it being a live action dinosaur film made for kids. On the other hand, judging by the cover, it looked [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Ho ho ho! How a 5-year-old got a porn-filled Nintendo for Xmas (CNET Blogs, 12/27/2012 10:57pm) |
| A father buys his 5-year-old son a refurbished Nintendo 3DS for Christmas. Sadly, it wasn't refurbished well enough. (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray is doomed (CNET Blogs, 3/07/2008 5:51pm) |
| In the past, I've always felt that Blu-ray would win the high-def format war. After that, I wasn't necessarily sure what the future would hold for the format.
Would it be the success DVD was? Would it flop worse than LaserDisc? Would it cater to a slightly more advanced crowd but never reach the mainstream? Would it be a downright loser?
For a while, I decided to hold off from making a ... (Read Full Article) |
| Early Arrival for 'Assassination of Jesse James' Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 1/16/2008 7:00pm) |
| It wasn't planned for release until February 26, but Warner now says that the Blu-ray edition of 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' will hit stores three weeks earlier to get... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray player sales down despite end of format war (CNET Blogs, 4/30/2008 5:43pm) |
| Looks like it wasn't the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle that was keeping potential customers away from high-definition video players after all.
The NPD Group released some of its retail sales tracking data Wednesday that showed sales of Blu-ray standalone players (not a PlayStation 3, combo player, or PC with ...]]> ... (Read Full Article) |
| Michael Bay reminds everyone he was right about HD DVD and Blu-ray from the start (Tech Digest, 2/15/2008 11:40am) |
| Michael Bay, the hi-def industry's court jester, has been caught
saying 'nyah nyah, told you so' boasting about how he predicted
Blu-ray's success right from the get-go at the recent Visual Effects Society's
annual award show. "Blu-ray's better, and I told everyone ... I was very vocal
about it. I knew HD [DVD] was not going to make it. Am I thrilled? It really
wasn't my fight, but re ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Here's Sharp's 85-inch 8K TV with glasses-free 3D (Engadget, 1/08/2014 9:38pm) |
| It's so big and bright that it wasn't hard to find inside Sharp's booth, even when surrounded by a sea of other televisions from the manufacturer. What you see above, folks, is an 85-inch, 8K glasses-free 3D TV from Sharp. This behemoth, [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Tony Randall swore and drank beer (TV Squad, 6/07/2005 8:33pm) |
| Filed under: TV Royalty So he wasn't just the anal, fussy guy we came to know on The Odd Couple . Co-star and friend Jack Klugman has a new book out, Tony and Me . He self-published the book (so he could have control over the content and look), and is now selling the book at BookExpo America in New York. The Odd Couple is one of my favorite comedies, so I'll be grabbing this as soon as I ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - 3D (High-Def Digest, 6/11/2013 4:00pm) |
| After that Abraham Lincoln genre flick with the "Vampire Hunter" subtitle, I wasn't looking forward to the similar Hansel & Gretel movie with the matching "Witch Hunters" subtitle. The lifeless [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Over 1 million Samsung HDTVs sold in the US last month (Engadget, 11/05/2012 2:42pm) |
| If it wasn't busy enough selling (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New on Blu-ray this Week: Brave 3D, Lawrence of Arabia (Restored), Pixar Short Films (HD-Report, 11/13/2012 8:40pm) |
| It’s that time of year when most home media yields to the latest ‘Call of Duty’ release. But this year Disney wasn’t afraid to put up it’s animated hit Brave up against the leading the video game franchise. I mean, you [...] (Read Full Article) |
| SonyNEC Optiarc projects sub-$100 Blu-ray optical drives by year's end (Engadget, 6/06/2008 7:50am) |
| Filed under: HDTV, StorageIf you'll recall, SonyNEC Optiarc was the same company that suggested BD prices would be halved by 2008 from what they were in late 2006, and while stickers are still relatively high on standalone decks, the prediction actually wasn't too far off. A new report from Tom's Hardware notes that the aforementioned outfit is expecting Blu-ray combo drives "to reach the $100 ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Oculus Rift headset revives virtual reality gaming for the masses (DVICE, 8/01/2012 7:08pm) |
| Virtual reality failed in the 80s because the technology to enable full immersive gaming wasn't ready. With today's high resolution 3D displays, advanced head tracking and [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Is Toshiba's Superbowl ad for HD DVD a final desperate act? (HDTV UK, 1/28/2008 8:00am) |
| Reports suggest that Toshiba will be taking out a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl on 3rd February. It will cost the company close to three million dollars, and is expected to highlight their freshly price cut HD DVD players.
Toshiba's Jodi Sally told Home Media Magazine that the commercial wasn't a make-or-break promotion for the disc format. "It has always been our strategy to reach HDTV o ... (Read Full Article) |
| March: Wii leads as Xbox 360 and PS3 were very close in huge month (AfterDawn, 4/18/2008 3:38am) |
| The NPD figures are out and nobody is surprised that the Nintendo Wii console is far up the ladder from its two competitors again. Microsoft and Sony ended the month only 5,000 unit sales apart, with the Xbox 360 taking the tiny lead. Specifically, the Wii console sold an impressive 721,000 units, followed by the handheld DS console which wasn't too far behind at 698,000 units.
The PlayStation ... (Read Full Article) |
| DivX support finds its way into HP, LG HDTVs (Engadget, 4/23/2008 5:46pm) |
| Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentThere's no other way to say it, DivX is on a roll in 2008 (that small Stage6 stumble is already a fading memory). If support from Blu-ray players and videogame consoles wasn't enough, DivX Certification has snaked its long arm directly into HDTVs, with "over 80 models" from HP and LG slapping on a sticker indicating users can simply plug a USB dri ... (Read Full Article) |
| Atlanta Thrashers look to make a city grab some seats (AdJab, 9/13/2005 11:00am) |
| Filed under: Indoor , Online , Outdoor , Television Advertising for the National Hockey League's teams isn't going to be easy this year. Faced with a year-long outage of puck passing to overcome, the team realizes that it's staunchest supporters will probably be back in some force, but not totally - and the league wasn't exactly a powerhouse of American fanship before, so they have multi ... (Read Full Article) |
| Shooting the U.S. Open of Surfing Snapshot: Two shooters, two broadcast mediums, one event By John Virata (Digital Video Editing, 7/30/2005 4:49am) |
| Technology has changed the way surfing events are broadcast. The first big contest of the 1980s in Huntington Beach, California, The OP Pro, occurred in 1982. Australian Cheyne Horan won the event with a backside 360 degree maneuver on the wave. It wasn't broadcast on live TV. Fast forward 20+ years. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Microsoft has faith in digital distribution for Xbox 360 (AfterDawn, 4/08/2008 12:09am) |
| Following the fall of the HD DVD disc format, all eyes turned to Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, expecting a response to the news that could come in the form of a Blu-ray-equipped Xbox 360 unit or optional peripheral. It wasn't long until the rumors started circulating about deals and orders from Microsoft that indicated such a move, but again, Microsoft firmly denied any plans to physically suppo ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Grown Man Arrested for Stealing a Child's Pokemon 3DS (Kotaku, 4/02/2014 9:30am) |
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Thirty-two year-old Seiji Saihara was arrested for allegedly stealing a ten year-old boy's Nintendo 3DS XL. It wasn't just any 3DS XL, however. It was a limited edition Pokemon one. (Read Full Article) |
| NAD T587 Profile 2.0-compliant Blu-ray player coming to UK (HDTV UK, 12/03/2008 2:12pm) |
| Just when you were hoping for a less expensive Blu-ray player to hit the UK (and found out is probably wasn't going to happen), along comes the promise of a NAD Blu-ray player that'll set you back £850. Ouch, yes, but at least the T587 fully Profile 2.0 compliant, unlike some other expensive beasts that only do Profile 1.1. It will arrive some time this month, boasting 1080p/24fps, 7.1 24 bit L ... (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba claims "no decision" on HD DVD strategy as desertions continue (Engadget, 2/18/2008 1:16pm) |
| Filed under: HDTVToshiba made a formal announcement today with regard to the state of HD DVD. Unfortunately, it wasn't the white-flag surrender we had hoped would bring a swift end to the format war. In a statement made by a Toshiba spokesman, the firm said, "Toshiba has not made any announcement or decision. We are currently assessing our business strategies, but nothing has been decided at the ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-Ray specification completed (Engadget, 2/06/2006 8:00am) |
| Filed under: HDTVIn our "it's about time" category, the Blu-Ray Disc Association finally completed the
the Blu-Ray spec. The press release wasn't all that informativ ... (Read Full Article) |
| Hirai says 360 lacks longevity, won't top PS3 (Joystiq, 1/20/2009 3:54pm) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3Sony and the PS3 have taken their lumps in the media recently, but leave it to Kaz Hirai to stand by the big black box even in the toughest times: Hirai recently told Official PlayStation Magazine that in order to describe the 360, he needed a single word that meant "lacks longevity."But even that semi-burn wasn't enough to appease the Hiraicane's appetite for de ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New Super Mario Bros. U ships 3.89M, Super Mario 3D World almost 2M (Joystiq, 1/30/2014 3:00pm) |
| Between Super Mario 3D World and New Super Mario Bros .U, Nintendo's mustachioed mascot (whose year it wasn't) has shipped almost 6 million units on the Wii U. In figures revealed in the big N's financial briefing, NSMBU is now at 3.89 million for [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Blu-ray & Home Media Release Dates Revealed (HD-Report, 7/12/2013 6:15am) |
| While Star Trek Into Darkness was already available to pre-order on Blu-ray Disc & DVD, the actual release date wasn’t revealed until now. Paramount Home Media has announced the film will release to Blu-ray, Blu-ray [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Konami Explains Why Metal Gear Rising Isn't on The Xbox 360 in Japan (Kotaku, 5/20/2013 9:30am) |
| In the West, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was released on the Xbox 360. In Japan, it wasn't. Here's why.
While speaking on the (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Why the Xbox 360 Won't Get the Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection (Kotaku, 5/02/2013 12:00pm) |
| Remember when Metal Gear Solid 4 was launched? And how it was such a big deal that the game wasn't coming to the Xbox 360? Remember that?
On his online radio show, Metal Gear creator [...] (Read Full Article) |
| JVC unveils LH905 1080p LCD HDTVs, includes Genessa Premium engine (Engadget, 1/28/2008 12:53pm) |
| Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
It wasn't quite a year ago that we saw JVC gush all over its own LH805 series of LCD HDTVs, but now, those are simply livin' in the past. Introduced today, the LH905 series steps things up a notch with the included Genessa Premium 36-bit video engine. Additionally, the 37-inch LT-37LH905, 42-inch LT-42LH905 and 47-inch LT-47LH905 will all feature ... (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba makes timid Blu-ray showing at IFA, still believes in other forms of HD distribution (Engadget, 9/04/2009 7:07pm) |
Aside from the new JournE touch, the other main thrust at IFA's booth is Blu-ray -- at least, one would think. In reality, when we finally found the lone BDX2000, the LCD it was plugged into was off, while numerous DVD players and upscaling tech demos littered the surrounding booth area. Once we got a rep to turn it on for us, the Blu-ray player seemed to work just fine, as should be expected. The new Blu-ray equipped P500, however, wasn't so successful: our colleagues at Engadget Spanish watched an attempted Blu-ray showing on the laptop go awry, and by the time we'd dropped by the booth, any Blu-ray models of the P500 had been pulled from the show floor due to crashiness. In talking with a Toshiba rep, it's clear that the company hasn't abandoned its ideas of internet distribution and other alternatives to the once rival format of Blu-ray. The company is looking into a solution that uses a Blu-ray disc and BD Live to stream internet media to the player, and has packed in decent codec support for playing back media off of the BDX2000's SD card reader. We're sure Toshiba will figure out its P500 woes before the laptop ships to consumers, but there's no lack of interestingness in these first displays of Toshiba's "commitment" to the Blu-ray format. Gallery: Toshiba's BDX2000 'in action' at IFAFiled under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentToshiba makes timid Blu-ray showing at IFA, still believes in other forms of HD distribution originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments (Read Full Article) |
