 | 'Fatal Attraction' to Slice Up Blu-ray this June (High-Def Digest, 3/09/2009 10:10pm) |
| It's the Blu-ray that will not be ignored: Paramount Home Entertainment has announced an early-June high-def release of 'Fatal Attraction.' The pop culture sensation that made Glenn Close, butcher knives,... ... (Read Full Article) |
| 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) | Federal Jury Rules Nintendo Infringed On Inventor's Glasses-Free 3D Patent, Awards $30.2 Million [UPDATE] (Kotaku, 3/13/2013 10:58pm) |
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| (Unranked) | State of the Art: More Soot Than Sparks From Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD - State of the Art (New York Times, 9/12/2012 1:21am) |
Amazon says its Kindle Fire HD is “the best tablet at any price.†But there’s no GPS, no to-do list, no notes app. What’s the attraction?
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 | Verizon CEO Calls For Telecom Reform (InternetNews.com, 6/07/2005 7:20pm) |
| Ivan Seidenberg wants the rules changed to put more of the Bell's fiber in U.S. homes. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | HDTV adopters shafted by HD-disk rules (HDTV adopters shafted by HD-disk rules (Everything HDTV), 2/23/2006 6:17am) |
| Sounds like the “powers that be†are messing with us again. Check out what is happening with DVD HDTV movie formats below… AACS severely limits the... ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV dvr - The Consumer Impact on FCC Rules about HDTV (1 HDVT Blog, 10/13/2006 1:34am) |
| The relationship between the FCC and the HDTV industry is long and somewhat complicated. It is complete with opposing companies forming alliances for... ... (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) |
| Brussels urged to delay new network rules (Financial Times, 11/24/2005 7:38pm) |
| The German telecoms regulator has called upon Viviane Reding, the European telecoms commissioner, to hold off from regulation of a new generation of high-speed fibre-optic networks in Europe. ... (Read Full Article) |
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| Early HDTV adopters screwed by Blue Ray & HD-DVD rules (Digg.com, 2/21/2006 9:58am) |
| If you're one of the first adopters who mortgaged the house to buy the earliest HDTV displays, don't expect to get full HD resolution when you take out a second mortgage for a high-def disc player when they come out later this year. ... (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) |
| Soderbergh's 'Bubble' Changes the Rules (NPR, 1/24/2006 6:22pm) |
| Fresh Air from WHYY , January 24, 2006 · The new low-budget film from director Steven Soderbergh promises to shake things up in the movie industry. Bubble opens in theaters on Friday, Jan. 27, the same day it is broadcast in HDTV. Four days later, it comes out on DVD. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Pirate Bay now hosting banned 3D printed gun files (CNET Blogs, 5/10/2013 4:40pm) |
| Yesterday, the U.S. State Department demanded the removal of the files from Defcad, claiming they may violate export rules. Now, the peer-to-peer Pirate Bay has picked up the slack. (Read Full Article) |
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| The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the Federal Communications Commission s (FCC) rules requiring digital television (DTV) broadcast receiving and associated equipment to include technology intended to prevent further distribution of digital broadcast programming, such as via the internet. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Copy protection in digital TV: court says FCC went too far (Out-Law, 5/09/2005 2:21pm) |
| The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overstepped its authority when it imposed rules requiring future digital television tuners to include copyright protection mechanisms, a US Court of Appeals ruled on Friday. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Next-Generation DVD Format War Looming (Connected Home Media, 10/26/2005 2:19pm) |
| After three votes and amended voting rules, the DVD Forum has finally passed a proposal for a next-generation DVD technology called HD-DVD. Flat-Screen Display for Your Home Theater Chech out Sony Electronics' new high-definition flat-panel LCD TVs, the 42" KDL-42XBR950 and 32" KDL-32XBR950. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Forza rules (Canoe, 5/08/2005 9:09am) |
| If you think the long-awaited Xbox-exclusive racing game Forza Motorsport will take the place of your well-worn copy of Project Gotham Racing 2, think again. This is a hardcore simulation that makes Gotham look like Ridge Racer, and handbraking powersliders need not apply. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Rules of Grand Theft Auto Box Art (Kotaku, 4/04/2013 1:40pm) |
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Rockstar not only recreated the 2D universe of the previous games in 3D, but the developers also came up with a new standard for the North American box art. For each title after Grand Theft [...] (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) |
| (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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| More News for July 28, 2005 from Lee Wood (HDTV Magazine, 7/29/2005 3:27pm) |
NAB/MSTV Comments on the FCC Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making regarding DTV Tuners (ET 05-24) [Adobe PDF File]
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| BBC wants to lock-down Freeview HD content (AfterDawn, 9/18/2009 7:01am) |
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has appealed to regulator Ofcom to be allowed to use encryption on Freeview HD data to prevent piracy. Of course, the request was immediately criticized as under licensing rules, the BBC is not allowed to encrypt video or audio streams. However, the BBC is requesting it be allowed to encrypt the data associated with TV listings, which in effect will stop set-top boxes from decoding TV content.
"We are committed to ensuring that public service content remains free to air i.e. unencrypted," the broadcaster said in a statement. "However, HD content holders have begun to expect a degree of content management on the Freeview HD platform and therefore broadcasters have recognised that a form of copy protection is needed."
A vocal critic of the plan is Labour MP Tom Watson, who says the plan results in limiting consumer choices. "In an attempt to satisfy the fears of powerful rights holders, the BBC will prohibit millions of people from programming their existing set top boxes," he in a blog entry. "If implemented this will make it difficult to view or record HDTV broadcasts with free software. Where's the consumer interest in that settlement?"
Under the new system, only trusted manufacturers would be offered the decryption keys for the HD data. Many set-top-boxes use open source software such as Linux to bring down costs, and critics say that the BBC's request will hit these boxes, because DRM is incompatible with open source software. As a result, it would be more difficult for producers of the boxes to get the necessary permissions from the BBC.Permalink | Comments
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| Microsoft lifts Xbox 360 minimum 720p, anti-aliasing mandate for devs (Joystiq, 9/02/2009 11:45pm) |
In a column published today on Develop, Black Rock Studio (Pure, Split/Second) technical director David Jeffrries revealed that Microsoft has removed an item from its TCRs (Technical Certification Requirements) that stated all Xbox 360 games must run at a minimum of 1280x720 (720p) resolution if the system is in HD mode. According to Jeffries, this was done earlier this year so that developers could be "free to make the trade-off between resolution and image quality as we see fit."
TCRs are technical "rules" that all games developed for a given platform must adhere to in order to be certified for release. Of course, some games that have skirted this specific TCR have still been allowed on the system; the most notable being Microsoft's own Halo 3, which runs at 1152x640 (progressive).
Joystiq has confirmed with a trusted source familiar with Microsoft's TCRs that Jeffries' claim is legit. Not only that, but, as of March 2009, Xbox 360 developers are no longer required to utilize full-screen anti-aliasing in their games. The elimination of both requirements is especially noteworthy since the console maker had touted that all 360 games would run at a minimum of 720p with at least 2x FSAA since before the hardware launched.
As Jeffries points out in his column, 1280x720 isn't necessarily the "starting point" for HD on many displays and that it's not nearly as crucial as anti-aliasing. It's not clear if the back-tracking on Microsoft's part was due to pressure from the development community or not, but we can probably all agree that, as long as a game looks great, it doesn't really matter how its creators got there. Does it?Microsoft lifts Xbox 360 minimum 720p, anti-aliasing mandate for devs originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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