Tag: High Definition Optical Discs (Blu-ray and HD DVD)

If you’ve been itching for the latest and greatest blu-ray drive, here you go! Of course, if you are looking for HDMI 1.4 guarantees, you’ll probably want to wait a bit since it’s up in the air what will be upgradeable. And considering this costs $450, it’s not exactly OK for it to become obselete sooner than later. CrunchGear The […]

I’ve never seen exactly how blu-rays are made, so this was very interesting indeed. Very cool to see the process from start to finish, since it starts as little pieces and eventually becomes the entire packaging you buy at the store. News.com.au Rounds to flats … each Blu-ray disc begins its life as a collection of small polycarbonate granules delivered […]

Quite an action packed group of releases this week, from Fast and Furious to Ultimate Fighting Championships…with a little comedy with the classic Spinal Tap. Dollhouse season 1 as well, good to know it won’t be the last time, and there’s even a never aired episode that is pretty far out there (was supposed to be the last episode). MissingRemote’s […]

Take this news with a grain of salt, as apparantly the documentary is from a local japanese news station, not exactly reuters. But interesting nonetheless and does shed some light on a format I knew nothing about. According to Wikipedia , the only big studio so far supporting the format is Warner Brothers (since March 2009), but apparantly the format […]

Watchmen is one of the most anticipated Blu-ray releases for a while, and it’s good to see that it lives up to expectations. Not just from a picture quality perspective–which you knew would be stunning–but the bonuses and extended length make it worthwhile. And it better be–the director’s cut runs over 3 hours long!! Home Theater Blog The Directors cut […]

I don’t recall Sony’s original DVD changer doing so hot in the retail world, but that hasn’t stopped them from releasing a massive 400 disc changer. If this thing works it will be awesome, considering that 400 blu-ray movies (assuming 40gb per) is around 16 TERABYTES. Just saying…in case you were going to rip 400 blu-rays 🙂   Engadget The […]

If you’ve ever wondered just how insane the warehousing must be at Netflix considering the thousands of discs they process every day, take a look at this. It’s even more impressive when you consider how fast Netflix is at getting you your newest queued movies.   Hacking Netflix 3a.m. The mail is picked up from the Postal Distribution Center and […]