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Tech NewsHP Chides Blu-ray, Feels Left Out
That’s right, the battle goes on. Looks like HP feels left out of certain high definition DVD features as the company sticks with its original plan to back Blu-ray. “We’re still supporting Blu-ray but we’re very serious that we want these technologies. If in the end, they’re supported in one and then not the other, … Continued
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Warner Bros Wusses Out Big Time with Next Gen DVD
Looks like Warner Brothers isn’t ready to take any sides in the HD DVD/Blu-Ray deep divide. In fact, the company has decided to back both of the next-gen DVD formats and wait to see who comes up aces. Though Microsoft and Intel were hoping to sway the entertainment companies to HD DVD with their recent … Continued
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Blu Ray Ship Dates Announced
Every day something new happens with Blu Ray. Today though, shipping dates were announced from Panasonic that they will be shipping Blu-enabled products in Spring of 2006. Not bad. Dell also has plans for Blu Ray early next year so we can all count on Panasonic getting cozy with Dell probably. The plan entails support … Continued
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Gizmodo Announces Support for Some Form of Higher Definition DVD
Budapest, Hungary — Gizmodo, the gadgets weblog and wholly owned subsidiary of Gawker Media Inc., today announced its support for some kind of better looking, higher capacity, more expensive DVD format. The writers and editors of the weblog will purchase high definition DVDs, and the overly-priced components that will be required to play them, as … Continued
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Gloves off At Blu-Ray Camp
Ah, the quibbling of media giants. Sort of fun to watch. And now the Blu-Ray backers have fired back at Microsoft and Intel for the reasons the companies gave earlier this week for backing HD DVD. From capacity to managed copy support, the Blu-Ray Disc Association group has said that there have been inaccuracies on … Continued
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Samsung Blu-Ray Media Monster
Samsung has recently announced what seems to be a humongous Blu-Ray compatible machine with — check this — a 400GB hard drive. And if that’s not enough to get you drooling, it’ll also apparently have wireless 802.11G for all that lovely video streaming you’re likely to do over the home network. We wish we could … Continued
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Samsung Swings Both Ways
If you can’t beat em, join em. I guess that’s what Samsung concluded after watching Blu-Ray and HD-DVD camps snark at each other all summer and absolutely refuse to give the consumer any idea what the next generation of DVD is going to be. So, to be fair to everyone, the company has announced plans … Continued
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HD-DVD: Screwed Again
Rumor has it that the Sony and Toshiba-led camps have once again failed to agree on a standard for next generation DVD products. The original end of August deadline has come and gone—and without the promise of joint development from the Blu-ray and HD-DVD camps, we’re looking at another massive Betamax vs VHS battle (although … Continued
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Blu-Ray for the Win
Word has it that HD-DVDs, which should have hit shelves this winter, will be under supported by studios are waiting for Sony’s Blu-Ray solution. What does that mean for us? It means that HD-DVD is slowly straining under heavy manufacturer pressure, leading to lag time between finalization of the standard and the release of something … Continued
By Johnb