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Crave Talk: How flash will destroy optical and magnetic storage

Crave The PlayStation 3 console currently needs optical HD discs because of the naturally cumbersome volume of data required by HD games. Apple recently offered a 64GB SSD inside its new MacBook Air laptop; Creative's Zen media player maxes out at 32GB...

21 January 2008, 10:53

Samsung BD-UP5000: Sit on the high-definition fence

Crave Dual-format players are good for HD DVD, because movie studios will be more likely to press their discs in the format that's cheapest to produce. Sony won't be in a hurry to support HD DVD and it does have an enormous back catalogue of moves to...

Tags: samsung, discs, interactive, ray

16 April 2007, 10:30

NEC ND-4551A: Labelflash Larry

Crave It's not perfect -- Labelflash drives can only recreate 256 greyscale shades on special blue-tinted Labelflash discs, but it produces semi-professional results. Crave thinks Labelflash discs look better than HP Lightscribe discs, which work in a...

Tags: disc, discs, quality settings, cds dvds

11 May 2006, 11:17

HD DVD is dead. Really, they've checked its pulse this time

Crave This was handy for those with lots of DVDs or people who were waiting before buying an HD DVD player, but wanted to have discs to play when they made the switch. With luck, you'll have a good few years left in your HD collection before you have to...

Tags: toshiba, discs, switch, dvds

19 February 2008, 10:53

Sony RDR-HXD: Records 1,420 hours of X Factor, violates Geneva convention

Crave There isn't much information on what types of discs you can burn to, but a look at the spec of last year's models suggest that we shouldn't expect RAM support or the ability to record on to dual-layer re-writable discs.

Tags: sony, models, range, discs

30 April 2008, 10:44

Photos from IFA 2006: See the Ambilight with Philips

Crave It plays CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs (BDs) and outputs high-definition video at 1080p. Sexy see-through PCs with blue underlighting provided glamorous surroundings for the prosaic-looking TripleWriter SPD7000 (mounted at the top), an internal drive...

4 September 2006, 11:31

Photos from IFA 2006: Toshiba demos its HD DVD players

Crave Toshiba also displayed recordable and rewritable HD DVDs, ranging in capacity from standard 15GB discs to dual-layer 30GB discs and triple-layer 45GB discs. The centrepiece of Toshiba's stand at IFA 2006 was the area promoting HD DVD.

4 September 2006, 9:07

Apple and 20th Century Fox: Free iTunes copy of your movie

Crave The Apple announcement doesn't mention what sort of quality you'll be getting, but we'd hope that the Blu-ray discs come with an HD version to work with the revised Apple TV system. There's no word on UK availability of these files, but we'd wager...

Tags: apple

16 January 2008, 11:20

HD DVD posse: "There's room for both formats"

Crave What was more surprising is that people buying HD DVD players, on the whole, bought more discs than people buying Blu-ray players. On HD DVD this number is an average of four discs. We've all got so caught up in the fighting between Blu-ray and HD...

Tags: hd, europe, definition, ray

22 June 2007, 10:01

We Crave: High Definition

Crave The ace up Sony's sleeve is the PlayStation 3, which will play Blu-ray discs out of the box. The plan seems to be that the first discs will be 'hybrids' -- one side of the DVD will be in the regular format, and the other side will contain the high...

Tags: sky, lines, film, high definition

30 June 2005, 10:53

Hands-on with the Hitachi DZ-BD70E: 1080p Blu-ray camcorder

Crave Blu movies are captured on to dinky 8cm Blu-ray discs, although it accepts mini DVDs and also takes SD/SDHC cards. With HD DVD on the ropes, washed-up and dead in the water, the future is Blu -- that's the theory, anyway, and it's certainly Hitachi...

Tags: hitachi, disc, blu ray, blu

20 February 2008, 9:56

Pioneer creates 400GB optical disc: Like 16 layers of Blu-ray

Crave The new discs aren't really designed for movie storage -- at least not for domestic use -- and if they were to end up being used in such a way they wouldn't play in existing machines anyway. But this new system is closely related to Blu-ray, as...

Tags: disc, discs, ray, storage

10 July 2008, 10:47

Panasonic DMRES15: Dual-layer on a budget

Crave The recorder also supports every other format available, including DVD-R/RW,-R/RW and -RAM discs. We got rather excited about Panasonic's latest DVD recorder range last week, and the company has already started delivering on its lofty promises.

Tags: panasonic, scan, ram, recording

23 March 2006, 11:08

LG GBW H10N: Economy Blu-ray drive

Crave LG's latest Blu-ray disc drive, the GBW H10N, is an optical storage device that lets you read, write and erase data using Blu-ray discs. LG claims this is the first Blu-ray drive capable of burning at 4x speed using Blu-ray recordable discs...

Tags: lg electronics, discs, disc, ray

15 September 2006, 10:44

Michael Bay: 'HD DVD vs Blu-ray is a Microsoft conspiracy'

Crave Sooner or later, we're going to have to give up our obsession with little discs of plastic, and we'll demand movies in formats that suit us, rather than some movie studio. You might remember some time ago that Michael Bay proved he's a Sony fanboy...

Tags: hd, downloading, disc, ray

5 December 2007, 10:44