discs

JVC DR-MH50: discs of fury

Crave It'll play WMA, MP3 and JPEG files, record schedules via the shockingly easy VideoPlus+ Deluxe system and archive your favourite TV shows to DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD-R discs. If you haven't invested in a hard drive recorder yet, you're missing out...

Tags: hard drive, programming, toshiba, recorder

7 June 2005, 10:57

Samsung DVD-HD870: See your DVDs in pseudo high definition

Crave The Samsung DVD-HD870 is designed to do one thing -- breathe new life into your DVD collection and make your standard-definition discs look like high-definition ones, using upscaling. After all, there's no shortage of DVD movies and most people...

Tags: samsung, hd, definition, discs

30 July 2007, 12:07

LG GGW-H10N Super Multi Blue revealed

Crave LG is a shameless double agent in the HD format war -- it's the only major company to produce products that work with both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. Specs-wise, it writes to Blu-ray discs at 4x and to standard DVDs at a maximum of 10x.

Tags: lg electronics, hd, ray, discs

14 March 2007, 9:12

HD DVD disc sales figures: Blu-ray gets really cross

Crave In the latest skirmish in the hi-def format war, the HD DVD promotion group announced on Monday that in Europe, HD DVD is the king of the 'attach rate' -- the average number of discs each person buys for their player.

Tags: hd, rate, ray, discs

14 November 2007, 10:05

Blu-ray and HD DVD movies: Time to order?

Crave Online retailers Amazon.co.uk, Play.com and HMV.co.uk have now started accepting pre-orders for HD DVD and Blu-ray discs, bringing high definition another step closer to reality. The question remains, though: how many people are going to want to...

Tags: ray, hd, discs, pre

12 September 2006, 16:36

Sony launches low-cost Blu-ray player with Spidey sweetener

Crave The Japanese giant further sweetened the deal by offering free Blu-ray discs, namely the Spider-Man trilogy, which punters can get their grubby hands on by registering their player and completing a survey online.

Tags: sony, ray, hd, discs

31 August 2007, 10:48

Blu-ray vs HD DVD: Blu-ray outsells HD DVD in January

Crave The most recent sales figures generated by Nielsen VideoScan, a US company responsible for measuring the sales of video products in retail stores, indicate that Blu-ray has stepped up its game and sold twice as many discs as HD DVD in the first...

Tags: discs, hd, sales, ray

5 February 2007, 10:00

Straight to DVD: Handycam DCR-DVD7E

Crave You can record either to write-once DVDs or rewritable discs. The massive advantage of a DVD camcorder is that playing back discs is so hassle-free -- except for the 4-minute wait for the camcorder to finalise.

Tags: sony uk, disc, dvd player, dvds

23 August 2005, 11:26

Blu Monday: Hitachi touting world's first Blu-ray camcorder?

Crave The cameras are said to include 5.3-megapixel CMOS sensors and record to 8cm discs, which will hold less data than the usual 12cm Blu-ray discs. Rumour is building that Hitachi will be first to debut a Blu-ray video camera, with pictures of mock...

Tags: hitachi, japanese, hd, disc

23 July 2007, 13:03

LG BD100: Darren Campbell unveils LG's Blu-ray player

Crave Playback compatibility is fairly good, too -- it'll read Blu-ray discs, DVD+R and DVD-R discs, DVD-RAM, and MP3 and WMA audio CDs. Today marked the unveiling of LG's Blu-ray player -- the BD100. Sparing no expense, the guys at LG marked the rollout...

Tags: ray, discs, gold, inch

3 November 2006, 16:23

We Crave: DVD Recording

Crave The trouble starts when you start to look at the multitude of DVD formats out there, from those that can be written once to various rewritable discs that can be reused or edited as needed. The DVD+R format is generally even more compatible, but the...

Tags: recording, ram, material, discs

7 July 2005, 11:23

Going on record: the Philips LX7500R

Crave Well not much, as it happens -- the system will happily play back MP3 discs, it will programme all your recordings using the simple VideoPlus+ system, and its clever Dolby Pro Logic II processing will create meaty surround sound from a measly...

Tags: philips, order, recorder, discs

1 June 2005, 10:52

Blu-ray beaten by a dead format

Crave Of course, it would be negligent of us not to point out that all the other discs in the top ten were Blu-ray. There have been sketchy reports that Paramount is already gearing up for some releases on Blu-ray -- the question on most people's lips is...

Tags: hd, discs, ray, studios

4 March 2008, 9:00

IFA 2006: Toshiba announces HD DVD players for Europe

Crave Both of the European players can output from HD DVD discs at 720p or 1080i, and the more expensive HD-XE1 can also output in 1080p. HD DVD players aren't much use without discs, so IFA 2006 also saw several announcements from content producers.

Tags: toshiba, iii, international, hd

4 September 2006, 9:44

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