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News.blog: Can silicon help Blu-ray?

News The Blu-ray people face a big problem: those blue lasers are a pain to make. Shimei Semiconductor has developed a blue LED grown on a silicon substrate, according to EE Times. Now, blue LEDs are grown on a sapphire substrate.

10 November 2006, 10:02

Will Blu-ray DVDs be too expensive?

News Because Sony's Blu-ray disc technology appears to be the front-runner in the nasty fight to determine how the DVDs of the future are produced, movie studios and disc manufacturers are beginning to come to terms with the financial realities of the...

29 November 2005, 9:47

Warner Bros. joins Blu-ray DVD camp

News Entertainment said on Thursday that its home video division will release DVDs in the high-definition Blu-ray format. Warner, which had decided to distribute films in the popular HD DVD format, is now the second big Hollywood company to say it will...

21 October 2005, 10:43

Panasonic beams Blu-ray to your home

News Panasonic wants to remodel your entertainment centre around Blu-ray. In September, the company will begin to sell a Blu-ray player, as well as an audio-video receiver and a set of speakers tuned to work with the player.

23 June 2006, 9:34

News.blog: Panasonic exec calls Blu-ray Christmas win

News CHIBA, Japan--The decisive battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD is at hand, says a prominent Panasonic exec.Blu-ray manufacturers are going to start cutting prices and go out on a promotional binge this Christmas, Matsushita Electric

Tags: money, disc, christmas, ray

3 October 2007, 10:19

Sony struts its Blu-ray stuff in Japan

News Sony on Tuesday gave out more details regarding its strategy and content lineup for Blu-ray, one of the next-generation optical formats fighting to succeed the DVD. Famitsu says there will be around 75 titles from 12 companies available on Blu-ray...

30 August 2006, 9:57

News.blog: Blu-ray and HD DVD united by 2008?

News Chipmakers such as Broadcom, NEC and STMicroelectronics are preparing components that will allow consumer electronics manufacturers to release players and PCs that will play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

Tags: universal, companies, disc, electronics

7 November 2006, 11:38

NEC chip to bridge Blu-ray/HD DVD gap?

News A truce between the Blu-ray and HD DVD worlds is still probably a way off, but NEC has come up with a chip that could help companies bridge the divide. The chip, essentially a controller, works in both Blu-ray and HD DVD players.

Tags: standards, hd, components, discs

12 October 2006, 9:26

Report: Paramount to back Blu-ray?

News Yesterday's Financial Times reveals that according to its sources, Paramount is 'poised to reveal' it will be abandoning the HD DVD format in order to go Blu-ray exclusive.The article states, "Paramount, which is owned by Viacom, is understood to...

Tags: ray, cent, sony, stock

9 January 2008, 11:37

News.blog: Microsoft, Sony talk 360 Blu-ray drive

News CNET.co.uk's sister site Gamespot.co.uk posted a news blurb on a report that "Microsoft has entered into talks with Sony to bring Blu-ray to the Xbox 360". Microsoft "are not simply discussing a successor to the Xbox 360's now discontinued, dirt...

Tags: disc, ray, xbox, layer

7 March 2008, 9:19

LG to sell first Blu-ray/HD DVD player

News The Korean electronics maker unveiled the Super Multi Blue, the first player that can play discs from the competing Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Tags: lg electronics, discs, war, dvds

8 January 2007, 10:20

News.blog: Unimpressed with Blu-ray and HD DVD players

News Amid the glitz and ultra-cutting edge high-tech gadgets spread over what seemed like the 20 or 30 square miles of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, if you wanted to find a 1980s-era VCR, there were two places to look: the Blu-ray and HD...

10 January 2006, 10:51

News.blog: Sony launches 200-disc Blu-ray changer

News The Big Blu is a 200-disc Blu-ray changer, plus Blu-ray burner and 500GB HDD With its rectangular, tower-like design, the HES-V1000 is a 200-disc changer that can play and record to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

7 September 2007, 9:30

A hi-def DVD combo? Don't bank on it

News For consumers, a device that could play both HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs would take much of the risk out of adopting the new video players -- but one may not arrive for a long time. You can't just be on the Blu-ray side and say, 'We will put HD DVD...

11 January 2006, 10:22

BD Live coming on PS3 update

News The upcoming firmware update for the PlayStation 3 is going to bring with it a whole host of new Blu-ray and PlayStation Portable features. System software update 2.20 will be released in "late March", according to Sony, and will add Blu-ray Disc...

Tags: psp, title, disc, enhance

20 March 2008, 15:56