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Pioneer may have covered the segment for desktop optical disk drives when it launched the BDR-S07, but it is LG Electronics that made a portable BDXL writer.
Named BP40NS20, the item has arrived in Europe and, being an external product, is meant as a sort of companion to notebooks and such. It has a price of 109 Eur... |
3 February 2012
11:12 GMT |
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Looks like Pioneer has completed a new optical disk drive unit, one that supports pretty much every disk format out there, down to the latest and most capacious Blu-ray.
For those that don't remember, the newest and baddest Blu-ray format is called BDXL and, depending on how many layers a disk has, it offers 10... |
3 February 2012
10:48 GMT |
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As we promised, we're bringing you now the latest software for the Samsung Blu-ray players which are currently supported.
Even though Samsung stopped listing many of the Blu-ray players on their index (and kept only the latest generation ones), we know that there are a lot of owners out there who are looking to... |
1 February 2012
10:35 GMT |
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As far as features are concerned, the freshly released PowerDVD 12 is quite impressive. CyberLink equipped the latest release of their Blu-ray and media player with more than 30 new features and extends the list of supported formats (lossless FLAC and OGG and MK3D included).
Among the most notable modifications ther... |
31 January 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Plextor revealed many optical drives over the years, so the PX-B950SA is just the latest in a long string of units. Designed for desktops, the PX-B950SA is an internal Blu-ray writer (5.25-inch form factor) that communicates with motherboards via the SATA interface. Single-layer BD-R disks are written at a speed of... |
26 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Another day, another report about the next Xbox console. This time we’re hearing that the device will have support for Sony’s Blu-ray technology and that a special system will be put in place to prevent the console from playing used games.
The Xbox 360 will still be around for quite some time, at least a... |
26 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Sony has once again highlighted that physical media, like its own Blu-ray discs, will continue to be relevant for the next generation of home consoles, even if digital downloads are becoming more popular.
Current generation consoles are all centered around physical media, ranging from the Xbox 360’s DVDs, to t... |
13 January 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Samsung has made the official introduction of two Blu-ray Players, one for people who like compact items and another for those who want more functionality.
The BD-ES6000 is the small one, only slightly larger than an actual disk, while the BD-E6500 has dual HDMI inputs and built-in Wi-Fi, leading to a larger form fa... |
11 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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James Bond fans, rejoice. 2012 will not only be the year of a new installment in the time-enduring franchise, but also its 50th anniversary. To celebrate, MGM and Fox have the perfect Blu-Ray set. Announced at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2012, the set will include all 22 films in the franchise from “Dr. No&... |
11 January 2012
10:42 GMT |
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Looks like Sony isn't jumping off the Google TV ship, having released not just a media player with support for it, but also a Blu-ray player.The Media Player is called NSZ-GS7 while the Blu-ray unit bears the name of NSZ-GP9.Both of them connect to HDTVs via HDMI and can either relay TV broadcasts or let users b... |
10 January 2012
11:19 GMT |
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Google already let us know that Vizio is preparing a couple of Google TV devices for this year’s CES, and as expected, these have popped at the Las Vegas fair.
The devices in question are the Vizio VAP430 set-top box and a VBR430 Blu-ray player, both running the Vizio Internet Apps Plus UI on top of Google&rsq... |
10 January 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Remember the BDXL Blu-ray disk format? That didn't at any point in time stop being a real thing. Turns out that Pioneer definitely did not forget about it and, to prove it, made what it calls the world's smallest and lightest BD/DVD/CD portable burner supporting BDXL. It measures 5.2 (W) x 0.55 (H) x 5.2 ... |
5 January 2012
10:12 GMT |
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The wait for VLC 1.2.0 is close to an end as the development team just launched a pre-release for this version.
It is a major version, so changes abound; they affect packagers, codecs, demuxers, audio filters and output and video filters. Additionally, a hefty set of modules has been removed.
One important note fo... |
29 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Anyone looking for a new optical drive, even though USB-based external storage seems more popular nowadays, the Pioneer BDR-207JBK may be just the thing for them.This is one of those optical units that could convince people that they should still look into upgrading their CD or DVD drive.After all, not often do Blu-r... |
19 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing a fix to customers which have experienced problems when copying large amounts of data to a Blu-Ray disk on their Windows 7 computers.
According to the software giant, extremely poor performance is the indicator that users might have a problem.
The Redmond company reveals that copying over 10... |
7 November 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Buffalo does tend to release something new at least once a month and, this time, its labs have put together a new optical disk drive for travelers or anyone else that owns a PC.
For people who like their disks capacious, Buffalo has created the BRXL-PCW6U2-BK.
This is a less than ordinary Blu-ray disk writer, as i... |
7 November 2011
07:33 GMT |
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The big surge in Blu-ray disk sales is something that speaks just as much about the instant popularity increase as it does about the previous lukewarm demand level. People who were wondering about the relevance of Blu-ray's existence got their answer just now, as sales got a nice boost. Until not too long ag... |
17 October 2011
21:01 GMT |
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Blu-ray players are more or less the most advanced form of media players to date, especially when they have HDDs as well, and while Pioneer's newest creations don't have this built-in storage, they do have everything else.
Pioneer seems to be doing something similar to what it did back in September, whe... |
12 October 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Blu-ray players have been developed before, but Toshiba definitely went beyond the confines of the blueprints when it built the Regza Blu-ray DBR-M190. In trying to keep ahead of solid state drives and maintain their spot on the mainstream, hard disk drives have been boosting platter capacities almost frantically. ... |
4 October 2011
08:13 GMT |
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There have been multiple occasions where analysts looked into the future of optical media and the latest such occurrence has In-Stat as the one responsible, the prediction being one that isn't too favorable to the DVD.
HDTVs may not be too widespread now, but they will definitely account for more and more of... |
30 September 2011
04:42 GMT |
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I-O Data may have already revealed its newest hard disk drives, but that is not all it came up with, as its product lineup also welcomed a new Blu-ray writer of the external variety, one that handles even the newest and most capacious disk formats.
Nowadays, Blu-ray is more or less universally acknowledged as the... |
22 September 2011
10:38 GMT |
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Pioneer is showing its own assets on the multimedia front, although its own new products are going to show their worth in the US instead of Europe, where ASUS released its own, newest device.Though the PC market seems to be getting the most attention when it comes to consumer technology, consumer electronics aren�... |
9 September 2011
11:00 GMT |
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A brand new report concerning the upcoming Battlefield 3 first person shooter has arrived from Japan, of all places, with a poster saying that the game will ship on two DVDs for the Xbox 360 and just one Blu-ray disc for the PS3.Battlefield 3 is scheduled to arrive this October for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,... |
6 September 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The segment of media players and other multimedia devices is one that grew substantially over the past few years, economic recession or no, and Sony just made its most recent move in this field.
The 2011 IFA trade show already got us much to talk and write about, as obvious from how we set up a special section fo... |
6 September 2011
03:09 GMT |
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With the tendency towards portable Flash storage, one might no longer be on the lookout for optical media, but Samsung still has faith in the storage media, as made clear by its new ODD.Ever since the CD (compact disk) was invented, optical media has been on a constant advancement, always incarnating in a newer and ... |
2 September 2011
11:15 GMT |
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LG just announced that it has decided to expand its line of Cinema 3D entertainment packages with the addition of two new complete kits that include an LG Cinema 3D HDTV, a Blu-ray Disc player and four pairs of LG’s lightweight 3D glasses.
The packages are available with either a 47-inch or a 54.6-inch 3D hi... |
5 August 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Windows 7 users that attempt to burn large amounts of data onto Blu-Ray discs can come across some issues, Microsoft confirmed officially. It appears that the issue is related to the erroneous way in which Windows Vista’s successor estimates the write capacity of a Blu-Ray disc. As a direct result, burn opera... |
28 July 2011
03:13 GMT |
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The recent L.A. Noire title from Team Bondi and Rockstar was set to be much longer, according to its developer, but many cases and even a whole desk were cut due to space and time restraints.
L.A. Noire, the recent detective game from Australian developer Team Bondi and published by Rockstar was quite a big game, ... |
25 July 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Sony has denied recent rumors that it is scrapping an essential feature of its PlayStation 3 console, saying that the new model of the device will only require an HDMI connection for Blu-ray playback, in order to comply to new standards.
Sony is preparing to deploy a brand new version of its PlayStation 3 home con... |
14 July 2011
03:35 GMT |
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While IT and entertainment players are fueling the hype surrounding 3D, and it looks like consumers really have been buying Blu-ray 3D disks even despite the fairly low number of films available in that format.Blu-ray disks are, for all intents and purposes, the most capacious of optical media storage solutions to d... |
13 July 2011
04:47 GMT |
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A software company going by the name of Macgo has released a Blu-ray player application that works on both Mac and PC platforms.The developer is putting a more-than-attractive offer on the table by allowing customers to download the application and use its full set of features for free over the course of three full m... |
7 July 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering a helping hand to customers who are experiencing issues with writing and reading media on their Windows PCs. The Redmond company has provided an automated fix designed to resolve issues related to playing and burning, CDs, DVDs as well as Blue-ray discs. The automated Fix It solution can be dow... |
4 July 2011
07:43 GMT |
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Though it already had all the capabilities that a good HDTV is expected to possess, the REAL LCD-22BLR500 from Mitsubishi was given some extra assets to set it apart from most of its kind.
The idea of Smart TVs is not a new one, but neither are such products very common in any area of the world.
Then again, wi... |
27 June 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Nintendo has confirmed that it will not be adding DVD and Blu-ray playback abilities to its upcoming Wii U home console, saying that the features were not important enough to justify the extra costs associated with both developing and manufacturing.Satoru Iwata, ... |
16 June 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Tipard has released Blu-ray Converter for Mac, a versatile Mac Blu-ray ripper that can effectively remove various DRM protections from Blu-ray discs, allowing Mac users to fully enjoy watching Blu-ray movies without any limitations.The solution acts simply by ripping the disc and providing conversion methods. Support... |
16 June 2011
11:31 GMT |
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LG has presented quite a few interesting laptop designs in the last couple of weeks, but the company hasn't stopped there and it recently unveiled an All-in-One system that is known as the V300 and packs Intel's second-generation Core processors.
The V300 AIO is housed inside a stylish 23-inch 1.8-inch t... |
15 June 2011
05:56 GMT |
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I-O Data already has quite the collection of optical storage units, among other things, but it looks like its external and portable models have now received a new sibling, dubbed BRD-UT12.When it comes to external storage, consumers usually think of, at least at first, such things as flash drives, maybe DVDs.Still, ... |
26 May 2011
08:01 GMT |
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I-O Data has delivered more than a few storage devices over the years, optical disk drive included, and it looks like this very sort of drive is what the BRD-U8S really is, although it has yet to actually become available.The market for storage devices has grown quite diverse over the past decade, what with so many ... |
12 May 2011
06:10 GMT |
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Even though one can't really say there is a shortage of optical disk drives on today's market, it appears that Lite-On still decided this was an opportune moment for releasing a new Blu-ray device.
While BDXL disks continue to be more or less irrelevant for all but a handful of consumers, so-called stan... |
5 May 2011
07:41 GMT |
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It looks like Buffalo is not the only IT company showing some activity on the optical disk drive market, as Plextor has also made a move, in the US, in the form of a Blu-ray burner equipped with the latest USB interface.On the market of optical disk drives, many DVD and Blu-ray drives are roaming, with or without sc... |
28 April 2011
08:26 GMT |
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It looks like ASUS is out in force today, as it decided to try its artistic hand at more than just a new sort of audio solution, having also delivered an external Blu-ray player that combines performance with aesthetics.Pieces of hardware meant to complement or supplement desktops or laptops have become a common com... |
8 April 2011
11:02 GMT |
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The BDXL format has been up and running for a while now, and with actual writing units for such products now selling globally, Panasonic figured it was time to step up and unleash its first rewritable disks of this sort.By last year, the Blu-ray disk format had still not actually come close to replacing DVDs on the ... |
4 April 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Those that were wondering how long it would take for more BDXL drives to show up need wait no longer, as a certain company known as I-O Data has come to challenge Buffalo with an external solution of this very sort.For those that do not know, some months ago, the Blu-ray Disk Association, BDA for short, came up with... |
28 March 2011
06:34 GMT |
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It really does look like Samsung is aiming big with its newest string of product releases, as it has unveiled not just new laptops and displays, but also a full line of Blu-ray players as part of its Smart collection.Samsung is a company that deals in a great variety of electronics, like PCs, multimedia players of v... |
17 March 2011
05:56 GMT |
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Although we're pretty sure Japanese customers are not exactly interested in purchasing any HDTVs right now, that's not stopped Toshiba from releasing a brand-new line of Regza HDTVs, the RB2 family.In fact, the RB2 HDTVs became official in Japan on Friday morning, just before the devastating earthquake hit,... |
14 March 2011
09:29 GMT |
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As more and more devices are released these days with HD capabilities, Blu-ray standard spreads around like wildfire. Software designed to unlock content on such discs is a logical consequence of the phenomenon, and Foxreal Blu-ray Ripper can be used to this purpose exactly. At $49 the application may seem a bit exp... |
7 March 2011
10:24 GMT |
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ASUS has already unleashed a sizable collection of hardware products and systems at the 2011 CeBIT expo, but it definitely didn't stop until it had one of the biggest exhibitions, now revealed to include a new Blu-ray player.With all the products that ASUS brought to CeBIT, users are possibly divided between th... |
3 March 2011
08:25 GMT |
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ASUS is one of the companies with the biggest collections of products on display at this year's CeBIT expo, but it seems it is not done with its releases yet, having also delivered a certain Blu-ray drive.The 2011 edition of the international CeBIT expo is currently in effect in Hannover, Germany, meaning that ... |
3 March 2011
07:43 GMT |
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Free video converters are easy to find nowadays. And most of the recent freebies come with pretty awesome features and flexibility worthy of a paid product. Freemake Video Converter, although released relatively recently has raised the interest of the users through its clean, easy to use interface as well as video c... |
27 February 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Since Sandy Bridge was launched, we have seen virtually every computer manufacturer out there refreshing or upgrading its product line in order to feature Intel's latest processors, and Panasonic is doing the same now as they have just announced, during a press event that took place in Japan, their B10, N10, and... |
28 January 2011
10:15 GMT |
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