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A new rumor points to the possibility that the Xbox 360 from Microsoft might be getting a Blu-ray drive. These rumors seem to pop up every couple of months, proposing either an internal or an external drive, only to solicit a quick and tough reaction from a Microsoft official who denies the possibility that this will... |
9 October 2008
19:31 GMT |
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The death of Toshiba's HD-DVD high-definition format triggered a series of losses in revenue that are reported to have reached alarming levels. According to Toshiba, the company's profit barely reached a faint 1.25 billion yen, much lower than the expected 26.17 billion yen achieved an year earlier.The com... |
26 April 2008
01:59 GMT |
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The recent death of Toshiba's HD-DVD format propelled the rival Blu-Ray high-definition standard as the new industry's king. However, it seems that the Blu-Ray itself will be soon facing the same situation as its former rival.According to THX, one of George Lucas' spin-off companies, the Blu-Ray format... |
27 March 2008
17:36 GMT |
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Japanese conglomerate Toshiba expects about $1 billion yearly loss as the result of having shut down its HD DVD business. Toshiba conceded defeat last month after a few months of continual battle against Sony's Blu-Ray high-definition format. The news was broken by Japanese business daily Nikkey, that declined t... |
13 March 2008
07:04 GMT |
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The Blu-ray - Xbox 360 saga is set for yet another twist. First Toshiba put up the white flag in the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray war and announced the HD-DVD will no longer be developed. Then Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics US, told the Financial Times that Sony was in "advanced talks" with Microsoft and Apple to ... |
13 March 2008
06:13 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Live, Software and Services Division, John Schappert declared that, following Toshiba's decision not to pursue the HD-DVD standard anymore, Microsoft would also drop the standard and not release any new generations of its HD-DVD add-on for the Xbo... |
7 March 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Recent reports emerging from the movie industry claim that the Blu-Ray high-definition format is the new king, while Toshiba's HD DVD needs to be flushed out. Whether you like it or not, Blu-Ray is here to stay and you'd better gear up in order to be able to watch the upcoming movie titles available on Blu-... |
18 February 2008
06:23 GMT |
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The format war has brought nothing but trouble in the movie industry. Partnerships dissolved while other alliances were formed. Despite the fact that the Blu-Ray format seems to have prevailed in the movie, audio and storage industry, the hardware manufacturers are not ready to call the HD DVD format dead yet. Many h... |
12 February 2008
05:10 GMT |
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One of Microsoft's executives recently claimed that the Xbox 360's producer would eventually support the Blu-ray format, in case it gets popular and enough and meets a high public demand, during a series of CES 2008 interviews. It all comes down to the failure or success of the HD DVD format and it's ... |
9 January 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Sure thing, Toshiba has had its share of adrenaline rush these days as its old friend Warner Bros turned its back on the HD-DVD format in favor of the shinier Blu-Ray. As of May 2008, Warner Bros will stop releasing its high-definition titles on HD-DVD media. The Japanese corporation is however hard to kill and knows... |
7 January 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Toshiba unveiled today their new Qosmio G40/F40 series of notebooks to come with an HD-DVD optical media writer. The company has managed once again to push the notebooks' limits until they have become a true replacement for desktop computers. The model is industry's first notebook to feature an HD-DVD recor... |
18 December 2007
02:53 GMT |
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Addonics has announced the Zebra Blu-ray / HD DVD Player. This type of optical media players is still young on the market and there are few such devices at hand. Apart from the HD DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, the player can read standard DVDs and CDs in various file formats or burn DVDR/RW and CDRW media. Its abilities ... |
14 December 2007
09:45 GMT |
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Blu-Ray disk drives are already a common appearance in the PC distribution sector and Toshiba has announced that they are planning to release half-height HD DVD drives early next year. This would be the first PC enabled HD-DVD burner to see the market in a long time, since the last model has been unveiled by Toshiba ... |
12 December 2007
10:36 GMT |
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The coming year won't bring us the happiness of a new beginning, but will take us to further steps in home entertainment, or at least Panasonic executives think so. According to them, about 10% of personal computers (PCs) will incorporate either Blu-ray or HD DVD drive next year, as the technology becomes more a... |
24 November 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Have you ever heard of Call/Recall? Well, me neither but in this case you should probably keep their name in your mind. Because if their product turns out to be more than a concept, you'll be hearing more about them in the near future. Yesterday, the unknown optical disk producer rolled out something called 2 ph... |
28 June 2007
03:05 GMT |
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Sooner or later. Because this is how things work in the encryption business. Take the DVD protection for example. It wasn't very complex so hackers managed to circumvent it really fast. And then Blu-Rays and HD-DVDs rushed in and with them came AACS. This one was pretty hard to crack but it too had a flaw relate... |
22 June 2007
06:21 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 has had its ups and downs just like any other console out there, but when we say "downs" we mean the worst that could happen. Not only did Xboxers worldwide experience the three rings of death when it came to installing such a simple thing as a Guitar Hero Whammy Bar Patch, but some were surprised to fin... |
12 June 2007
04:26 GMT |
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You know what they say, that gold is the purest, eternal symbol of wealth. Now, it may be so indeed (let alone Paris Hilton and the Swarowski toilet sets and stuff) but there is real doubt that the world of technology is that much into gold. I mean there is much gold in circuitry and the inner workings of gear but on... |
11 June 2007
03:35 GMT |
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Although Computex 2007 won't start until tomorrow, Toshiba has already announced that they will be showcasing their newest HD-DVD Writer at the show held in Taipei (Taiwan, June 5-9, 2007). Codenamed "SD-L912A", the new drive is also present on their website so if you want to take a closer look at the specs and ... |
4 June 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Now that Microsoft's released their Spring Update, 360 users surely have a lot to talk about. A dozen new features and improvements have been made available through this recently launched patch, among which "improved VGA output." Well, if other features aren't so impressive don't kill me, but at least... |
10 May 2007
04:23 GMT |
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Remember the news about Blu-ray diodes manufacturing price lowering down? It's finally happening and with this announcement the PS3 is more surely getting a price reduction as well this time. As, The Digitimes reports, "the production cost of the game console could be reduced by as much as US$100, according to... |
8 May 2007
06:40 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that consoles today are much more than gaming systems, but video and audio entertainment tools also. Thus, Sony and Microsoft implemented their machines (the PS3 and respectively the Xbox 360) with high definition viewing hardware and software. Microsoft chose the HD-DVD, while Sony came u... |
8 May 2007
03:48 GMT |
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The Mountain View based company sent a message to one of its users to remove the HD-DVD decryption key posted in his notebook. Because the content of a member's notebook might become available for other registered clients, the search giant sent a message to the user to demand him to delete the serial number. Acc... |
3 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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We found out that Wal-Mart refused to commercialize $299 HD-DVD players a couple of days ago, apparently trying to keep a balance between the rival high definition formats. A puzzling scheme, I'd say, but now Pioneer is ready to tip the balance in favor of the Blu-Ray format, with the introduction of their bran... |
3 May 2007
07:08 GMT |
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The best search engine on the Internet, Google, has recently joined the fiasco and indexed a lot of webpages that contain the recently discovered HD-DVD decryption key. However, the search technology managed to filter the content pretty good but it seems like some results were ignored and appeared on the SERP for an ... |
3 May 2007
04:38 GMT |
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It seems that the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war is far from being over, and just as things started to look better, something had to happen to bring all of the happy consumers back to the ground. There was talk of a deal between Wal-Mart and Fuh Yuan Electronics Development, in which they said Wal-Mart was going for an order of... |
30 April 2007
05:51 GMT |
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The Blurry disk has rapidly become one of the best selling storage mediums for high-definition movies around the world. At least that's what the numbers are showing according to the sales figures from the Home Media Research (HMR). This is the only high definition format to sell more than one million copies wit... |
25 April 2007
03:48 GMT |
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I guess when you are the world's largest retailer and also the world's largest corporation (according to CNN) you do have some power when it comes to sales, and the prices you practice. I've been around the block a couple of times to know just how big companies deal with promotions and promotional pric... |
23 April 2007
10:42 GMT |
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Ever thought that an Xbox 360 Elite was one too many consoles? So, you think that my question is dumb, don't you? Well here's proving you wrong. Although I don't fully agree with GamePro's list of eight reasons why the Elite isn't such an elite product, the site does highlight some of the fa... |
23 April 2007
08:42 GMT |
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In the computer industry, the HD-DVD/Blu-ray wars have brought some good and some bad things to the consumers. I'll start off with the bad things, the bad thing is that these products cost enormous amount of money, and people are buying them, when in the same price range you could have more desirable alternative... |
13 April 2007
06:25 GMT |
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One of the features that the entertainment industry had to abuse of was the adoption of the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats. Their introduction meant that movies could be played-back at a higher quality than by using normal DVD disks, and that was possible due to the very high capacity of these new formats. And the entert... |
6 April 2007
04:38 GMT |
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Apparently, the Blu-ray - HD-DVD battle still continues, with no winner expected to show up out of the two any time soon. Obviously, this takes the same form as other "wars" we've encountered in the computer industry, but this is similar to the attempt of touching the line of the horizon, you can never do it and... |
26 March 2007
10:22 GMT |
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You might have heard by now that Microsoft's new black Xbox 360 Elite is true. You also might have asked yourself the question: "How the hell am I going to transfer everything to it from my old Xbox 360?" You can't open it up and switch hard drives, that's for sure, and you certainly can't write d... |
23 March 2007
12:00 GMT |
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Click to enlarge and look at the picture. What do you see? I'll tell you what you see: a not very realistic photo manipulation. What am I saying here? It's not even a manipulation, but an invention coming from someone dying to get the credit for unveiling the first "leaked" (so to speak) photos of the new X... |
23 March 2007
08:27 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 add-on drive for playing HD-DVDs released last year sounded promising. Especially because nobody would even touch Sony's Blu-ray player due to an incredibly high price. Analysts and studio executives have tried to guess in which direction each of the two technologies was going and whether Microsoft ... |
22 March 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Since the release of the HD-DVD, there have been many arguments, both for and against it, and competition from rivaling Blu-ray technology hasn't exactly made things any easier. Sure, it's nice to watch a movie in HD format, the quality of the image and the sound are beyond the capabilities of normal DVDs d... |
21 March 2007
07:17 GMT |
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