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  • Necel05

    NEC's New Blu-ray Chip

    Anything that brings down the price of Blu-ray is a good thing. Anything that keeps them running just as efficiency while bringing down the price is better. Simple logic.

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    Warner's Budget Blu-ray Titles

    Warner Home Video is making waves in the Blu-ray market place. The deep discounts will start in the fourth quarter of 2008 with attractive price initiatives for retailers. Hopefully, the retailers will pass these point-of-sale rebates along to consumers.

    How deep are these deep discounts, and are there any titles we really care about?

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    WinDVD with Blu-ray's BD-Live Certification

    It's gonna be worth the wait — Corel's WinDVD Blu-ray playback software has received certification for BD-Live, or BD Profile 2.0. This certification is granted after guidelines and standards are checked by the Blu-ray Disc Association.

    The current version is already impressive with upscaling and a host of other features. However, adding BD-Live opens up a whole array of options.

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  • Original

    Edgy Blu-ray for "Gangs of New York"

    Caveat emptor. Just because you've purchased the newly released Gangs of New York on Blu-ray, and spent hundreds upgrading your home theater, don't expect a brilliant viewing experience.  On the contrary, this release can almost be used as an example of what NOT to do on Blu-ray.

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  • Ps3blu

    PS3 Pushing Blu-ray Sales

    Sales reports are usually pretty dry reading. No difference with the latest report from the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) following sales trends in TV, home video and video gaming. However, this time, the numbers from this 32-page report are pretty interesting.

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  • Pio1

    Pioneer's 16 'Blu-ray' Layers

    The Japanese Web site, AV Watch, is reporting that energetic Pioneer engineers have demonstrated an optical disc with 16 data layers, yielding a capacity of 400 GB.

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  • Wanted

    Universal Wants "Wanted" Blu to be Wonderous

    Universal Studios is betting that Wanted  is going to be the Blu-ray release that's going to explode the Blu-ray business.

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  • Bdmod_2

    Blu-ray Hacks Begin: Region-Free Player

    Before Blu-ray has even been completely accepted into American households, the hacks have begun. Bluraymods.com is selling two new products: a completely region-free Panasonic Blu-ray player that they've modified, or a do-it-yourself kit that lets you alter the internal coding to allow the same Panasonic player (DMP-BD30) to play Blu-ray discs from any region. But it ain't cheap.

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    Samsung Opens BD 'Resource Center'

    In case you haven't noticed, consumer electronics has gotten complicated. This is obvious to everyone who has read the 200-page owner's manual for their cell phone. Well, actually, no one has ever read their cell phone manual, but you get my point.

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  • Bluray1_2

    One BEEELION Dollars

    Dr. Evil had it right. One billion dollars is a lot of money. Apparently, it's also the lucky number that Hollywood execs are looking for to call Blu-ray a success. They believe they'll hit that number, and are aiming for $2.5 billion at the end of 2009. Optimistic, or naive?

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  • Step_up_two

    Blu Better than Film?

    In a recent article in Home Media Magazine, movie director Jon M. Chu expresses his opinion that Blu-ray looks better than film.

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    ray, Blu-ray, Coming to the U.S.A.

    As we predicted last month, Bond's going Blu. Blu-ray, that is. Just announced from MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the same six titles that were being released in France will be available in the States, just one day after their October 21st European release, not November.

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