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HD DVD made dual-sided HD DVD/DVD combo discs in 2006. They even announced a dual-sided HD DVD/Blu-ray disc in January 2007. So why the fuck did it take three more years to make a Blu-ray/DVD combo ?
The Blu-ray Disc Association, which developed and owns the technology behind the discs, ignored multiple emails I sent them, and the people that I did speak to on the subject couldn’t give me a ...
Gather round children and listen to my lecture about the importance of physical media. Sometimes, when a person loves a show or movie so much the only way to show that love is by owning a physical ...
A 4.5GB DVD can hold about 20 to 30 minutes of high-def Blu-ray video, and a dual-layer 8.5GB disc can hold up to 45 minutes. Such discs can play in many set-top Blu-ray players (see “Playing It ...
A few months later, Toshiba Corp., the creator of the HD-DVD, said it would stop making players for the discs. That left Blu-ray as the lone high-definition disc. U.S. consumers bought 28.6 million of ...
Blu-ray, the brainchild of Japanese giant Sony and backed by more than 90 member companies of the Blu-ray Disc Association, has the edge over HD DVD when it comes to storage, at least when you're ...
Turn HD DVD into Blu-ray. And when you look at the equipment that you need to complete the process, it makes even less sense. To make HD DVD discs into Blu-ray ones, you need an HD DVD drive in ...
DVD and Blu-ray discs are quickly following videotape cassettes into the technological dustbin. Best Buy told CBS MoneyWatch Friday that it will halt sales of physical movie media in stores and ...
The six disc Blu-ray/DVD gift set and two disc Blu-ray pack both include the fully restored main feature with 5.1 DTS-HD MA soundtrack split across two Blu-ray discs including commentary plus HD ...
The so-called “flipper” discs will allow users to choose between Blu-ray and DVD formats by flipping the disc, making it easy for movie buffs to future-proof their collections.
The DVD industry always knew it would hit a brick wall right about now. Like a train wreck in slow motion, red-laser optical-disc technology has inched ever closer to its physical limits. After a ...