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This one is from a site called CampaignHD , and is obviously a very pro-HD-DVD site working to encourage publishers to support the standard. Just want to be very upfront about that as this article is definitely down on Blu-Ray and quite positive on HD...
Some interesting news on the net this weekend about Walmart apparently placing a two million unit order for HD-DVD players (worth USD$100 million). Assuming those numbers are correct, Walmart's cost per player is about $50 each. According to the articles...
I had a couple of folks ping me asking my thoughts about this article over at highdefdigest.com . Specifically, they were curious on my thoughts on the data that seems to show Blu-ray disc sales catching up to HD-DVD disc sales. The charts in question...
Possibly, according to this article (and reported all over the web). However, it's early yet, and unclear just how real this might be... we'll need to wait and see. For those of you who don't know, AACS is the copy-protection scheme used by...
Saw a post from Shaheen Ghandhi (of the Xbox Platform Team) describing the work that went into enabling Xbox 360's HD-DVD player. Here's a quick quote: The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player, for the most part, is an entirely software based implementation. Other...
Just a quick note on something I found scary amusing yesterday. Had some friends over for dinner, and swung by Blockbuster to pick up a couple of movies. I'm generally a Netflix sort of guy, but just didn't have anything in the house. Anyway,...
Few folks wrote to ask what I thought about the news that Sony had cut launch volumes from 4 million units to 2 million, and delayed the European launch until March of 2007. In addition, Sony also announced that they would have just 500k units for launch...
Saw that Mark Deloura (former head of Sony Developer Relations and an industry friend of mine) had some things to say about my recent Blu-ray disc speed/capacity post. Not a surprise considering his background, but I have to say the most interesting aspect...
Couple of you wrote asking what I thought of the recent announcement by Insomniac that their PS3 title Resistance: Fall of Man would use 22 GB of a Blu-ray disc's capacity. I also had someone point me to a recent CNET interview with Kaz Hirai in which...
Just saw on Major Nelson that Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far is available for download from Marketplace. Gamespot has a good article summing up the show as well. To quote: When it debuted in 2003, the new Battlestar Galactica was greeted with...
There's been a lot of interest in the PS3 due to its stated 1080p output for both games and movies (via Blu-ray). What's interesting is that a lot of folks don't realize how meaningless 1080p actually is in this generation. Let's take games first. The...
Just saw an article on Slashdot that points to the first side-by-side comparisons of movies that have been released on both Blu-ray and HD-DVD. As discussed earlier, it appears HD-DVD seems to have the edge for now. Quoting Slashdot: "With today's release...
Some of you may recall the earlier article I posted on Blu-ray. In that article the opinion piece I quoted from Projector Central detailed concerns about the image quality of Blu-ray over HD-DVDs. The primary reason given was that for whatever reason...
Just seems to be a Blu-ray sort of week. Following up on my earlier posts about Blu-ray disc capacity being irrelevant for games and the potential for dual-format HD-DVD/Blu-ray players in the future, we now have an opinion piece from Projector Central...
Classic timing, just as I finish up the previous post this article comes across the wire. To quote the article, "Trying to bridge the gap between next-generation optical disk formats, Ricoh said it has developed an optical component that reads and writes...