Tweet Toshiba has this week announced a new laptop in its Satellite range that includes a Blu-ray Disc drive. The Toshiba Satellite A660 has been designed with multimedia in mind, featuring not only Blu-ray support but also Intel’s Wireless Display (WiDi) technology, which allows video and music to be streamed wirelessly to WiDi-compatible TVs. It‚Äôs [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Blu-ray Disc Academy to showcase advanced BD applications
Published April 29th, 2010Tweet On 19 May the Blu-ray Disc Academy, founded by Media-Tech and DVD Intelligence, will take place in Frankfurt, Germany. It’s the first dedicated event to showcase the most advanced functions of Blu-ray Disc and BD-Live, and how to make use of them commercially. The event will focus on the tools and applications that can [...]
Release date confirmed for Alice In Wonderland
Published April 28th, 2010Tweet Disney has announced that Tim Burton‚Äôs Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, will be released on Blu-ray Disc at the start of June. Extra content confirmed so far includes a featurette called Finding Alice, which delves into Tim Burton’s vision for the characters, differences from the book and Disney’s version [...]
Avatar Blu-ray sets sales records and wows reviewers
Published April 26th, 2010Tweet The Blu-ray Disc edition of Avatar, officially the most successful movie of all time, is finally hitting shelves across the world. Since its launch in the US and some other territories last week, it has become the fastest selling Blu-ray Disc of all time, beating The Dark Knight’s record to sell 2.7 million units [...]
Lord of the Rings Trilogy: A giveaway
Published April 23rd, 2010Tweet [tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] Thanks to our amazing Twitter followers, we have recently crossed the 1,000 follower mark.¬† To give something back to you all (alongside the weekly Blu-ray Disc giveaways of The Hurt Locker and Avatar…), we’ve decided to send out the recently released Lord of the Rings trilogy on Blu-ray Disc to [...]
World at War given High Definition Make-over
Published April 22nd, 2010Tweet After 37 years, the emotive WWII documentary World at War, produced by Jeremy Isaacs, is recieving a high definition make-over from FremantleMedia as it prepares is to be released on Blu-ray Disc. There was initial skeptism around the success of a revamp given the grainy quality of some clips, but despite this, work on [...]
UK Blu-ray Disc sales rise again
Published April 20th, 2010Tweet New figures released by the British Video Association have shown strong year-on-year growth for Blu-ray Discs based on data for the first quarter of 2010. The figures demonstrate the increasingly popularity of the BD format, which is currently driving growth across the home entertainment market. Sales of Blu-ray Discs are up 69.5% (up 50% [...]
Sherlock Holmes arrives on Blu-ray with exclusive content
Published April 19th, 2010Tweet Update: We are now giving away a Blu-Ray Disc every Monday to our blog and Twitter followers. Last week, we gave away the full Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Blu-Ray disc. Today, we are giving away a copy of the superb Sherlock Holmes. To enter, leave a comment to suggest a new, modern [...]
Sony confirms availability of 3D TVs and Blu-ray Disc Players in time for the World Cup
Published April 16th, 2010Tweet Sony this week announced that its first 3D TVs and Blu-ray Disc players will be available in stores this June, just in time for the FIFA World Cup. This year’s tournament is the first to be filmed in 3D by Sony and FIFA. The first 3D TV to hit the market will be the [...]
Blu-ray Disc Association Announces Additional Format Enhancements
Published April 7th, 2010Tweet The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced two new media specifications that use Blu-ray Disc technology to provide targeted functionality for commercial and consumer applications. The specifications for BDXL‚Ñ¢ (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs) and IH-BD (Intra-Hybrid discs) are expected in the next few months. The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at [...]
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