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IFA 2010: First Look

Published September 2nd, 2010

We’ve just arrived at the IFA Exhibition in Berlin, which kicks off this weekend and also this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. Stand preparations are still under way, but it’s clear from a quick look around the site that 3D will again be the main attraction for many of the exhibitors – with 100′s of [...]

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Blu-ray Monday Giveaway: The Lovely Bones

Published June 28th, 2010

[tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] This week we are giving away Peter Jackson’s Oscar nominated The Lovely Bones, based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold. As always, you have two chances to win. For your first entry, simply retweet the following post on Twitter: Tweet this Then once you’ve done that, for a [...]

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Blu-ray Monday Edge of Darkness Giveaway

Published June 21st, 2010

[tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] This week we’re celebrating Mel Gibson’s return to action in thriller The Edge of Darkness by giving away a brand new copy on Blu-ray Disc. As always, you have two chances to win.  For your first entry, simply retweet the following post on Twitter: Tweet this Then once you’ve done that, [...]

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Alice in Wonderland Giveaway

Published June 1st, 2010

[tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] Blu-ray Monday is doing very well and it’s all thanks to you. ¬†I expect you’re getting the hang of this by now but if you haven’t it’s very simple; you have two chances to win. For your first entry, simply retweet the following post on Twitter: Tweet this Then once you’ve [...]

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Pioneer takes wraps off its 2010 Blu-ray range

Published May 26th, 2010

Pioneer has this week revealed two new Blu-ray Disc players for the UK market. Priced at £399 and £299 respectively, the BDP-LX53 and the BDP-330 are both equipped with BD-Live functionality, as well as direct access to YouTube and RSS feed browsing. In conjunction with the launch, Pioneer has introduced a free iPhone app called [...]

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WWII classic The Dam Busters comes to Blu-ray Disc

Published May 21st, 2010

[tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false]Another WWII classic is making its way to Blu-ray Disc, this time 1955’s The Dam Busters. Although already released on BD without any additional content, this new anniversary edition brings a bonus feature hosted by renowned historian Max Arthur, author of The Dam Busters: An Oral History, which sees surviving members of [...]

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Psycho to debut on Blu-ray Disc with 5.1 surround sound

Published May 19th, 2010

[tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] Update: Continuing our competition to give a new Blu-ray Disc every Monday to our readers and Twitter followers, this week one lucky winner will get a brand new Blu-ray copy of Denzel Washington’s The Book of Eli. To enter, and in honour of Psycho’s impending arrival on BD, we want to [...]

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Blu-ray 3D: the verdict

Published May 14th, 2010

[tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false]The waiting is finally over. 3D Blu-ray Disc players are on the market (led by Samsung’s BD-C6900) and several magazines and websites have posted their initial impressions of the new technology. T3 and BigPictureBigSound are among the first to have their say, testing the Samsung player with the first 3D disc, Monsters [...]

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Avatar smashes another record

Published May 12th, 2010

[tweetmeme source= "blurayreporter" only_single=false] The Avatar juggernaut rumbles on with confirmation from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) that the film has become the biggest selling Blu-ray title ever in the UK. In the two weeks since launch, 505,057 copies of Avatar on Blu-ray Disc have been sold – beating the all-time Blu-ray Disc record [...]

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New Toshiba laptop adds Blu-ray support

Published April 30th, 2010

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 the [...]

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