Andrew Everard
12 June 2009 12:18
Good news? From next year it should be possible to make a legal high-resolution back-up copy of Blu-ray Disc movie titles, which will please those with media centre/server systems. Bad news? The 'managed copy' facility will only be available on newly-released
Filed under: Blu-ray Disc, AACS, managed copying
Andrew Everard
11 May 2009 16:57
Rather as Hollywood clung to novelties in the cinemas – 3D, Sensurround, perfumes pumped into theatres and even tingling electrical charges through the seats – in an effort to hold back the tide of TV in the 1950s and 1960s, so it's seeing the latest
Filed under: home cinema, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Hollywood, home theater, 3D TV
Andrew Everard
24 February 2009 12:08
Consumers may be delighted that the price of Blu-ray Disc players has tumbled so quickly, but in the States retailers aren't so happy. It seems a hi-tech product they all hoped would provide them with a decent business for several years has rapidly become
Filed under: Blu-ray Disc, US market, BD player giveaways
Andrew Everard
26 January 2009 14:25
You know that endless wait while a Blu-ray Disc title loads into your player before the first menu screen appears? And those discs that either refuse point blank to load, or load then stall? Well, it seems it might not just be that the players themselves
Filed under: BD-Live, SlySoft, BD, Blu-ray Disc