Category Archives: Blu-ray/HD DVD

HD DVD supporters last week alleged Blu-ray Disc’s chosen copy-protection scheme could introduce “playability and reliability issues for consumers”. Ah, FUD Wrestling.

Twentieth Century Fox film studio on Friday gave its backing to Blu-ray technology for next-generation DVDs, becoming the last of Hollywood’s major movie groups to choose sides in a pitched battle over standards.

A survey being hawked round by the Blu-ray Disc Association claims that eight out of ten people polled would prefer the Blu-ray blue laser DVD format over the rival HD-DVD. Not that it really means a lot pre-launch.

The DVD era has not been kind to Steven Chack. Chack’s Naked Eye News and Video on San Francisco’s Haight Street, tucked in a basement retail space next to a medical marijuana shop, is a film buff’s paradise. He amiably … Continue reading →

Sharp has developed a two-layer optical disc which could boost the capacity of the next-generation Blu-ray format.