Category Archives: Formats

HD DVD players for Europe

Posted on Monday, September 3, 2007 by MegaZone

At the IFA conference Toshiba announced the HD-EP30 and HD-EP35 HD DVD players for the European market. The HD-EP30 appears to be a European version of the HD-A30 from the US market, and the HD-EP35 is a version of the … Continue reading →

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Funai to enter Blu-ray market?

Posted on Saturday, September 1, 2007 by MegaZone

EngadgetHD reported on an AVS Forum thread about a Funai Blu-ray player on display at IFA. Funai isn’t a well known name itself, but the Japanese company is the OEM behind products in Best Buy’s Insignia brand, Wal*Mart’s Duraband brand, … Continue reading →

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More on Blu-ray and HD DVD – and even DVD

Posted on Friday, August 31, 2007 by MegaZone

Home Media Magazine is reporting on high-def sales. For the week ending 8/26, BD had 68% of sales, 67% year to date, and 61% since inception. They also talk about the Venturer SHD7000 HD DVD player and give the $199 … Continue reading →

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Lots of Blu-ray news – and an HD DVD tidbit

Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 by MegaZone

I’ll get the HD DVD tidbit out of the way first. Yesterday I posted about the new ‘low-cost’ HD DVD player coming from Venturer, the SHD7000. At the time the price was unknown, but Video Business is reporting that the … Continue reading →

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Total Blu-ray Disc Sales Across Europe Reach the 250,000 Milestone

Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 by MegaZone

Sony put out a press release to tout their BD sales across Europe, and to promote some of their upcoming BD releases such as Spider-man 3 and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind – the first high-def release … Continue reading →

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