Friday, January 29, 2010 - 5:01am
Sure, 3D TVs aren't available yet, nor are 3D Blu-ray discs. But hey, if you're in the market for a new Blu-ray player, you might as well buy one that'll work with that stuff when it does eventually roll out....
blu-ray stories
Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 8:42am
There's nothing like watching a big blockbuster movie on kickin' home theater system, but just getting your better half's approval to install all of the required speakers could pose a challenge. Things might go more smoothly if you installed the...
Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 7:43am
Norway isn't the first country that pops into most people's heads when it comes to high performance audio and video gear, but if you dig a bit deeper, you'll find that there's a pretty long history of state of the...
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 9:16pm
One of the most promising ideas we saw today at CES was from Dreamer, which makes software that turns any Blu-ray player into an iPhone. Well, not an iPhone actually, but a device with an app store similar to the...
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 8:46pm
Almost exactly two years ago at a boffo event attended by Michael Douglas, XstreamHD promised a system that would stream Blu-ray-quality movies to your home via satellite. Then they dropped off the radar screens (coincidentally, so did Douglas). Finally the...
Thursday, December 24, 2009 - 6:17am
Were you naughty or nice this year? I'll wait a minute while you go look under your tree. Is this the year that Santa brought you a Blu-ray player? No? Maybe you weren't nice enough. A lot of other people...
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 7:55am
If I were a product manager, the most orgasm-inducing fantasy ever would be a product with instant obsolescence — just buy it and throw it away. Were I a product manager with such an immediately disposable commodity, ah, be still...
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 11:56am
Even as Disney plans to put its movies on any device anywhere, Sony is bringing us its own new-and-improved method of multiformat content delivery. The first-ever Digital Copy of a feature film — specifically for use on the PSP —...
Monday, October 12, 2009 - 5:31am
Popular gadgets in Japan often just need a little time to start popping up in the U.S. For instance, most Japanese were using LCD monitors years before they were common stateside. But the rule doesn't hold for every gadget. Every...
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 8:20am
Finally, someone steps up to improve the dreadfully useless BD-Live gimmick built into the latest Blu-ray players. Fox Home Entertainment cooked up a few ideas, implementing some of them in its upcoming Wolverine Blu-ray disc whose playback you see pictured...
