JVC Previews Its New Products at the Digital Video Expo- Digital Trends News - September 23, 2009
- JVC unveiled a whole slew of new products today at the DV Expo. JVC’s new Blu-Ray and HDD recorders, the SR-HD1500 and SR-HD1250, were previously revealed at CEDIA earlier this month and home theater enthusiasts rejoiced upon hearing they coul...
Epson Lights Up New Home Theater Projectors- Digital Trends News - September 17, 2009
- Epson is looking to get into consumers living room and game rooms with two new home theater projectors aiming to let folks have big screen experience at a relatively checkbook-friendly price. The company's new Home Cinema 705HD projector supports 720...
Toshiba Unveils First Blu-ray Player- Digital Trends News - September 4, 2009
- Toshiba might have been the company that championed HD-DVD technology against Blu-ray a couple years ago in the so-called "format war" for domination of high-definition discs…and when Toshiba threw in the towel on HD-DVD it kinda of ...
Film Fresh Offers DivX Downloads of Major Studio Films- Digital Trends News - August 26, 2009
- The DivX video format has long been a popular option for folks encoding video to hard disk and DVD (since it gets good compression while maintaining decent video quality)—and, of course, DivX is a frequently-seen video format on torrents and fi...
Toshiba Goes Blu-ray- Digital Trends News - August 10, 2009
- It lost the HD DVD versus Blu-ray war, and after some time to lick its wounds, Toshiba has announced it’s going to begin making products that will play Blu-ray discs.Once the big movies studios backed Blu-ray it was all over for Toshiba and the...
- Toshiba signs up for Blu-ray
- CNET News - August 10, 2009
- Its rival format long since gone, Toshiba will move on with a new range of DVD players, HDTVs, and laptops that support multiple storage devices.
Toshiba Finally Launching Blu-ray Players?- Digital Trends News - July 20, 2009
- Remember back in 2007 when the battle for high-definition disc was being waged between Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD? Although some of the echos of that battle can still be heard today (see a Blu-ray player for the Xbox 360, anyone?), Toshiba i...
- Report: Toshiba to sell Blu-ray player
- CNET News - July 20, 2009
- After losing the hard-fought battle for HD DVD, Toshiba may finally join the competition by offering its first Blu-ray player, a Japanese newspaper reports.
- Sony VRD-MC6 DVDirect AVCHD Recorder
- Press Releases - July 7, 2009
- Blu-Ray, I Hardly Know Ye
- PC World News - June 22, 2009
- 93 percent of users have no interest in purchasing a Blu-Ray DVD player, despite rising HDTV adoption.
Americans Adopting HDTVs, But Not So Keen on Blu-ray- Digital Trends News - June 19, 2009
- Remember back in early 2008 when Warner Bros. effectively ended the HD DVD/Blu-ray format war by pledging to offer its movies exclusively in Blu-ray format? Toshiba may have thrown in the towel in HD DVD shortly thereafter, but a new poll from Harris...
- Why Doesn't Anyone Want a Blu-ray Player?
- PC World News - June 18, 2009
- Blu-ray may have won the war against HD-DVD, but a new poll shows that American consumers aren't exactly warming to the high-definition disc format.
- Studios Get Into HD Movie Streaming with Epix
- Digital Trends News - June 8, 2009
- Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM have partnered together to create Epix, a new video streaming service that will offer high-definition streaming versions of Hollywood movies before they're available on DVD. And although the service will be available for...
- Warner Offers HD DVD Disc Bailout
- PC World News - April 23, 2009
- Red2Blu program will allow you to trade in your HD DVD movies for Blu-ray copies of the same title.
Warner Bros. Offers $4.95 Blu-ray Upgrades from HD-DVD- Digital Trends News - April 22, 2009