Neowin News Feed for: Blu-ray

Fox testing HD movie downloads before disc releases

Anthony Tosie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:33:03 +0100

Fox is testing the digital distribution waters yet again, this time seeing how releases on UltraViolet would fare before releases on disc formats and on-demand video sources. Read more...

More anti-piracy warnings coming to DVDs and Blu-Rays

Andy Weir — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:36:35 +0100

If you love the anti-piracy warnings that come up before you can watch a movie or TV series that you've just paid for, you're in luck: two new unskippable notices are being rolled out right now! Read more...

Pioneer BDR-2207: 128 Gigabytes on a single Blu-ray disk

Alfonso Maruccia — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:34:06 +0100

The Japanese corporation introduces its new optical burner: BDR-2207 supports the latest Blu-ray specifications and is capable of burning up to 128 Gigabyte on a single BD-R QL (quad-layer) disk. Read more...

IKEA launches integrated TV and entertainment centre

Andy Weir — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:41:34 +0100

Famous for its stylish self-assembly furniture, IKEA is entering the home entertainment market with an all-in-one smart TV, Blu-Ray player and music centre, built into a modular furniture system. Read more...

Report: Internet film viewing to surpass disc viewing in 2012

John Callaham — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:35:22 +0100

A new report claims that people will watch more movies via the Internet than they will on DVD and Blu-Ray disks for the first time in 2012, although revenues from Internet movies will still be lower. Read more...

Get WinX Blu-ray Decrypter for free

Steven Parker — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:42:57 +0100

Thanks to tipster philcruicks in our forums, we have learned that you can get WinX Blu-ray Decrypter for free if you activate it before September 15th, that's a saving of $49.95! Backup and Decrypt Blu-ray... Read more...

Wii U won't have support for DVD or Blu-Ray movies

John Callaham — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:05:46 +0100

While Nintendo's upcoming Wii U game console will be more powerful than the current generation of game consoles, don't expect the device to play any of your collection of DVD and Blu-Ray movie disks. Nintendo... Read more...

Star Wars series to be released on Blu-Ray on September 16 in US

John Callaham — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:31 +0100

After months of speculation, Lucasfilm has finally announced when the long awaited Blu-Ray disk versions of the Star Wars movie series will be released. Engadget reports that today (which for some reason is an unofficial... Read more...

Rumor: Steve Jobs likens Blu-Ray to the mafia, ashamed that Apple joined

Christopher White — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:11:52 +0000

In 2006 the battle for physical high definition media was starting, with some tech giants like Toshiba, Microsoft and Intel taking the side of HD DVD and others like Sony, Samsung, and Apple taking Blu-ray’s... Read more...

New Microsoft commercial pokes fun at Apple's lack of Blu-ray

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:02:37 +0000

A new Microsoft advertisement pokes fun at Apple's lack of support for Blu-ray on their Mac laptops. The commercial makes fun of the lack of support for Blu-ray in Mac OS X, even with the... Read more...

Microsoft joins Apple in the Blu-ray hate parade

Brandon Boyce — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:07:43 +0100

An old saying says that the enemy of an enemy is a friend. Microsoft has declared Blu-ray an enemy thus making Apple their friend; for now. Back in June a reader of Mac Rumors sent Steve... Read more...

PlayStation 3 gets 3D Blu-Ray movie support

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:06:48 +0100

In a firmware update today, Sony will be issuing PS3 owners with the capability to watch 3D Blu-ray content on their consoles, according to PC World. Of course, you’ll still need the appropriate TV to... Read more...

HDCP cracked? Tweeter posts 'master key'

Brody McKee — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:27:42 +0100

One of the things making today’s Twitter headlines was the supposed release of the HDCP 'master key' – a key that allows the hacking of any HDCP-protected content for any HDCP-protected device. Currently, there’s not... Read more...

Steve Jobs again dispels hopes of Blu-ray on Mac

Jonathan Downin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:14:53 +0100

MacRumors reports on an email exchange that took place between Steve Jobs and one of their readers regarding the possibility of Blu-ray coming to the Mac, and the prospects aren't pretty. Blu-ray drives and playback... Read more...

Crystal form of common material could be used to create "super-discs"

Brian Donohue — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:34:59 +0100

Long used as an ingredient in not only white paint, but make-up; a new crystal form of titanium oxide could be used to create optical disks with 1000x-plus the capacity of a standard DVD. The material,... Read more...

Blu-ray pips gaming as main motive when buying a PS3

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:32:13 +0100

A report published by research company Nielsen claims that the main motive for consumers buying a PlayStation 3 is its Blu-ray capabilities, rather than gaming, although only by a small amount, Neowin has discovered via... Read more...

Kaleidescape Blu-ray can copy movies to your home server

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:23:24 +0100

Kaleidescape, makers of multi-room home entertainment devices, has announced a new line of blu-ray players - the M300 and the M500. The two players can play back 1080p content at 24 frames per second with bitstream... Read more...

Avatar claims title of most pirated Blu-ray movie ever

giga — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:20:02 +0100

In addition to the movie box offices, James Cameron’s Avatar has seen been seeing strong success on the piracy shores. Since last week’s Blu-ray release, the $237 million dollar film has been downloaded far more... Read more...

Steve Jobs suggests YouTube for lack of Blu-ray on Macs

giga — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:50:31 +0100

Another day, another email from Steve Jobs—this time concerning the lack of the Blu-Ray support from Apple. A 9to5Mac reader questioned Jobs over the lack of Blu-Ray to share his HD home movies and while... Read more...

Blu-ray player sales on the rise

Kevin Weiner — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:54:08 +0100

With Blu-ray winning the next generation DVD format war, and the format starting to go mainstream, consumer awareness and Blu-ray sales are on the rise according to a report by the NPD Group. The report,... Read more...