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Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs. The problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount’s BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when [...]

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Six major movie studios sued RealNetworks, the Seattle-based digital media company, on Tuesday over its new $30 software program that allows people to make digital copies of their DVDs.
As the opening warning on every DVD indicates, Hollywood has bitterly opposed such copying. The studios have argued that it threatens their emerging business [...]

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More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the format war, there are several signs that Sony’s rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several [...]

HDTV Intended Buyers Prefer HD DVD, Are Mainstream
First wave of high-definition DVD owners choose Blu-ray, but next wave to choose HD DVD, research group claims.

Dec
17
By Jason Unger
Filed in: News, Product News, Blu-ray/HD DVD, Research

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12.17.2007 — Nearly one-third of non-HDTV households intend [...]

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3 Good Reasons To Stick With HD DVD
By most accounts, Blu-ray has surged ahead in the high-def format war. But here are three reasons why HD DVD is still a solid investment.

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Blu-ray and HD-DVD have been fighting it out to see which will become the high-definition successor to the DVD. But now that Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has agreed to distribute its content on Blu-ray discs, that battle may be over. “We’ve been monitoring the situation with consumers for a while now and they have clearly [...]

Q. We’re thinking about buying a Blu-ray Disc player. Today’s players are Profile 1.1, with Profile 2.0 coming later in 2008. Should we wait until the Profile 2.0 players are out? What are the primary differences? Will a Profile 1.1 player be obsolete when 2.0 is out? Thanks! We really enjoy your Web site, Kimcasts, [...]

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The Blu-ray Disc Association is having a Blu – not blue – Christmas, according to sales figures it released Monday.

The group reported Black Friday sales “were decidedly Blu” for both hardware and software, accounting for a total sell-in since launch of 2.7 million players in North American households as of Nov. 24.
Although the announcement did [...]

The latest info is that Toshiba will be offering their basic HD-A2 player at
$99 for one week only, beginning July 22. An added bonus is three free
HD-DVDs.

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