blu-ray
Auto Rip n Compress for Windows Media Center
Auto Rip n Compress makes it easy for you to rip DVDs and Blu-rays without leaving the media center interface. It uses DVDFab HD Decrypter, AnyDVD, or MakeMKV beta to rip the DVD or Blu-ray and uses Handbrake to compress the file. You would still need one of those programs install for it [...]
S1Digital Released a 100 Disc Blu-Ray Changer for Windows Media Center
If you have a lot of Blu-Ray discs than the 100 disc changer from S1Digital might be for you. It works with Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server. It can even rip your Blu-Ray discs for you. The cool thing is it does one after another until it’s finished with them [...]
Rip, Store and Play Blu-rays from a Windows Home Server
The how-to over at nedmug will show you how to rip, store and play Blu-rays from a Windows Home Server to Windows Media Center. There are a few pieces of software and not all of them are free. You will also need a whole lot of storage if you start archiving Blu-ray discs. [...]
Backup Blu-ray Discs on Mac
People have been backing up (ripping) DVDs and CDs for some time now on Mac. Blu-ray discs haven’t been as popular, mostly because there is no option for a Blu-ray drive when ordering a computer. If you bought either an internal or external blu-ray player you can use MakeMKV to backup those discs. [...]
Samsung Blu-ray Players add YouTube, Blockbuster and MKV Support
Samsung has released a firmware update to it’s Blu-ray players to add support for YouTube, Blockbuster streaming and surprisingly MKV support. Add services to connected devices is becoming the norm now. I’m surprised on the picking Blockbuster over Netflix. I’m starting to look at Blu-ray players and additional streaming services is a [...]
5 Reasons Why I’m Not Going Blu-Ray
I get asked all the time if I have a Blu-Ray player. I guess with how much technology I have around it seems natural that I would have the latest Blu-Ray player on the market. But I don’t and my 5 reasons why are below.
1. Blu-Ray players are [...]
Bye Bye HD-DVD, Media Center switching to Blu-ray
I made my predictions about HD-DVD and I was wrong. I thought for sure with the cheaper prices and better features it would win. Now the high-end media centers are switching to Blu-ray. Niveus is now supporting Blu-ray and stopping production of HD-DVD media centers. You can read more about that [...]
BD+ cranked with AnyDVD
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.htmlThe BD+ DRM for Blu-Ray discs was cracked which is good news for the consumer. Now with AnyDVD you can copy those discs to your hard drive. This was already possible with HD-DVD though. And my favorite part is a quote from the change log.
Note to Twentieth Century Fox: As you can [...]
Sony Blu-ray Media Center
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=3570
Trusted Reviews has a write up on the new Sony Vaio VGX-XL202 Media Center PC with Blu-ray Drive.
Sony always does good design work on their computers. This computer is no exception. It would look really good in your stereo cabinet. But it’s not just about looks, it has a ton of features [...]
