blu-ray

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 still too expensive for me. $200 [...]


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 here and here. My [...]


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 see, BD+ [...]


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 packed [...]