Microsoft drops HD-DVD player
Stick a fork in it - HD-DVD is totally, completely DONE. Microsoft made the following statement today:
As a result of recent decisions made by Toshiba, Hollywood studios, and retailers, Microsoft plans to withdraw from HD DVD. Xbox will no longer manufacture new HD DVD players for the Xbox 360, but we will continue [...]
Buy 2 Blu-Ray movies, get 1 free
In a whacky promotion that wasn’t really noticed by anyone until now, Sony themselves are giving away Blu-Ray movies from a list of 12 (and some of them are pretty good).
However, you have to jump through a few hoops to get your free movies:
The two movies you have purchased must be from that same list [...]
Heroes Season 1 bundled with XBOX 360 HD-DVD
Microsoft and Universal have struck a deal to include the most highly sought-after exclusive HD-DVD titles with the XBOX 360’s HD-DVD addon - Heroes Season 1. This is a series that took the TV world by storm last year (and yours truly is one of the many who are addicted) and it’s not available [...]
Upcoming PS3 firmware to add Blu-Ray Profile 1.1 - Picture in Picture playback
Update: The 2.10 firmware being released on December 19 will officially add Profile 1.1, so this rumor turns out to be true!
Sony VP of Advanced Technologies Don Eklund spoke at yesterday’s HDTV DisplaySearch conference in Universal City, California. During the panel discussion, Eklund mentioned that the Playstation 3 will be receiving a firmware update [...]
Making sense of the HD DVD hoopla
So earlier this year, it seemed like Blu ray was killing HD DVD in the next-generation format wars. Blu ray was far outpacing HD DVD in sales, and with the PlayStation 3, there were far more Blu ray players in the homes of consumers than there were HD DVD players. As well, Blockbuster [...]
Blu-Ray dominating the format war so far
A good indication of how the format war is going is to look at the sales figures for the huge blockbuster titles. 300 happens to be such a title, and the figures are in for its debut last week. First of all, 300 is the fastest and best selling High Definition disc ever released, [...]
Blockbuster Chooses Blu-Ray Over HD-DVD
Almost two months ago, Reuters reported that Blu-Ray was outselling HD-DVD by more than a 2-1 margin and some believed this was the beginning of the end of the format war when it came to high definition DVDs. This wasn’t particularly surprising really as Blu-Ray has more industry support (three out of the five [...]
