According to a recent article from Video Business, studios will be releasing more titles with Blu-ray and DVD packaged together in an effort to make the fledgling high definition format, now heading into its third year, more appealing to the masses.
Following the example of Walt Disney, who pioneered the practice with their Platinum Edition release [...]
Jon Kirchner, president and CEO of DTS, Inc. commented, “We are pleased with our fourth quarter results, posting strong revenue growth and continued profitability. We are encouraged by a number of positive data points on Blu-ray from the holiday season, including rising consumer demand, declining price points, and accelerating content sales…
Funimation Productions has announced an exchange program for its recently released Blu-ray version of the popular animé production featuring Samuel L. Jackson and Lucy Liu, Afro Samurai Resurrection.
UK-based consulting firm Future Source Consulting has just issued a report that shows consumers are on target to purchase in excess of 100 million Blu-ray discs (BD) across the USA, Western Europe and Japan this year, with sales of High Definition capable LCD and plasma TVs and continued dramatic reductions in Blu-ray player prices continuing [...]
The FCC has released a list of 421 TV stations across the country that are going ahead with plans for the analogue cutoff and will cease to broadcast over the analogue airwaves before 11:59 P.M. on February 17, 2009.
Sony has finally unveiled the details for the long awaited Blu-ray release of the Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. Originally announced for release two years ago, the title was pulled from Sony’s release slate.
Mitsubishi Electric has developed a new Blu-ray drive 1/3 the size of conventional Blu-ray drives that the company intends for use in automotive high definition entertainments systems.
UK software developer MAGIX sees potential in the growing market for relatively low cost, HD video cameras even in these trying economic times. So, to take advantage of the fact that people who own those video cameras will most certainly want an easy solution to edit, copy, burn, and share their discs with friends, family [...]
In a move that is obviously made to take advantage of the Blu-ray Disc’s superior 50GB capacity and to ward off pressure from Microsoft’s Xbox 360, which is still strapped to the much lower 9GB capacity of the DVD, and Nintendo’s Wii, which has an even lower disc capacity, Video Business is reporting that Sony [...]
The BDA blog site Hollywood in Hi-Def.com which helped spread the BDAs message in the days of the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD through blog posts by Scott Hetrick and weekly sales comparisons between the two formats will no longer be maintained.
