Hands-on: Panasonic’s new DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray player

We have not seen the Panasonic DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray player since it was on shown a few months back, but now Engadget have managed to get their hands on this cool looking device. You will have to be a brave person to purchase one of these, as it has a bigger price tag than a number of laptops on the market. Read more

Harman Kardon’s new Blu-ray player with BDP 1 deck

Electronics maker Harman Kardon have just announced their first entry into the Blu-Ray player market. The Harman Kardon BDP 1 should go nicely with your other Kardon home theater products, right? Read more

Best Buy gets Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray player

If you’re on the lookout for a decent Blu-Ray player, then you might want to check out the Sony BDP-S360. It has been spotted at Best Buy retail stores with an asking price of $299. Fair Deal? Read more

Recession Antidote: Philips DVP3962 Upconverting DVD Player with DivX

When it comes to watching movies at home there is nothing better than Blu-ray, but there is a problem with this technology, it comes at a price. For those of you who will struggle to find the money to purchase a standalone Blu-ray player or even a Sony PS3 there is a cheaper option. How about purchasing a Philips DVP3962 Upconverting DVD Player with DivX and HDMI. Read more

Vizio VBR100 Blu-ray player with 7.1 analog output

Vizio have branched out into the Blu-ray player market with the VBR100, the consumer electronics company are best known for their HDTVs. The Vizio VBR100 Blu-ray player is not big on spec but will come with 7.1 analog outputs; the biggest selling point will be its price, $200. Read more

Panasonic DMP-B15: First Portable Blu-ray Disc Player Unveiled

There are certainly some nice things coming out of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, and the Panasonic DMP-B15 is evident of that. This is the world’s first Portable Blu-ray Disc Player, which can also be connected to a TV via an HDMI cable. Read more

Blu-ray sales up 400% as prices fall

It has certainly been a great Christmas for Blu-ray as sales have increased by 400% from the same period last year. There were those who thought that the Blu-ray format would not do well this year, well these sales figures has just proved them all wrong. Read more

Blu-ray’s Future and Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

CES 2009 is almost upon us and we have to wonder what will be the biggest news this year. Last year at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the biggest news was not a new product coming to the market; it was the demise of one. Blu-ray won the format war, which spelt the death of HD DVD. Read more

Blu-ray/DVD hybrid disc: can it save Blu-ray against streaming

Blu-ray player sales are now starting to increase, but sales have still been disappointing, this is according to some top movie executives. Blu-ray had won the format war against HD DVD but there is another rival in town, and that is movie streaming. Read more

Blu-ray beats DVD for first time over in Japan

Latest figures over in Japan have indicated that Blu-ray players have overtaken DVD players for the first time. Data was collected by GfK Retail and Technology and said these figures were during the first week of November. Read more

The Dark Knight comes to Blu-Ray

In case you were getting impatient, we’d like to let you know that the wait for all you Batman fans is over, as The Dark Knight finally sees its release on Blu-Ray disc this week. Read more

Sony’s BDP-S350 Blu-ray player: Black Friday’s third best selling product

It has now been a week since Black Friday, the day which marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. If Price Grabber’s information is anything to go by, then we will all want Blu-ray movies this year, as the Sony BDP-S350 Blu-ray player was the third best selling product across the U.S. Read more

Sony Blu-ray disc sales are booming

After all the Black Friday deals were finished and shoppers could return to a normal life, it appears the most in demand product was Blu-Ray disc players. Read more

TiVo’s Amazon Video on Demand Menu: Now HD Streaming

The big news a few weeks back was that Netflix were to allow HD streaming on the Xbox 360, with the launch of the new Xbox Experience. Well that little party is short lived, as Amazon have gate crashed the HD streaming party. Read more

Sony Blu-ray vs DVD Upscale

There is a big debate going on, in one corner we have Sony Blu-ray and in the other we have DVD upscale, Suzi and Jason are discussing if the latter is just as good. Suzi from the Gadget Show asks if Blu-ray is all that it is cracked up to be, or can you get just as good a result if you get yourself an upscaling DVD player and play your DVD’s through that’s. Read more

Pioneer to launch 16 layer 400 GB Blu-ray disc

Pioneer have been showing of their latest in disc technology, the new optical disc has is super multi-layer read-only and features 16 layers, with 25GB of storage on each layer. This means that the total capacity is 400GB. Read more

Onkyo: From HD-DVD to Blu-ray Players

Onkyo goes from HD-DVD to Blu-ray Players which is good news and the latest model to hit the shelves is the classy DV-BD606, this is their first Blu-ray Disc Player for the international market which is good news and the price is not that bad either considering the specs. Read more

Sony Blu-ray vs DVD: What are you buying?

I can remember when Blu-ray first came out and buying a Blu-ray player was in the thousands to buy, but not anymore. Many customers still feel to date that Blu-ray prices are still too high and that is why they are not purchasing them.

Personally I use nothing other than Blu-ray because you get more quality in sound and picture, Blu-ray Disc (Blu-ray or BD) is mainly used for high-definition video and data storage, then name comes from the name blue laser (violet-colored).

Anyway enough of the technical rubbish lets get down to the nitty-gritty, basically Blu-ray is ten times that of a single-layer DVD when it comes to capacity and quality is far superior, some say the it was the Sony PS3 gaming console that played the most important role in the format war, the PS3 uses Blu-ray but still the Microsoft Xbox 360 still uses HD DVD, Microsoft focuses more on its digital downloads from the Xbox Live Marketplace.

In a nutshell what I would love to know is the answer to these two questions:

1. Is Blu-ray still too expensive and this is why it puts you off?
2. Will Blu-ray completely replace DVD at some point?

Red Box gives Blu-ray a fighting chance

Now when it comes to Blu-ray we want more and more and yes just that little bit more, well it seems Red Box want in on the Blu-ray action.

They have Read more

Comcast’s Project Infinity: over 1,000 HD on-demand choices

Comcast seem to be going from strength to strength and we know that High Definition (HD) Television viewing is hitting sky high levels, “so where do we go now then? Well Comcast has plenty up their Read more