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NetBlender’s BD Touch: Sony Blu-ray BD-Live to Apple iPhone/iPod Touch

NetBlender’s latest innovation is BD Touch and this software will allow you to transfer copies of a Sony Blu-ray movie to your Apple iPhone /iPod Touch. The software will give your phone/iPod BD-Live net connection features; you could view fan content in sync with a movie or use the iPhone as a remote.

Imagine having multi-touch, a predictive keyboard, goelocation and 3D motion sensitivity all part of your Blu-ray movie. Watch the two video’s below to understand a lot more about BD Touch.

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Sony Blu-ray sales increasing thanks to blockbuster movies

It looks like the sales of Sony Blu-ray discs are increasing and this is in part thanks to more blockbuster movies being released, but lets face it who would want to buy expensive old movies just because they are in Blu-ray. HMR Research has new data which shows 3 million Blu-rays have been sold in the first 11 weeks of 2008 compared to 9 million movies for all of 2007, this means we could be looking at 15 million Blu-ray movies sold in 2008.

Recent blockbusters like “No Country for Old Men” sold 68,000 Blu-ray copies in one week and “Juno” is coming to Blu-ray on April 15th and could be massive as well. With HD-DVD dead it looks like it’s all up from here.

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First BD-Live Sony Blu-ray’s: The 6th Day & Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

The first two BD-Live titles are being released from Sony and while I could think of many other Blu-ray movies I like more, the fact is the first two will be Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi thriller The 6th Day and musical Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

The US release date will be April 8th, this fits just fine with the Sony PS3 2.20 firmware launch and gives millions of Playstation 3 owners the ability to use Profile 2.0 (internet connectivity and Blu-ray).

Although HD DVD lost, it did offer picture-in-picture and Internet connectivity while Blu-ray did not offer these with Profile 1.0. Now those owners of Profile 1.0 Blu-ray players may not be able to use these new features in Profile 2.0 without buying a new player. (Unless you own a PS3 that is).

What would your choice of been for the first two BD-Live Blu-ray discs?

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Philips UK BDP7200 Blu-ray player in 7 months: only 1.1 profile, Sony PS3 better

Philips new Blu-ray player (the BDP7200) will be coming to the UK in 7 months, sadly this player will only have a Blu-ray 1.1 profile and Philips are not sure if the BDP7200 will have an Ethernet port to update to the BD-Live 2.0 profile.

We are also hearing that the Blu-ray Disc Association should be enforcing all new players to be profile 2.0 compliant around October time…this makes the Philips BDP7200 look a bad choice.

The best choice still for me is the Sony PS3, not only is it for gaming but it will get a firmware update (v2.20) to include BD-Live interactive this month.

Do you feel the Playstation 3 is the best value for money Blu-ray player?

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DX-4O1S: First external Blu-ray drive by Philips and Lite-On

This is the DX-4O1S and its the first external Blu-ray drive by Philips and Lite-On, it can read Blu-ray Disc media at 4X, CD media at 32X, dual-layer DVD at 8X and single-layer DVD at 12X.

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UK at forefront of the high definition (HD) revolution: Sony Blu-ray sales to rocket

The UK is at the forefront of the high definition (HD) revolution and is leading the way in Europe in next generation disk sales. Based on a rapid uptake of sales in 2007, DEG Europe, a non-profit, pan-industry body to promote awareness of DVD and HD formats across Europe has high expectations for the adoption of next generation technologies throughout 2008 Read more

Impact on the Xbox 360 of Sony Blu ray winning

Ok now this is interesting because not only do we know that Toshiba have finally chucked in the HD-DVD towel many seem to think that it will not have a massive impact on the Xbox 360 platform seeing as Microsoft have an interest in HD-DVD, but surely there has to be an impact seeing that the Read more

The Most Successful: Toshiba HD DVD or Betamax

Toshiba’s HD DVD was launched in 2006 and early 2008 they have said they will stop making HD DVD’s and the players, that’s a defeat in less than 2 years, which shows Sony’s Blu-ray crushed HD DVD. Although Sony’s other format (Betamax) got beaten in the last format war between VHS and Betamax, although I would say Betamax was much more successful compared to HD DVD.

HD DVD lasted under two years before defeat, while Betamax launched 1975 and by 1980, it had 30% of the North American market and 25% of the UK market Read more

Apple TV 2.0 HD movie downloads compared to DVD, Blu-Ray, HD video on demand

While Apple TV 2.0 features what Apple calls “high-definition movie rentals”, we are familiar with calling this service video on demand and how do these HD movie downloads compare to DVD, Blu-Ray and other HD video on demand Read more

HD DVD defies death as Wal-Mart sells-out of Toshiba’s HD-A3

It has become widely known that Sony Blu-ray is winning the high definition war, but someone forgot to tell HD DVD this as it defies the slow death of the format and starts selling out of the Toshiba HD-A3 HD-DVD player on Wal-Mart Read more

Can cheap make HD DVD beat Sony Blu-ray? $80 Xbox 360 player with 6 free HD DVDs

Many of us believe that the Hi-def war is nearly over with Sony Blu-ray the winner as it’s smashing HD DVD in many countries.

The question is: Can cheap make HD DVD beat Sony Blu-ray?

I ask this because we found a deal on Amazon priced at $80 for the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player with 6 free HD DVDs Read more

Another Sony Blu-ray Win: Woolworths drops HD DVD

It seems to be just a matter of time now to we see the end of HD DVD, with the news breaking today that Woolworths in the UK has dropped HD-DVD in favour of the Sony Blu-ray format. This news makes me glad I brought a Sony PS3 Read more