Tag Archive | "Blu-Ray"
Sony Getting the Antitrust Eye Over Optical Drives
It’s not quite clear why it is happening, but Sony disclosed Monday that its Optiarc division in the US is under investigation by the Justice Department for possible antitrust violations. Sony Optiarc is one of the larger manufacturers of optical drives, including DVD and Blu-ray. The DOJ is not the only government agency worldwide looking into [...]
Continue reading...Blu-ray as an Xbox 360 Accessory, Says Ballmer. Wait, What?
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Is Microsoft planning a standalone Blu-ray player to go with the Xbox 360? It would appear that way from a quote Gizmodo dug out from its interview with Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. Asked whether Microsoft will add a Blu-ray player to the Xbox 360, Ballmer said “Well I don’t know if we need to put [...]
Continue reading...Blu-Ray: Still No Big Whoop
Friday, October 2, 2009
Will Apple release Blu-Ray-equipped iMacs for the holidays? Maybe–and it probably makes sense, since it’s been a while since iMacs got meaningful new features other than ongoing refinement of their industrial design. But to abuse a famous Steve Jobs quote, Blu-Ray still feels like a bag of boring to me. It’s one of the few [...]
Continue reading...Sony Stumbles With Blu-ray to PSP Copy
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Starting in November, Sony will revert to its old, closed-system ways by packing a PSP-ready digital copy on its Blu-ray discs. The reasoning is obvious: If you’re an owner of one device, you’ve got a reason to pick up the other. Why buy an iPod for video when the PSP gives you a chunk of your [...]
Continue reading...Toshiba’s Qosmio Gets Blu-Ray
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Toshiba’s Qosmio is one of those laptops that’s pretty much an all-in-one desktop PC in disguise: With its 18.4-inch screen and beefy specs, it’s more transportable than portable–and with its emphasis on entertainment, it’s like a Windows Media Center you can fold up and move from room to room. The company announced the newest Qosmio model [...]
Continue reading...Toshiba Finally, Inevitably, Does Blu-Ray
Monday, August 10, 2009
Sometimes it takes tech companies an amazingly long time to confront the inevitable. The whole war betwen Blu-Ray and HD-DVD was a rotten idea from the start (both formats were announced in 2002). But all parties involved in both camps insisted on wasting billions developing two competing HD formats. Then it took ages before HD-DVD [...]
Continue reading...Blu-ray Might Have Won the Battle, But It’s Losing the War
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Polling from research firm Harris released on Thursday paints a not so rosy picture for Blu-ray, the winning high definition optical disc format. In fact, more than a year after it “won” over HD DVD, it still trails its now-defunct competitor by several percentage points. That has to have some at Sony a little concerned. Harris [...]
Continue reading...5Words for May 21st, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Apple tablet rumors: gettin’ boring! Analyst thinks Apple tablet coming. Google, beta: no longer synonymous? Jetpack: Mozilla’s new add-on framework. Are your deleted photos deleted? Is Kumo search already behind? Twitter: more popular. MySpace, not. Conficker hasn’t gone away yet. Got 400 movies on Blu-Ray? Cablevision to launch remote DVR.
Continue reading...5Words for May 8th, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Saw Star Trek, expected Tribbles… An EeePC that’s a tablet. Nokia preps giant app store. How to research: copy Wikipedia! Blu-Ray sales up 72 percent. I’ve pointed cameras at TVs. Big Sony e-reader in works? Stardates for your Google Calendar. SugarSync adds a free version. Hulu tiptoes towards international expansion. Hey, my HDTV’s a Vizio.
Continue reading...5Words for April 23rd, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Hey, BlackBerry fans, good news: Spy shots: Skyfire’s BlackBerry browser. YouTube gets a chat feature. New Ubuntu available for download. Microsoft: still under antitrust watch. $9000 Leica camera: pretty, white. MSI readying Android-based netbooks? OQO’s future doesn’t look bright. Trade your HD-DVDs for Blu-Ray. Lost laptops cost $50,000. Supposedly. Asus releases a 17.3″ notebook. Amazon deletes bribe-revealing reviews.
Continue reading...5Words for April 22nd, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Here’s what’s up this morning: How the CIA uses spyware. iSuppli tears down the Kindle. Embedded broadband for new Macs? Crooks want old Nokia phone. Firefox fixes twelve security holes. New OLPC uses Via CPU. Pleo maker files for bankruptcy. A Blu-Ray player for cars. Oprah fans pour onto Twitter. Second Life’ red-light districts.
Continue reading...Blu-ray: Why it Will Stay Blue
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
I just got finished reading two pieces on Blu-ray: one from David Carnoy from last week on why the format will succeed; and the other from Jeremy Toeman, who countered David’s argument that it actually may be closer to failure. Blu-ray is in a lot of trouble at this moment. It’s kind of a one-two punch: [...]
Continue reading...VHS is Dead. Next: DVD. Then Blu-Ray.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Maybe I’m just not very observant, but I never notice old media formats going away until they’re…gone. One moment, the record stores down at my local malls still stocked vinyl. And then they didn’t. Audio cassettes? Same thing. And now the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Distribution Video Audio, the last major distributor of [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Hedges its Bets with Netflix Streaming
Thursday, October 23, 2008
As I have pointed out in the past, streaming is probably the single biggest threat to Blu-ray overall. Well, it looks as if Samsung — the company thats already given the format just five years to live — is acknowledging that and trying to stay one step ahead of the curve by adding streaming capabilities [...]
Continue reading...Could the Bad Economy Kill Blu-ray?
Monday, October 20, 2008
After Blu-ray finally finished off HD DVD shortly after CES 2008, analysts rightfully asked whether the format could survive the wounds the format war had inflicted on it. While these concerns certainly were warranted, for awhile it had appeared Blu-ray could weather the storm. That now may not be the case — and this time, it [...]
Continue reading...Introducing Technologizer’s T-List
Thursday, July 31, 2008
New Technologizer feature! Starting this very moment, I’ll round up five items a day, give my take, and refer you to discussion elsewhere. They may be the day’s biggest stories. Or not. List starts after the jump…
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Monday, October 26, 2009
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