Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
TechRepublic Resources
- Format war officially over as Toshiba drops HD-DVD
- Well, all of us who have been speculating about when HD-DVD would be a dead format have our answer -- right now. Reuters is reporting that Toshiba, HD-DVD's biggest supporter, will stop manufacturing HD-DVD hardware. At least the death of HD-DVD was relatively quick. It took just...
- Tags: Sony Corp., HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., Reuters Ltd., Blu-ray Drive, Hd Dvd, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- PlayStation 2 mainboard and the PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray drive (Sony PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 hardware side-by-side)
- Bigger IS BetterSize does matter... but in the end it's not what you got its how you use it.I purchased the PS3 primarily for the movie entertainment, both Blu Ray Disc and the planned on-line movie downloads. Expectations for Sony's plan for an on-line movie download service is high. Albeit...
- Tags: Blu-ray drive, entertainment, feedback, game, hardware, mdandrea@..., ps3 review, Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
- LaCie d2 Blu-Ray Drive
- The structure of a Blu-ray BD Disc fundamentally differs from the structure of a DVD/CD. Because the data layer on a Blu-ray disc is placed much "Closer" to the laser lens than on a DVD/CD, the laser beam provides more precision. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive uses a blue-violet laser...
- Tags: LaCie, Laser, Blu-ray Drive, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2006-09-26
- Photos: Sony gear spotlights Blu-ray
- Sony's first Blu-Ray DVD player, along with Vaio machines with Blu-ray drives, will appear this summer.
- Tags: Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray drive, photograph, Sony Corp., Sony Vaio
- Image galleries 2006-03-16
- Pioneer to sell Blu-ray drive in early '06
- Micro$oft backing HD-DVD?Just seeing Micro$oft's name on this standard is enough for me to support Blu-Ray.Given M$'s history of intrusive restrictions on MP3s, video files, etc., I'm very leary of installing ANYTHING from M$, even security updates.I also see this as one more reason to move to Linux.This is nuts..Why...
- Tags: +R, Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray drive, blu-ray is better, hardware, Micro$oft, R, Radio-Active, RW
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
Additional Resources
- blu ray
- Full description of blu rayre: blu rayThis pretty much sums it up:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_ray
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, himanshu_theroyal287@..., Blu-ray disc
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Photo: Pioneer's Blu-ray disc drive
- Pioneer plans to begin selling its BDR-101A Blu-ray Disc drive in the first quarter of 2006.
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, Pioneer, Blu-ray disc, photograph
- Image galleries 2005-12-28
- Netflix kicks HD-DVD while it's down [updated]
- As if you needed one more sign that points to HD-DVD being dead, here it is. Netflix announced this morning that it will phase out HD-DVD and go exclusively Blu-ray. So, for those keeping score at home, 4 of the 6 major studios have gone exclusively Blu-ray....
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Holographic media: A future backup media candidate?
- Current state of holographic storage ..as of August 2007Although I too am excited by holographic storage, a couple of events have happened since this first posting.1. Opware has gone out of business, so the 30GByte holographic storage card won't happen.2. InPhase hasn't yet shipped a production holographic drive. They...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, tim@..., holographic storage, storage, Blu-ray disc, media
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Okoker Blu-Ray DVD Burner (exe)
- Okoker Blu-Ray DVD Burner is another free software for you. It can help you burn your data into Blu-Ray DVD disc. It has part function of Okoker CD&DVD Burner. Okoker Blu-Ray DVD Burner is designed for burning Blu-Ray DVD disc, and can not burn other DVD disc. Okoker CD&DVD Burner...
- Tags: DVD Burner, Disc, Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2008-02-14
- Worst-dressed gadgets? Blu-ray and HD DVD players
- Blu-ray DVDOkay, they all look old-fashioned, XX century, etc. But is there anyone out there with a look compatible with the technology? Maybe we will have to wait another 6-8 years to get the sleek looking back.
- Tags: antonio2toledo@..., blu-ray, Blu-ray disc, hd dvd, HD-DVD, HD-DVD player, networking, Worst-Dressed
- Discussion threads 2006-01-14
- Blu-ray DVD drive no bonus for some PS3 buyers
- Not just for movies!Blu-Ray is not just a format for high-definition video and audio, it's a higher-capacity disc format. If I recall the details of the specs, the capacity of the disc format is 25GB for a single-layer disc (obviously double for du
- Tags: blu-ray, ps3, sonotsky, disc, dontcareaboutformatwars, hardware, Sony PlayStation 3, Blu-ray disc
- Discussion threads 2006-12-08
- Blu-ray, HD DVD players: Clunky, unimpressive
- Why not make comptable technologies?Oh and welcome to VHS vs Beta all over again...jeez what a waste of time! I don't care who wins...I really don't care much about Blu-ray or HDDVD other than the fact that they are UGLY...I won't put a 1970's looking thing in my house...thanks...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics
- Discussion threads 2006-01-14
- CyberLink BD Advisor (exe)
- Get ready to experience the true power of interactive high-definition movies with PowerDVD and Blu-ray Discs. Ensure that you enjoy the best Blu-ray Disc experience possible by testing your system and understanding the basics as to what this exciting disc format has to offer. Download CyberLink BD Advisor to test...
- Tags: Blu-ray Disc, CyberLink, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- When will Blu-Ray hit your data center?
- Sony has finally won a format war and redeemed itself from the Betamax debacle in the 1980s. The immediate impact will certainly be in the consumer market, but it won't be long before the technology makes it into computers and data centers. The win was also impressive given the weight...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Data Center, HD-DVD, Amazon.com Inc., Blu-ray, Backup Tape, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Data Centers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Worst-dressed gadgets? Blu-ray and HD DVD players
- Panasonic's Blu-ray player looks like "2001: A Space Odyssey" prop. HP's HD DVD player mimics old dual-cassette deck.
- Tags: HD DVD, Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD player, HD-DVD, Blu-ray disc, deck, Panasonic, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Image galleries 2006-01-09
- Express Burn (exe)
- Express Burn is a program for Windows that lets you create and record CDs, DVDs, HD-DVDs and Blu-ray with any PC with a CD/DVD/Blu-ray recorder installed. With Express Burn you can record a CD, DVD, High Definition DVD or Blu-ray disc quickly and easily by dragging the files you want...
- Tags: CD, Express Burn, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Hd Dvd, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2007-10-08
- Video: Build a functional Blu-Ray phaser
- Here's the world's most unlikely vote for HD-DVD over Blu-Ray: If the latter media standard fails in the marketplace, there will be plenty of surplus Blu-Ray laser diodes for you to build a "functional" vintage Star Trek phaser, as shown in this instructional video. ThinkGeek sells a...
- Tags: Video, Blu-ray, ThinkGeek, Corporate Communications, Hd Dvd, Marketing, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Sub-$600 general purpose PC, complete with Blu-ray support
- One thing that's become clear to me from comments and emails that I receive is that readers want me to strike a balance between high-end stuff and the more affordable lower-end solutions. Today I'm going to outline a high-quality yet affordable PC that's up to the job of handling Blu-ray....
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Blu-ray, Desktops, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, pc, build, diy, budget
- Image galleries 2008-07-29
- Firestreamer-RM (exe)
- Firestreamer-RM is a utility that enables existing tape oriented backup software, such as the Microsoft Backup Utility, to directly access a wide range of non-tape storage media. Essentially, Firestreamer is a virtual tape drive that uses files, BD (Blu-ray), DVD, HDD, Iomega REV and other types of media as the...
- Tags: Media, Blu-ray, Firestreamer-RM, Advertising & Promotion, Backups, Hd Dvd, Storage, Marketing, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-09-20
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
