Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
TechRepublic Resources
- Blu-ray BD+ completedly defeated
- The mood over at Slysoft is that of exuberance, as it announced version 6.4.0.0 of its AnyDVD HD product last week. With this version, it is now possible to make full copies of all Blu-ray discs with impunity. Already in November 2007, a beta of AnyDVD HD...
- Tags: Van, Hd Dvd, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Backups, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- 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
- Blu-ray to win the HD format war?
- It looks like the battle between HD formats could come to an end much sooner than anyone had expected. Widespread speculation suggests Toshiba could pull the HD DVD format in the coming weeks due to a number of high profile blows. Back in January Warner Home Video announced it was...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Speculation, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Warner, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- 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
- 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
- Will iTunes & Netflix make Blu-ray's "victory" meaningless?
- Two of the biggest stories leading up to CES were the announcement by Warner Bros. to go Blu-ray exclusive and the announcement of integration of Netflix's streaming service into consumer electronics hardware. Personally, I wasn't at all happy about the first one (considering I have two HD-DVD players at home),...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., HD-DVD, Movie, Disc, Delivery, Hardware, Blu-ray, Apple iTunes, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- CES 08: Toshiba puts on a brave face for HD-DVD
- The most highly-anticipated session of the morning was the Toshiba press event at 10am. It was an invitation only event; however, that didn't stop an overflow line of a couple hundred people from forming outside the conference room. Everyone was eager to see how one of HD-DVDs biggest proponents would...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- CES 2008 Pre-show news and predictions
- TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler, Jason Hiner, and Shawn Morton jumpstart TechRepublic's CES 2008 coverage with a late-night, pre-show rap session. They explain their strategy for covering the more than 2,700 vendors, discuss the impact Warner Bros. decision to end support for HD DVD will have on CES events, examine the conspicuous...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, TechRepublic Inc., Workforce Management, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, ces2008, CES, wireless, mobile, geekend, consumer tech, gadgets, show, conference, hd dvd, blueray, telecom
- Videos 2008-01-06
- TechRepublic editors preview CES 2008 from Las Vegas
- Bill Detwiler, Shawn Morton, and I are all in Las Vegas this week for the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. We jumpstarted TechRepublic's CES 2008 coverage with a pre-show video clip. We explain our strategy for covering the more than 2,700 vendors, discuss the impact Warner Bros. decision to end support...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, TechRepublic Inc., Hd Dvd, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Human Resources, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-01-05
- CES 08: Did Warner Bros. just kill HD-DVD? [updated]
- Today, Warner Bros. announced that they are dropping support for HD-DVD in May and moving exclusively to Blu-ray. This is another major blow to the HD-DVD format. Disney, Sony, Lions Gate Entertainment and 20th Century Fox were already Blu-ray only. This leaves just Paramount and DreamWorks Animation as exclusive HD-DVD...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, HD-DVD, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- 1TB optical media 'in sight'
- A recent article over at ComputerWorld alerted me to an Israeli technology company, Mempile Inc . For the past seven years Mempile has taken on over $30 million of investment from private investors and various investment funds -- in that time they have developed a technology that could see...
- Tags: Media, Storage, Disc, TeraDisc, Hd Dvd, Advertising & Promotion, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- The most disappointing tech products of 2007
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet blogs has a list of the most disappointing products of 2007. If you've got the time, read what Adrian has to say in his "Hardware 2.0" roundup. For the rest of you busy folks who only have a couple of...
- Tags: Product, Video Cards, Hd Dvd, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- The 10 worst geek gift ideas for the holidays
- Sometimes it's not so obvious that something will make a horrible holiday gift or just a grudgingly accepted one. That's why we're here to clear the air for you. Following are 10 tech-related products, which, while potentially tempting, you might want to rethink before wrapping up in red and green...
- Tags: Holiday, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, TechRepublic
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Sanity check: The 10 biggest technology belly flops of 2007
- While 2007 gave us some fantastic technological innovations, it also brought the usual spate of bungles, miscues, and faux pas. Since I believe that you learn more from your mistakes than your successes, it's important to look at some of the most glaring errors that were made manifest in the...
- Tags: China, Apple iPhone, Web, Wall Street Journal, Red Flag Software, Information Technology, HD-DVD, IEEE 802.11n, Microsoft Windows Vista, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Blu-ray, Reality, Red Flag Linux, TJX, Linux, Hd Dvd, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Programming Languages, Wi-Fi, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Wireless, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- VUDU offering Bourne trilogy in HD
- VUDU, the streaming set-top box that I reviewed back in October, has announced that they will now offer HD content. The first two movies offered in HD are The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy. Those two films became available on November 23rd and are free to all new and...
- Tags: Box, VUDU, HD, Corporate Communications, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- 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
- IT News Digest Week in Review, November 9, 2007
- Keep up with some of the top news stories of the week, including TechRepublic members' responses, in the IT News Digest Week in Review podcast. Some of the stories that are covered this week include Ubuntu, faster broadband, the Storm worm, XO laptop, HD DVD players, Everex's desktop, and TechRepublic's...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Hd Dvd, Strategy, Podcasts, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Management, Internet, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Blu-ray’s BD+ DRM technology cracked
- SlySoft, the makers of AnyDVD, has released a new beta of its famous ripping application, which it claims has successfully cracked Blu-ray discs protected by the BD+ DRM technology. This slap in the face came mere months after its official launch. According to SlySoft: "All available...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, HD-DVD, Disc, SlySoft, Hd Dvd, Digital Rights Management (DRM), DVD, Blu-Ray, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Snagged my $98 HD-DVD player at Wal-Mart this morning
- As we reported yesterday, Wal-Mart kicked off the holiday shopping season this morning with a "secret sale" that included a $348 Acer laptop, a $998 50" Sanyo plasma TV and a $98 Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD player. I headed over to my local store at around 7am this...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, Selection, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HD-DVD, Laptop Computer, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Aggressive pricing announced for HD DVD players
- Wal-Mart has announced the sale of HD DVD players in the sub-$200 and sub-$100 range. An excerpt from Ars Technica: As it turns out, plenty of retailers are about to get behind a big push for the HD-A2, whose sweet new price is only soured by its 1080i...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, DVD Player, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HD-DVD, Pricing Strategy, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Media Players, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
Introducing SmartPlanet
-
-
Find thought-provoking progressive ideas on topics that intersect with technology, business and life.
Visit Today
-
-
Technology, perspective, and insights shaping the world
-
Learn innovative and practical skills for your business and your life. SmartPlanet offers 360 degree coverage that you need to feel connected to the information that matters to the world at large.
Go to SmartPlanet
