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New Panasonic DMP-BD50 Blu-Ray Disc Player

Alan K — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:52:24 +0000

Panasonic have introduced a new Blu-Ray Disc Player for the North American Market. The Panasonic DMP-BD50 Blu-Ray Disc Player offers a wide range of functions that foster the transition to HD – including 1080p image quality, lossless Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ and versatile Picture-in-Picture applications.

Pioneer BDP-LX80 Blu-Ray DVD Player Launches in Japan

Alan K — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:04:29 +0000

Pioneer have recently announced that they will be introducing a new Blu-Ray Disc Player – the BDP-LX80, onto the Japanese market in late October 2007.

The Pioneer BDP-LX80 supports bitstream output of the next-generation audio formats – Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, as well as linear PCM 7.1-channel output of the same formats. Users can enjoy a surround sound ambience never before possible as well as stunning piture quality.

Panasonic DMP-BD10A Blu Ray Player

Alan K — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:16:05 +0000

The availability of the next generation of Blu-Ray disc player has recently been announced by Panasonic.

As well as playing pre recorded Blu-Ray discs, the DMP-BD10A also plays standard defintion DVD's and CD's. Conventional DVD's play with automatic 1080p up-conversion via the HDMI connector.

BenQ BW1000 Blu-Ray, DVD and CD Optical Writer Announced

Alan K — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:39:09 +0000

BenQ announces the next generation optical writer, the BenQ BW1000 trio writer. The BenQ BW1000 incorporates three types of lasers to support multiple media formats – The current red laser disc, infra-red laser and the new blue laser disc Blu-Ray.

Imation Announces Blu-Ray Recordable Media Availability

Alan K — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:50:13 +0000

Imation Corp have announced the availability of its Blu-ray media to major IT and data storage channel partners at its "Blue Technology" conference.

Imation designed the conference and tour of its new advanced optical manufacturing facility at Imation world headquarters in Oakdale, Minn. to educate Imation channel partners on blue-laser optical technologies, and their application for high definition media in the enterprise.

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Movie Copy Protection Hole

Alan K — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:30:43 +0000

The Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are new data carriers for high-resolution motion pictures. For fear of piracy, Hollywood had the developers install a cornucopia of copy prevention mechanisms on them.

SAMSUNG BD-P1000 Blu-Ray DVD Player Arrives in Canada

Alan K — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:46:39 +0000

MISSISSAUGA – June 28, 2006 – Home theatre buffs will be seeing "blu" this long weekend as the first Blu-ray disc player hits stores. Samsung Electronics Canada, Inc. has begun shipping the Blu-ray disc players to its Canadian retail partners and it is expected the first players will be available for sale by Friday, June 30.

Panasonic Launches Blu-Ray DVD ROM Authoring Service in the US

Alan K — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:06:40 +0000

Panasonic, the brand for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, have announced that it will commence Blu-ray Disc entertainment title (for Blu-ray Disc read-only media, or BD-ROM) authoring service for movie studios at Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory (PHL) in Universal City, California on July 1. Optical discs, like Blu-ray Disc, or conventional DVDs, need to have their content authored as a step toward physical replication of the disc as an entertainment title.

Panasonic Announces Debut of Blu-Ray Disc HD Home Theater

Alan K — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:09:28 +0000

Panasonic, a leader in the development of Blu-ray Disc technology, have announced the debut of its first-ever Blu-ray Disc player (DMP-BD10), matching receiver (SA-XR700) and speaker system (SB-TP1000). Each will be available at retail in September 2006.

Verbatim To Ship Blu-ray Media

Alan K — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:22:04 +0000

CHARLOTTE, NC (June 8, 2006) – Verbatim® Corporation joined its parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Verbatim/MKM), today in announcing that it will begin shipping 2X speed Blu-ray write-once (BD-R) and rewriteable (BD-RE) media in July. Verbatim’s new BD media products are produced in the same familiar bare disc form as a standard DVD disc. With capacity of 25GB on a single layer, the next-generation BD media provides five times the capacity of a standard single layer DVD.