Archive for October, 2008

First Look Studios and Ultimate Fighting Championship(R) Unveil Their First Blu-ray Title at a Competitive Price (Broadcast Newsroom)

LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwire) — 10/31/08 — First Look Studios and UFC® proudly announce the Blu-ray release of UFC® ULTIMATE COMEBACKS. This title marks UFC’s first foray into Blu-ray, aggressively priced at $24.98.
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Psystar fills Blu-ray gap on Macs (TG Daily)

Apple may be skipping the Blu-ray trend, which forces Apple users to agree with that strategy whether they like it or not. But those who do want a Blu-ray drive running under Mac OS X can purchase such a system, but they will have to buy it from Psystar. […]

Blu-ray is dead: the sequel (ZDNet)

Bill Hunt, Blu-ray defender? Over on The Digital Bits blogger Bill Hunt rebukes me for calling Blu-ray dead. Then he goes on to agree with almost everything I said - except for the conclusion. With friends like that, Blu-ray doesn’t need me! Industry cheerleader opinion: Bill says I don’t have the expertise to comment on […]

Stop Blu-ray discs from phoning home with AnyDVD HD (ZDNet)

Did you know that Blu-ray discs can report back to studios when you play a disc? Yep. The BD-Live feature (which was initially touted as a way of delivering extra content to customers - as though Blu-ray didn’t offer enough space in the first place) is being used by studios to keep track of how […]