According to this post over at torrentfreak.com someone has managed to crack the secret codes of HD DVD and published the first full HD DVD movie dump as an illegal bittorrent. It hasn’t even been a month since the HD-DVD ripper, BackupHDDVD was released and we’re already seeing high definition feature films pop up on [...]

According to this story over at dailytech.com, Ritek has managed to produce discs that can hold 7 additional layers of data which would mean that a HD DVD would yield 150GB, and a Blu-ray a whopping 250GB. We’ll see if this invention will ever leave the lab over at Ritek… Three HD Layers Today, Ten [...]

Today Samsung sent us some information about their new 2nd generation blu-ray player Samsung BD-P1200. The new slimmer player will be out in March for $799. More information and pictures inside.

I went to a local Best Buy today to get a cable and browsed around a bit before leaving. I was kind of surprised how big the departments for HD DVD and blu-ray movies was – probably around 60-70 titles for both formats. Prices started at $19.99 and went up to $39.99. A typical new [...]

If you’re would be interested in ripping the full content of a blu-ray movie disc (or a blu-ray ps3 game disc), the Playstation 3 and Linux is your best friends. All you have to do is enter a single command line… World’s First PS3 Blu-ray Movie dumped! [PS3 News] via [Gizmodo]

Sony DADC has announced that they now have six 50 GB Blu-ray Disc production lines up and running. The company, which announced its 50 GB Blu-ray production plans in May of this year, is currently ramping up production to 60 000 discs per day. High demand for the 50 GB dual layer Blu-ray Disc is [...]

The high definition video market is quite a jungle, and it’s absolutely not certain that your computer is capable of playing high definition video. NVIDIA has announced a a new chip called PureVideo HD that is capable of producing great high definition end results. More information inside.