Blu-ray: Duplication vs Replication and AACS

Adobe Encore (from CS3 to CS4) and Toast 9 with BD Plugin installed will be able to create Blu-ray disc with a Blu-ray recorder purchased for Rs. 15,000 as of Indian price. But the real issue is not creating a BD content but with the license associate with it. To get clear picture, we need [...]

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Gen next Optical Disk medium, Blu-ray arrives in India with a humble beginning!

 
Blu-ray is a next generation optical disk storage medium capable of storing up to 50GB of 1080p HD Video  with uncompressed Sound. The benefits of blue-violet laser (405nm) is that it has shorter wavelength than red laser (605nm), which makes it possible to focus laser spot with even greater precision. Blu-ray is currently supported by about [...]

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De-Mystifying Blu-ray Authoring

De-Mystifying Blu-ray Authoring 
 
 
 
Myths
 

High Definition Shoot / High Definition Telecine to D5 or File based?
Authoring Tools?
Authoring Drives?
Software Skills?
Authoring Techniques?
Quality Check?

 
For all the above questions my answer is simply yes and no. If you are going to do feature film based Blu-ray Authoring like the one you presently do for DVD Authoring you can do it cost [...]

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Blu-Ray movies available in India

Blu-Ray movies compatible with Play Station 3 available in Landmark, Chennai, India. As much as only 30 titles available as of now are Resident Evil Extinction, Spider-man 3, The Pursuit of Happyness and more. Sony is really pushing PS3 has a Blu-Ray player. Play Station 3 available in india for a price of Rs. 25,000 ($626). Blu-Ray [...]

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Sony Blu-Ray Drive in CES 2008

Sony announced an internal Serial ATA Blu-ray drive BDU-X10S for the price tag of $199.99  in CES 2008. Picture courtesy Cnet.com 

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HP Desktop with Blu-ray & HD-DVD combo writer

via Engadget,

Regrettably, there’s not a lot to go on just yet, but DigiTimes has it that HP will soon be launching “next-generation PCs with a Blu-ray / HD DVD dual-format burner.” The announcement was reportedly issued at a product presentation held in Singapore, and while no model numbers were doled out, we can purportedly expect [...]

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LG Blu-ray & HD-DVD combo Player for $999

Via EngadgetHD,
LG has shown in CEDIA booth , their new combo player playing both HD-DVD and Blu-ray for the price tag of $999. Cool.
Will samsung and LG take HD-DVD and Blu-ray players and media to the masses?
Post your thoughts?

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Paramount cancels Blu-Ray support

via higdefdigest.com
In a note to retailers, Paramount has officially canceled all previously-announced upcoming Blu-ray releases.
As expected, Paramount won’t release a single of its previously-announced upcoming Blu-ray titles, including ‘Blades of Glory,’ ‘Next,’ ‘Top Gun,’ ‘The Jack Ryan Collection’ and ‘Face/Off.’ Instead, each of the titles will now be HD DVD exclusive.
Retailers received official word late [...]

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India still in Standard Definition world!

Are we really part of digital Revolution?
U.S, Europe and Japan are talking about HD Broadcast / HD-DVD & Blu-Ray disc wars. We in India not able to find HD-DVD & Blu-Ray Blank Discs / Recorders / Players to begin with. It seems that, there is non-availbility of HD-DVD media as well as HD-DVD writer from [...]

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Microsoft not so interested on HD Optical Disc support

EngadgetHD reports that Microsoft is not so keen on supporting HD Optical Discs both HD DVD and Blu-ray.Richard Doherty of Microsoft says that they are not ready to deliver HD content on an optical disc in five to ten years time period and further dug his hole by suggesting that his company would “rather [...]

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