Ladies and gentlemen, you are now seeing a day that shall be remembered in history forever. Today, Toshiba announced their membership with the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), and how they plan to begin introducing products that support Blu-ray. Toshiba took a long time for this decision, as the company buried their own HD format, HD-DVD, [...]
It was the time for Paramount and Universal to publish their movies on a HD disk drive and now it seems they took action. Well, now it’s obvious what formate they have chosen once with HD DVD’s death. Yes, you guessed, Blu-ray is the winner. Craig Kornblau, Universal’s President made a statement: “While Universal values [...]
After a long dispute, HD DVD has finally lost the battle and Blu-ray is now a winner. Toshiba has just announced that ” it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” The production will stop in March 2008 and they will only going to sell HD DVD disks for players [...]
Well another bad news for HD-DVD. Toshiba is expected to cut down this format in the coming weeks although Jodi Sally, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, thinks that HD DVD is the best option for consumers due to its provided quality. According to Jodi Toshiba will watch how things go for now [...]
Michael Bay is a successful film director and producer – his best movies are Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, The Rock, Bad Boys I + II and Transformers. Also, he is one of the members of Propaganda Films, a music video production company. He presented the award for animated character in a motion picture at the Visual Effects Society’s [...]
There was something that caught my eyes in the past days. It’s a home theater named Kipnis Studio Standard and you can get it for only $6 million. The screen is a 18 x 10 Stewart and in the back you will find a Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector. It features an 8.8-channel audio system but it’s composed [...]
Hiroyuki Shimizu, Research Analyst, states that due to Toshiba’s price-cutting the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray will continue, but not for long. He says that this actions are useless, because they are just delaying the what seems to be inevitable. Shimizu says in Gartner’s Semiconductor DQ Monday Report that, Gartner is expecting that the [...]
NPD Group is global market research company which provides information about manufacturers and retailers. According to their latest report, Blu-ray player sales increased after Warner’s announcement that they will go Blu-ray. Although, HD-DVD is less expensive than Blu-ray, in December, 60% players sold were Blu’s, in the first two weeks of January the Blu-ray had [...]
