Apple behind Intel’s Light Peak technology
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple playing a big hand in the development of Light Peak technology by Intel.
The report states that Apple pushed the concept to Intel in 2007 with the aim of developing a super fast cable standard that could one day replace existing technologies like USB, FireWire, [...]
Toshiba confirm plans for Blu-Ray powered products
Toshiba has announced that they are going to launch Blu-Ray technology powered products in the coming months.
The company would launch standalone players along with drives and laptops.
The first generation products from the company could go on sale as early as later this year.
Toshiba incidentally was the company [...]
Toshiba set to launch Blu-Ray media players?
Toshiba was the company behind the HD DVD format which challenged Blu-Ray for the next generation storage media format.
Toshiba lost the war to Sony as they gave up and discarded the HD DVD format.
The latest reports in the media claims that the company would finally enter the market [...]
General Electric develops a 500 GB media Disc
General Electric has announced that they have managed to develop a media disc that is capable of storing 500GB of data.
This is equivalent to storing data worth around 100 regular DVD discs.
The company said that the disc was developed using a technology named “micro-holographic storage”.
This [...]
Blu-ray disc sales are up in the US market
Adams Media Research has reported that about 9 million Blu-ray discs were sold in the US market in the first three months of the year.
This number is almost double compared to sale of 4.8 million units sold in the first quarter of last year.
Analysts say that the [...]
MCE Technologies Blu-ray Recordable Drive for Apple Mac
MCE Technologies has announced that they are now shipping an 8X Blu-ray Recordable Drive that is designed for use with Apple Macs.
It is being sold for an attractive price of $429.
The company said that this drive is designed for use on Mac Pro and Power Mac systems.
It [...]
Netflix to charge more for Blu-Ray media movies
Netflix has some bad news for their customers.
The company has announced that they are now going to charge more for delivering Blu-Ray media to their customers.
Netflix said that they had to raise the prices due to increased demand for these media format discs.
Blu-Ray media discs are [...]
OWC launches 8x external Blu-ray Disc drive for PC and Macs
Other World Computing has announced the launch of their latest product which is a 8x external Blu-ray Disc drive.
This drive works with both Windows and Mac OS X machines.
They are offering this drive for USD 400.
OWC said that the drive features four different interfaces [...]
LG BD390 Blu-ray has Wi-Fi support
South Korean consumer electronics manufacturer LG has launched a new Blu-Ray player named LG BD390.
This player comes with support for wireless networks. It is an enhanced version of their existing player LG BD370.
Features include DVD upscaling, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD audio, BD-Live/Profile 2.0 support. This player also [...]
Memorex MVBD-2520 Blu-Ray player comes with Profile 2.0 for just USD 200
Memorex has launched their latest Blu-Ray media player that supports Profile 2.0.
This new player is Memorex MVBD-2520 and it would sell for just around USD 200.
This is probably the cheapest Blu-Ray player out there with support for Blu-Ray Profile 2.0.
The company [...]
