Samsung Blu-ray Resource Center
June 24th, 2008Samsung has started a new website dedicated to making sense of the often confusing world of Blu-ray. The Samsung Blu-ray Resource Center is broken into two sections - one for people who already own Blu-ray and the other for people just looking to get started. Taking on questions such as “Isn’t upconverted DVD just as […]
Early adopters of HD DVD looking for HD DVD discs cheap?
April 29th, 2008I am one of those people who tend to jump on new technology fast. Instead of waiting for the format wars to end, I purchased both an HD DVD player and a Blu Ray. While there are many places clearancing their HD DVD software, DeepDiscountDVD.com not only has tons of titles for less […]
Blu-ray Player or Upscaling DVD Player? Netflix helps you decide.
April 23rd, 2008I love Netflix. I’ve been an extremely happy member since March, 2003. (And I even “used” Netflix before then by sometimes borrowing movies from a friend and then mailing them back for him after I watched them. Hey, I never said I was proud of it.) I normally keep 490+ movies in my queue (max […]
Which Blu-ray Profile includes which features?
April 4th, 2008
All Blu-ray Profiles have 64KB of built-in persistent memory.
Profile 1.1 has a 256MB hard drive; 2.0 has 1GB of local storage.
Picture-in-Picture is mandatory in both 1.1 and 2.0 players.
Secondary Audio* is also required to be built into both 1.1 and 2.0 machines.
Internet Connectivity** is a mandatory feature of only 2.0-compliant devices.
* This refers to features […]
Keep the gaming system for gaming
March 11th, 2008I’ve been watching DVDs through my xbox 360 DVD drive for the past year or so until a clear winner came out of the HD DVD / Blu-ray war. Since Toshiba officially threw in the towel a few weeks ago I now know Blu-ray was the winner I had been waiting for.
Some people suggest that […]