http://www.blureporter.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 05 May 2006 03:35:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The launch of the first Blu-ray discs has been delayed by around a month, according to Sony. Previously set to for May 23, Sony has pushed its Blu-ray movie release back until June 20, Reuters has reported. Sony Pictures Home Entertaiment president Benjamin Feingold insisted that while Sony was on schedule ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/127 Shipping of the first bare Blu-ray disc media to retailers nationwide has begun. TDK today announced it has started shipment of its 25 GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Discs. Retail pricing is set at $19.99 for a 25 GB BD-R (recordable) and $24.99 for a 25 GB BD-RE (rewritable). A 50 GB ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/126 Samsung has delayed the US launch of their initial Blu-ray player, the BD-P1000, from May 23 until June 25. In a statement, Samsung cited the need to perform complete compatibility testing with Blu-ray test discs, which will not be available until late April, as the reason for the delay. Samsung also ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/125 Toshiba has released the worlds first HD DVD player, the HD-XA1, in Japan. Its release marks the beginning of the battle between HD DVD and Sony backed rival, Blu-ray, to become the mainstream next-generation DVD format. HD DVD boasts superior quality picture and sound compared to regular DVDs as well as ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/124 Lionsgate Home Entertainment have announced five initial movie titles for Blu-ray disc, scheduled for a May 23 release. An additional five films will be available sometime in June or July. The initial release titles include Crash, Lord of War, The Punisher, Saw and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Those due out in June/July ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/123 The first batch of Blu-ray movie titles will be available in stores from May 23. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) announced that the release of the discs would coincide with the launch of the first commercial Blu-ray player, Samsung’s BDP-1000. SPHE, along with MGM Home Entertainment, will release eight titles on ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/122 First-generation HD DVD players will be interactive, Toshiba has announced. Quashing speculation from last week, Toshiba revealed that their first two players, the HD-A1 and the HD-XA1, would not need firmware updates to be interactive, as had earlier been reported. The rumors were caused by Toshiba’s press release last week, which ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/121 Sony Pictures has announced the wholesale prices for their movies on Blu-ray disc. Sony will sell their new release movies for $23.95 while older titles will be sold for $17.95 - roughly the same price as DVDs were when they were first introduced to the market in 1997. Movies by Sony ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/120 The world’s first automated burn and print device to support the next-generation DVD format, Blu-ray disc, has been unveiled. Primera Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of automated CD/DVD disc publishing equipment, has announced that their Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher will begin shipping in April this year. Upon release, the automated ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/119 Some high-definition television sets will not be able to display the next-generation DVD formats in their highest resolution. Blu-ray and HD DVD players will degrade the image output from 1920×1080 to 960×540, a quarter of its full resolution, when hooked up by an analog connection. Ars Technica reports that backers of ... http://www.blureporter.com/blu-ray/news/118