Don’t call it Blu-ray, but Blu-ray-like will do. Sites like Blu-ray.com sure got it wrong mid-April when they reported Nintendo’s next console would include a Blu-ray optical drive, but the gist of that rumor turns out to be half-true: mass storage several times greater than DVD’s increasingly constrained gigabyte maximum, only in a proprietary format.
Down, down, to obsolescence town–that might just be the broad-view takeaway from Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group’s recent sales report (via Financial Times), which suggests new DVD sales in the U.S. plunged 20% over the past 12 months.
Call it the Mass Storage Effect. When comparing the PlayStation 3 vs. the Xbox, one thing developers talk about is the difference in space with the consoles’ disc formats. The DVD format’s a bit long in the tooth, and the usable space on the average Xbox 360 dual-layer disc usually tops out at around 6.8 [...]
The All-Star Superman movie comes out today: a 75-minute, PG-rated, direct-to-video animated feature, based on the celebrated Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely miniseries from a few years back, and starring James Denton as Superman and Clark Kent, and Christina Hendricks as Lois Lane. Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan–the reviewers from Techland’s Comic Book Club–reviewed it, [...]
We all knew it was coming, but now we have a tentative release date: Expect the entire Star Wars six-movie blu-ray set to be out in September. Check out the fans eagerly anticipating the Star Wars blu-ray announcement at CES (when they were probably supposed to be reporting on important news stories):
Variety is killing DVD sales, if 2010 sales figures are to believed. While sales for Blu-Ray and VoD have “exploded” this year, DVD sales are estimated to have fallen 12% when compared with 2009 numbers, which were already down on previous years. According to the CEO of retailer chain Hastings, John Marmaduke, the problem may [...]
Some news out of the Tokyo Game Show for you this Thursday morning, PS3 owners. 3D Blu-ray playback compatibility is coming a few weeks earlier than expected with a firmware update set to go live on September 21. Sony did not divulge whether or not firmware v3.50 will unlock or fix anything else. Still, there [...]
Techland has teamed up with Image Entertainment for an epic giveaway from the fifth dimension. The first season of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone will be released next Tuesday (9/14) on Blu-ray and we have a box set to give away to one lucky reader. If that weren’t enough, our chums at Entertainment Earth have [...]
Once upon a time, back in the glory days of Hollywood’s studio system, vertical integration was the key. If a studio made a film, you could probably only see that movie in their theaters. From the ground up, until the Supreme Court struck it all down of course, the studios tried to perfect an insulated [...]
Time to put your sad face on because Sony is delaying the firmware update that will allow 3D Blu-ray playback on your PlayStation 3. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for the delay that was announced back in January at CES. Alas, you won’t be able to dive into that ginormous catalog [...]
First it was the Empire Strikes Back, then the Goonies and now its Marty McFly’s turn to celebrate.
