To celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray, the BT Tower in London was transformed into the biggest lightsaber in the world for one night. Lighting specialists from a company called Imagination created the effect, that turned the London landmark, which stands at 189 meters tall, into a giant laser sword. Even though fans of the original Star Wars...
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A few years ago, GE announced that they were working on a storage device which uses micro-holographic technology, that will offer a whopping 500 gigabytes of storage on a Blu-ray-sized disc. Now, the company said that their research group came up with an optical disc writer that is capable of recording data at speeds equivalent to a Blu-ray writer. Peter Lorraine, manager...
You may remember back in February 300,000 Sony Playstation 3 consoles where seized and impounded in Holland after LG filed legal proceedings against Sony for as they believed (and I am sure still do) Blu-Ray technology used in the PS3 was in direct infringement of a patent they owned. At the time LG were given the benefit of the doubt and authorities in Holland took an...
Fans of Star Wars have good reason to be excited today as the entire saga will be available on Blu-Ray at the end of summer. News actually broke that the saga would be available in Blu Ray at CES earlier this month; Darth Vader (we are not sure if he was the actual one) revealed that it would happen in 2011. A clear date in September is now available with Pre-orders already...
After a fairly intense period of posting what felt like nothing but 3D news, it now feels like quite a break since our last 3D related post but Sharp has leapt in bravely to offer us some help in that respect. OK, so it doesn’t have the snappiest title in the world but the BD-HP90S is a 3D capable Blu Ray player which almost instantly plunges into the world of greatness...
Manufacturers were kind of slow to jump on the whole Blu Ray player bandwagon but it seems they don’t want to be left out in the cold again with 3D TV as pretty much everything at the moment is being created in 3D. Companies are clearly catching on to the general excitement and stir that is being created by the emerging technology. What’s more, companies like...
Plenty of great new blu-ray releases to pick from this month. First up is Fighting, the tale of a bare-knuckle boxer’s streetfighting career in New York. Written and directed by the excellent Dito Montiel, the man responsible for A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, Fighting is everything you’d expect and want it to be; gritty, brutal and somehow romantic all...