It didn’t take too terribly long after Warner chose Blu-ray as its new best friend for every single wagon wheel to fall of the HD DVD carriage, and now that the funeral has been set, we’re quite curious as to what the HD DVD early adopters plan on doing. Head over to Engadget HD and let your voice be heard — even if it’s but a whimper….
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StorDigital Data Systems have released a Blu-Ray Duplicator. The StorDigital SD1BLU Single Target Blu-Ray Disc, DVD and CD Disc to Disc copier offers an out the box solution for low volume copies without requiring the use of a PC. Featuring the most advanced controller the unit will make perfect BD Blu Ray Disc copies.
Priced at just £599 plus vat the SD1BLU Blu-Ray Duplicator is perfect for anyone looking to copy Blu-Ray Discs without the use of a PC. Get more info on the StorDigital Blu-Ray Copier.
Truthfully, we reckon this moment is inevitable. With HD DVD hung out to dry by everyone and their long lost cousin, it's simply a matter of time before players are being traded for rides on the carousel. Nevertheless, reports are already circulating that Microsoft's Xbox 360 add-on drive could sink to $49.99 in the not-too-distant future, which may actually make it worth grabbing for the very respectable library of HD DVD titles already out there. Whatever you do, don't pay full price for this thing….
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Doesn't look like there's going to be any glory in death for HD DVD — we've just received confirmation that GameStop is no longer accepting HD DVD movies as trade-ins, and several GameStops have apparently already stopped taking the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive as well. We're also hearing that the 360 HD DVD drive will no longer be accepted at any GameStop as of tomorrow, and that there's a major price cut in the works — which makes sense, but we'll see what happens. For now, though, it looks like…
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Got your eye on a new HD DVD / Blu-ray combo player? If you weren't aware, Samsung introduced an all new model here at CES, and Engadget HD has all the shots you crave. Hit it up right here….
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Some rumors that just won’t die eventually end up being true, and the latest to reappear is the Target is going Blu-ray exclusive one. Today at Philips’ press event during CES, while Stewart Muller was introducing its new Blu-ray player he also mentioned that Target was going Blu-ray exclusive. Of course what his definition of exclusive means might be his alone, but unless Target pulls all the HD DVD movies off their shelves entirely, we’re not sure we agree….
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Pioneer beat 'em to the punch, and has subsequently managed to be rebadged by most everyone else, but now Philips is on the scene at Computex with a PC Blu-ray burner that boasts support for 50GB discs — once they're available. The drive still doesn't have anything as silly as a model number (though we're thinking it's the SPD7000 that they've been talking about for a while), but it does include CD burning support along with the DVD and Blu-ray burning, which is something Pioneer omitted from their BRD-101A. Philips can burn a 25GB disc in around 70 minutes at its 2x speed, and will support t…
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Not a ton of new specs to behold on this new Blu-ray player, but Philips's BDP7100 does everything it should (1080p output, HDMI CEC, 24p, True HD, and DTS HD support). No word if it's got HDMI v1.3 or Blu-ray 1.1, and Philips also neglected to mention the price and availability of this new Blu-ray player of theirs, but we still dutifully thank them for their morsels of information and sheepishly ask for a second helping of porridge, kind sirs. One more image after the break….
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You didn't think Acer's recent deal with the Blu-ray camp was an exclusive arrangement did you? No sir-e, not if this product sheet is to be believed. Though the details are hard to make out, those Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD logos make it pretty clear that the Aspire line-up of multimedia desktops are about to go both ways. The desktop will feature what Acer calls “Blu-ray Universal” which reads Blu-ray and HD DVD discs while burning DVDs and CDs. Sounds like an LG Super Multi Blue player to us. It's all said to be going down on October 1st, in Australia anyway. Do your best to make out the full …
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Like buses, you wait years for a combo HD player then two come along at once
South Korean gadget legend Samsung has unveiled its first Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player to the US public, the same week its country-sharing nemesis, LG, released a similar player. It can be pre-ordered on Amazon.com right this very second, for a tiny $800 (£400)The BD-UP5000 does everything a good Blu-ray player and a decent HD DVD player should.It supports the interactive features of both formats, Blu-ray’s BD Java and HD DVD’s HDi. It spits out hi-def video at resolutions up to 1080p at 24 and 60fps and it upscales to 1080p, we’re told.Other tricks up the BD-UP5000’…
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