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Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba team up for new DRM
Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba team up for new DRM
Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba have joined together to create a new content DRM for flash memory cards, including SD cards. ...... 21 Dec 2011 - 9 comments
2011 Blu-ray sales to dwarf 2010 says analyst
2011 Blu-ray sales to dwarf 2010 says analyst
An analyst from Futuresource predicts worldwide Blu-ray disc sales for 2011 will be up by 45% compared to 2010. 07 Dec 2011 - 10 comments
Review - Ashampoo Burning Studio 11 - Is simple better?
Review - Ashampoo Burning Studio 11 - Is simple better?
Over the last several years, a wide variety of software has entered the market designed for creating discs in a multitude of multimedia formats. ...... 30 Nov 2011 - 9 comments
'Star Wars' Blu-rays set record
'Star Wars' Blu-rays set record
George Lucas' blockbuster franchise can add another milestone to its celebrated history, the biggest first-week sales for a Blu-ray, ever. ...... 23 Sep 2011 - 14 comments
The rumors are back, is a Blu-ray add-on headed to the Xbox 360?
The rumors are back, is a Blu-ray add-on headed to the Xbox 360?
Thanks to a popular Italian Xbox 360 magazine, the oft-rumored Xbox 360 Blu-ray add-on is back in the news. For years now, there have been ...... 09 Sep 2011 - 8 comments
Guide spotlight: Converting DVD subtitles for Blu-ray authoring
Guide spotlight: Converting DVD subtitles for Blu-ray authoring
In this week's guide spotlight, we will look at the process for converting subtitles ripped from a DVD in SUB/IDX format to the BDN XML format ...... 02 Sep 2011
New report highlights holes in studios' home video strategy
New report highlights holes in studios' home video strategy
According to researchers at Parks Associates, consumers are not only showing a preference for on demand streaming video over other alternatives, ...... 01 Sep 2011 - 5 comments
Guide spotlight: Extracting content from a Blu-ray disc
Guide spotlight: Extracting content from a Blu-ray disc
Last week we introduced you to a number of new guides and videos from AfterDawn. This week we are going to shine the spotlight a little closer ...... 26 Aug 2011 - 11 comments
Will Uncharted 3 not fit on a single Blu-ray?
Will Uncharted 3 not fit on a single Blu-ray?
The PS3's Uncharted 2 was in the news years ago as it barely fit on a 25GB Blu-ray disc but it appears its sequel has taken it a step further. ...... 20 Aug 2011 - 8 comments
New AfterDawn guides and videos
New AfterDawn guides and videos
In recent months AfterDawn has had some major additions to our Guide lineup we hope you will be interested in. We now have several guides ...... 19 Aug 2011 - 2 comments
Microsoft acknowledges Windows 7 Blu-ray burning bug
Microsoft acknowledges Windows 7 Blu-ray burning bug
Windows 7 flaw found to miscalculate available capacity on blank Blu-ray media. If you have tried to burn data to a blank Blu-ray media and ...... 28 Jul 2011 - 9 comments
New PS3 models remove ability to play Blu-ray movies via component
New PS3 models remove ability to play Blu-ray movies via component
Sony has confirmed today that all upcoming PS3 revisions will remove the ability for users to watch Blu-ray films via component cables. The ...... 14 Jul 2011 - 31 comments
Nintendo confirms, no Blu-ray or DVD compatibility for Wii U games
Nintendo confirms, no Blu-ray or DVD compatibility for Wii U games
Nintendo has made it official, Wii U games will be on a proprietary disc that is not Blu-ray or DVD. The confirmation comes via Nintendo ...... 16 Jun 2011 - 30 comments
Wii U discs will be single-layer 25GB 'proprietary' Discs
Wii U discs will be single-layer 25GB 'proprietary' Discs
Nintendo's Katsuya Eguchi has confirmed today that games for Nintendo's upcoming Wii U console will be on single-layer 25GB "proprietary" discs. ...... 09 Jun 2011 - 58 comments
'Star Wars' Blu-rays coming in September
'Star Wars' Blu-rays coming in September
Fox and George Lucas have announced today that they will bring the highly-anticipated 'Star Wars' films to Blu-ray in September. The movies ...... 06 Jan 2011 - 6 comments
Remote controls to get Netflix Button
Remote controls to get Netflix Button
Netflix has announced today that it has made deals with HDTV and DVD/Blu-ray player makers in an effort to put one-click "Netflix Buttons" on ...... 04 Jan 2011 - 11 comments
Disney announces Blu-ray 3D line-up for 2011
Disney announces Blu-ray 3D line-up for 2011
The Walt Disney Company has announced that it will release at least 15 Blu-ray 3D titles over the coming year. Among the list of films already ...... 04 Jan 2011 - 1 comment
Chip will make Blu-ray players, recorders smaller and more affordable
Chip will make Blu-ray players, recorders smaller and more affordable
A new chip from STMicroelectronics will be make it possible to shrink the size of Blu-ray players and recorders, as well as cutting down on costs. ...... 01 Dec 2010 - 5 comments
New Cinavia DRM takes aim at pirates
New Cinavia DRM takes aim at pirates
FileShareFreak has a very interesting report out today about Cinavia DRM, which is a new audio watermarking technology that takes aim at pirates, ...... 03 Mar 2010 - 214 comments
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