Category Archives: Blu-ray

Cloudy with a chance of three dimensions

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Yesterday Sony sent me the Blu-ray 3D version of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, last year’s animated feature. I have now done a fair bit of analysis of the disc and posted it here for those interested .

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Monsters and High Definition

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve previously mentioned the Quick Hitts podcast a couple of times. Dave Hitt has a superbly professional manner and tone in his podcasts on his wide ranging, but generally fairly libertarian subjects. I find a great deal to agree with … Continue reading →

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3D Escher

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

One possible artistic use of 3D display technology would be to represent the impossible. Imagine: you have two objects on the screen, one clearly ‘closer’ to you than the other, as conveyed by the 3D rendering. Now, imagine if that … Continue reading →

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3D and HD

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

It seems that the Playstation 3 is likely to get its Blu-ray 3D firmware upgrade in September. That the PS3 can be upgraded at all for this purpose is something I find quite interesting. My understanding is that the preferred … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray blank media

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve got Panasonic’s latest Blu-ray recorder here, the DMR-BW880, and on opening it up was startled to find that there were no blank recordable Blu-ray discs contained in the box. Previous models have included them I think. So I went … Continue reading →

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Is Blu-ray 3D BDXL?

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

This is weird, and I don’t yet quite know what to make of it. As I mentioned, I’m looking at the Panasonic 3D TV and its Blu-ray 3D player. With the TV you get two freebie Blu-ray discs: Coraline and … Continue reading →

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Inception coming

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Christopher Nolan’s new movie, Inception, is due to release in Australia on 22 July. You may remember Nolan, responsible for such brilliant works as Memento (featuring an Australian actor pretending to be an American), The Prestige (featuring an Australian actor … Continue reading →

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Cyberlink PowerDVD irritations

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

A few minutes ago I was about to prepare a post, and this involved grabbing a couple of screen shots from websites to illustrate my points. But the Windows PrtScn and Alt-PrtScn snapshot facility wouldn’t work, or at least wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Another 3D TV

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Today I received the fifty inch Panasonic plasma 3D TV. Obviously I’m doing reviews, so most of my observations belong to those, rather than here. But I would like to note that using the same test disc, there is much, … Continue reading →

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DVDs and Blu-rays To Die For

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

(Bumped to the top with this update.) Are there any movies that you would really like which, inexplicably, never appear to have been released on DVD in Australia? One that I love is To Die For, the 1995 comedy crime … Continue reading →

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