Category Archives: Blu-ray

Blu-ray, HD DVD and frame rates

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

On Monday I drove up to Sydney for the launch of HD DVD by Toshiba and Castel Electronics, Toshiba’s Australian distributor. Toshiba will be releasing two HD DVD players in the near future. First, on 10 December 2006, there will … Continue reading →

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Samsung aims to be first on Australian market with Blu-ray player

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

Samsung has just announced that it will be releasing its first Blu-ray player, the BD-P1000, ‘early in Q4’ this year. That would suggest sometime in October. Might make a nice match with the Sony projector mentioned below. Samsung says it … Continue reading →

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Truly giving power to the users

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

Got a press release today (no link available that I can find) about something called Metamenus. It is a product of a new company (founded last year) called Metabeam Corporation, which seems to be the provider of, well, organisation. Sound … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray Region Codes

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

The Korean-based Dr David Steel, the Vice President, Marketing Team, Digital Media Business, for Samsung Electronics, has kindly provided the following information on Blu-ray region codes. There will be three codes: Region A: North America, South America, East Asia (except … Continue reading →

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Samsung promises first Australian Blu-ray player

Posted on May 24, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

At yesterday’s product showing, Samsung demonstrated a Blu-ray player. It says it intends to be the first on the Australian market with a Blu-ray player, slated for the fourth quarter this year, and it’s aiming at a price of under … Continue reading →

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TDK Blu-ray recordables arriving

Posted on April 11, 2006 by Stephen Dawson

TDK has commencing shipping recordable Blu-ray discs. Its initial two offerings are a 25GB BD-R (Blu-ray Disc Recordable) and a 25GB BD-RE (Rewritable – so why not ‘RW’?) Australian US prices will be $US19.99 and $US24.99 respectively. Clearly, that’s pretty … Continue reading →

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