Monthly Archives: May 2009

Sound, Branching and Disc Real Estate

My Blu-ray disc data gathering project continues, in which I try to determine as many technical and standards details as possible about Blu-ray discs. Of the nearly 300 Blu-ray discs in my database, 98 now have a ‘Completion’ score of … Continue reading

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Warner Bros, Roadshow Entertainment and Gran Torino

Most Warner Bros Blu-ray discs are fairly basic in their organisation. They lack BD-Java, BD-Live, BonusView and so on. I’m not complaining, because Warner Bros has been pretty aggressive at getting its back catalogue out there in the new format. … Continue reading

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The death of the paper publishing

Amazon has announced the ‘Kindle DX‘ portable document reader. Much larger screen and native PDF support. Starting to look very impressive, and makes electronic books and magazines a real possibility. To seal the deal, it needs to be thinner still, … Continue reading

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