There's nothing better than kicking back with a good movie or TV show. However, when it's time to take a movie on the go, many are stuck dealing with downloading what they want to watch. There are ...

The Blu-ray dream took a step closer to reality this morning, when Taiwanese giant BenQ unveiled a couple of Blu-ray disc drives that will land on UK shores later this year. In a sun-drenched corner ...

Pioneer Electronics rolled out a high-definition BDXL internal Blu-ray disc (BD) drive Tuesday that more than doubles current maximum BD storage capacity, the company said. The BDR-206MBK writer is ...

For movies, I'll play them from the DVD or blu-ray and live with the menus and warnings. But for TV shows, an option that I like is to just rip them to .mkv without transcoding and put them on a USB ...

CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet.

The first Blu-ray (BD) disc drive for desktop PCs is here, but be warned -- it won't play commercial BD movies. Sony officially announced its BWU-100A product at its "Experience More 2006" event in ...

Just in time for the holidays, Plextor announced today that their PX-B900A Blu-Ray Disc drive will be released to distributors in North and South America this October. This new multi-function drive ...

There’s no mistaking it: The battle for dominance between HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc is now finally down to the consumers. In the last month, we’ve had three PCs announced with drives for the new formats ...

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) plans to begin selling a Blu-ray Disc drive in Japan in June for use in desktop computers, the company said today. The drive is the first to be ...

From what I've noticed, most games to be installed can be downloaded off the internet without physical media, let alone the need for any optical drive. At worst, you may want a DVD drive (and dollars ...

Pioneer Electronics announced its first Blu-ray Disc drive Tuesday, the BDR-101A, which will store as much as 25GB of data when it goes on sale in the first quarter of 2006. The drive isn't expected ...

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