Get 5 Free Blu-ray Movies w/ Player Purchase (PS3 included)

The BDA has come up with a similar offer the HD DVD Promotion Group has been running. The offer is good for 5 free Blu-ray movies via mail with the purchase of any Blu-ray player including the PS3. Some of the titles include: Pearl Harbor, Corpse Bride, The Devils Rejects, Underworld Evolution, Transporter 2, and [...]

Firmware Update For 2nd Gen HD DVD Players Fixes Dreaded Chroma Bug.

Toshiba has just released a firmware update for their second generation HD DVD players. The version 2.0 firmware update applies to European players as well. The firmware fixes the dreaded “Chroma Bug”, a.k.a “CUE” or “Chroma Upsampling Error” that was present in the players prior to this update. If you are unfamiliar with CUE, [...]

Paramount Dumping VC-1 in Favor of MPEG4 AVC?

It seems that Paramount is switching from Microsoft’s VC-1, to MPEG4 AVC on all its future HD DVD titles. On their new Blu-ray titles, they have already switched to AVC from MPEG2. The movies include: The Warriors, Norbit, The Untouchables, and Black Snake Moan. We have a suspicion that Paramount is going to take a [...]

HD DVD/Blu-ray Sunday Ad Wars Pt. V

In this week’s edition of “Sunday Ad Wars“, Sony makes up for last weeks no-show with a PS3 front page spread in the Best Buy ad. Toshiba counters with the last weekend of it’s $100.00 instant rebate for all models in their HD DVD lineup. We do find the Circuit City ad interesting, as HD [...]

Ghost Rider on HD DVD in France

For those of you that own HD DVD only, here is a chance to get your Ghost Rider fix in HD. As you may know HD DVD is has no region coding. This allows you to import EU, UK and Japanese HD DVDs and play them back on your US HD DVD player. We feel [...]

Deal: 7 Free HD DVDs With Purchase of HD-A2 + Matrix Trilogy

Amazon.com is offering an awesome deal of Seven Free HD DVDs with Purchase of Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player and The Matrix Trilogy. We feel this is a great deal for anyone that has yet to make the leap to the HD disc formats.

Hitachi Shows Off HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Drive w/ SATA

Hitachi has joined LG in offering a Blu-ray writer/HD DVD reader combo drive for PCs. The new GGW-H20N features DL 50GB Blu-ray recording, as well as DVD/CD recording. The drive also includes a SATA interface! No price or ship date has been set.
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HD DVD/Blu-ray Sunday Ad Wars Pt. IV

In this week’s installment of “Sunday Ad Wars” Blu-ray is mysteriously absent. HD DVD on the other hand, continues to offer its $100.00 instant rebate on standalone HD DVD players (HD-A2, HD-A20, HD-XA2). The HD DVD Promotion Group is also pushing the XBOX360 add-on drive by adding 2 free HD DVD movies at the time [...]

Silicon Optix Launches HD Versions Of The HQV Benchmark Disc

Silicon Optix has announced that the HD DVD/Blu-ray versions of its HQV Benchmark DVD are now available to consumers. The HD HQV Benchmark disc lets anyone objectively evaluate the picture quality of high-definition products, including displays, HD DVD and Blu-ray players, A/V receivers, and projectors. The MSRP of both the Blu-ray and HD DVD is [...]

Blu-ray BD-J Problems Start To Show

The following video was posted to YouTube by an unknown user *cough viral marketer* and has created quite a buzz on Gizmodo. We have a Samsung BDP-1000 player at home, and are able to skip the trailers on the POTC BDs. We did observer however a similar extra long startup time of 1-2 mins after [...]