PC Blu-ray Players Not Taking Over

While the success of Blu-ray players and movies is controversial depending on who you ask, the PC market for Blu-ray is not so gray. A recent study by iSuppli Corp has found by the year 2013 only 16.3% of PC’s will ship with Blu-ray drives, up 3.6% from 2009. If iSuppli is to be believed, [...]

No Native Blu-ray Support in Windows 7

Remember how Windows XP didn’t have out of the box playback capability for your DVD’s? That meant that you had to install media players like PowerDVD or WinDVD in order to play DVD’s. Well, here’s déjà vu for you.
Apparently, there won’t be any native support for Blu-ray disks for Windows 7 either. That task will [...]

Comment Error/Problem Resolved

We had a wordpress anti-spam plugin failure, which prevented everyone from posting comments. The problem is now fixed. We would like to apologize to any readers that spent time posting a comment, only to have the error pop up.
To make it up to everyone, we are planning a bigger giveaway next week (multiple titles + [...]

Slysoft Set To Change Software Policy

With piracy fresh on the minds of studios in Asia, Slysoft, the company behind the popular tool AnyDVD HD that is used for such acts have announced a change in their sales policy. Now, instead of getting free updates for life, updates will only be given for the first year of purchase. If one wishes to [...]

Warner Bros. Ends DVD Business in S. Korea, Focus Turns To Digital Downloads

Warner Brothers, the last major Hollywood studio to produce DVD’s in South Korea has officially halted production due to growing piracy concerns. A unnamed source at Warner Brothers Home Video Korea had this to say,
One of the reasons for the pullout is a slump in the video and DVD market, resulting from online piracy and [...]

Tesco Enters Digital Distribution Market

British online grocery company Tesco has launched their own Digital Downloads service with content available from Sony Pictures Television International and Warner Bros. The service currently in beta has launched to compliment a similar music service offered by Tesco.
“Launch titles” include Spider-Man 3, Open Season and Superbad along with hit TV shows such as Terminator: [...]

Digital Downloads Update October 27th 2008

Discs Not Your Thing? Want to watch an HD movie over the weekend but don’t feel like going outside? Don’t worry we have you covered! Format War Central lists the latest HD Digital Download releases for the various platforms.
Calling all Photoshop wizards, we need at new image for this post. If you can come up [...]

Digital Downloads Update October 3rd 2008

Discs Not Your Thing? Want to watch an HD movie over the weekend but don’t feel like going outside?

Digital Downloads Update September 26th 2008

Discs Not Your Thing? Want to watch an HD movie over the weekend but don’t feel like going outside? don’t worry we have you covered! Format War Central lists the latest HD Digital Download releases for the various platforms.

Digital Downloads Update September 19th 2008

Discs Not Your Thing? Want to watch an HD movie over the weekend but don’t feel like going outside? don’t worry we have you covered! Format War Central lists the latest HD Digital Download releases for the various platforms.