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BD News
February 19, 2008
TOKYO--Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.
February 14 , 2008
Total Blu-ray Disc movie sales across Europe have reached over two million units
announced the Blu-ray Disc Association European Promotions Committee at a
press reception in London this week. The most recent figures show Blu-ray Disc
movie sales totaled 2.37 million, which means that 79% of the High Definition
movie discs bought by consumers year-to-date across Europe were in the Blu-ray
Disc format compared with 21% in the HD DVD format, according to sales data
provided by Media Control GFK International.
February 07 , 2008
UK high street retail chain, Woolworths, reportedly the UK's biggest retailer of nextgen
DVD discs, is to exclusively back Blu-ray Disc moving forward this year. The chain has announced it is only to stock Blu-ray discs in store from March, with HD DVD movies being dropped from shop shelves, only to be sold online.
September 05 , 2007
Sony introduced two additional Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) players today offering a full range of features. Optimized for the home theater enthusiast and designed with input from dealers and consumers in mind, the new BDP-S2000ES model is the first Blu-ray Disc player in Sony’s “Elevated Standard” (ES) line. This model, as well as the new BDP-S500, which complements Sony’s current BDP-S300 BD player, features full high-definition 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema output. They support 7.1 channel linear PCM and Dolby® TrueHD, Dolby® Digital Plus, as well as dts-HD™ High Resolution Audio bitstream output via HDMI™ (ver1.3).
July 12, 2007
TDK announces two new write-once Blu-ray Discs capable of recording at 4x speed. The discs are available in both 25GB and 50 GB BD-R versions scheduled for shipping later this summer.
July 11, 2007
Pioneer Electronics is now shipping the BDC-2202 combination Blu-ray Disc BD-ROM/DVD/CD computer drive to retail stores. The drive comes bundled with Corel’s software for playback of multiple Blu-ray Disc formats. The software also provides reading and writing of data to DVD and CD formats.
July 04, 2007
The Blu-ray Disc Association announces a summer long promotion of Blu-ray Disc titles by major home entertainment distributors and consumer electronics manufacturers. Consumers are eligible to receive 5 free Blu-ray Disc titles when they purchase a qualifying BD player. The player must be purchased between July 1 2007 and September 30 2007.
June 4, 2007
Sony began shipping the BDP-S300 which includes new features such as the advanced Dolby Digital Plus audio codec as well as BRAVIA Theatre Sync and CD playback.
May 30, 2007
Sony introduced its updated line of NHS rack systems with support for high-definition video distribution throughout the home in a pre-built rack system. The NHS-1040, NHS-2040 and NHS-3040 feature up to 13 zones of HD video distribution and a Blu-ray disc player.
May 9, 2007
Pioneer Electronics introduces the Elite BDP-94HD.
May 9, 2007
Part of the new VAIO FZ notebook series these notebooks include a BD player/recorder.
May 2, 2007
Pioneer Electronics announces the BDC-2202, a robust Blu-ray Disc computer drive, allowing for the playback of high definition Blu-ray Disc film titles as well as the reading and writing of digital content to DVD and CD.
January 8, 2007
TDK receives an International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Award from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), in recognition of TDK 25GB BD-R Blu-ray Disc media.
January 8, 2007
Samsung Electronics unveils the BD-P1200 player.
January 7, 2007
Sony introduces the Digital Living System, a high-definition living room PC with integrated Blu-ray Disc technology.
January 07, 2007
Scheduled for launch first quarter of 2007, the “Super Multi Blue” Player will be capable of the playback of both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Model: BH100.
January 8, 2007
TDK introduces a 200GB blue laser disc technology and 8cm Mini Blu-ray Discs. \
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