Tag: dvd
No way?! VHS sales on the rise!
Wasn't expecting this; the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) have released their figures for the gloomy recessionary year of 2009, and while many industries were hit hard by the economic downturn, VHS sales were up from 44,377 in 2008 to 95,201…
Sony and LOVEFiLM partnership brings movie streaming to Bravia kits
Sony and LOVEFiLM have today announced an agreement that could see as many as 67,000 LOVEFiLM titles become availbe to stream directly to new Sony Bravia Internet Video TVs, Blu-ray players and Blu-ray Home Theatre kits. Unlimited LOVEFiLM subscribers will…
Gadget Helpline: The perfect gift for technophobic mums this Mother's Day
Are you the technological whizz-kid of your household? Know your component cable from your HDMI, or have reached a zen-like level of interconnectivity between all of your social networks so that half the world knows what you're doing at any…
LG launch full 3D range, including the LX9900 3D LED TV and BX580 3D Blu-ray player
LG have today unleashed their portfolio of 3D tech to the masses. From May, home cinema enthusiasts will be able to pick up the LG LX9900 Full LED 3D Ready TV and BX580 3D Blu-ray player. The LX9900 is…
Epson EH-DM3 LCD Projector – Review
Name: EH-DM3 (Epson) Type: LCD Projector Specs: Contrast Ratio: 3,000:1 Brightness: 2,000 Lumens Resolution: 540p (960×540) Connectivity: HDMI input, component, composite, D-Sub PC input, USB, digital coaxial audio output, mic input Dimensions: 127mm H x 335mm W x 239mm…
Cello launch iViewer HD TV range with built in BBC iPlayer
26" and 32" models are available. Tech Digest go hands-on.
Review: JBL Creature III 2.1 PC speakers
You could accuse JBL of slacking of late, having spent the last two years releasing only fairly standard looking speaker set ups. But with the Creature III 2.1 speakers, it seems that period of relative inactivity was spent lovingly honing this rather special audio system.
Limited edition Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen USB sticks headed to Play.com
Summer blockbusters Star Trek and Transformers Revenge of The Fallen are headed to Play.com in the shape of two limited edition USB sticks.
Cranberry develop a DVD designed to last 1,000 years
We suspect that our future-friends will be too busy with their hover cars and cyborg body-parts to care much about our quaint digital holiday snaps anyway.
GE creates 500GB holographic storage disc
It seems that every other month someone’s coming out with the prototype of a disc that can store X times more than a DVD/Blu-ray. I was actually thinking of making one myself with a stack of blank BDs and some blu-tac but then GE put together a method of storing 500GB using holographic disc storage which is much more interesting.
Instead of etching 2D patterns into the surface, holographic technology uses a three dimensional process with the disc acting like a maze of microscopic mirrors giving a depth to the optical layer where all the data is stored. GE expects them to be introduced by 2012 but the real key is, of course, how expense they will be.
Blu-rays began as $1 per GB when they first came out dropping to something closer to half that today. GE hopes these holographic discs will be 10 cents per GB, so a much more affordable $5 for the whole thing.
The thing I can’t help wondering, though, is whether there’s really a viable future in optical storage? Between SSDs and cloud computing, I was hoping to rid myself of discs by 2012.
(via NYT)