ghacks Technology News

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

HD Video Authoring Software multiAVCHD

HD video authoring software multiAVCHD has been designed to author AVCHD, Blu-Ray, HD DVD, SD-Video, to transfer DVD backups without re-encoding into Blu-Ray or AVCHD format, to watch Blu-Ray disk backups without re-encoding in their Playstation 3 or to create a 1080p menu for up to 252 different files of various formats including MPEG2, Quicktime [...]

Tags: , , , , , ,
Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

DVD Identifier

Many DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray writers work best with blank media from a specific manufacturer. One could argue that it is only a matter of looking at the label of the blank media to find out about the manufacturer but the information presented there is not always reliable. It can happen that the brand name [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Blu-Ray hardware sales figures drop in 2008

The format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is finally over and one would have thought that this would have a positive effect on Blu-Ray sales especially from the customer group that decided to wait and see which side would win the war. Now that HD-DVD lost the format war it should have been clear that [...]

Tags: , , , ,
Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 25th, 2008
  • Comments: None

No HD DVD Players for XBOX 360 anymore

The high definition format war is almost over with Blu-Ray winning the field. Microsoft was supporting the HD DVD format by offering the HD DVD player add-on for their XBOX 360 gaming system. In an announcement made today they made clear that HD DVD will be pulled as add-ons for the XBOX 360 as well.

Tags: , , ,
Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 16th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

HD DVD is throwing the towel

With more and more companies announcing to go Blu-Ray exclusive it is only a matter of time until Blu-Ray will be announced the winner of the battle of the high definition war. I really could care less which format wins the race because I have no intention to purchase either of them in the near future but if you plan to purchase a HD player you probably should buy a Blu-Ray player.

Tags: , , , ,
Categories: Hardware, Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

The HD war is not over yet

If you thought that the HD war was over with the switch of Warner Studios from supporting both HD formats to just Blu-Ray then you might want to observe the market a little bit longer. The effect that Warner has left the HD DVD supporters will not be visible to consumers later this year when the contract expires (May 2008). From then on Warner will only release movies on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Categories: Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 5th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray Next Round

I don’t know how you feel about the ongoing format war between HD-DVD and Blue-Ray but I’m sick and tired to hear which company is backing up which format and which format is doomed because of this move. Today the news hit the Internet by storm that Warner is going Blue-Ray exclusive and everyone was asking the question if this was the end of HD-DVD losing another major movie studio.

Tags: , , , , ,
Categories: Music and Video

© 2005-2009 Ghacks.net. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - About Us