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Entertainment

Look! A Na’vi Made Of 4,000 Avatar Blu-Ray Discs!

2:40PM November 18, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

How did 20th Century Fox celebrate the new Blu-ray edition of Avatar, an epic tale of love, greed, and survival set in the wondrous jungles of Pandora? They gave a housewife a buncha Blu-ray discs and said, “make a mosaic.” More »


Entertainment

The Alien Blu-Ray Egg Is The Scariest Box Set Ever

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2:09PM October 22, 2010 | Nick Broughall

We knew that Fox was releasing the Alien Anthology on Blu-ray, but did you know that it will be coming in a limited edition egg box set as well? It’s the perfect gift to scare your children to sleep all night, every night! More »


TDK’s 1TB Optical Disc Is Like 41 Blu-rays In One

11:30PM October 11, 2010 | Brian Barrett

At Ceatec Japan, TDK highlighted a 1TB capacity optical disc – enough to hold a sizeable Blu-ray collection in the palm of your hand. More »


Entertainment

Sharp Creates First 100GB Blu-ray Disc

3:00AM July 25, 2010 | Casey Chan

Thanks to nifty lasers, Sharp has created the first 100GB Blu-ray disc. The new Blu-ray format, called VR-100BR1, uses a new triple-layer standard that allows storage space of up to 128GB on single-write discs and 100GB on rewritable discs. More »


Science

Sony’s Potential Blu-ray Successor Fits An Entire Season Of TV On One Disc

12:00AM July 24, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Sony just revealed the new laser they’re developing alongside Tohoku University. Regardless of the future of physical media, the specs are astounding to consider. More »


Half A Million CDs In A Sea Of Obsolescence

7:20AM June 24, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Where do all those “1000 HOURS FREE!” AOL discs end up? Apparently at Long Knoll Park in Kilmington, England, where a group of 160 friends recently laid 600,000 discs to create CDSea, a massive waterway of obsolete media. More »


Entertainment

All You Need To Know About The First Blu-ray/DVD Hybrid Disc

11:20AM January 23, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Each side plays just fine. [The Bourne Identity (Amazon), $US15] More »


Gaming

PSP Fans Are Never Happy, With The PSPgo Set To Receive A UMD Add-On Via Logitech

4:37AM December 3, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

After being derided since, oh, 2004, the UMD is set to return to the PSPgo, albeit thanks to the peripheral guys Logitech. More »


Geek Out

Are Netflix Discs Going To Kill Me?

2:00AM November 30, 2009 | Jack Loftus

If I were to tell you that Netflix sleeves and discs were hotbeds of contamination and disease because they were handled by so many people from delivery to DVD player, you know what I’d be? A filthy liar, that’s what. More »


Entertainment

Blu-ray Will Never Become Common In Computers

9:20AM August 26, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Blu-ray is the format that’s replacing DVDs, but it appears that it arrived too late to be the last major optical format for computers. That title goes to the DVD. More »