Big news from Panasonic, Samsung and Sony: they’re teaming-up to put a stop to this silly trend of being forced into buying expensive 3D glasses that only work with one manufacturer’s 3DTV, and will use Xpand’s glasses from next year. More »
The rabble rousers at the World Wildlife Fund (they renamed fake wrestling!) have created a new, PDF-type file format called WWF. It’s a file format that CANNOT be printed out. The idea: save as WWF, save a tree. More »
Need further proof Microsoft will never adopt Blu-ray, as you clutch your HD DVD drive to your chest and sob for Microsoft’s halcyon HD format days? Xbox 360′s UK director Stephen McGill has reiterated the future is digital downloads. More »
VHS, floppy disks, cassettes, laser discs – they’re all included in these brilliantly hipster posters and T-shirts. Wear your ironic love for a dead format on your Helvetica-laden chest! More »
Mac only: QuickTime is a fairly elegant player built into Mac OS X, so why not use it? After installing the Perian component on your system, QuickTime will be able to play nearly any video you throw at it. More »
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 »
Blu-ray Discs are getting a step-up, after the Blu-ray Disc Association announced two new specs for the format – BDXL and IH-BD. There’s bad news however – you’ll need to buy a new player/recorder to use the 128GB discs. More »