Blu Ray Disc Archive

  • Amazon on Demand comes to ‘09 Panasonic Blu-ray players

    Amazon on Demand comes to ‘09 Panasonic Blu-ray players

    You gotta love automatic updates the bring new features to Blu-ray players. Panasonic is pushing out new firmware for its '09 Blu-ray lineup that adds Amazon on Demand to the already impressive extras of YouTube, Picasa, Bloomberg, and weather info. Oh, and that little portable Blu-ray player (BD15) also gains this ability along with the DMP-BD60, BD70V, and BD80. So once these players are graced with the update sometime today, users will have access to 45,000 SD titles and 1,000 HD titles. What's there not to love?

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  • Father’s Day CrunchDeals from Wal Mart

    Father’s Day CrunchDeals from Wal Mart

    Father’s Day is coming up, I guess, and Wal Mart is having a fire sale on gadgets and doodad’s to fill dad’s “man cave.” The savings start on June 14th and run till June 20th. Here are a few notable items that will be on sale during that time: $128 Blu-ray player, $697 42-inch LCD HDTV, $199 Palm Pre sans MIR, and a ton of other goods. Hit the jump to see the full list.

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  • BD Managed copy coming soon, but you’ll never use it

    BD Managed copy coming soon, but you’ll never use it

    We've got good news and bad news. Soon you'll be able copy your Blu-ray discs. Only once though and that's not the bad news.

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