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  • Poll finds that physical media is dying, HD DVD as popular as Blu-ray

    Poll finds that physical media is dying, HD DVD as popular as Blu-ray

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Blu-ray was declared the winning format last year when HD DVD threw in the towel. This victory came after major studios left the HD DVD camp and joined up with Blu-ray. But just because a victory was celebrated, that doesn't mean the format is successful. In fact, a recent Harris Interactive poll shows that many purchased an HD DVD player last year and most don't plan on buying a Blu-ray player anytime soon. This poll's results might be shocking to some outside the tech community, but it clearly shows that consumers are ready to move past physical media and onto the digital downloads. In fact, secondary polls were conducted as well and found that an overwhelming number of people are "not at all likely" to purchase a Blu-ray device within the next year and many will buy fewer DVDs within six months.

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  • CrunchDeals: Buy 2 Blu-rays, get 1 free at Barnes & Noble

    CrunchDeals: Buy 2 Blu-rays, get 1 free at Barnes & Noble

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Fellow citizens! Please be advised that BARNES & NOBLE has a Blu-ray and DVD sale that might interest you. It follows: if you buy TWO Blu-ray discs or TWO DVDs, you will receive a THIRD ONE for free. This sale covers every single title you can find in the brick-and-mortar store, which works out to some 35,000 online.

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  • LG’s HR400 Profile 2.0 Blu-ray recorder gets outed

    LG’s HR400 Profile 2.0 Blu-ray recorder gets outed

    Posted on June 1, 2009 | No Comments

    So, why can't Yanks get ahold of these Blu-ray recorders again? All pent-up rage aside, what we're looking at above is LG's yet-to-be-formally-announced HR400, a Blu-ray recorder that will evidently be aimed initially at the European market. Packing BD-Live (Profile 2.0) support, a built-in DVB-T TV tuner and YouTube compatibility, this deck also arrives with 160GB of internal hard drive space for holding OTA recordings. Heck, this thing can even play back DivX HD files, stream media clips from other places on your network and upscale DVDs to 1080p. Is all that worth €599 ($852)? We're saying no, but you and your wallet can make your own darn decisions.

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  • Amazon now accepting DVD and Blu-ray trade-ins

    Amazon now accepting DVD and Blu-ray trade-ins

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Just in case you have some DVDs or Blu-ray discs laying around, Amazon wants 'em and is willing to give you a gift card for 'em. All you have to do is head over to Amazon and print out a shipping label. The discs do have to be worth more than $10 and in good condition. They don't want your nasty-ass used discs.

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  • Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity

    Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    We're all pirates because of DRM. That's the conclusion of a new UK study—and it's a long one, coming in at 200+ pages—. The idea here is that the DRM schemes imposed by rights owners do just as good a job at restricting people who have legitimate claims to the material as it does restricting those without any claim at all.

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