If you were thinking about buying a Dark Knight Trilogy Blu-Ray set, check this out. This could be the Dark Knight Trilogy Blu-ray Ultimate Collector’s Edition box set. And it is awesome. This amazing edition is expected to go on sale sometime in the third quarter of this year.
In addition to revealing the pricing and availability of its Ultra HD 4K televisions, Toshiba has announced that it has received 4K Image Certification from Technicolor, making it the first maker of Blu-ray players to have done so. The first of its devices to be certified under this is the BDX6400 Symbio Media Box and
Now that its bigger brother Blu-ray has stolen the spotlight, paltry 4.7 GB DVDs have slowly started to fade into obscurity. But could they be poised for a comeback? A trio of Chinese scientists have discovered a breakthrough process that could, at least in theory, allow a DVD to store a whopping 1,000 TB—or a full petabyte—of data. Suck on that, Blu-ray.
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Pioneer has outed its latest Blu-ray deck, the BDP-160, seemingly targeted at those torn between high-res physical media and the convenience of digital downloads. The WiFi-toting player supports not only Full HD Blu-ray playback, but uses WiFi Direct to stream content from a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, including support for YouTube’s “Send to TV” function
Sharp is releasing the blu-ray disk recorder “AQUOS Blu-ray BD-SP1000″ with “Sky Perfect TV Premium” tuner built-in on June 29. Just by connecting it to a TV, you will be able to start watching and recording more than 170 channels.
“Smartphone Remote Yoyaku (timer recording)” function could be very useful. Once you install the dedicated application to your smartphone, you can set recording times when outside the home.
Recorded programming can also be wirelessly sent to smartphones for mobile viewing, and the unit can be easily controlled wirelessly through your smartphone.
Price: open price
Size: 430×236×58mm
Weight: 3.5kg
HDD capacity: 1TB
Hulu Plus has been on a roll in the mobile world this month, dishing out a brand-new Windows Phone app and updates to its Android UI. Fortunately, the service is pushing out similar efforts to the home entertainment side as well: a new refresh is rolling out to Samsung Smart TVs, select Blu-ray players and newer Roku hardware, with the Wii getting the update treatment in the near future. Enhancements in the new “experience” include a new tray-style user interface with a “shows you watch” feature, simplified controls, better search and Hulu Kids. Sounds like a pretty solid effort by the company, but if you’re not convinced, head to the source link for the full list of changes.
Update: A post on the Roku blog indicates the new UI is coming to the Roku HD (2500) and later models including the Roku 2, 3 and Streaming Stick. Earlier devices will still get the old UI.
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Pioneer is releasing a built-in blu-ray disk player sound system – “MCS-434″ – in late June. It’s a set of 1 blu-ray disk receiver, 2 front speakers, center speaker, 2 sound speakers, and remote control.
It features Pioneer’s original virtual sound field technology called “Virtual 3D Sound”.
“MCS-434″ plays CDs, DVDs, blu-ray, and blu-ray 3D. Since it’s compatible with DLNA and Wi-Fi and has 4 HDMI terminals and 2 USB terminals built-in, it can play internet content and can connect to different kinds of devices like game devices, USB memory, smartphone, iPhone/iPad etc.
Body:
430 mm × 63 mm × 349 mm, 3.1kg
Front/Surround speaker:
95 mm × 80 mm × 90 mm, 0.4kg per 1 speaker
Center speaker:
230 mm × 80 mm × 90 mm, 0.7kg
Sub woofer:
130.5 mm × 420 mm × 375 mm, 4.4kg
Star Trek: Into Darkness has just hit theaters with mixed reviews, but even so it is making a lot of money. Now we have some details about some new collectibles from QMx. There are Starfleet badges, the Federation flag, a Starfleet class ring, Federation ship models and a special limited-edition Amazon.com Blu-ray gift set with a pretty amazing phaser.
The phaser was designed with help from Hollywood prop master Kenney’s Custom Props and features an animatronic spinner and working power dial. It looks stunning. The stunt version of the phaser with a manual spinner will come as part of the Blu-ray set while the animatronic version will be available by itself next year.
You can pre-order it now for $79.99(USD). That should make some Trek fans very happy to get the Blu-Ray disc. Hit to QMx check out more of the cool new collectibles.
[via Nerd Approved]
Microsoft has confirmed what many saw as inevitable: the Xbox will have a Blu-ray drive. The company just announced the victor in the drive wars will be installed as a slot-loading front unit in each new Xbox One to provide entertainment and gaming input along with a 500GB HDD, a 360-degree switch from Redmond’s last console, as it were. Microsoft heavily resisted the move to Blu-ray in the Xbox 360, but has caved to the inevitable, no doubt having come to an agreement with Sony, Panasonic and Philips (the owners of the tech), through gritted teeth.
Pioneer is releasing “BDP-3120-K/W” – a compact Blu-ray disk player compatible with several different playing formats.
It is able to play smartphone/PC contents, BD-R/RE(BDAV), DVD (AVCREC/VR mode/ CPRM), AVCHD images. Also, JPEG, MP3, WMA, WMV, FLAC, MKV etc files saved in USB memory can be playable. It can play the same files as “BDP-160″ except MPO.
Release date: May
Size: 360 mm x 39 mm x 208 mm
Weight: 1.2 kg
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