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12th
March 2008
Panasonic launch in the UK their first bitstream out capable player
the
DMP-BD30 and also announce the
DMP-BD50
which has onboard decoding and BD-LIVE
25th July 2007 Denon announce
the first Blu-Ray Profile 1.1 players with True-HD and DTS-HD bitstream out.
The all singing all dancing
DVD-3800BD
and the cut-down transport
DVD-2500BT
24th July 2007 Sony announce
a new firmware (1.9) for the PS3 that will enable you to force 1080p/24fps
output
17th July 2007 The following
titles are out or are coming to Blu-Ray in the UK from Tartan Video:
25 June - Labyrinth of Passion; Red Shoes
16 July - Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
23 July - Sleeping Dogs
13 Aug - Ballad of Narayama; The Bow; Taxidermia; Sawdust & Tinsel; The
Devil's Eye; Eisenstein vol 1
27 Aug - Fast Food Nation; 10 Sept - Invisible Waves; Bright Future
24 Sept - Haxan; Breaking News; Duel Project; Seventh Seal (50th
Anniversary, remastered edition)
November 2006 Blu-Ray
is now out in the UK. Samsung and Panasonic launch their players
DMP-BD10.
Interestingly some of the titles launched in the USA (Region A) play fine in
the (UK Region B) players.
We tested Lord or War and The Fifth Element. (The Panasonic machine can also
be made multi region for DVD's)
We also took one of the BD10's apart and tried the drive in a PC and it
appears to be a Panasonic SW-5582 Blu Ray Burner although it's firmware
doesn't seem to allow you to write anything to a BD-RE blank disc.
6/Sept 2006  We
Visit the Berlin IFA 2006 Trade show and take many pictures of Blu-Ray
paraphernalia Click Here
to See the pictures
29/March 2006 AV Land (UK)
have details about the new Panasonic Blu-Ray disc Player, the
DMP-BD10
29/March 2006 The Register
(UK) has an
article about ULEAD dropping support for Blu-Ray in it's DVD authoring
software just 7 days after launch. (me thinks they still have some beta
testing to do)
12/March 2006 Panasonic Blu
Ray Disc blank media can now be ordered, see
AV Land (UK)
dual layer 50GB blanks cost £20 GBP (I'm sure they will drop in time)
03/March Sony launch the
worlds first production blu-ray disc recorder ($4000 USD) the
BDZ-S77 no sign
of any regional coding, but it's still earlier days with no pre recorded
media announced
11/Sept
Some pictures
1.
2. of a working prototype of a Sony
Blu Ray recorder with a close up of a BRD disc with
6 films on it at DVD quality!!!
1/Aug
(Been busy folks) As Philips are handling the licensing for Blu-Ray
here is their take on the Blu-Ray Disc specs
1/Aug
Two new DVD recorders from Panasonic hit the streets soon
DMR-E30
(DVD-R/DVD-RAM) and the
DMR-HS2
(DVD-R/DVD-RAM/40GBHDD) as the price of DVD-R falls, so the prospect of
Blu-Ray hardware gets ever closer
1/Aug Edward
posts a link to a Philips research site in to a
1" 1GB blue laser prototype looks cool lets hope it is supported
by the Blue Ray Disc Forum and Philips don't decide to go it alone like they
did with DVD+RW
12/April
Some news at last, Panasonic announces a tool for making
BRD lenses the news is from cdrinfo.com
25/Feb
We travel to the UK's Bristol Sound and Vision show in search of more
prototype BRD recorders but only came back of this picture of
blue vandalised push bike
still attached to a lamppost with a D-Lock
21/Feb Please Blu-Ray don't be a region coded farce like DVD
and don't be a format that prevents the digital copying/duplication of the
users own material EG camcorder footage
20/Feb A
German news article about Blu-Ray discs from
Bernd at
www.instantinfo.de
20/Feb
Andy posts some
more
UK coverage of the new format from
www.r2-dvd.org
20/Feb
James emails us with this more accurate
article from an
Australian news website
20/Feb
CNN offers the worst coverage seen to date, by continually referring to
this new format as "DVD"
DOH! Stupid! we all know it's a "CD" really, just like DVD is:-)
20/Feb We successfully secure
our new domain name www.blu-ray.org to
replace www.dvr-blue.co.uk
19/Feb
An English press release from Matsushita Japan (Panasonic to you and me)
and a piccy of a prototype
19/Feb El-Reg
in the UK supply's the basics
19/Feb
The BBC picks up on the official agreement of Blu-Ray Disc
19/Feb a machine translation of Sony Japan's
Japanese press release
19/Feb Blu-Ray/DVR-Blue Website is born after many months of delay
Wahoo, Yippee, Celebrations over, now lets try and find you something
interesting to read about blu-ray |
