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Review: The Dark Knight Blu-ray Disc [Batman]
gizmodo.com - 12/9/2008
Review: The Dark Knight Blu-ray Disc [Batman]
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I don't claim to think that I can in any way influence your purchase of The Dark Knight on Blu-ray ($24) or DVD ($15/$21). I fact, I don't really want to. I could care less if you buy it, rent it or stomp any loose copies you spot at the store. But to me, the 3-disc Blu-ray set (2 discs of ...
Blu-ray's Dark Knight: 600K Sold On 1st Day
tvpredictions.com - 12/11/2008
Blu-ray's Dark Knight: 600K Sold On 1st Day
— tvpredictions.com — Click TVPredictions.com to see today's Swanni Sez. © TVPredictions.com ______________________________________________________ Phillip Swann is president and publisher of TVPredictions.com. He has been quoted in dozens of publications and broadcast ... (more) Blu-ray's Dark Knight: 600K Sold On 1st Day

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Sharp To Unveil TVs With Integrated Blu-ray Players Next Month
blog.wired.com - 12/16/2008
Sharp To Unveil TVs With Integrated Blu-ray Players Next Month
— blog.wired.com — The Blu-ray format has yet to blow up in a wave of success, but Sharp Electronics is betting that a Blu-ray-TV combo design will boost its sales and bring the company some needed buzz. According to Sharp executive Mike Troetti, the company ... (more) Sharp To Unveil TVs With Integrated Blu-ray Players Next ...

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Amazon giving away “The Dark Knight” with purchase of DVD or Blu-ray
gadgetell.com - 12/10/2008
Amazon giving away “The Dark Knight” with purchase of DVD or Blu-ray
— gadgetell.com — Section: Video , Content , Video Providers , Web , Downloads , Web 2.0 , Websites , Online Music/Video If you picked up “The Dark Knight” from Amazon.com, you’ll get to watch the movie using Amazon Video on Demand for free ... (more) Amazon giving away “The Dark Knight” with purchase of ...

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$199 Not the Magic Blu-ray Price After All [Blu-Ray]
gizmodo.com 12/1/2008 — The general consensus, among experts, analysts and other blowhards has long been that when Blu-ray players legitimately hit $199, the format would finally go mainstream. Well, $200 Blu-ray players are all over the place for Christmas, even Sony's ...
Pioneer Parades 400GB Optical Disc
ubergizmo.com 12/1/2008 — Think your Blu-ray disc is the bomb? Well, it is time to tuck your tail between your legs as Pioneer parades its 16-layer optical disc that is able to hold a whopping 400GB worth of data. This technology owes much to Blu-ray though, although it ...
Panasonic Proposes 3D Storage, HDMI Standard For Blu-ray Discs
blog.wired.com 12/1/2008 — Panasonic is calling on the Blu-ray Disc Association to create an interface standard that will force manufacturers to store 3D images within the left- and right-eye two-channel mode on all HD content. The company is also calling for a new ...
Pioneer Unveils Its 16-layer 400GB Optical Disc
techfresh.net 12/2/2008 — If you think that the current Blu-ray disc is the best then you might be out of date because Pionner has unveiled its 16-layer optical disc that is able to store a huge 400GB worth of data. The Pioneer disk is based on Blu-ray Disc (BD) with a ...
Denon's DVD-A1UD: world's first universal (SACD / DVD-A) Blu-ray player
engadget.com 12/3/2008 — Okay, so Denon wares aren't exactly "cheap," but you can't knock it for trying to innovate. Despite that fact that about eight people on this Earth still care about their beloved SACD / DVD-Audio collections, Denon has developed a Blu-ray player ...
Glu’s The Dark Knight: Batmobile Game hits AppStore
intomobile.com 12/12/2008 — Glu Mobile and Warner Bros launched The Dark Knight: Batmobile Game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The story line is familiar. It’s your job to drive Batmobile through a series of high-powered jump sequences to get Batman through the ...
Dark Knight on Blu-Ray Shatters Iron Man's Records, Still Owned By DVD [Blu-Ray] — Gizmodo
Dark Knight sold 600,000 Blu-ray copies on its opening day alone—that's more than Iron Man , the previous #1, sold in its first week. But it still can't touch DVD. Total opening day sales were 3 million copies, meaning Blu-ray accounted for around 30% of total sales. Iron Man's record was ...
Dark Knight Sales Show You're Buying a Decent Amount of Blu-Ray [Blu-Ray] — Gizmodo
Dark Knight sold 600,000 Blu-ray copies on its opening day alone—that's more than Iron Man , the previous #1, sold in its first week. And surprisingly, Blu-ray accounted for around 20% of total sales of 3m. You guys are buying a lot of Blu! ( Iron Man's record was pretty well thrashed ...
Watch The Dark Knight Blu-ray with Christopher Nolan [Blu-Ray] — Gizmodo
Warner Bros has been trying some pretty cool, experimental stuff with their first BD Live movie , The Dark Knight . And now, that list includes watching the movie with Christopher Nolan. Those with The Dark Knight Blu-ray who've registered for Warner Bros' free Blu-ray accounts have the ...
Poll: Are you going to buy The Dark Knight — CrunchGear
I can’t tell you the last DVD/Blu-ray I purchased. It might have been the Matrix years ago, but I’m going to run out and buy The Dark Knight Blu-ray in a few minutes. I don’t know what it is, but I want that disc. Maybe I wanna be in on the best selling title of all time ...
The Dark Knight on iTunes 2008 top download list before it’s actually available — CrunchGear
The Dark Knight home release will not be available until next Tuesday, December 9th, but that hasn’t stopped the cash cow flick from hitting iTunes Top Downloads of 2008 . No telling if the film actually earned that spot with the amount of pre-orders or if Apple placed the film there ...
The Dark Knight pushes Blu-ray past DVD sales of The Matrix — TECH.BLORGE.com
It is official; The Dark Knight is the fastest selling Blu-ray movie ever. Many have speculated that the movie would push Blu-ray mainstream, similarly to the way The Matrix pushed DVDs mainstream back in 1999. At this [...]
The Original Blu-ray Machine: A Map Copier [Blu-Ray] — Gizmodo
We thought Sony was clever, but here's the original "Blu-ray" device. It's a copier, duplicating large mylar maps by using ammonia and photosensitive paper to transfer the image. And here's a pile of its product: From what I can tell, a similar if not identical "blueline" machine can be used ...
HD videos download service gains Blu-ray recording in Japan — SlashGear
Look ma, it’s not fair; they got all the Blu-ray recorders in the world and now gaining permission to export downloaded HD contents directly onto Blu-ray recordable disk at its full extent. A Japan-based Tsutaya online Corp will soon become the first videos content service provider in the world ...
Panasonic DMP-BD35K 1080p Blu-ray Player — Daily Find
Panasonic DMP-BD35K 1080p Blu-ray Player is going for $244.31 and free shipping on Amazon.com. You can also take advantage of the special offer by Amazon and get $100 off on your total order when you add four Blu-Ray disks to it.
CrunchDeals: Panasonic Blu-ray player and 6 titles for $209 — CrunchGear
Blu-ray players are staring to take off thanks to killer deals like this one. Amazon is running a deal on the Panasonic DMP-BD35K with four Warner Blu-ray titles through December 13. But that alone isn’t good enough to be considered a CrunchDeal . Thankfully, Panasonic is throwing in ...
Blu-ray beats DVD for first time over in Japan — PR News:
Latest figures over in Japan have indicated that Blu-ray players have overtaken DVD players for the first time. Data was collected by GfK Retail and Technology and said these figures were during the first week of November. Fifty percent of the market share was occupied by Blu-ray players ...
Oppo’s BDP-83 megaplayer gets more detailed — CrunchGear
We saw the Oppo DVD/Blu-Ray player at CEDIA in September, and it looked great then, but details were lacking. We’ve got a lot more information now, and this versatile media player and rescaler is looking to be a real beast. It’s got the latest Blu-Ray support, a sweet upscaling ...
Yay? Blu-ray recorders now more popular than DVD recorders in Japan — CrunchGear
Blu-ray is now officially more popular than plain ol’ DVD in Japan. Wait, let me rephrase that: there are now more Blu-ray disc recorders in Japan than there are DVD recorders . More than 50 percent of disc recorders in Japan are now of the Blu-ray variety. The distinction is ...
Blu-ray Recorder Sales Surpass DVD in Japan — Wired: Gadget Lab
Blu-ray vanquished its rival HD-DVD earlier this year to emerge as the next generation standard for high definition video storage. In North America, though it continues to trail DVD as most consumers seem unwilling to trade their DVD players for a Blu-ray one. Not so in Japan. Blu-ray ...
Panasonic DMP-BD35K Blu-ray Disc Player And 6 Movies - $207 Shipped — Gadgetreview
Here’s a great Blu-ray starter gift. Get ready, because this is kind of a big offer. Get the Panasonic [DMP-BD35K] Blu-ray Disc Player and 4 Warner Movies and Ratatouille and The Nightmare Before Christmas on Blu-ray for $307 - $100 coupon (BDWARNER) + $0 S&H = $207 shipped!  ...
New releases on Blu-ray: December 9, 2008 — Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
This week brings a relatively huge number of new releases on Blu-ray, including the eagerly awaited Batman movie The Dark Knight , kid-friendly Horton Hears a Who! and cult comedy classic Super Troopers ... Tags: Blu-ray , HD , Home Entertainment Related Articles: Batman Begins now ...
Samsung to unveil 2009 Blu-ray players with Broadcom’s BCM7601 SoC — SlashGear
Coming this CES 2009, Samsung may showcase its 2009 line of Blu-ray players with Broadcom’s BCM7601 Blu-ray SoC chipset with smaller footprint and energy efficient 65 nanometer processor for the supports of Blu-ray, DVD, online content playback and HDMI 1.3 protocol. The BCM7601 is Broadcom’s ...
Mitsubishi Blu-Ray DVR and Blu-Ray Burner — Mobilewhack.com
Here is Mitsubishi's new DVR BF2000 digital video recorder! It's a pretty looking gadget and it comes with 500GB of hard disk drive space and the ability to burn Blu-ray discs and DVDs. The very good news is that you can record 2 programs at the same time, but unfortunately ...
Is Blu-ray becoming a commodity?--Ask the Editors — Crave: The gadget blog
Are all Blu-ray players created equal? "These below $200 price points are great for sales, but what happens six months from now? Will Blu-ray become a commodity?"--Matthew Just one year ago, HD DVD was selling tons of $99 players , Blu-ray players cost an unreasonable $400 or more, and ...
DVR-BF2000: Mitsubishi’s DVR With Built-in Blu-ray Burner — Gadgetreview
Mitsubishi just released their DVR-BF2000, a DVR capable of burning recorded content directly to Blu-ray or DVD. It features a 500GB hard drive, dual tuners, SD card slot, and the ability to automatically edit out commercials. Unfortunately, it’s tuner supports Japan’s ...
Denon launches universal DVD-A1UD Blu-ray player — T3.com News
Denon has launched the DVD-A1UD Blu-ray player, guaranteed to playback your Blu-ray discs and indeed, to empty your bank account. It does something else of significance too - it plays SACD and DVD-Audio discs. If you're a serious audiophile, ...
Pioneer's 1TB Blu-ray discs could work in PS3 — T3.com News
  Thought Blu-ray was stuck at a lousy 50GB? Think again; Pioneer has whipped up a selection of new prototype discs that, while not technically qualifying as Blu-ray right now , could one day be compatible with existing Blu-ray players, ...
Could it be a Blue Christmas for Blu-ray? (PC World) — Yahoo! News: Personal Technology
PC World - This holiday buying season is going to be the first big market challenge for Blu-ray. This will be Blu-ray's first holiday season as the unquestioned HD format leader, but with the economy in the state that it is, will it be able to ...