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Playstation 3 Blue Ray Technology Combined

April 12th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

The Sony Playstation series of gaming units have long been a popular choice for gamers around the world. The Playstation 3 was a long anticipated upgrade to the Playstation family for gamming systems.

There are several unique features that the Playstation 3 has created for the consumers to enjoy. One of these elements is the fact that players can go on-line and play games. This way, players can connect with others that are playing the same game from around the world. Players also have the option of downloading classic Playstation and Playstation 2 games. These games cost a nominal fee and can broaden the game base of any player.

Playstation 3 Blue Ray Technology: More For The Money

The Playstation 3 blue ray technology is another asset for the gaming system. The Playstation 3 blue ray technology allows for much better graphics on this system than ever before.

In addition to the better graphics, the Playstation 3 blue ray capabilities allows for consumers to play movies that are blue ray compatible. The Playstation 3 blue ray player makes the Playstation 3 more versatile in its abilities; it’s not just for players but can also be a home entertainment unit. Many consumers like the fact that this system can be used for more than one thing and feel it is worth the price to incorporate both a gaming system and a movie compatible system.

On the other hand, many consumers have not been happy with the product. When it was first introduced, many hard core gamers, felt it was too expensive and there were not top quality games being manufactured for the system. Even thought he Playstation 3 blue ray player was built into the system, many felt it just wasn’t worth the price and were not pleased by the system itself.

Sony has listened to the consumers and produced more games in this line of gaming systems. They even lowered the price to fit with consumer’s demands. The Playstaion 3 suffered from some initially bad reviews and is working at repairing that image that was created.

Sony is working at improving the Playstation 3 and it has the potential to be the console that is in demand for many, even non-gamers. People who are interested in blue ray technology may discover that having a blue ray recorder in the system may well make the Playstation 3 the console that is desired.

Improvements will be made and the Playstation 3 will continue to be a popular choice for many.

Brand Name Trust with a Pioneer Blue Ray Player

April 10th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

One of the most trusted names in consumer electronics and home theater equipment, Pioneer now offers Blue ray players relatively cheaply, allowing consumers to rest assured that their next generation home theater experience is backed up by Pioneer’s expertise in designing top notch equipment. However, there are still many choices available to you when purchasing a Blue ray player. Do you want a stand alone player or one that fits into your PC? These options and more are available to choose from when purchasing a Pioneer Blue ray drive.

For Your Desktop

Pioneer Blue ray drives for your PC are a great way to watch Blue ray movies like 300 and Casino Royale on your computer. To get the full experience though, you’ll need a monitor that can support 1080p resolution, such as a 1080p television or computer monitor that has a resolution of 1920×1200 or 2560×1600. Even if you don’t have a monitor of that size, you can still watch movies with your Pioneer Blue ray drive, but the resolution will be scaled down. Also, many people prefer seeing images or movies at their monitor’s native resolution (the resolution that it is advertised at). While capable of displaying smaller resolutions, these are generally stretch and don’t result in nearly so good an image.

For Your Home Theater

However, many people also prefer to have stand alone Pioneer Blue ray players for their home theater. These are about the same price as the desktop 5.25” drives talked about above, but they generally feature remotes and other nice features (such as a nicer chassis) that sets them in their own class. For the home theater enthusiast, they will want a stand alone Pioneer Blue ray player, while a computer user will probably want a desktop Pioneer Blue ray drive.

When you upgrade to any new technology, you can expect to pay at least several hundred dollars, so for now a Pioneer Blue ray drive or player will run several hundred dollars with some very high end models over a thousand (though the average consumer need not be concerned with those models – they are the Ferrari’s of home theater equipment). Over the next few years, the manufacturing processes shall improve, and consumers can expect to pay less and less every single week until they reach current DVD equipment prices in a few years where players and drives can be bought for thirty or forty dollars. If you’re looking at next generation home theater equipment and want brand name trust, then you’ll want to check out Pioneer’s Blue ray equipment.

The Panasonic Blue Ray Story

April 8th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

The Panasonic Blue Ray is one interesting success story considering the controversies surrounding the technology and its number one rival – HD DVD. The great rift that was created between supporting companies of the two technologies have spurred continuous development of Blue Ray in order to stay ahead of the pack.

Panasonic Blue Ray Development

The Blue Ray disc is a high-density next generation optical disc format that primarily stores digital information. One of the main highlights is its very high storage capacity which allows several gigabytes of information unheard of before in traditional DVDs. The high storage capacity also allows high-definition video or HDV. Although Blue Ray discs were developed by the BDA or Blu-ray Disc Association, several companies including Panasonic has embraced the new technology covered by patents.

In November 2007, over 400 titles were released on Blu-Ray Disc in the United States. Some of the first titles were released in Japan. Panasonic Blue Ray has emerged as one of the top contenders in the ongoing format war as it continues to provide higher limits to consumers. The quality and definition of Panasonic Blue Ray discs is currently one of the best available.

Panasonic Blue Ray Disc Structure

Panasonic Blue Ray discs were among the first to incorporate hard-coat technologies. Panasonic also featured the 100 GB disc readable on standard Blue Ray drives. Other players and drives are said to be able to read the disc as well with some firmware updates. Panasonic uses a blue laser with a wavelength of 405 nm to read and write data. Since the cover layer is thinner and the laser beam more focused, Panasonic Blue Ray discs can then store clearer and more data. Data encoding is currently being developed to further maximize storage capacity.

The data layer of the discs is closer to the surface compared to traditional DVDs making it vulnerable to damage and weather. Panasonic then devised hard-coat enhancements to keep data safe and intact. Engineers are constantly trying to find universal specifications to merge the growing drift between Blue Ray and HD DVD. Panasonic Blue Ray discs are continuing to improve and develop to become the mainstream high-density format.

Panasonic has expanded to regions outside the United States such as Mexico. The company sees great potential in Blue Ray that it will soon become the staple media option. The company focuses on the cores of the technology namely: the layer, numerical aperture or NA and the blue laser.

Netflix Blu-ray: providing an alternative to DVD movies

April 6th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Netflix that is the largest online movie rental service in the world obviously cannot be left behind when it comes to making Netflix Blu-ray available and thus you can expect to be able to rent many such Netflix Blu-ray discs from the company that will surely not want to miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on the expected popularity of Blu-ray movie discs in the coming times. No doubt, HD DVD is very popular and is creating a lot of excitement in the home entertainment space; though as people realize the benefits of Blu-ray discs, they will queue up to also demand to rent Netflix Blu-ray as well.

In fact, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as well as others including 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and LionsGate as well as Paramount and even Consumers Electronic Show are pushing Blu-ray movies with as many as ten to twenty titles being launched concurrently, which should also make Netflix interested in stocking them, and add them to their Netflix Blu-ray offerings.

Taking Over From HD DVDs And CDs

Of course, the bulk of Netflix’s rental business still revolves around DVDs and CDs though they will nevertheless still want to push ahead with Netflix Blu-ray rentals to ensure that customers get the latest offerings in home entertainment. Of course, it will mean that the company needs to build up strong customer loyalty especially for the relatively new Netflix Blu-ray offerings. Since Netflix basically concentrates all its efforts in serving movie buffs, adding Netflix Blu-ray to their inventory of movie offerings is bound to help increase their popularity, and this has led the company to announce the addition of Netflix Blu-ray to their other offerings.

In fact, though you will find many more HD DVD movie offerings from Netflix than Blu-rays, which definitely offers better and sharper images, there is thus a pressing need to also try out Blu-ray technology albeit with a little apprehension that Blu-ray does not go the way of the Betamax that lost the war with VHS. The driving force behind Netflix Blu-ray offerings would obviously be that they wish to extend the popularity of their services, and with a view to looking ahead a decade or so, they may well benefit from offering Netflix Blu-ray movies to customers.

After all, it only means taking a small step in a totally different direction from offering HD DVDs to also offering Blu-rays and thus there is a need to provide customers that don’t know much about Blu-ray technology a means by which they can test the waters and decide for themselves how much of an improvement Blu-ray discs are as compared with HD DVDs.

Protect your Movie Library by Learning How to Backup Blue Ray Discs

April 4th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

As a new technology, Blue ray discs are more expensive than DVD’s, and although they will continue to fall in price over the next few years, you can take steps to ensure that any accidents will not deprive you of your movies. Movies are still currently around thirty dollars a piece, and by spending a small fraction of that, you can make sure that you’ll always have them. In this guide, you’ll learn how to backup Blue ray discs and keep your movie library safe and sound for years to come.

The Blue Ray Drive

You don’t need a stand alone Blue ray player. In fact, a computer drive (many new computers are being shipped with Blue ray drives, and you can also buy drives yourself to put into a free 5.25” external bay in your computer) will help you learn how to backup Blue ray discs. Unless you buy two separate drives, you’ll need to download some software (often available for free online) that will allow you to “rip” or copy the contents of the Blue ray disc to your computer’s hard drive, although you’ll want to read tutorials or manuals for the specific software you’re using to learn specifically how to backup Blue ray discs with that software.

With the contents of the Blue ray disc copied to your PC, you can insert a blank Blue ray recordable disc into your Blue ray burner and use software like Nero or any other software that can burn to Blue ray discs to do just that. There are too many different ways you might have to burn content to Blue ray discs to list here, so you’ll need to read up on the individual manuals or tutorials provided with the software once again to learn the final step in how to backup Blue ray discs.

Some problems remain with these methods though. For one, stand alone Blue ray players and the PS3 don’t necessarily support the burned formats (yet), although programs like WinDVD Blu-ray Disc Playback Software will, so you can continue to watch the burned movies on your PC (and if you have a computer Blue ray drive, chances are that that is what you’re doing anyway). Blank blue ray discs are just a few dollars a pack, and you can use them to record anything. If you have thousands of digital photos that you’ve taken over the years, you can free up hard drive space and make your computer run faster by moving all the photos onto a blank Blue ray disc for example. This process is actually pretty easy, and you can make sure damaged discs never hurt your movie library by learning how to backup Blue ray discs and potentially save yourself hundreds of dollars over the years.

Choosing Which Format in the HD Vs Blue Ray War

April 2nd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Most next generation formats come with some “format war” or another (the notable exception was DVD where the opposition to DVD was invited on board to create a single format), the biggest one in recent times being VHS against Betamax, where the former won for a variety of reasons. With the rise in sales of high definition television sets and content, two new home video formats have recently been released against one another in a new format war. Below are some points that may help you decide which format to upgrade to in the HD vs Blue ray format war.

High Def on the Rise

High definition content has been greatly rising in popularity, especially over the past two or three years as LCD and plasma television sales have absolutely skyrocketed, vastly increasing the demand for 720p and 1080p content. In the HD vs Blue ray format war, both formats are capable of displaying 1080p video. Also, they both offer many special features and bonuses, such as directly connecting to the Internet to find out more information about the movie and what went into making it. In the past in the HD vs Blue ray war, HD-DVD’s were capable of displaying more special features, but recent updates to the Blue ray format have leveled the playing field in that regard.

However, HD-DVD’s use technology which is slightly easier to produce (the equipment and the lasers don’t have to be as small), resulting in originally cheaper prices, although Blue ray has also made great strides in that department as well. In the HD vs Blue ray war, Blue ray has two aspects definitely going in its favor. First off, every Sony PS3 comes with support for playing Blue ray discs. What is considered the direct competitor for that gamer market segment, the X-Box 360, only has an addition HD-DVD player which is not required to play X-Box 360 games but costs additional money. With built in support, the PS3 has helped Blue ray climb out on top over HD-DVD. Also, Blue ray discs can hold 50 Gb of data as opposed to 30 Gb for HD-DVD’s. While Blue ray has most of the exclusive titles from major studios, HD-DVD still has about 30% of the exclusive titles, making people cautious about upgrading and slowing down adoption rates. However, the HD vs Blue ray war is expected to be finished over the next year or two.

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