Hmmmmm… time flies when you’re having fun. Or when you’re really busy with other things in the real world.
It’s been a long time since I even visited a DVD or Blu-ray related site, let alone added anything to this one.
Over the site’s 12 year history it’s had various periods of stagnation and […]

Love or hate EzyDVD it’s sad to see that that the retailer is now in receivership with trading losses of around $3 million over the last couple of years. The receivers say that the retail stores will continue to trade normally for the time being.

According to the website of budget electronics distributor Kogan, they have a region free Blu-ray player available for order from their online store. While it only supports BD Profile 1.1, being region free and relatively cheap makes it hard to beat.
In the early days of DVD it was the budget, region free players that really […]

The eventual demise of all DVD formats has been a constant theme over the last couple of years. Many people are predicting that Blu-ray has left it’s run to late for anyone to care.
Online DVD retailer EzyDVD seem to agree. They are in the process of launching a new site that will allow users to […]

Last night Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida officially announced that his company would no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players. “We concluded that a swift decision would be best,” he said.

Later this week, Toshiba are expected formally announce that they have lost the HD DVD war. An unnamed source within the company has indicated that Toshiba are currently planning their exit from the next generation DVD business. 
Since Warner’s announcement that they would drop support for HD-DVD at the start of the year, U.S. majors […]

Despite assuring the public late last year that they had no intention of abandoning the HD-DVD format, Warner has issued a press release stating that beginning May this year, they will no longer release HD-DVD format discs.
Kevin Tsujihara, President of Warners Home Entertainment Groups is quoted as saying:

“A two-format landscape has led to consumer […]

According to a recent article at Gizmodo, there’s a bit of a split in the Blu-ray camp.  It seems that Sony, Pioneer, Sharp and LG are more than happy to stick to the 1.0 Blu-ray spec for as long as possible, while Panasonic, Samsung and Denon have all moved to version 1.1 and it seems […]

Gizmodo recently reported that both Video Ezy and Blockbuster have decided to exclusively support Blu-ray DVD rentals.  Certainly not good news for the HD DDVD camp.  Makes sense though - let’s face it, with the bottom line being the rental potential any rental company is going to look every PS3 sale as a future BD […]

OK, the report was comissioned by Sony but according to the latest GfK survey Blu-ray has around 95% of the Australian HD market.
From a report at the Smarthouse News website, there were around 18,000 Bd discs sold in October 2007 vs 2,000 HD-DVD titles.