"blu-ray" news, interviews, and features

News about blu-ray

• Sony cranks up optical disc storage to 3.3TB

  The company also announces new disc drives to support the 3.3TB optical discs

• Sony VAIO Z Series hands-on: The ultimate ultraportable laptop for corporate users

  It's impossibly thin and light and can run for up to 13 hours

• Quickflix to succeed Telstra BigPond DVD rental service

  DVD rental subscription company to inherit a library of movie discs and equipment from the soon-to-be dumped Telstra DVD rental business

• Sony's Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity app launched

  Cloud-based, digital music service available for Android platforms in A/NZ

• Blu-ray continues to thrive, in spite of streaming threat

  New information from the Blu-ray Disc Association, Digital Entertainment Group, indicates healthy growth for disc format.

• Hitachi-LG prototypes 1TB Blu-ray cartridge storage

  The system is intended for archive storage of video files and could be here in 2011

Features about blu-ray

• Blu-ray drives in PCs? Fuggetaboutit

  Michael Yang, an iSuppli senior analyst, says that consumers can't find a compelling reason to pay extra for a Blu-ray drive

• Blu-Ray, I hardly know ye

  Poor consumer education could be Blu-ray's downfall in the market