September 2, 2007 Officially announced just a month ago in Japan, Hitachi’s Blu-ray disc camcorders were one of the big hits at IFA this week. The camcorders use the world's highest resolution 5.3 ...

From a manufacturing standpoint, one of the banes of Blu-ray Disc’s existence has long been the muddled licensing process. To incorporate the Blu-ray Disc format–as well as the CD and DVD formats–into ...

Physical media has been making a comeback in recent years, with 4K Blu-rays leading the charge as the most popular option available. Pretty much every major ...

A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment are easing the transition from DVD to Blu-ray with the announcement it will release dual-format discs containing both Blu-ray and DVD versions of some of its films ...

A math problem for 21 st Century grade school student might look like this: At 25 GB per layer, how many layers would it take to provide a Blu-ray disc with a 400 GB capacity? The answer is 16 layers ...

CNET examines on the ongoing problem of disc compatibility on Blu-ray players, and why it's something reviews won't always catch. Matthew Moskovciak Senior Associate Editor / Reviews - Home theater ...

A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency. Stephen Tomkinson of NCC Group, a ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today it has finalized the specification for 3-D content on Blu-ray discs, meaning games, movies, and television series will soon be able to be viewed on 3-D ...

The Blu-ray Disc is a specification of the Blu-ray Disc Association that uses one of three video codecs (H.264, MPEG-2, VC-1) and one of several audio codecs (AAC, MP3, etc). In 2005, a group of ...

Who knew about Blu-ray discs? One of the best ways to store high-definition movies and television shows because of their high-density data storage, Blu-ray discs also improve the performance of solar ...