MetaFilter posts tagged with bluray

HD-DVD to Blu-Ray

Chocolate Pickle — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:47:48 -0800

Did you guess wrong about which format would win the high-density disk war? Buy a lot of HD-DVDs? Warner Brothers has a special program now where they'll swap your WB HD-DVDs for Blu-Rays of the same titles for $5 each. You don't even have to send in the disks. They want the cover art from the package as proof-of-purchase.

Akira on blu-ray

slimepuppy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:00 -0800

20 years after its cinematic debut, Akira is being released on bluray. Now would probably be a good time to do the following: Visit the official site (in Japanese). Watch the documentary (Part 1 of 5, youtube, English dub, Spanish subs) and learn, among other things, about the record-breaking colour palette that was created for the film and the intricate storyboarding process that Katsuhiro Otomo went through for the production. Read the manga (and then buy it!). Listen to the soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi (in Japanese). (buy it too!) Visit the fan sites. (previously on metafilter.) Fear the soon-to-be-release live action remake. Apologies for the copyright infringements. Excise as felt necessary.

Game over man!!! (Maybe)

The Deej — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:09:04 -0800

Has Blu-ray won the war? Toshiba has halted production of HD-DVD players and recorders. This on top of announcements by Netflix, Walmart, and Warner Bros. to not support the HD-DVD format. (It was less than a year ago that Walmart seemed to crown HD-DVD as their format of choice.) Now we can all break down and buy a Blu-ray player. Or can we?

FEELS LIKE A LASER! FEELS LIKE A LASER!

effugas — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:54:58 -0800

The LED Museum has long been the Internet's premier source of absolutely obsessive LED and Laser analysis. Going strong since 1999, Craig Johnson's amassed quite a range of test equipment. Recently, he acquired a Playstation 3 Blu-Ray Laser Module. Did he mod it? Oh yes he did. (Warning: NSFC64)