01/09/2008 | Posted by Stephane Dion
As CES begins to wind down we are still poking around to find new products which fit our lustful next-gen optical disk needs. One which seems to fit the bill while straddling both sides of the cold war is the innovative new Buffalo Technology MediaStation Blu-ray HD DVD. This external player combo is set to price at around $650.
Buffalo has said the MediaStation Blu-ray HD DVD will let one both read and write Blu-ray content as well as allowing for HD DVD playback. It has an external USB connection to connect to a computer and comes with Nero software for playback and burning.
Learn more about this new Buffalo product after the jump.
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03/15/2007 | Posted by Stephane Dion
What a nice surprise for HD DVD fans! Toshiba has started shipping the PA35-30U-1HD1, an external USB 2.0 HD DVD drive. It’s not even all that expensive, either, appearing on online stores like Newegg for $370.
The drive can also burn CDs and DVDs (single- and dual-layer). HD DVD speed is only 1x but you will get 4x to DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW, 16x to CD-R, 10x to CD-RW, 2.4x to DVD+R DL, 2x to DVD-R DL, and 3x to DVD-RAM.
The PA35 delivers 7.1 channels of hi-res audio.
The Blu-ray camp is going to be jealous about that one. At least for a while.
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11/28/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
The hack seems to be as simple as finding a generic HD-DVD drive driver, then getting PowerDVD or WinDVD with the HD-DVD upgrade on, then plugging in the drive over USB and sticking a disc in. Hardly rocket science!
Presumably, you could even remove the drive from the casing and plug it directly into your PC over SATA, mounting it in a spare drive bay and earning some serious kudos.
The guys from uneasysilence were able to hack the new HD DVD drive from Microsoft Xbox. Using the Cyberlink PowerDVD software you can have the cheapest HD PC on the market right now. They also have lot of about the hack. I think Microsoft should send hacking documentation with their future products. Each they are releasing a new product, hacks are on the market faster and faster. Enjoy!
via bit-tech.net
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10/12/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
Simple but good! The ad gets the point across that you can see six times as many dancers on your screen if you watch movies on HD DVD vs regular DVD. Ready to buy your HD DVD drive?
10/04/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
Samsung announced an HD-DVD notebool, with a Core Duo T25000, a 17” display with a 1920x1200 resolution, a nice GeForce 7600 graphic card (GDDR3 256MB), an HDMI output, S/PDIF, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, SRS 3D… and of course an HD-DVD player. These notebooks go for a bit more than $3800.
Source : akirabahanews
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10/04/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
Here’s the Toshiba slim HD DVD optical drive for laptops. The SD-L902A measures 12.7-millimeters in height and integrates a blue laser that can read and write to HD DVD-R, access HD DVD-ROM media and act as a multi-drive to read and write to to DVD and CD discs.
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10/01/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
HP is rolling out several HD DVD-based products for the 2006 holiday season. One of them is the HD100 external HD DVD drive (see picture), connecting via USB 2.0, it's a 2x HD DVD reader plus DVD and CD playback. Cyberlink's PowerDVD HD DVD Edition software is included for HD DVD playback. If you're looking to buy a whole new system -- which you'll probably need -- the HP Pavilion m7600n Series PC includes Windows XP Media Center Edition, Intel Viiv technology, HD DVD drive, built-in NTSC tuner and 7.1 surround sound capabilities. For HD on the go, there's always the Pavilion dv9000t laptop with an optional HD DVD and DVD burning drive, 17-inch 1440x900 LCD, HDMI out, 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GPU.
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09/27/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
Just like we expected, Microsoft is shipping their Xbox 360 HD DVD external drive for $199.99 in the US (€199.99 in Europe and £129.99 in the UK). The package comes with Peter Jackson's King Kong and the Xbox 360 Universal Remote. The drive is expected to hit shelves on November 17th in Japan, while Microsoft is targeting mid-November for the US and Europe.
09/14/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
According to Digitimes and Newlauches.com, Microsoft is currently working on a new version of the Xbox 360. The new unit would be equipped with an internal HD DVD drive. Microsoft is currently selecting a manufacturer for the drive. The new version could be available in the first half of 2007.
This looks like a defensive move by Microsoft after the announcement by Sony that the PS3 would be equipped with an internal Blu-ray drive.
Microsoft is expected to launch an external HD-DVD drives for its Xbox 360 at a retail price of US$200 by Christmas of this year.
08/15/2006 | Posted by Stephane Dion
According to Digitimes Microsoft will launch external HD-DVD drives for its Xbox 360 at a retail price of US$200 by Christmas of this year, and Taiwanese games developers and gaming services providers indicated this is a smart marketing strategy as compared with Sony's adoption of built-in BD drives for its PlayStation 3 (PS3).
External drives have more flexibility than built-in models, the companies pointed out, while adding that despite BD having a much larger storage capacity than HD-DVD, pre-installation of BD drives may decrease the market competitiveness of PS3 units.
Microsoft adopted HD-DVD instead of BD mainly because HD-DVD is compatible with existing DVD formats while also having much lower production costs, the Taiwanese companies noted.
As CES begins to wind down we are still poking around to find new products which fit our lustful next-gen optical disk needs. One which seems to fit the bill while straddling both sides of the cold war is the innovative new Buffalo Technology MediaStation Blu-ray HD DVD. This external player combo is set to price at around $650.
