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$300 off Panasonic HDTV, blu-ray player at Amazon

Amazon is offering a great deal for anyone who is looking to purchase a new HDTV or a blu-ray player. At Amazon, when customers purchase a Panasonic Plasma HDTV with the Panasonic BD-35 Blu-ray player, they will receive a $300 instant rebate. Amazon has several Panasonic HDTVs to choose from in a variety of sizes. [...]

Sub-$200 Blu-ray disc players coming soon?

Sources have told Blu-ray.com that one of the major Blu-ray player manufacturers will be offering a Blu-ray player for less than $200 this holiday shopping season. We’ll most likely see this deal during “Black Friday”, after Thanksgiving sale. The players expected to go on sale will most likely be entry-level BonusView (v1.1) players that most [...]

Another lawsuit awaiting for Sony Corp.

I guess putting the Blu-ray player in the Playstation 3 just opened up Pandora’s box for Sony Corp. Another lawsuit has been filed against Sony Corp. over its use of the blu-ray player in the Playstation 3. The company that is suing Sony Corp. is called Orinda Intellectual Properties, a company based out in California. [...]

HD deal: Amazon has even more deals on Blu-rays

Looks like Amazon has done it again, they’re offering yet another sale on Blu-ray movies. These aren’t bargain bin movies either, some of them are classics and many of them rather new. This is looking like a good week for those looking to upgrade to HD with this new wave of Blu-ray disc sales and [...]

Philips demonstrating 3d Blu-ray player at IFA

Philips announced that they will be showing off their new 3D Blu-ray technology at IFA in Germany. We reported a while back that 3D may be the future of Blu-ray and now it looks like that may be true. They will be showcasing a 2D-plus-Depth Blu-ray player that can display 3D content and stereoscopic that [...]

Is 3D the future of Blu-ray?

Pretty interesting news, it seems The Blu-ray Disc Association is seeing pressure from Hollywood studios to embrace plans for 3-D movies. Many see that Blu-ray technology is the way true 3-D movies in the home will eventually be delivered. Analyst are expecting to see 3-D movies in homes by 2011, we’ll see how true this [...]

Samsung’s newest Blu-ray player hits store shelves

The Samsung BD-P2550 just hit store shelves without a fancy pre-release news stage or pre-party like many other electronic gadgets get. The new Samsung Blu-ray player is available at stores and on Best Buy’s webstore. The Samsung BD-P2550 features Ethernet and USB2.0 ports to be used in firmware upgrades or to connect with other devices [...]

Blu-ray $10 rebate from Paramount

Paramount is going to be offering a $10 rebate on select Blu-ray titles if customers upgrade to Blu-ray editions. The promotion from Paramount will start September 2 with the release of Transformers on Blu-ray. To take advantage of this program owners of the DVD versions owners must mail in the coupon and proof-of-purchase included [...]

HDTVs to include built-in Blu-ray players?

An interesting article was posted on CEPro brought up an interested question, are built-in Blu-ray players the future? Blu-ray disc sales have been increasing a lot lately and it seems like there are new stand alone Blu-ray players hitting the market every week. The author makes some very good points. One being that companies [...]

Blu-ray Driving HDTV and PC Sales

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) says that a new study from IMS Research shows that households without HD video broadcasts will start switching from analog to digital with a increase 90% a year till 2013. The study also shows that Blu-ray disc drives on PCs are expected to grow by 117% a year till 2013 [...]