Second Update (9/30/2008): Arcsoft has released a competing product to PowerDVD Ultra called TotalMedia Theater. The main advantage to TotalMedia Theater is that it offers a plugin for Vista Media Center that works pretty well. It is not totally seamless but it is darn close. TotalMedia Theater is available for $89.
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Posted in HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, News on July 12th, 2007 No Comments »
EngadgetHD has an article on the impending release of new Blu-ray players by Samsung, the BD-P2400 and BD-P1400. It looks like Samsung is taking the next generation DVD formats seriously, with this announcement just on the heels of the dual format BDP-UP500.
The BD-P1400 in September for $549, and the BD-P2400 will be available [...]
One thing that makes media center computers different than Tivo or a cable box is the ability to archive all your DVDs on a hard drive. My Movies is a well-known plugin for Vista Media Center that catalogs your ripped movies and downlaods associated meta data from your movie files. Accessing your movies [...]
One quick way to end the high definition DVD format war is to offer a drive that plays both HD-DVDs and Blu-ray. LG has already shipped such a drive, which is available on HP’s m8010y media centers for about $500 extra. It looks like amsung is going to offer a similar dual format drive, [...]
The goal of any media center user should be to store as much content as possible digitally. The release of the next generation of DVDs, known as HD-DVD or Blu-ray, was supposed to allow a “legal” way to copy your movies to a hard drive (referred as Managed Copy). Since Managed [...]