In the battle between competing next-generation optical storage formats, HD-DVD and Blu-ray have their advantages and disadvantages. HD-DVD supporters have long claimed their format was cheaper than ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Sales of consumer Blu-ray players are quickly rising, the ...

Now that Sony’s Blu-ray technology has won the high-def format war, computer manufacturers must tackle its power-hungry playback performance. Everyone's idle/Flickr Watching a Blu-ray movie in all its ...

February 27, 2009, Other World Computing (OWC), known to many of us as macsales.com, has added an 8x Blu-ray drive to the Mercury Pro external Blu-ray/SuperDrive line, which are currently the only ...

This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a list of the best technology to buy. Read the full article below at TheWirecutter.com. The $80 Samsung SE-506CB is the best external Blu-ray ...

Playing Blu-ray movies on a Mac has been a "bag of hurt" for far too long. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously complained that the licensing involved in including Blu-ray movie support in Mac OS X ...

Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent company on the Internet defends its search juggernaut while expanding into nearly anything it thinks possible. He has ...

I was looking to pick up a basic bluray reader, no burning required. I just want to play some bluray movies on it, and yes, I'm willing to do an internal, 5.25" drive. Any form factor will do, ...

With HD DVD out, manufacturers are free to release Blu-ray products without fear of the format dying. It still could and probably will, but that’s neither here nor there. Philips & Lite-on Digital ...

With Toshiba slipping out of their mourning clothes and readying a Blu-ray player, it seemed as good a time as any to check whether their erstwhile HD-DVD partner Microsoft had reconsidered their "no ...