Warner Home Video through their WBShop.com website has announced that they will now allow HD DVD owners to exchange their old Warner HD DVDs for the Blu-ray version. This may be the last chance for owners of the now defunct high definition format to salvage some worth from their film libraries before sacrificing the [...]

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Blu-ray Disc titles are now selling for less than the cost of a single movie ticket. Amazon is offering hundreds of Blu-ray titles at half their normal prices for the next two weeks, with some going for as little as $10. With Blu-ray adoption expected to explode in 2009 (for hardware advice, [...]

Washington, D.C. (February 5, 2009) — Research firm SNL Kagan said yesterday that the Blu-ray high-def disc will capture a 60 percent market share of home video sales by 2014.
The company added that the high-def format will take a whopping 74 percent market share by 2017.
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21 is a sure bet: Kate Bosworth, Jim Sturgess and Kevin Spacey star in the movie, currently in the top five on Netflix.

We may have less money, but we’re no less impatient.
Flying in the face of the struggling economy, movies-by-mail service Netflix announced Tuesday that [...]

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Washington, D.C. (January 29, 2009) — Netflix said this week that it ended the fourth quarter with 700,000 Blu-ray subscribers, a sharp jump from the previous quarter.
The online DVD rental service said it had roughly 500,000 Blu-ray subscribers at the end of the third quarter. But the company increased that total despite [...]

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A year since HD DVD conceded defeat at last CES, Blu-Ray and its backers will be touting their so-called success at this year’s CES, but the reality is far from it. As numbers point out, very few consumers know about Blu-Ray, and those who do still do not see enough value for [...]

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High-Definition TVs are now in more than 30 million U.S. homes and that number continues to rise. This makes the high-def audience a prime target for HD-related companies.
And when businesses are in highly competitive category, such as high-def, they will tend to be more aggressive in marketing campaigns designed to win over [...]

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A top Sony executive is suggesting that the high price of Blu-ray high-def discs is slowing consumer acceptance of the new home video format.
In an interview with Reuters, Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, said Blu-ray player sales will likely fall short of forecasts this year. While many analysts have said dropping [...]

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is bundling a form of copyright protection software into new MacBooks that has some buyers up in arms. Called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), the technology prevents MacBook owners from playing movies they’ve purchased through iTunes on many external monitors, TVs or projectors—meaning they’re stuck watching flicks they’ve paid [...]