As frankps sees the world!

Fox is planning to bring my favourite TV-series, Firefly, to Blu-ray. An online rumor mill started buzzing a couple of weeks ago, after ‘Firefly’ cast member Jewel Staite revealed to an Australian convention crowd that she’d recently been contacted by Fox in regards to contributing to a new box set release of the complete ‘Firefly’ series. A Fox representative confirmed the rumor with “news travels fast”, and that the Blu-ray release currently was […] Continue reading →

My parents visited me last week, and during their stay, my dad told me that their computer had stopped working. I had put together a computer last november, and I gave it to them. Today I fetched my new computer, and put it together: MIST, 500W, ATX 2.2, 20/24 (power supply) Lian Li Miditower, Aluminium,black OCZ DDR2 4096MB Platinum XTC Dual PC2-6400 4x1024MB 800MHz LG GGW Blu-Ray writer og HD-DVD player (internal player), black, SATA Retail w/ Cyberlink software FOX+ P35A Intel P35 + ICH9 […] Continue reading →

In a new interview, Paramount’s chief technology officer offers up the most detailed explanation yet of the studio’s technical rationale for switching to HD DVD.With reports swirling that Paramount and sister studio DreamWorks received up to $150 million dollars in incentives to drop Blu-ray, Alan Bell, executive vice president and CTO for Paramount Pictures says there’s more to his company’s decision to dump Blu-ray than simply business dealings. […] Continue reading →

Untill now only Universal has been releasing their movies on HD DVD, all others have either been releasing their movies exclusively on Blue-ray (FOX and Disney) or on both formats. That led to Blue-ray outselling HD DVD. Many already thought the winner of the format war was Blue-ray. With right reason, Blu-ray title sales were outpacing HD-DVD sales by nearly a 2 to 1 margin. But out of the blue, Paramount and (sister studio) Dreamworks Animation announced (press release) that they will […] Continue reading →

On Saturday I bought my first hybrid HD DVD / DVD disc. Yes, you read correctly, and that is one of the reason why I find HD DVD superior to Blue-ray. There are two types of hybrid formats which contains standard DVD-Video format video for playback in regular DVD players, and HD DVD video for playback in high definition on HD DVD players. The Combo disc which is a dual sided disc with one side DVD and the other HD DVD, each of which have up to two layers. The Twin disc which is a single […] Continue reading →