[ This sponsored article was written by IDG Creative Lab, a partner of Macworld, and not by Macworld’s editorial staff. ] Blu-ray movies deliver an amazing viewing experience, with stunning image quality, advanced audio features, and awesome special features that let you control playback and access additional content while you’re watching your movie.
If you thought Netflix and iTunes would make optical discs a thing of the past, think again. Facebook has built a storage system from 10,000 Blu-ray discs that holds a petabyte of data and is highly energy-efficient, the company said Tuesday. Facebook said last year that it was exploring Blu-ray for its data-center storage needs, and on Tuesday it showed a prototype system at the Open Compute …
Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner – with its ability to play movies, back-up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players – a highly sought-after system component.
You spent years collecting your favorite movies on DVD, and now what? If you’re like most Americans, those bulky boxes of discs are either sitting in a box in the closet or gathering dust on a shelf. The advent of the digital age has liberated your music collection by making it easy to rip CDs for playback on your smartphone –wouldn’t you like to have the same experience with your movies …
With movies costing so much these days, we guess it should be expected that there could be some real manic depressive returns at the box office, and this year especially had some major highs and lows. read more    Â
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, because they were all sacked out watching these festive films.
But nobody cares about 3D movies anyway.
Beyond mere deleted scenes, the effort between Vudu and Sony brings extras tied to the digital nature of streaming flicks.
A reader who wishes to remain anonymous believes he has lost something he deeply values. He writes: After a recent update I switched on my Apple TV prepared to watch a movie I’d ripped from a DVD I own.
Teaser We all know movies have gotten progressively more expensive over the years, but rumors always abound as to what movies really cost, as opposed to what you read in the news. Very few people have access to a movie’s actual budget, and what gets reported in the  press is usually speculation. But for The Hobbit movies, the actual budgets have been released, and it’s a pretty staggering amount …