October 22, 2012
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Pioneer announced a new Blu-ray drive this week. The BDR-2208 will be the fastest drive available on the market—an internal 15x Blu-ray burner—and offers small businesses a cost-effective means of backing up and archiving important data.
After a three-year wait, ‘Avatar’ is finally available in 3D on Blu-ray. (Credit: 20th Century Fox ) It was almost three years ago that “Avatar” debuted in cinemas, and today eager fans can finally do what they wanted to do when it first came out on Blu-ray: watch it in 3D at home
After a three-year wait, Avatar is finally available on Blu-ray 3D (Credit: 20th Century Fox ) It was almost three years ago that Avatar debuted in cinemas, and today eager fans can finally do what they wanted to do when it first came out on Blu-ray: watch it in 3D at home. The reason you couldn’t buy it on 3D Blu-ray until now? Panasonic bought the exclusive rights for the 3D version for …
This is a good week for animation on Blu-ray. You get on of the summer’s better animated titles, and some classic Looney Tunes action. You also get one of the year’s best films and one of the best shows on television, along with some pretty bad summer movies
A “handful†of additional library titles are getting the 3D treatment.
New DVD releases this week include the good, the bad and the ugly.
If you’ve been using MakeMKV to rip Blu-ray movies to your hard drive, you may have noticed that the resulting MKV movies can be very, very large. If you want to reduce the size of those files without manually stepping through a lengthy and rather complex demuxing, transcoding, and remuxing process—or even looking those words up—downloading RipBot264 is the order of the day
MakeMKV ($50, 30-day free trial) has a simple little name, and there’s no big trick to transcoding a video from one container format to another. If that were all this utility did, it would be worthwhile, but boring. The discussion gets more interesting when you consider its ability to rip DVDs and (in the full, paid version) Blu-ray movies to your hard drive.
This slim, USB-powered burner makes a perfect travel companion for laptops that lack an optical drive. Originally posted at The Cheapskate