Blu-ray Disc (BD) News

Horizon Semiconductors sets in motion next generation location-free universal HD-DVD/Blu-Ray™ decoder/transcoder SoC
Nov 19, 2007 – Horizon Semiconductors has announced the immediate availability of a System-On-a-Chip (SoC) solution enabling dual channel native 1080/60p decoding, encoding and transcoding for next generation media players/recorders supporting the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray™ optical disc formats.
News categories: Horizon Semiconductors, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, ICs, Optical Disc Recorder, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

LG Electronics Selects Broadcom® Solution for Its Second Generation Flagship Super Blu™ Dual-Format High Definition Disc Player
Nov 7, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that its highly integrated Blu-ray Disc®/HD DVD system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution has been selected by LG Electronics to power its dual-format Super Blu™ BH200 high definition disc player.
News categories: Broadcom, LG, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, HD-DVD, Semiconductor

JupiterResearch Finds HD DVD and Blu-Ray in a Futile Format War
Oct 29, 2007 – JupiterResearch cautions that the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is not only causing confusion among consumers, but it will result in major challenges for manufacturers as they seek to stimulate mainstream adoption of either.
News categories: JupiterResearch, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, HD-DVD, Market Research

Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD in U.S. for first 9 months
Oct 24, 2007 – Blu-ray DVD titles outsold rival HD-DVD titles by almost 2-to-1 in the first nine months of the year, but analysts expect additional HD-DVD support and new hit releases to "transform" the high-definition DVD battle score in the fourth quarter.
News categories: Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, HD-DVD, Market Research, USA

Sigma Media Processor is Adopted by Samsung's New Third Generation Blu-ray Player
Oct 18, 2007 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced that its highly integrated SMP8634 media processor was selected by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to power its third generation Blu-ray player, the BD-P1400.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Semiconductor

CyberLink Power2Go 6 Offers Drag-and-Drop Data Burning for Windows® Vista™
Oct 3, 2007 – CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW) has announced the release of CyberLink Power2Go 6, the all-media disc burning software.
News categories: CyberLink, Blu-ray, DVD, HD-DVD, Software, Streaming

ArcSoft Announces Support for Intel® Clear Video Technology
Oct 3, 2007 – ArcSoft has announced that ArcSoft Digital Theatre™ now implements support for Intel® Clear Video Technology. Digital Theatre is a breakthrough software application for video playback, including Blu-ray, HD DVD, and AVCHD.
News categories: ArcSoft, Intel Corp, Blu-ray, DVD, HD-DVD, Semiconductor, Streaming

ArcSoft Demonstrates High Definition Solutions at CEATEC Japan
Oct 2, 2007 – ArcSoft, Inc is demonstrating ArcSoft Digital Theatre™ and ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Extreme this week at CEATEC Japan 2007 in cooperation with Jungle, Japan's leading retail software developer and publisher.
News categories: ArcSoft, Jungle, Blu-ray, DVD, HD-DVD, Japan, Media Player, Software, Streaming

Panasonic Achieves the World-first Application of 45-nm System LSI Technology into Consumer Electronics
Oct 2, 2007 – Panasonic has achieved a world-first by applying a 45-nm system LSI to consumer electronics. The new LSI is used for six new models of Panasonic's new DIGA-series high definition video recorders, scheduled for release in November 2007.
News categories: Panasonic, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, ICs, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Set Top Box