Turn Your iPhone Into An IR Remote
By using Bluetooth technology, the UnityRemote box takes orders from your iPhone and transmits those commands via IR to any IR device in view including your TV, cable box or satellite reciever. The app that you install on your iPhone to control IR devices not only allows you to send single commands but allows you [...]
Netflix and Samsung Blu-Ray Team Up
Netflix and Samsung recently announced that two of Samsung’s Blu-Ray players (the BD-P2550 and BD-P2500) now have the ability to stream the Netflix service. Samsung and Netflix also plan to bring the movie/tv subscription service to more of Samsung’s consumer electronics in the future. To make it happen, the Samsung Blu-ray player communicates with Netflix [...]
PS3 Games Running Via HDD
There seems to be some sketchy details released about a hack that allows you to run PS3 games via the hard drive. Hacker StreetskaterFU seems to have no trouble getting confirmation from others that this method of running Blu-ray games from the PS3 hard drive actually worked. So far it has only been reported to [...]
DIY: Blu-Ray Laser Phaser
If your a geek then you must have loved the old classic Trek episodes, the one’s with the red shirts that never made it, and what about those over sized phasers (compared to the later Trek series). Well, now thanks to Kip Kay you too can have a cool looking Star Trek phaser that emits [...]
Sub $100 Blu-Ray Drives By Xmas
Looks like we all might just have Blu-Ray drives in our PC’s come Christmas. Sony and HP have jointly said that by this coming holiday season Blu-Ray drives for desktops should be under $100. Laptop models should be about $150 OEM. This is the perfect marketing strategy for ensuring universal adoption of the Blu-Ray standard. [...]
First Sub-$200 HD DVD Player
This very well might be the nail in the coffin for Blu-Ray, the Venturer HD DVD player will be selling for $199. The SHD7000 will play back HD DVDs at 1080i, Dolby TrueHD, and will have HDMI output. Since this is the first Sub-$200 next-gen DVD player, this must just be what starts to break [...]
Asustek BC-1205PT Blu-Ray Drive
The Asustek BC-1205PT Blu-ray drive speeds up next generation DVD recording, capable of burning in data at 12X DVD+/- write, 4X DVD+/-R (dual layer) and 5X DVD-RAM speeds. This is made possible by a SATA interface that offers users with five times faster data transmission rates compared to DMA33 standards. You will be able to [...]
