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Blu-ray and HD DVD Burning & Playback Questions

For today’s post, we answer a question from a reader about Blu-ray burning and writing on Mac OS X computers. Pete asks:

” hi, i read your helpful comment about how you record onto your Digistor blu-ray external burner. I also have a macbook and want to  record HD media. If you would just let me know real quick

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Sony PSP2 Details Leaked

Much ado about… something, apparently. Finally, some solid details on the much-talked-about Sony PSP2 portable gaming console.

Watch out, your kids could be playing with Sony PSP2 by next fall.

We found these details from Kotaku.com:

Several sources have confirmed to Kotaku that the PSP2 does have a previously rumored touch panel on the back

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NBA 2K11 is released for PS3 and Xbox 360

Heads up, game geeks and nerds alike. If you loved NBA 2K10 like we did, 2K Sports serves up this year’s edition of it’s NBA game franchise – NBA 2K11. Ever since NBA 2K9, 2K Sports has dominated this franchise, taking the baton from EA Sports’ own NBA Live series and leaving them crying in

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Pink DualShock 3 coming right at you!

All you PlayStation 3 gamers out there, we know you have a limited sense of style (due to looong nights cooped up in your room with only pizza and Mountain Dew for sustenance, and where “taking a bath” is optional). But are you manly enough for this? Sony is breaking out a new PS3 accessory,

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PS3 Modchip now allows “pirated” games?

Move over “geohot“, it seems like somebody beat you to the punch. The Sony PlayStation 3, in the haXX0r (hacker to you uninitiated to l33t language) point of view, is the closest thing to “impregnable” that the world has seen so far. Not anymore, it seems. Looky here:

Who needs George Hotz anyway? A USB modchip

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Sony phasing out the 120 and 250GB PS3?

Console gaming — heck, technology in general — is anything but stagnant. It is an industry in a constant state of flux. And so we are not surprised that with the new models of Sony‘s flagship game console the PlayStation 3 (PS3) ready to ship very soon, that they seem ready to phase out these

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TELUS uses Xbox 360′s for IPTV

It had to happen sooner or later, but Canadian company TELUS seems to have gotten the jump on everybody. We’ve said that game consoles were taking over living rooms all over America, and it seems TELUS is taking it one step further – Microsoft Xbox 360 game consoles as replacements for IPTV set top boxes.

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It’s a PlayStation 3… no, it’s a building.

This is how Japanese get famous — by being absolutely crazy to the point that it becomes some kind of amazing. Take a look at this photo — it’s a building, and yes, it’s designed like the Sony PlayStation 3:

Playstation 3… err, building — the Namba Parks Building shows off some Sony

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Do you remember SEGA?

If you are a professing hardcore gamer, your reputation will take a major hit if you do not remember the ubiquitous gaming company called SEGA. We at MacPCWiz now take time to remember this gaming group who with their contributions pushed console and arcade gaming to where it is right now.

Sega Corporation, more formally known

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FIFA World Cup on Xbox 360

Who here is not enjoying the World Cup 2010 at South Africa? Well, you’re missing a heck of a good time. MacPCWiz says, this only comes once every four years — get your fan mode on and be part of the madness.

OR, bust out your Xbox 360 — making waves these days because of the

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