Adobe’s in-house tech/software guru Dave Helmly talks about a topic we very much love (because we’re Blu-ray addicts) — Blu-ray authoring. He tackles this with Adobe software (of course), this one with Adobe Encore. Enjoy the authoring lesson, it’s 20-plus minutes of cool tips and tricks — a veritable treasure trove of stuff you need
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Never mind that you’d have no USB 3.0 port to plug it in (it’s backward compatible to USB 2.0), never mind that no blank Blu-Ray disc can be had at 12X speed… never mind all that. Optical storage company BUFFALO still pushes out this theoretical speed demon, the BR-X1216U3. Read more from Engadget.com:
Sure, your computer
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Sharp has announced that it’s now capable of building a blue-violet laser that’s capable of writing triple and quadruple-layer Blu-ray (BD) discs at up to 8x. This would probably make a case for those people who want to back-up exclusively to Blu-Ray discs. As of the moment, people are still hampered by the 25GB and 50GB limits of Blu-Ray. With this new development, will we be seeing higher data quantities on BD-Rs and BD-REs? Read more from MacPCWiz.
MacPCWiz reports on iTunes 9, set to debut very soon. Apparently, Apple’s prime media player and iPod bridge is set to include high definition video and Blu-Ray features when it releases. Does this signal Steve Job’s reluctant surrender to Blu-Ray? Read more from MacPCWiz.
With the impending release of Windows Vista SP2, I found this PCmag article about Blu-Ray burner support in the Vista OS:
With SP2, Microsoft officially acknowledges that it bet on the wrong horse with HD DVD. Unfortunately, Windows DVD Maker is not updated by the current beta of SP2 to work with Blu-ray. When I tried
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