Along with Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 (CS5) is the new Encore CS5 (invariably connected with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 – which we reviewed recently). Encore has always been a handy tool to author your video content for delivery through different kinds of media: Blu-ray Disc, DVD, or a wide range of web-enabled formats. So what
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If you’ve already jumped to Microsoft’s “the OS Vista was supposed to be” — aka Windows 7 — then you will be happy to know that our friends from Redmond have incorporated native Blu-Ray features into their newest operating system. We’re gonna give you the lowdown on using Blu-Ray technology for Windows 7.
Blu-ray Playback
A lot
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We got a 25-pack spindle of DIGISTOR’s 25GB BD-R Blu-ray media. The blank Blu-ray discs were a perfect match for our brand spanking new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray burner that we just unpacked. Here comes the inevitable burn test.
Our trusty TEST BED:
ASUS K50IJ Series laptop, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Core 2 Duo Proc, Vista
For burning,
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All you Mac lovers out there are probably getting a bit lonely out there, what with all the bad iPad press you’re getting. So we’re gonna show you some love as we test out our newly unboxed DIGISTOR Self-Powered Blu-ray Burner on a MacBook Pro.
DIGISTOR External Blu-Ray Burner on a MacBook Pro
Let’s get the
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We just un-boxed our new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner. We got it in the same package that contained the 250GB Portable Hard Drive that we unboxed and tested a couple of days back.
We got one of these, and we're excited!
This is the tray-load version, and connects to your system via USB 2.0. As I’ve
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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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