Netflix To End By-Mail Disc Rentals In September.
Netflix is ending the mail-delivered DVD movie rental business after 25 years. The giant Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service posted on Twitter and its DVD rental site Tuesday that “on September 29th, 2023, we will send out the last red envelope.” The company’s decision…
CTA: U.S. Ultra HD Blu-ray Player Shipments Grew 1% To 963K Units
Shipments of dedicated Ultra HD Blu-ray players in the United States grew 1% in 2021 to 963,000 units over the 12 month period, according the CTA’s latest 2022 Sales & Forecasts Data. The results showed a slight return to growth for the category, following 2020’s…
CTA Forecasts Show Ultra HD Blu-ray Players In Decline
More signs of the decline of the physical disc player market surfaced with the recent release of the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA’s) 2020 January Sales & Forecasts Report, which now shows that shipments of Ultra HD Blu-ray players to the United States declined in both…
Universal Enhances Bonus Content On Physical Discs
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is making its bid to preserve the attraction of physical media and home media ownership by adding new bonus feature enhancements to its Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc and DVD titles. Beginning with the release of horror film Us on June…
Review: Kaleidescape Strato The Best 4K Player We’ve Tested
If you are a videophile looking for the best Ultra HD Blu-ray player the industry has to offer, you might not want an optical disc player at all, but, rather, a movie player based on hard drive storage. We say this after recently testing…
CyberLink Releases PowerDVD 17 Ultra HD Blu-ray Software
Those who have discovered the benefits of viewing 4K Ultra HD on high-quality PC monitor screens, and who like to use their PCs as high performance media players, will be interested to know that CyberLink released today its PowerDVD 17 flagship Windows media player…
`Planet Earth II’ To Be Released On Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc March 28th
BBC Home Entertainment America said this week that it is distributing “Planet Earth II” on Ultra HD Blu-ray disc, making it “the first ever natural history television series” to be released in 4K resolution with HDR. The title will be available in various format…
Sony Reveals Prices On 2017 4K Ultra HD XBR TVs, UHD Blu-ray Player
Sony released pricing Friday for many of its 2017 4K Ultra HD televisions and an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc player, which made their debut at last month’s CES 2017. The announcement covers the XBR lineup of 4K Ultra HD LED LCD TVs, but did not…
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