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…
New Fox Disc To Support Dolby Vision And HDR10+
Now under control of Disney, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment this week played Switzerland in its handling of the dynamic metadata HDR profile competition by announcing the upcoming release of the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc of Fox’s CGI animated sci-fi title Alita: Battle Angel….
Sony Reveals Pricing On 2019 A/V Home, Portable Products
Sony released prices Tuesday on a range of new audio and video products that were originally introduced at CES 2019 and will be hitting retail shelves soon. From the video perspective the highlight of the announcements was Sony’s new UBP-X800M2 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc player…
Report: New Xbox One S Will Omit Disc Playback
In another ominous harbinger for the end of physical media, Microsoft is reportedly preparing to launch a new “disc-less” version of its popular Xbox One S, which was the first gaming console to support Ultra HD Blu-ray disc playback. Website Windows Central posted photographs Thursday…
Does Samsung’s Blu-ray Withdrawl Doom Discs?
Despite the recently announced decision by Samsung to end further introductions of Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray players in the U.S. market, companies still supporting the formats tell HD Guru that physical media, and specifically 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, isn’t dead yet. Conversely, more pessimistic…
Samsung Confirms Blu-ray Player Exit
In a head scratching development, Samsung confirmed reports that it will no long introduce new Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player models in the U.S. market. The company issued the terse confirmation statement to us Monday, without explanation for the move, after the news…
Panasonic Quietly Rolls Out Flagship 4K Blu-ray Player
From the get ’em while you can department: Panasonic has remained relatively quiet on the home theater front in the United States recently, but it just so happens, it is still selling one of the best performing 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray players available today —…
Associations Converge To Promote UHD TV
Three different multi-industry trade associations with deep interests in expanding the Ultra HD market and ecosystem recently converged on CES 2019 to update the industry on some of the accomplishments they’ve achieved and plans they have made to further the popularity of in home AV…
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