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17 articles tagged as blu

Why I'm excited for the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Remaster

Rick looks back at a 20th Century classic.

May 28, 2020 | 11:20

MSI MEG Z490 Ace Review

MSI's new premium £400 Z490 board certainly looks and feels ace but can it handle Intel's Core i9-10900K?

May 26, 2020 | 14:00

What Unreal Engine 5 means for the games industry...and you

Rick examines Epic's latest tech-demo.

May 22, 2020 | 10:00

Radeon HD 5450 Review: HTPC Heaven?

A £40 graphics card? Surely that's as useful as a chocolate teapot? We take a look at AMD's latest and cheapest Radeon from the HD 5000 series, the HD5450, see how it stacks up against integrated graphics and find out in what situations it might be a great buy.

February 9, 2010 | 08:09

Modding the Acer Revo

At a recent press briefing we grabbed some internal shots of the upcoming Nvidia Ion based Acer Revo!

April 27, 2009 | 10:02

Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi mobo

Could this mini-ITX GeForce 9300 Zotac board with integrated HDMI and WiFi possibly be the greatest home theatre board ever created? We drop in an inexpensive Intel E5200 CPU, bolt on a Blu-ray drive and check out this £120 mini marvel.

March 18, 2009 | 09:57

Pioneer BDC-SO2BK Blu-ray Drive

Blu ray drives on the cheap? Pioneer tells us "Hell Yea!" But is it cheap and cheerful or a genuine bargain, that's an excellent choice for all our home theatre enthusiasts? We found out.

June 30, 2008 | 13:29

Cyberlink, Realtek, Gigabyte fix HD audio problems

Cyberlink and Realtek have now fixed the audio downsampling problem that means you'll finally get full HD quality sound from Blu-ray discs.

June 12, 2008 | 11:49

J&W 780G mini-ITX has niche HTPC features

COMPUTEX 08: Relatively unknown motherboard manufacturer, J&W, has its 780G mini-ITX board with breakout box and other cool features.

June 6, 2008 | 10:49

G45 is great at HD video playback

Intel's last integrated graphics chipset, G45, is shaping up to be pretty good according to sources inside Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers.

April 9, 2008 | 10:12

Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 & Media Show 4

Cyberlink will release the latest versions of PowerDVD and Media Show next month. The two boast a bunch of new features and services that looked interesting when demonstrated to us. So much so that we decided to take a look at the latest beta to see how they're shaping up.

March 24, 2008 | 07:37

Cyberlink's new products for CES and 2008

CES 2008: Cyberlink is due to expand its online services and launch new features in 2008. We've got the details inside...

January 5, 2008 | 13:25

Paramount is now HD DVD exclusive

Viacom, the parent company for both Paramount and Dreamworks, has announced that it will be HD DVD exclusive.

August 21, 2007 | 12:44

DTS Demonstrates Master HD Audio

COMPUTEX 2007: We sat down (on a towel) and DTS showed us a demonstration of Master HD: the new lossless codec used on HD media.

June 12, 2007 | 15:03

Wal-Mart chooses HD DVD

Over the past couple of days, Wal-Mart's plan for a massive shipment of very affordable HD DVD players from China leaked onto the web.

April 26, 2007 | 07:17

First pirated HD DVD movie now on torrent

So, you can now download a rip of HD DVD movie Serenity. Not only that but it's been confirmed that porn will be available on Blu-ray as well as HD DVD. There's still no clear winner in the wars of the disc.

January 17, 2007 | 10:30

Is the PS3 backwards compatible?

It looks like Sony is having a few problems with their new Playstation 3. Not only does the console struggle to play old titles but they've also sold fewer games than consoles.

November 14, 2006 | 15:07

Blu-ray player released today

The Blu-ray player has been released today in the UK. We tucked into some high-def movie goodness and here are our reactions.

October 17, 2006 | 17:23

HD DVD versus Blu-Ray could end up a draw

Research analysts are predicting that neither HD DVD or Blu-Ray will prevail in the upcoming industry battle.

August 11, 2006 | 16:40

Sony will release Blu-Ray PC in March

The first Blu-Ray drives are coming into the UK - but only in PCs. Sony have plans to start adoption early - but will they get the rest of the machine appropriately decked out?

January 20, 2006 | 10:52