Archive for February, 2010

Redbox planning to expand Blu-ray availability around the middle of this year

According to statements by Coinstar CEO Paul Davis, we should expect to see Blu-ray discs appearing in more Redbox kiosks around the middle of this year. Specifically called out in its deal with Warner, Home Media Magazine reports he also mentioned the ……

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Samsung's U.K. show reveals Monsters vs. Aliens 3D Blu-ray due in March plus LoveFilm, iPlayer TV apps

When Avatar will make its Blu-ray 3D debut is still officially up in the air, but thanks to Samsung's European line show, TechRadar says we can expect Monsters vs. Aliens ……

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Blu-ray releases on February 23rd 2010

What's left to say about this week that we haven't already said so many time before over the past three or four years that we've been doing this weekly post? Yep, that's right, we have ran out of things to say. Some people who know us personally wouldn't believe such a thing coul……

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Ask Engadget HD: Is there a good wireless HDMI option yet?

In the yeeeeear two thousand… and ten, are we seriously still restricted to the demands of physical connections to get our HD fix? While wires have gotten it done for most of us so far, there's more than a few looking to make the jump to wireless HDMI solutions but unsure how to take the ……

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Samsung BD-C6500 & BD-C5500 Blu-ray players now shipping

Can't wait to get your hands on some of Samsung's 2010 lineup of Blu-ray players? The BD-C5500 and BD-C6500 are both currently available and shipping on Amazon for $199 and $299, respectively. Both share a slim 39mm profile, although only the BD-C6500 has a promised 15-second boot time and ……

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Blu-ray releases on February 16th 2010

At the top of this week's slate of new Blu-ray releases is Law Abiding Citizen from Anchor Bay. It isn't a hard week to be a the top, but this title does have an IDMB score of 7.3 and is a crime thriller that didn't do too bad at the box office at $73 mil.

Law Abiding Citizen (Ancho……

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LG BD550 Blu-ray player manual pops up on support site

We're still eagerly awaiting all the 2010 hardware that debuted at CES to show up on store shelves, so until then we'll take what we can get and today that would be an instruction manual for LG's BD550 Blu-ray player. Filling out the low end of the company's Blu-ray player lineu……

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HDTV Listings for February 2, 2010

What we're watching tonight:

ABC (720p) has a Lost: Beginning of the End special at 8 p.m. and then the final series premiere of Lost at 9 p.m.
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Engadget HD Podcast 176 – 01.26.2010

No guests this week, but there's still plenty of HD related topics to talk about. Of course that includes 3D, but after that we had time to discuss a new Blu-ray player from Oppo, future possibilities for digital distribution and exactly what we're expecting from NBC's costly Winter Olym……

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Panasonic opens first Blu-ray 3D authoring facility

Ahead of the 3D curve as usual, Panasonic is first yet again with its Blu-ray 3D Advanced Authoring Center. A perfect fit with its upcoming product lineup and focus on 3D, the setup promises to deliver movies on discs as soon as this spring. VP Jeannine Patton claims it “leads the industry” in M……

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