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Saturday, September 13th 2008 Sony released two models of the Vaio laptop, the Vaio CS and Vaio NS. Both these models come with Blu-ray drives, with the option of having them without the drives as well. The Vaio NS comes with a 4 display and is powered by a 00 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 processor. It comes with 3 GB of DDR2 memory and a 250 GB hard drive. Additionally, the Sony Vaio NS has an integrated A/V mode, featuring a dedicated menu for quicker access to nine user-selected programs. With the Blu-ray drive installed, the product range starts at US 10 Without it, the range starts at 6 The Vaio CS features a smaller 1 screen with the same optional Blu-ray drive feature. It comes with the much more powerful Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processor at 26 GHz, 4 GB of memory, and a 320 GB hard drive. It also offers a uniquely configured keyboard, designed with spacing between the keys, for a more comfortable typing experience. The notebook has a 12-tone music analyzer that translates your music into a colorful LED light show. Prices the night listener movie at 970 without the Blu-ray drive, and 1070 with it. Monday, September 8th 2008 After having won the battle for supremacy over HD DVD, Blu-ray is on its way to become the standard consumer video format. It is not just a format, its an industry in itself which begins from HD content creation production houses to recording companies to the consumers who again, invest in necessary equipment such as high-definition displays, Blu-ray disc players, etc. An important name in this industry, Samsung, which makes high definition televisions and players has noted that the format has five years left to remain a premium content format. In an interview to Pocket-lint, the director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK, Andy Griffins said I think it Blu-ray has 5 years left, I certainly wouldnt give it Griffins believes that 2008 is the year of the Blu-ray, where consumers embrace the format by purchasing necessary appliances. He added that Samsung is heavily back-ordered in regard to appliances at the moment. Friday, September 5th 2008 Buffalo Technologies claimed to have made the fastest PC Blu-ray disc writers. The Buffalo BR-816FBS is a standard sized internal optical drive while the BR-816FBS-WH is an external drive. The drives are HDCP compliant and play Blu-ray titles. Apart from this, the storage capacity of the media means that the amount of data that can be backed up in one go is substantially increased. This drives burn Blu-ray discs at 8x 38 MB/s speeds which means that a the night listener movie capacity single-layer volume could be written in 12 minutes compared to the 45 minutes it takes for 2x speed writers to do the same task. The drive can write DVDs at 16x and CDs at 48x. Buffalo includes CyberLink disc authoring software with the drive. This, according to Buffalo, offers a smart non-linear stretching feature intended to enhance colours, lighting and effects to ensure regular DVDs can be experienced at optimal quality. The drives are available at all major retailers and online stores and priced at US 370 for the internal drive and 420 for the external version. Saturday, August 16th 2008 Its been a few weeks since Intel launched its latest chipset with integrated graphics, the Intel G Among other things, Intel claimed this chipset accelerated HD video formats such as Blu-ray, where the integrated graphics logic is supposed to off-load the CPU of processing the video. Such as it is, Intels integrated graphics processors IGP have been hugely reliant on the CPU for its functions. Aaron Brezenski, a product engineer for Intel at its Chandler, Arizona US facility. In his recent blog entry read here, he writes about the G45 not exactly achieving what it set out for, in other words, it was still imperfect. He mentions about AMD hosting a demo booth where it was publicly demonstrated that a G45 based notebook made by HP failed to accelerate Blu-ray playback, the processor tipped 100% load throughout the playback which isnt what G45 is intended to bring about. The Entertainment Merchants Association EMA in its recent Annual Report for 2007, concluded that in the year 2007, Hi-Definition video sales amounted to a mere 6 per cent of all video sales. It is still estimated that high-definition has a long way to go before it could replace DVD as a standard movie format. The EMA said that sales of Blu-ray discs are expected to surpass those of standard DVDs by 2012 and could generate sales of 5 billion. By that time, total home video spending will be up to 6 billion, believes EMA. Since Blu-ray is a lone wolf in the high-definition arena, its time to see some reports that will tell us how well is the format selling. According to data compiled by the night listener movie Redhill Group for Home Media Magazine, over 11 million Blu-ray discs have been sold since the format launched before two years. Sales have increased fourfold since this time last year, and early sales data for May suggests that more titles have been sold in the first five months of this year than all of last year combined. Current bestselling Blu-ray titles include: I Am Legend, 3:10 To Yuma, and No Country for Old Men. Analysts also believe that these numbers will continue to grow in the second half of the year, when blockbuster films like Paramounts Transformers, Sleeping Beauty and Tinker Bell hit the market. Plextor, a leading supplier of optical and storage devices, announced today a new 4x Blu-ray DVD-RW drive using the SATA interface the PX-B910SA. Building on the success of PX-B920SA, the PX-B910SA drops the support for HD-DVD presented in the above mentioned model and becomes a Blu-ray drive only. Other than that, read/write specs for other media formats remain the same listed below.