Everyone you've talked to is half right. Sony's licensing on Blu-ray is obnoxious, and it means it's pretty difficult to play Blu-rays on your computer—in fact, Windows is the only operating system ...

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announced the new BDC-202 combination Blu-ray Disc BD-ROM computer drive with enhanced DVD and CD writing and reading capabilities. The newly designed Pioneer ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming ...

Pioneer Electronics announced today that it is shipping a Blu-ray computer drive, the industry's first. The BDR-101A uses blue laser technology to burn up to 25GB of data onto a single-layer Blu-ray ...

I am considering hooking my PC up to my TV via a very long HDMI cable and USB extender. Why? So I can play computer games on my TV and maybe watch .mkv's, which right now don't work so well streaming ...

The entertainment industry has spent an untold amount of money creating and implementing copyright protection for its content. Because copy protection prevents casual copying to other media, such as a ...

Unfortunately, Blu-ray discs aren't supported by default in our favorite media center application, XBMC. Sure, you can rip Blu-rays, but that takes forever, and you want to watch it now. Here's how to ...

Tokyo, September 21, 2004 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), announced today that it had begun preparations to adopt Blu-ray Disc ROM (BD-ROM) format as a medium for the next generation ...

The whole Blu-ray format's been a mess from the very beginning. We can't, therefore, quite suppress a derisory smirk at the announcement of two new Blu-ray disc specifications, neither of which will ...

A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency. Stephen Tomkinson of NCC Group, a ...

A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency. Stephen Tomkinson of NCC Group, a ...