Tag: DVD

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata just confirmed the Wii U wont double as a DVD or Blu-ray player, which is just fine with me. Heres why.

If you were hoping your next-generation Nintendo Wii U would double as a DVD or Blu-ray player in your living room, youre out of luck. According to Kotaku, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just confirmed that the upcoming Wii U will only play Nintendos proprietary 25 GB game disks, even though they are the same size as Blu-ray disks.

Could this be the way to save optical media? Oh no, it's doomed - but it is a clever temporary solution...

'Disc+ On Demand' is an evolution of the 'Disc on Demand' streaming music service Amazon introduced midway through last year and - guess what? - this time it brings streaming video into the equation.


The theory is a fairly sound one: "When you purchase select DVD and Blu-ray titles from Amazon.com you will also receive an Amazon Video On Demand standard definition version as a gift with purchase," says the company's FAQ. "Youll be able to instantly enjoy the video on demand version on your Mac, PC, compatible device or compatible TV when it is available."

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Adobe Premiere is a video design and creation software suite used to create web videos, DVD movies, and more.

LONDON (Reuters) - "Five-dimensional" discs with a capacity 10,000 times greater than current DVDs could be on the market within 10 years, researchers reported on Wednesday.

A team from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia said that by harnessing nanoparticles and a "polarization" dimension to existing technology, storage can be massively boosted without changing the size of a current disc.