Anime Classic ‘Ninja Scroll’ Gets Original & Uncensored Blu-Ray Release Today
Thursday, 6th December 2012Posted in Anime News
Tags: Anime, blu ray, dvd, hd, Ninja Scroll, Original version, Section 23, Sentai Filmworks
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Long regarded as one of the anime industry’s greatest films, Ninja Scroll is finally getting the Blu-Ray treatment.
Sentai Filmworks/Section 23 Films are also dropping a new DVD version today, with both formats featuring restorations of the original cut. Continue reading “Anime Classic ‘Ninja Scroll’ Gets Original & Uncensored Blu-Ray Release Today” »
Alleged PlayStation 4 Specs Leaked, AMD Fusion, 2GB RAM
Friday, 8th June 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: amd, blu ray, Fusion APU, Hardware Specs, HDMI 1.4, Liverpool, Orbis, ps4
Written by: Craig Hunter
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Details on Playstation’s next iteration may have been revealed recently with gaming site PSX-sense (via Forbes) claiming to have in its possession a document containing a complete list of hardware specs for Sony’s upcoming next generation console.
Obviously we are going to take this as rumor as nothing has been confirmed or denied by Sony. Either way, if this is the real deal, below could be some of the hardware specs for the next Playstation Sony current has in the works.
The hardware specs listed by Forbes via PSX-Sense are as follows: Continue reading “Alleged PlayStation 4 Specs Leaked, AMD Fusion, 2GB RAM” »
Next-Gen Xbox to Sport Blu-Ray Player, Anti-Used Game Tech, and Smaller Controller?
Thursday, 26th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: 720, anti-used, blu ray, kinect, Kinect 2, microsoft, next-gen, xbox, Xbox Live
Written by: Craig Hunter
A report from Kotaku today claimed Microsoft will upgrade its disc drive in the next-gen Xbox (720?) from its standard DVD drive to a Blu-Ray drive similar to the one in Sony’s PS3.
The report cites various “reliable” industry sources, and also claimed Microsoft was planning on creating a method of preventing used games from running on the next-gen console. Continue reading “Next-Gen Xbox to Sport Blu-Ray Player, Anti-Used Game Tech, and Smaller Controller?” »
Dragon Ball Z Makes Its Way to Blu-Ray
Tuesday, 1st November 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: blu ray, DBZ, Dragon Ball Z, Funimation, Goku, remastering
Written by: Jeff Nau
Written By Jeff Nau
After a relatively slow week in anime, here’s some pretty freakin’ big news (that’s honestly been a long time coming)!: Dragon Ball Z’s first 17 episodes are finally making the transition to Blu-Ray.
And to give you an idea on how laborious and painstaking the process of converting the original film to disc was, a team of specialists over at Funimation take you inside the re-mastering process on the Dragon Ball site.
Watching the original grainy film-footage of Dragon Ball Z alongside the newly remastered version is enough for any fanboy to salivate — but the Blu-Ray edition comes packed with a ton of extras.
Why did it take this long for the conversion? (I mean, the sh*tty Continue reading “Dragon Ball Z Makes Its Way to Blu-Ray” »
Sony Announces Head-Mounted ‘HMZ-T1′ Wearable 3DTV
Wednesday, 31st August 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: 3D, 3dtv, blu ray, head-mounted, hmz-t1, OLED, ps3, Sony, visor, wearable
Written by: Craig Hunter
How about playing your PS3 through a head-mounted 3DTV equivalent to viewing a 150-inch screen? If Sony has its way, you will be able to to exactly that, courtesy of their recently unveiled HMZ-T1 wearable OLED 3DTV. Continue reading “Sony Announces Head-Mounted ‘HMZ-T1′ Wearable 3DTV” »
Is Vader getting a big NOOOOOOO overdubbed in Return of the Jedi?
Wednesday, 31st August 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: blu ray, kenobi, krayt dragon, obi wan kenobi, special edition, star wars, vader
Written by: R Bryant Francis
I really, really hope these reports turn out to be very good fabrications. I’d be HAPPY to post an article about how wrong we were. But the facts aren’t going in that direction. Badass News is getting reports and clips about MORE changes to the original Star Wars trilogy that will go live on the upcoming Blu-Ray special edition release. The most dramatic of these changes is the addition of the infamous “NOOOOOOOO” cry Vader belched at the end of Star Wars Episode III Continue reading “Is Vader getting a big NOOOOOOO overdubbed in Return of the Jedi?” »
Wii U Only To Run Proprietary Discs, No Blu-Rays or DVDs
Wednesday, 15th June 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: blu ray, nintendo, wii u
Written by: R Bryant Francis
By R. Bryant Francis
Earlier this week we commented on the winners and losers of E3, and talked about Microsoft’s success in creating a multimedia device that could operate right in your home. This week, Nintendo appears to have asked “Why would anyone ever want one of those?”
Kotaku’s reporting that at a press event this week that Nintendo, citing high patent costs and a general sense that people already had these devices in their homes, wouldn’t be allowing the Wii U to play anything other than their own proprietary discs. While on the surface, this seems like a “we don’t want to waste our customers’ time” decision, it also begs the question how the Wii U can expect to compete with the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 in the modern world.
We don’t use our devices to any one thing anymore. Why should we buy Nintendo’s device, with the promise of paying for the same games we can get on the others, when we’d be denying ourselves access to the technologies we can get for the same price?
Nintendo’s closing off a lot of potential doors with this decision. Imagine what they could do with the Wii U remote in revolutionizing the remote control? We’re used to using two screens now—Nintendo taught us to begin using that behavior.
How could we apply that to DVDs and movies? Sound off with your ideas in the comments—if the Wii U could play DVDs, what do you think it could do?
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