At this point, it is widely known that the Borderlands film has bombed at the Box Office, after a string of negative reviews that ranked it amongst the worst Hollywood videogame adaptations ever. Soon, you won't have to shell out cinema-prices to see the chaos for yourselves, as the digital …
Read More »Taiyo Yuden, major maker of recordable optical discs, exits the market
Taiyo Yuden may not be a familiar name outside of Japan, but it is one of the world’s largest makers of optical recording media. Rebranded Taiyo Yuden products can be found under Fujifilm, Maxell, Panasonic, Plextor, TDK, Verbatim and other brands. This week the company announced that it will cease …
Read More »UK finally makes it ok to rip your CDs, DVDs
If there's any clearer indicator that the copyright law is falling far behind the pace of modern technological advancements, it's the fact that the UK has only just made the practice of ripping personally owned digital content from physical media like CDs, DVDs and others, legal. Until now, while the law …
Read More »Majority of consumers still prefer Blu-ray/DVD to streaming
Even though video streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix are growing rapidly these days, the majority of consumers still prefer movies on good-old optical media, such as Blu-ray disc (BD) and DVD. As a result, sales of Blu-ray movies hit another record last December in the USA. A recent …
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