Adam talks Disney’s decision to scrap Digital Copy Plus downloads with new Blu-Rays in Australia while Alex talks computing history at the UK National Museum of Computing in this week’s episode!
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Quickflix nixed, ANZ Apple Pay and Ultra HD Blu-Ray: Vertical Hold Episode 73
Quickflix is sinking while Panasonic tries to make Ultra HD Blu-Ray your next digital video format, but who’s buying? ANZ is in bed with Apple for Apple Pay, but who will win in this particular financial marriage? All this and more, including special guest Peter Wells in the latest episode of Vertical Hold!
Continue readingEzyFlix allows you to rip your DVDs legally… sort of.
EzyFlix has announced that it’s launching Disc-2-Digital, a service that allows existing DVD and Blu-ray owners to store cloud-based copies of their films and create digital copies of… their digital copies.
Continue readingDo DVD/Blu-Ray extras actually matter?
Buy a DVD or Blu-Ray disc, and it’ll breathlessly tell you of the many hours of extra content you’re going to get. Use a streaming service and they’re usually omitted. Is that a cause for concern?
Continue readingIt's as easy as Pi…
It always bothered me that the Master said that. It indicated that the Gallifreyans, an ancient race, used classical Greek letters. And what’s more, they used them to describe particular bits of mathematical theory in exactly the same way that the human race would, billions of galaxies away. And if you understood all that, congratulations. […]
Continue readingSecond verse, same as the first…
Something of an oddity today — a re-review. Folks weren’t happy with my review of the Kogan Blu-Ray player, as I lacked multi-region discs to test it with. A month later (and the happy coincidence of a sibling in Las Vegas able to source some for me) and you get the review, take 2: Kogan […]
Continue readingAre you gonna take me home tonight?
Somehow, even cheesy Queen songs are good songs. But are cheesy products any good? That’s the focus of a quick news piece I’ve written today for PC Authority: Can you trust cheap Blu-Ray Players? “$349 seems cheap, but is there a catch, or just good value? We look at one of the cheapest Blu-Ray players […]
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