Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

Don't throw out your old Blu-ray players just yet! You'll still be able to play 2D content from 3D Blu-ray discs

Japanese electronics firm Sanyo has announced a new type of blue laser diode, which it said could double the capacity of existing Blu-ray discs to 100GB..

A new report is predicting that sales of Blu-ray discs will top 100 million by the end of 2009..

8cm Blu-ray BD-R write-once and BD-RE rewritable discs due in September.

Maximum data transfer speed of 144Mbps.

At almost $500 for the burner, Blu-Ray is a little closer to finally making sense as backup for your hard drives. Pity the discs are so expensive.

CHINA'S FIRST Blu-Ray disc factory has gone into production in the port city of Shanghai.

Blue Blu-Ray discs banned by Sony.

New combo drive writes Blu-ray discs 'considerably faster'.

MovieIQ will add movie information to scenes to allow you to work out just what "that guy" was in without having to get off the sofa

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I once heard my local Blockbuster manager cruely toying with a hapless punter by describing Blu-Ray as a "government conspiracy". Not any more.

Chinese manufacturers have been given the thumbs-up to start pumping out Blu-Ray products next year. Prepare for an influx of discs and players you've never heard of.

It was only a matter of time.

Adult industry gears up for wholesale switch to HD-DVD.

DVD isn't so bad after all, is the message coming from Toshiba. Maybe our massive DVD collection won't be redundant after all..

Picking a winner in the high-def wars is easy with this bargain PC, and you’ll never guess where we found it . . .

Universal players will become the norm, says ABI Research.