What's the best Blu-Ray player on the market? Our quick shopping guide to features to look for, compatiblity issues, connectivity, and our top pick.

It's something of a contradiction in terms, having Blu-Ray in a tiny 11.1in screen notebook, but it's certainly a brilliant feat of engineering. See the specs and launch pics here.

Add high-definition reading and writing capabilities to your PC with a Blu-ray drive, or save money with a plain DVD writer

Skeptics be dammed - BluRay is kicking along just nicely thanks, in fact better than DVD did in its early years.

Blu-ray writers are more affordable than ever. We look at four internal models to find the best way to go high-def. The last time we did a round-up of optical drives, the former war was in full swing. But now Blu-ray has at last seen off HD DVD and taken its place as the industry standard for high-capacity optical media.

Analysts warn of format fight in China.

$349 seems cheap, but is there a catch, or just good value? We look at one of the cheapest Blu-Ray players on the market to date.

Now that Blu-ray has won the format war and recorders are hitting the shelves, Panasonic's DMR-BW500 HDD/Blu-ray recorder with twin HD TV tuners is looking mighty nice indeed. For high-def buffs this is one with the lot.

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The cut-down PS3 costs the same as the Xbox Elite, has lost of its key features and still has that cracking Blu-ray player

Sony’s new laptop sports a Blu-ray writer and one of Intel’s latest Penryn processors, but it’s overpriced.

You'd think playback of copied Blu-Ray and DVD files would be a no-no for commercial PVR boxes. Not these new TViX players, which play ripped Blu-Ray and DVD "backups", with VOB, ISO and H.264 compatibility.

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..

Intel promises you'll be able to watch a full Blu-Ray movie on a single battery charge, once again highlighting the woeful battery problems facing laptop users.

Unconfirmed rumours claim a High-res upgrade for existing DVD technology is in the works, making us wonder if Toshiba has swallowed stupid pills..