Home Theater and Entertainment Technology

clean ps3 blu-ray len dirt To allow the drive to read 25GB worth of info, the Blu-ray lens is placed very close to the disc surface – somewhere between 0.1 and 0.3 millimeters. Here’s the potential problem. The Blu-ray disc is coated with Zircon, a substance almost as tough as diamond. When the disc heats [...]

Blood Diamond [HD DVD] An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman’s son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping [...]

CD and DVD Formats On a daily basis I’m still asked about the different forms of blank disc available on the market and the differences between them. For this reason I thought this week we would look back at all the commonly available disc based media formats and the differences between them; from the humble [...]

U-571 [HD DVD] Taut and gripping, U-571 follows the exploits of a fictional team of World War II U.S. submariners who undertake a secret mission to capture a German Enigma machine to decode German documents. Writer-director Jonathan Mostow (Breakdown) tells an intense, economical tale, reminiscent of the best classic war films, while infusing it with [...]

The Road Warrior [HD DVD] A strong candidate for the designation of most thrilling action movie ever made (the turbo-charged exhilaration of its full-throttle highway chases has never been equaled), the second part of George Miller’s post-apocalyptic trilogy is also a magnificently imagined movie myth. Like the Star Wars trilogy (by that other George) the [...]