One disc made its way from England to Brazil while another hopped around the U.K. before landing in Africa.
At CES 2009, Pioneer's home entertainment group is introducing three new Blu-ray Disc players and one new upconverting DVD player.
ENGADGET: Pioneer intros BDP-120 / BDP-320 / Elite BDP-23FD Blu-ray players
For example, a compact disc sent from one country to another is clearly a good, and will incur a tariff as it crosses the border.
If you are going to just buy one disc though and you already know how to setup the rest of your home theater, then we think this would be the one.
ENGADGET: Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray mini-review
The player's software ships on a disc -- not a full-sized one, mind you, but the kind of miniature disc that simply won't play nice with my laptop's slot-loading optical drive.
ENGADGET: IRL: Nexus One, Sansa Clip Zip, DeLorme PN-60 and the HP TouchPad
When done properly downloadable content can add a great deal of value to games, but locked on-disc content and day-one DLC can hurt video game brands.
FORBES: Why Day-One DLC Isn't Just Bad For Gamers, It's Bad For Business
This, to me, is the crux of the argument for day-one and on-disc DLC.
There's the DVD audio, super audio, the dual-disc that includes a CD on one side and a DVD on the other side.
Like CD-RW on steroids, DVD-RAM drives can record and rewrite up to 5.2GB on one double-sided disc--more than eight times the capacity of a CD.
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But any publisher thinking about locking content on disc or releasing it as day-one DLC should think again.
FORBES: Why Day-One DLC Isn't Just Bad For Gamers, It's Bad For Business
The researchers think that, as the smaller black hole orbits the larger one, it hits the disc of matter surrounding it twice.
My colleague David Thier has a controversial piece up earlier arguing that more games should come with day-one DLC or on-disc content.
FORBES: Why Day-One DLC Isn't Just Bad For Gamers, It's Bad For Business
Also included in the retail box is one 25GB Sony BD-R blank disc.
ENGADGET: Sony Optiarc debuts 12x Blu-ray writers, makes 'em friendly with BD 3D
The MacBook Pro with Retina Display is the first MacBook Pro without a disc drive slot, though MacBook Airs never had one.
As Blu-ray.com notes, Amazon has listings for both a 2-disc Blu-ray edition and a 4-disc Blu-ray 3D version, but the one that's caught our eye is the just updated listing for Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One - Avengers Assembled.
ENGADGET: Avengers Blu-ray preorders listed, including massive 10-disc Marvel Cinematic Universe set
It can be awkward to drop in on a client and then ask if you can use the machine's Remote Disc feature to wirelessly borrow the optical drive on one of the client's computers if he hands you material on a CD-ROM.
Not that we were ever that optimistic about peace breaking out in the war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, the two rival high-def disc formats that are duking it out over which one is going to succeed the DVD, but you can forget about whatever Sony was saying in recent weeks about being open to burying the hatchet and working to develop a single standard.
Nothing came close to matching the processing power that consoles had brought to the living room, but no one had really cracked the broader application beyond disc-based games.
Budrik woke up one morning to find himself producer of a Bangkok disc jockey's top-five pick.
Oddly enough, one of the neatest highlights is the optional external disc drive.
That leaves two other precedents, one of which was the dual-format audio disc war fought between SACD and DVD-Audio.
ENGADGET: Switched On: Seeking neutrality in the hi-def format war
Best vocal performance was one of the strongest categories this year, but a disc called OPERA PROBITA from Cecilia Bartoli was easily my favorite.
An early one involved a common neck operation, where a painful disc is pulled out of the cervical spine through a tiny incision with a tool called a curette.
Ms. Sobhany, the disc jockey, says she has become an expert at quickly wiping down one iPad while the other handles the music-playing.
In addition, the new GIGA one SONIC's LCD screen clearly displays the amount of hard drive disc space available as well as the status of every download.
One of our favorite features that as far as we know is unique to this disc are the all the audio tests.
ENGADGET: Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray mini-review
One (1) Winner will receive Chuck: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray disc set.
ENGADGET: HD Giveaway: Win Chuck: The Complete Third Season on Blu-ray!
That security could one day make SD cards as common a medium for distributing digital content as the compact disc is today.
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