Distribute Expertise: Blu-ray Blues

By Jan Ozer

Whenever Blu-ray comes up, there are questions about authoring. But equally daunting are the issues of distribution and the licensing costs associated...

Restoration for Blu-ray

By Michael Goldman

Among the restoration trends appearing in the modern era of digital home entertainment is a focus on doing niche video restoration work on classic movies to improve and tailor them for specific new home deliverable formats that are suddenly adding value to film properties sitting in studio vaults...

Generation D

By Cynthia Wisehart

In the mainstream media, Generation D invokes the digital generation in a world where nearly everything in media is digital from camera to screen. But...

Format Wars: HDV Output, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

I’ve been shooting in HDV for about two years, and it used to break my heart to scale my gorgeous 1920x1080i footage down to 720x480 to produce an SD DVD. Then, in late 2006, the first high-definition recordable DVD options became available. I’ve been producing in high definition ever since...

Format Wars: HDV Output, Part 2

By Jan Ozer

This article describes the hardware and software options for authoring and producing Blu-ray Discs to recordable media. In our last installment, I discussed these options for HD DVD videos, and compared Blu-ray to HD DVD from the perspective of the HDV producer...

Sony unveils first Blu-ray Disc drive burner

Sony Electronics unveiled its first internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) rewritable drive for the computer aftermarket...

Edit Expertise: Test Drive: LaCie d2

By Jan Ozer

The arrival of Adobe Encore CS3 and its Blu-ray authoring capabilities will create a lot of interest in Blu-ray authoring. To produce Blu-ray Discs, of...