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The Watchmen Blu-ray Will Sync with Facebook

By on May 12, 2009 in All, Movies, Tech

The Watchmen Blu-ray will feature a normal and director’s cut of the film, a splitscreen “Maximum Movie Mode” that shares the screen between Zack Snyder and the film, plus it…connects to Facebook? In the interest of making Community Screenings a bit more practical (that BD Live function allowing users to watch a film in sync [...]

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MCE’s 8x internal Blu-ray burner for Mac Pros now shipping, great for anything but playing Blu-ray movies

By on April 10, 2009 in All, Tech

Here’s some perspective: when MCE first released its internal Mac Pro Blu-ray burner, it boasted 2X speeds for a hefty $699 price tag. Cut to present day, when the new generation of the drive that’s a noticeably faster 8X Blu-ray read / write and 16X DVD±R/W, all for a hair under $400. Works with Adobe [...]

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How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs

By on April 5, 2009 in All, Tech

Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You’d like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know first. And that is this: Ripping Blu-ray discs sucks. Hard. It takes forever, eats up a ton of hard drive space, and [...]

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