Disney considering raising Blu-ray prices?

Posted in News by Nicr on the February 10th, 2009

We predicted drastic measures in Blu-ray pricing, but Disney might be going the wrong way. CEO Robert Iger indicated on a conference call with analysts today that since the company's Blu-ray releases are packing all sorts of extra features like Digital Copy and BD-Live, it might be able to raise prices fo……

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Blu-ray catching on in Australia

Posted in News by Nicr on the February 3rd, 2009

It sounds like Blu-ray is ever so slowly catching a toe-hold in Australia, where the format just landed in 5-percent of homes and disc sales crested the 1-million units. Not great numbers, but considering there are only 29 titles on the market there, it's not insignificant either. That's some good new……

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