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Microsoft: no future for Blu-ray

by Simon Aughton on 23 September 2010 in News
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The Blu-ray disc format has no future, according to a senior Microsoft executive, indirectly endorsing Apple’s decision not to add Blu-ray drives to Macs and Apple TV. Stephen McGill, the UK head of Microsoft’s gaming and entertainment division, told the XBox360Achievements website that the company has no plans to add Blu-ray to its Xbox gaming [...]

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Will lasers light the way?

by Howard Oakley on 13 May 2010 in Help

Online delivery is making optical discs an endangered species, but laser technology will still have a key role to play in home entertainment. Your Mac may be composed of chips, but it takes light to make it work. That light shines not only from the screen in front of your eyes, but from lasers onto [...]

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