All the brouhaha about Blu-ray needing to watch out because researchers have created a disc that can store 1.6TB of data today (and 10TB to come) is a bit of a load of bollocks, with the technology up to a decade away from commercialisation and even 10TB due to look teensy-weensy by then.

There has been speculation about the long term future of disc media, speculation that grew as the HD DVD and Blu-Ray optical disc formats fought out a close war for domination of the HD video market.  Blu-Ray’s format win could be short lived, if a new disc format – known as 5D DVD -promising 1.6 terabyte storage capacity hits the commercial market.

Costs are way down on what they were when the PS3 was first released, but Sony, two years later, are still losing money on each PS3 sold.

It has been talked about for some time, but plans are firming for the release of an Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive.

Microsoft's getting with the program: the company has previewed support for H.264 video content in Silverlight. Some may question why it has taken Redmond so long to embrace the video standard.

A top Samsung UK executive has demolished Blu-ray’s chances of being relevant for more than about 5 years, if that, in an interview with UK tech site Pocket-link. How “blu” must Sony be feeling with Samsung right now?!

A deal between Microsoft and Netflix will see movies and TV episodes streamed to US Xbox 360s, beginning this fall (northern autumn).

We’re a long, long way from $50 Blu-ray drive prices and less than $1 per blank Blu-ray disc as we are in the world of CDs and DVDs, but an important step towards those price points being a reality has occurred as prices have fallen. Still, aren’t hard drives way cheaper to buy than Blu-ray drives and discs?!

The NPD Group has issued findings that show Blu-ray adoption hasn’t spiked since the death of HD DVD – while sales of upconverting DVD players are up by 5%, instead!

A news report has quoted Samsung’s “bullish forecast” for Blu-ray adoption and sales, but this is hardly a surprise now that it is the only high-def optical format on the market. Still, has Blu-ray left its run too late?