Blu-Ray Reigns Supreme!

Yep, the winner of the format war has been announced, Blu-ray has won over HD-DVD.

This occured when Toshiba, the backbone of HD-DVD called it quits, obviously leaving Blu-ray to nab it all.Some movie company also stopped production of movie titles on HD-DVD too, I forget which one though, sorry!

The Blu-ray[25GB] is better in terms of storage, having about 10GB more than HD-DVD[approx 15Gb] and then there's the ultimate- the dual-layer Blu-ray disk, with a whopping 50 GB worth of storage!!!!!Naturally, Blu-ray is more expensive than HD-DVD though.All that extra space will be needed, considering the size of todays HD movies.

Chances are though, it'll be a while before Blu-rays become common.BD players are priced pretty high for now.The Sony PS3 is a good bet, it even comes with a bluetooth remote, i.e.- you don't have to point it directly at the PS3 to give a command!!!Typical of Sony to come up with such outta-this-world ideas! PS3 aside, there are others like LG, Samsung, Pioneer Etc, Etc.Most probably, people are going to take a while to get accustomed to BDs.

This makes the path into the HD era more straightforward & confusion free finally!

Nvidia 9-series has landed!

It has memory ranging from 256MB all the way upto 1GB!The prformance gains are marginal, I hear.Only the top-end 9800GX2 is slightly better than the all familiar 8800.It is somewhat faster too.Its also capable of XHD, or Extreme High Defenition, which is even more detailed than Full-HD.I still feel they could make it a lot better.It is a lot like a rebadged 8-series.It is kind of upsetting as I expected a lot more than this.Not GDDR4 or anything, this.
So dont jump to get one....yet.
I guess we could wait for a better 9900 GTX to come up soon....!

Intel Centrino 45nm unveiled!

Centrino now takes advantage of Intel's 45-nano meter transistors, with pretty cool results!!
Most importantly, power consumption has gone down.It features slightly higher clock rates and more Level 2 cache[upto 6MB!].These are labelled the 8[T8100,T8300] and 9 series[T9300,T9500].Best part is-high clock processors are cheaper than before.

Nvidia's 8800 goes mobile!

Nvidia's flagship GPU, the 8800 is gonna be available for laptops now!
This doesn't come with the 768 MB that its desktop counterpart offers, but still offers a really modest 512 MB.Also, companies like Dell offers SLI too on their XPS M1730 gaming laptop, giving a total of 1 whole GB of graphics memory, on a portable notebook!!!Coupled with some powerful Centrino duo processors, your games will look simply AWEsome!!
This is SO cool isn't it?