When we first saw the price we were blow away that a company would create a Blu-ray player with a $16,900 sticker. Then we saw it was produced by Goldmund. Continuing their reign of offering consumers insanely overpriced products for those with more money than they know what to do with, the company has just released a Blu-ray player more expensive than most compact automobiles. The Eidos 20 BD Blu-ray player includes an AC-Curator power supply circuit, a Magnetic Damper for lowering read errors and an ugly chassis.

Via CNET

Acer has released many laptops in the past year, but that doesn’t stop them from expanding their selection even further, with the company now reportedly planning on releasing a pair of new notebooks sporting Blu-ray drives and high res screens. It is not entirely offical at this time, but DigiTimes reports that the laptops will consist of a 16-inch and an 18.4-inch model, both of which will feature a “Full HD panel”. Unfortunately at this time, we have no other details on the laptops, but they will be priced between $1,900 and $2,240 when they released in the second quarter of this year.

Via Electronista

We have reports that both Paramount and Universal will now make the obvious choice to release their films on Blu-ray. We saw this coming, last week Circuit City databases showed that both studios would indeed change over to Blu-ray.

Via hdtv-praxis

Blu-ray duplicators have been around for some time now, but Aleratec’s does something that none of the others we’ve tested can do; it supports LightScribe. The 1:3 Copier has three LightScribe-enabled SATA Blu-ray burners that can burn BD-Rs at 6x as well as DVDs and CDs at higher speeds. This Blu-ray Disc duplicator even has a built-in eSATA connector and a dual channel eSATA host adapter for those that require them. The downside of this duplicator is the price… a whopping $3,199, so you better be making some serious dough on whatever you are duplicating.