I`ve not found a good site that encompasses everything I look for.

I tend to only stick to the trades for news above any other resource as, aside from information that trickles into my inbox from those I know personally dealing with the formats, these are some of the best resources for industry happenings free of hidden agendas or slants in articles to make one format look better than the other. They just report on what`s happening and who`s doing what:

www.videobusiness.com
www.homemediamagazine.com

If I want news from a variety of general sites/blogs (and I rarely do on account of so many of them being hopeless excuses for journalism) then I type the names of each format into Google News and scan the results. Frankly, I can`t abide sites like High Def Digest for news as they are often slow to report things and prone to printing mistakes. www.highdefdiscnews.com is quite handy as a ‘Google News` alternative as the site gathers various articles from all over and they also have a release schedule.


For disc announcements I recommend:

www.dvdtimes.co.uk
www.dvdactive.com

Both are UK based, but excellent for new disc announcements covering all regions (and all formats) and they are always ahead of Hi Def Digest/Digital Bits…etc for disc specs and cover art. To the credit of High Def Digest however, their release list is comprehensive.


As far as reviews go, I tend to go on word from friends and those I trust online - and none of those are writing for any of the websites out there. Occasionally I catch some insightful reviews, but they are few and far between, and are - ironically - almost always written by contributing reviewers rather than chief editors/reviewers who like to assign themselves the biggest titles to evaluate.


Oh and for Blu-ray region coding:
http://bluray.liesinc.net/ (this is the active successor to the site Mark mentioned which is no longer maintained)







Last edited by DanielB; 2007-11-20 20:04.