Whois & Analysis for zavvi.com

Zavvi was an entertainment retail chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland, originally Virgin Megastores.

Zavvi was formed in September 2007 when a management buy-out team purchased the company from Richard Branson's Virgin Group.

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

It was designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing high-definition (720p and 1080p) and ultra high-definition video resolution (2160p).

The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs.

Conventional (pre-BD-XL) Blu-ray Disc discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs.

Triple-layer discs (100 GB) and quadruple layers (128 GB) are available for BD-XL re-writer drives.

The name "Blu-ray" refers to the blue laser (specifically, a violet laser) used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs.

The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as feature films and physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Besides the hardware specifications, Blu-ray is associated with a set of multimedia formats.

Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.

Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.

The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (movies, music, television, games), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.

Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics.

A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector (not necessarily monetarily valuable or antique).

There are numerous types of collectables and terms to denote those types.

An antique is a collectable that is old.

A curio is a small, usually fascinating or unusual item sought after by collectors.

A manufactured collectable is an item made specifically for people to collect.

The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast or a person obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit, with a general pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, or socially awkward".