Topic: News

DVD-recorders with hard drives may be old technology, but they're commanding astronomical prices on the free market these days.

Labelless, but hardly penniless, Radiohead are letting their fans set the price for digital downloads of the band's new CD.

Nero 8, the newest version of the popular multimedia suite, offers support for high definition formats (playback, burning), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 streaming features, securDisc data protection and it is optimised for Windows Vista.

If you were looking forward to get the new Samsung BDP-2400, I have bad news for you; Samsung has canceled all plans to release their upcoming high-end Blu-ray Disc player. All orders for the player have been canceled, and the model will not be brought to the market.

TV Guide, the publication famous for its television-centric editorial and show listings, has launched its Online Video Guide, a search service that will attempt to filter out the junk and leave users with the best of Internet video that is related to television.

A change in copy-protection rules governing DVDs is likely to quickly unlock a new market for selling movie discs via kiosks, where digital copies can be burned onto blank DVDs on the spot.

Sonic is hoping to spark a home entertainment revolution today with the release of its DVD On Demand software and Qflix recordable Content Scramble System (CSS) program. If successful, this means you’ll be able to burn movies you download at home to a DVD, or purchase custom-made DVDs online or at a retail kiosk, and have these discs work in any DVD player.

Sharp will introduce into the Japanese market seven AQUOS Blu-ray Disc Recorders that reflect Sharp's persistent focus on true image quality and easy operability.

The summer boxoffice broke records, which confounded dire predictions and brought a shot of much-needed adrenalin to Hollywood. Now the big question is whether the declining DVD business can get a similar boost when those movies debut in the fourth quarter.

Apple have put out a short and sharp press release informing the everyone that those folks crazy enough to unlock their iPhones to work on any network were about to have their phones turned into $400 paperweights.

A video uploaded to YouTube depicts a group of Hungarian gamers donning military garb and breaking into a warehouse, all to get their grubby, thieving mitts on a copy of soon-to-be blockbuster Halo 3.

Players and discs using a new high-def format will appear soon--but will consumers make room for yet another combatant in the HD format wars?

Sales of next-generation DVD players are not likely to see a significant boost for another 18 months according to a study by Forrester Research. The study claims that consumers are still so disorientated by the format war that they are scared of when confronted by the options.

CMC Magnetics, Ritek, Prodisc Technology and Gigastorage, Taiwan-based producers of optical discs, have seen a significant increase in OEM orders for blank DVD+R/-R discs since the beginning of September with their production capacities being fully booked for the entire fourth quarter of 2007 or until January 2008, according to the companies.

Amazon.com launched the public beta of its digital music store Tuesday, offering over 2 million DRM-free tracks.

Intel has announced that a new USB 3 standard will be released early 2008. The revelation has come from the chip-making giant at its Developer Forum, where they announced the formation of the USB 3 Promoter Group.

Apple's celebrated video-editing program for mere mortals, iMovie, is coming to Windows! Better yet, it’s the old version of iMovie, before Apple stripped out all the features in iMovie '08.

A way has been cleared for consumers to legally burn DVDs of films downloaded from the internet, after a meeting of Hollywood studios, technology companies and the group that licenses DVD software.

The group calling itself the MediaDefender-Defenders (MDD) has, as promised, struck again, this time leaking what appears to be the full, uncompiled source code to anti-piracy watchdog MediaDefender’s toolset.

Starz Media has announced two deals to expand its online presence by distributing movies and digital content through Amazon's Unbox video download service and Xbox 360 Live Marketplace.