Topic: News

Warner Home Video said on Wednesday it will release 10 high-definition titles on September 26, including six in the Blu-ray format and four in the competing HD-DVD format.

The largest record company in the world is taking on Apple’s iTunes by offering free, advertising-supported music downloads.

Microsoft has said it is working to close a breach of its technology that protects music digital files from copyright infringement.

Despite the best efforts of Sony, the PSP's latest firmware has been cracked open allowing for the running of homebrew applications.

Those naughty swedes at The Pirate Bay have released a film detailing their exploits in their Swedish filesharing utopia.

A backroom of boffins has developed a new video display technology which provides an unlimited number of colours.

If you haven't been browsing filings at the FCC yet, then you'll not have seen the new submission by Toshiba, showing photos of the new Microsoft branded Zune player.

An online software piracy baron was sentenced to six years imprisonment by a US federal court.

Music publishers are taking action against guitar fan websites which they say infringe songwriters' copyrights. Publishers have started to use copyright lawsuits to shut down sites which share notations to help musicians to play songs at home.

Since manufacturers of blue laser diodes are still unable to improve yield rates, the shortage may result in pushing back the competition between Blu-ray Disc (BD) and HD-DVD optical disc drives in the market to the first quarter of 2007, according to sources at optical disc drive (ODD) manufacturers.

Microsoft has "accidentally" listed the pricing of the high-end consumer versions of Windows Vista on its Canadian Web site. The Windows Vista Ultimate packet was priced at $450 (£238).

Memorex brings double the recording time to its Mini DVD-Rs, with a simple flip of a disc.

Sony has released the DRX-830UL/T and the DRX-830U external DVD burners with 18x writing for DVD.

Software called Fairuse4wm, which trashes Windows Media Player’s DRM, has been posted onto the world wide wibble.

Microsoft revealed today that no 32-bit versions of Windows Vista will be able to play back “next generation high definition protected content” (translation – studio-released BluRay and HD-DVD movies).

Apple said on Wednesday it will pay $100 million to Creative Technology Ltd. to settle all patent litigation over Apple's popular iPod music player.

Following on from Audio Fingerprinting, Philips' Content Identification group announced Video Fingerprinting, a technology that could help stem the flood of movies and other video content being traded illegally on the Internet.

Sony has thrown its hat into the video portal ring with the purchase of Grouper.com.

Optodisc Technology and Princo, two second-tier makers of optical discs in Taiwan, have reduced their quotations for 16x DVD+R/-R discs to US$0.16 and US$0.15, respectively, lower than the current general level of US$0.18, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).

Samsung has debuted a mobile phone handset model equipped with 8 gigabytes of storage, the world's largest, enabling consumers to store MP3 music files and other multimedia contents.