iPod shuffle, the popular wearable music player, is now more affordably priced at $49, while a new 2GB model of the iPod shuffle is also introduced today for $69.

An American man’s life has been saved by a DVD after it stopped a bullet for him.

In a strange move, LG has said it will continue to back, develop and offer HD DVD players.

It seems American DVD kiosks are set to invade Canada this year. The New Release (TNR), a Houston-based company, plans to add 1,000 of their Moviecube DVD rental kiosks in North America by the end of 2008. Specifically the kiosks are going to Canada, where they'll be installed in Loblaws grocery stores.

Toshiba is set to announce that they are pulling out of the HD DVD business after Warner Bros and US retailers Wal-Mart, K Mart and Best Buy said that they are only going to support Blu-ray. Also contributing to the decision was a move by retailers globally to support Blu-ray over HD DVD.

DVD wizard Flash has dropped us a note about the latest version of the very popular DVD creation tool ImgBurn 2.4.0.0.

Plextor, a well known supplier for high quality professional optical drives, has announced a new 4x Blu-ray ReWriter drive, model PX-B920SA. This drive is an Internal drive, featuring an SATA interface and a 4MB buffer. Like the PX-B300SA, this is a dual-format drive, capable of playing HD DVD & Blu-ray, along with the usual CD and DVD support.

Despite aggressive price promotions on HD DVD players from Toshiba, sales of Blu-ray Disc players continued to outsell HD DVD units by a wide margin through the week ending January 26, according to leaked NPD Group reports, but the gap has narrowed significantly from reports issued two weeks earlier.

Nearly six million Americans with digital receivers may still lose TV signals when digital-only broadcasts begin next February, a new study says.

DVD jedi Flash has been on the case again, this time he's produced a thorough and insightful review of the popular video editing package TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 2.0 PREMIUM.

First seen at CES in January, the Archos TV+ has been launched in the UK and is available in two variations: the 80GB and 250GB model, priced at £180 and £250, respectively.

Plextor announced today the new the PX-B920SA 4x Blu-ray DVD ReWriter drive as well as a combo DVD- Rewriter that also plays Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies - the Plextor PX-B300SA.

Microsoft’s recent admission that it would be willing to incorporate a standalone Blu-ray player for the Xbox 360 -- should HD-DVD not prove to the winning format in the high-definition war -- might be on the cusp of coming true.

Apple has updated its iPhone and iPod Touch lineup, doubling the memory and setting a new premium price for its high-end models.

Online retailer Amazon is to become the largest shareholder in DVDs-by-post company Lovefilm in a deal that will bring together the two firms' competing UK film rentals businesses.

Companies have been trying, and failing, to get PCs into the living room for several years, so why should Asustek succeed with a cut down Linux-based solution, when the likes of Intel, AMD, Microsoft and Sony, among countless others, have all had their efforts rejected by consumers?

Kingston Technology announced it is adding a 16GB Class 4 SDHC Flash memory card to the current line of SDHC products. The new 16GB card is the largest capacity in Kingston's line of SDHC cards, which include 4- and 8GB SDHC Class 2/4/6 versions.

In theory, everyone in the U.S. who has an iPhone is an AT&T customer, as this telecom has an exclusive contract with Apple. In reality, more than one-quarter of iPhones have been unlocked so that they can be used with other telecoms.

Neil Young has apparently decided to skip a traditional CD release for the first in a series of releases which are intended to form a retrospective of his career from the 1960s through the present day.

When it comes to peer-to-peer file-sharing, as soon as one site is shut down, another takes its place. The current darling of the P2P world is The Pirate Bay, a search engine for BitTorrent files across the Web.