Topic: News

Rob Cohen, director of The Mummy 3, said the Blu-ray Disc edition of his film will look superior to the theatrical exhibition.

Dell has met its carbon neutral goal ahead of schedule, achieving a major milestone in its commitment to be the 'greenest' technology company on the planet.

I-O Data has introduced two new 8x Blu-ray burners the internal BRD-SP8 and external BRD-UXP8.

Punters fed up with having to take their laptops out of their bags for airport security checks might be relieved to know that change might be in the air.

iPhone users can now buy themselves a picture of a red gem to display on their handsets, purely to demonstrate they've got enough money to throw $999.99 at such a pointless gesture.

Panasonic has just announced a new internal SATA Blu-ray Disc burner that hits 8x speed when writing to BD-R single layer and dual layer discs.

Matrox are showing off the digital version of the TripleHead2Go product called strangely enough the TripleHead2Go Digital Edition.

Buffalo has unveiled an external USB 2.0 upscaling Super-Multi DVD Drive. The DSM-SL20U2 is able to upscale DVD movies (480p) to High Definition (HD) at 1080p.

Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the video-sharing site YouTube, owned by Google, under an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, the IOC said in a statement.

Social.fm, the company formerly known as Mercora, has closed down. The service, which allowed users to stream their music collections to each other, cites no reasons for shutting up shop.

Blockbuster has expanded its earlier partnership with NCR, and will be deploying about 50 DVD rental kiosk machines in a pilot test.

Sony Ericsson is launching a limited edition Titanium silver C902 Cyber-shot phone as used by James Bond in the eagerly awaited Quantum Of Solace which will be released worldwide this November.

O2’s pay-as-you-go customers could find a remodelled iPhone under the Christmas tree this year, according to the latest word on the grapevine.

An attempted DVD thief spent a couple of hours in a shop's toilet taping DVD discs to his body, only to be stopped by security guards.

Market reports in the US indicate that the global sales of Blu-ray movie discs will exceed those of DVDs in 2011.

The latest Blu-ray Disc players from Sony - the BDP-S350 and BDP-S550 - provide movie fans with what's claimed is the ultimate full HD home cinema experience with "an amazing range of innovative new features".

At least 2.3 million people preferred to download Radiohead's In Rainbows from torrent sites rather than the band's own site, a survey this week reports, even though the cost was the same: Zero.

Google has bought Omnisio - a web video editing firm based in Palo Alto, California - which will be used to add extra functions to YouTube.

The movies-by-mail giant warned us last week that higher fees for Blu-ray rentals would be coming "very shortly," and indeed, subscribers are already seeing extra charges on their accounts.

Many people today are clueless about the lyrics in songs because no one ever sees them written down, a survey claims.