Topic: News

While supply of components for use in half-height DVD burners has been running tight since the second quarter of this year, shortages have now extended to the DVD-ROM and slim DVD burner segments, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Virtual explorers can now discover and watch YouTube videos while they traverse the globe.

Madonna has become the latest artist to buck the record industry by signing a $120 million record deal with concert promoter Live Nation.

The £126 price cut that Sony recently gave the PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the UK will have "minimal impact" on the high definition format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray. The HD DVD Promotion Group says that the real battleground is in standalone players and that "HD DVD is winning".

France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that lets huge amounts of data be squeezed into ever-smaller spaces.

TiVo is introducing music to its mix of entertainment services, offering owners of the company's digital video recorders access through their TVs to the Rhapsody music service.

The Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo Music, Ian Rodgers, has given a presentation to some members of the music industry stating that DRM is dead, and if the RIAA insists on using it, they'll be out a partner in Yahoo.

Sony has unveiled a new updated internal Blu-ray burner for PC. The new drive doubles the write speed as compared to previous Blu-ray BD-R burners inside computer systems. The new BWU-200S Blu-ray burner cuts burn time in half allowing a full 50Gb BD-R disc to be burned in about 45 minutes. Previous drives were 2x drives and the burn time was around 90 minutes for a BD-R disc.

dvd-recordable.org is pleased to welcome a new sponsor in Internet Aquatics whose founders have 13 years' experience in the exotic fish retailing business - and aim to bring species such as snakeheads, reed-fish and knife-fish from a supply network as far afield as Thailand and Singapore to the world wide web.

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.