Apple have admitted that some Video iPods purchased after September 12, may carry a Windows virus called "RavMonE.exe".

RipIt4Me takes up where DVD Decrypter bit the dust. The latest version can be coupled with some burning software or even DVD Shrink to easily create backups of your movies.

Creative has apparently bowed to RIAA pressure, issuing a firmware update for two of its players that removes the FM recording feature. In the past, the music industry has argued that recording from radio broadcasts hurt music sales, and has most recently attempted to stop satellite radio services from implementing similar features.

CDs and DVDs have been around for a while. Nevertheless, American-Israeli company Aladdin think it can breathe new life into these formats by creating a disc that combines optical storage capacity with an embedded electronic smart card chip.

Microsoft has spent the last decade trying to crack the TV market with billion-dollar investments in cable and telecom companies, numerous attempts at moving into the set-top box with limited success and an acquisition of WebTV, a service to allow people to browse the Internet through a TV set.

The International Federation for the Phonograph Industry has issued a new round of lawsuits against peer-to-peer file sharers across the globe, suing 8,000 individuals in 17 countries. This includes the first cases filed in Brazil, Mexico and Poland.

Most Japanese hardware vendors consider recording an essential function for Japanese consumers. Unlike western markets, where DVD players have driven most of today's DVD hardware sales, the Japanese market has focused more on the sales of DVD recorders.

Philips has had no new takers for its new Veeza licensing system for CD-R disc patents in Taiwan since Ritek was the first to join the program late last month.

Maxell has announced that it will stop making DVD recordable media in its current plant in Japan, moving the production to other countries.

Ozzie optoelectronics manufacturer Arasor and laser specialist Novalux have unveiled a working laser TV prototype in Sydney, a modified 52-inch Mitsubishi WD-52627 using Arasor's optical chips and lasers to drive the display.

The DVD Forum plans to draw up a blue-laser HD DVD-ROM format specifically for and only available in the China market.

In North America and Japan, Sony's best-selling regions in global terms, the company has as of now ceased to market monitors and at the end of the year the Japanese group will also terminate its monitor business in Europe - which at 30 percent is also an important market for the company.

LG.Philips LCD has announced that it has forged a strategic alliance with Toshiba to jointly develop their positions in the growing European LCD TV market.

News has come across from Taiwan that there are increasing cases of 8x and 4x DVD+R/-R discs being passed off as 16x and 8x, respectively.

A partnership between Sonic Solutions and Macrovision may help pave the way for people to be able to walk into a store, order a movie and have it burned onto a DVD in 10 minutes.

Giving the Keynote address at Mipcom, Disney co-chair Anne Sweeney has broken with studio convention and recognised piracy as a business model to compete with, as opposed to simply an illegal threat to be battled.

Taiwan-based CyberHome Entertainment (once known as Protop Innotech), a maker of DVD players an recorders, has decided to stop producing DVD players mainly due to that Philips demands royalty payment, according to industry sources.

Sony does not expect to cut the U.S. price of its PSP handheld game system for the rest of 2006, and the number of available games will nearly double to about 230 in that time, Sony said on Thursday.

Creative has unveiled a new device called the Xmod, which is based upon the company's X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio platform and promises to improve the audio quality of compressed music, such as that purchased from Apple's iTunes or any MP3 files.

Erstwhile Blu-ray Disc backer HP is preparing an external HD DVD drive, it has emerged. The company's also equipping two of its consumer-oriented notebook and media centre systems with drives that support the next-gen optical disc format.