The 43rd steering comittee meeting of the DVD Forum approved among other the specifications for the dual layer DVD-Download discs.

Andy Parsons, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, has openly stated that we shouldn't expect Blu-ray prices to go down any time soon.

In the last six months alone, dozy Londoners have left a whopping 55,843 mobile phones and 6,193 other handheld devices in the back of black cabs.

Imation have announced the first 6x Blu-ray recordable (BD-R) and Blu-ray recordable double layer (BD-R DL) media for the U.S. retail market.

DisplaySearch, the research firm, says worldwide sales of standalone Blu-ray players will hit 2.38 million this year, compared to 700,000 in 2007.

Imdb.com has begun showing more than 6,000 feature films and television shows submitted by CBS, Hulu.com, Sony Pictures Television, and more than 500 independent filmmakers.

Credit-crunch stricken gamers rejoice, because Microsoft has finally announced a long overdue European price cut for its Xbox 360 range.

Gemalto has started embedding a tiny DVD into the plastic card holding a new SIM chip, enabling Italy's Wind service to bundle 50MB of connection software and manuals in the same envelope as the SIM.

Pioneer have announced the launch of two new Blu-ray recorders in October in Japan. The BDR-WD900 has a 1TB hard drive, while the BDR-WD700 is fitted with a 500GB HD.

MySpace has landed itself a whole host of advertising deals for its MySpace Music venture, meaning that the website will soon be able to stream free music to its millions of users.

Your iPhone is watching every move you make and the folks at Appple know all about it according to Wired.

After years of industry wrangling, the first DVD drives that allow consumers to burn movie downloads to discs playable on any DVD player went on sale to consumers today.

Sony have introduced two notebooks with Blu-ray Disc technology - the Vaio NS and CS models.

Major Hollywood studios and consumer electronics and IT companies formed Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem - DECE - a consortium that will standardize digital content so that it will play across a wide variety of devices and platforms.

With more of us watching TV and video via our PCs, Microsoft is trying to stamp its ownership on the market with its new Protected Broadcast Driver Architecture (PBDA).

Apple forums are buzzing with complaints about disappearing files from the Cupertino company's newly-launched High Definition (HD) service through iTunes.

A designer has invented a toaster that can burn pretty much anything onto your morning slice, including the news.

Sky has put its planned terrestrial pay TV product "Picnic" on ice, blaming Ofcom's glacial decision-making.

Viddyou have launched what they claim is "the first consumer High Bitrate (HBR) video sharing service".

Pioneer are poised to introduce the BDR-WD900 and the BDR-WD700 Blu-ray recorders into the Japanese market.