Topic: News

Anyone into downloading pirate movies from the internet over the last few years likely knows that the label ‘maVen’ on a video release was usually a mark of a high quality ‘cammed’ movie. After dozens of major releases and investigations by the FBI and Canadian police, ‘maVen’ now faces 6 months in jail.

The Samsung BD-P1400 is cheapest Blu-ray Disc player yet. Mimicking the way HD DVD players hit new rock bottom prices with sudden, unannounced sales, Blu-ray Disc hardware is at a never before seen level of affordability.

TMPG, Inc. is introducing an updated version of its popular TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring software.

Hollywood director Michael Bay has attacked Microsoft and the HD-DVD format, claiming that Microsoft's goal is to make both formats fail.

LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling have announced the release of their free LightScribe Template Labeler, labeling software designed to simplify and enhance customers' CD and DVD labeling.

BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538.

While Toshiba has enjoyed exceptionally booming sales of its HD-A2 HD DVD player in the North America market, Blu-ray Disc (BD) appears to have gained the upper hand in the PC-use drive segment.

LG has officially today announced the release of the first Blu-Ray/HD DVD Super-multi DVD burner capable of writing at 6x on Blu-Ray media.

Nero and TiVo today announced that they have entered into an agreement to further enable the connected digital home by integrating TiVo's television user experience with Nero's PC software.

France is to set up a new Internet authority with powers to suspend or cut access to the web for those who illegally file-share, under an agreement.

IBM is seeking to patent technology that would place adverts at crucial points in DVD playback without the viewers ability to skip them.

Hackers have created a proof-of-concept exploit for an Apple QuickTime player streaming media vulnerability.

With the release of v6.2.0.1 of AnyDVD HD, you can finally rip any BD+ disk with a single mouse click. We can't recommend this software enough and heartily recommend you buy a copy so you can watch your legally purchased movies on your legally purchased hardware, something nearly impossible to do if you don't buy it all at once from a single vendor.

20th Century Fox recently announced that it will add a "Digital Copy" version of "Die Hard 4" to a two-disc special-edition DVD release, while other studios are also expected to embrace the concept.

The BBC Trust have announced plans for a high definition channel to be available on the Sky satellite service. Despite calls from some for the BBC to broadcast 4 hours of Freeview hi-def content per day, the governing body decided against that course because it would require equipment that would likely be obsolete after the official Freeview HDTV standard is complete.

Nintendo have announced the "DS-TV" on their Japanese site, a cartridge with an attached antenna that would allow DS and DS Lite owners to watch their favourite programs on the go.

Rumour has it that European optical media distribution giant E-Net distribution are moving to a custom built site close to Edinburgh Airport. The Hi Tech Business pace which strangely enough is called E-Net park is also in close proximity to the local sea shipping port in Grangemouth on the main M9 motorway.

When we contacted John Gillen the business development manager for e-netpark he said “sorry we don’t comment on rumours” nice try John…

The E-netpark website

Pioneer announced today its latest series of 20x dual format DVD writers, offering C /DVD/DVD-RAM writing support in SATA and PATA versions, as well as a new feature for accurate reading of Audio CDs.

DVD kiosks located in supermarkets, fast-food restaurants and other high-traffic locations will expand their share of the rental market to 20% to 25% within about three years, predicts the chairman and CEO of No. 3 kiosk operator DVDPlay.

A Pioneer-created TV service will soon enter public testing and allow consumers to download unlimited numbers of TV shows for a monthly fee.