Topic: News

The world's second largest music company Sony BMG this month will become the last of the big four recording companies to drop DRM protection schemes from its music downloads.

Pioneer, which is sticking to making plasma flat-panel TVs as other manufacturers are switching to LCD TVs, have announced they will be demonstrating a prototype set that emits no light in black areas of the picture, improving contrast and image quality.

The decision by Warner Bros. to drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc for high-definition movies has set the electronics industry abuzz. Announced on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the move put a single question in the minds of thousands of industry insiders heading to the event in Las Vegas: Could the high-definition format war be over?

Asus announced the new DRW-2014S1/S1T ? a DVD rewriter that supports 14X DVD-RAM write, 20X DVD+/-R and 8X DVD+/-R dual layer media sources.

Apple's unconfirmed video rental service will debut with several companies onboard, not just one, according to the New York Times.

GearLive has revealed all regarding the 1.1.3 iPhone update that was rumoured to be due in December. The latest update brings many features iPhone users have been asking for.

Manufacturers of high-definition DVD players are slashing prices in an urgent pre-Christmas attempt to break the deadlock between two rival formats.

Sonic Solutions have announced that CMC Magnetics has signed a Qflix technology and IP licensing agreement.

Ritek will will become the first company to launch DVD+R DL 16X optical media.

Philips will reportedly lower its royalty rate for blank CD-R discs under its Veeza licensing system, according to a report.

The worldwide demand for single-side dual-layer DVD+R/-R discs will increase in 2008, according to sources at disc makers and research firms.

Toshiba have announced the new Qosmio G40/F40 series of notebooks equipped with a HD DVD drives for recording on HD DVD-R and HD DVD-RW media.

UK Linux and Mac users will be pleased to learn that the BBC hasn't forgotten them as it opens the doors on the Flash-based version of iPlayer, its seven day TV catch-up service.

Retailers think the Xbox 360 is most likely to win the next generation console war, but they're still annoyed by the ongoing Wii shortage, according to a survey.

Nintendo's Wii console may eventually get some form of voice chat, the company's American president says.

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.