Topic: News

Western Digital have introduced a simple way for consumers to play their stored digital content on their HDTV in Full- HD 1080p resolution.

Supermarket chain Sainsbury's is amongst the retailers who'll be offering you a £99 a year unlimited music service that lets you keep the DRM-free songs you download.

CMC Magnetics and Ritek, the top two Taiwan-based makers of blank optical discs, suffered large net losses in the third quarter.

Cyberlink's DVD Suite 7 includes tools for movie playback, video editing, disc production, and media management in one solution.

Panasonic is in talks to acquire Sanyo in a deal that would create Japan's largest electronics group and spur consolidation of the fragmented sector.

A small group of dedicated researchers over on the Doom9 forum have successfully defeated BD+, the Blu-ray copy-protection system.

The compact disc is dying along with the concept of the cheap CD store, according to AP.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced that certain notebook batteries manufactured by Sony have been recalled due to a fire hazard, pushing Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Toshiba to recall 100,000 computer battery packs.

A survey claims that London still has far more wireless network access points with 12,276 than either New York City, with 9,227, or Paris, with 4,481.

Google and book publishers and authors have reached a landmark settlement to a copyright dispute that will make millions of books available for purchase online.

A recent study shows gamers are much more likely to save the original DVD cases rather than store their disc somewhere else and throw the packaging away.

Xbox 360 owners who subscribe to both Xbox Live and Netflix will be able to stream about 300 titles in high definition starting next month at no extra cost.

Notebook shipments into the US exceeded 50 per cent in the third quarter, beating quarterly desktop shipments for the first time ever.

The rising popularity of digital video recorders (DVRs) seemed to spell doom for TV because the technology lets viewers skip ads, but a study shows DVRs are probably replacing DVD viewing, not television.

Yesterday is officially marked as the day that the VHS format died. After years of production JVC is the last manufacturer to stop making standalone VCRs.

Users soon will be able to use their BlackBerrys as video broadcasting machines thanks to new support from Qik.

The UK commercial music industry is to be represented by a new organisation in a bid to establish a unified music business position against illegal file sharing.

While Microsoft is getting ready to talk about Windows 7 at the PDC next week, the company provided today an update on its latest work for Windows Vista, that will include support for Blu-ray recording.

GOG.com (Good Old Games) has entered public beta, offering lots of PC games from yesteryear for download.

A month after irking indie fans by launching its online music service mostly with major labels, MySpace Music is set to double its catalogue of indie tunes.