Adult entertainment giant Vivid Entertainment Group said on Wednesday it will start next month selling downloadable movies that viewers can burn to DVD and watch on their TVs.

Hitachi Maxell have developed an ultrathin DVD with a thickness of just 92 micrometers, or roughly 1/13th the thickness of of conventional DVD disc, which can be stacked 100 discs high in a cartridge format.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will be announcing more details of a HD-DVD drive for the Xbox360 at this years E3 expo in Los Angeles.

THE MV960, flagship model in Canon's new range of DV camcorders, is a true widescreen camera. Its CCD has a widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio, allowing it to record in widescreen, without having to chop off parts of the picture, or resort to other trickery to get a widescreen image.

Philips is attempting to patent a technique that would prevent viewers from skipping through ads embedded within recorded programmes or even channel surfing during broadcast ad breaks - or force viewers to cough up cash if they want to avoid the ads.

New 24-karat gold CD-Rs and DVDs that extend the storage life of data, music and images for many decades are being introduced by KMP Media, LLC of Rochester, NY. Operating under trademark license from Eastman Kodak Company, KMP Media is marketing them as the KODAK Preservation CD-R and the KODAK Preservation DVD (-R).

Philips Research and New Venture Partners LLC have announced the creation of Liquavista, a new company that targets mobile display markets with radical new technology.

Universal, at least, is ready for anyone who's just bought a Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD player in the US and wants some hi-def films to play on it. The studio's Home Entertainment division today began shipping its first and only HD DVD title, Serenity, but you'll have to wait a week for further discs.

Slysoft's very popular DVD ripping software AnyDVD now comes with the ability to circumvent Macrovision's CDS-300 copy protection and the ability to remove CD DRM infections and corporate malware disguised as copy protection.

The US network Fox has signed a six-year agreement with its 187 affiliated stations that will let it show reruns of its television programs on the Internet.

Sony will offer Japanese consumers a Walkman-branded portable DVD player on 1 June, the consumer electronics giant said today. The tablet-style device sports a 7in LCD and a bundled recharging station with integrated stereo speakers.

Over 100,000 battery packs sold with Disney-branded DVD players could blow up in kiddies’ faces the US Consumer Product Safety Commission warned.

Prices of DVD+R/-R and CD-R discs will increase slightly in the third quarter, as utilization rates are currently running at 100%, according to Robert Wong, chairman of CMC Magnetics.

The first HD-DVD titles that were scheduled to go on sale Tuesday and Toshiba players have arrived at Best Buy and should be on sale in some of the chain's locations.

The DVD+RW Alliance have officially announced the release of version 1.0 specifications for 2.4X rewriting on Double Layer DVD+RW media.

TDK demonstrated a 100GB BD prototype in May 2005. The 100GB disc contains four data-storage layers, and the new 200GB version is expected to consist of four double-sided layers, which will yield four times the capacity of today's BDs.

Sales of second-hand Microsoft software licences have doubled month-on-month since the market was opened in November 2005, according to the Staffordshire start-up that spotted the opportunity in Microsoft's small print and Britain's insolvency laws.

Sonic Solutions division Roxio today released Popcorn 2, a duplication software for Mac users. Popcorn 2 adds the ability to convert DVD-Video and other video formats to video files that can be played on a Mac, or copy to portable video players like Apple's fifth-generation iPod, Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), 3GPP-equipped cell phones and other devices.

Video compression outfit Euclid Discoveries says it has invented a video-compression technology that can compress digital images into smaller files than today's most common compression technologies, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Pubs in East London are expected to see a major drop in the number of pirate DVD sellers following a raid on the UK’s biggest DVD piracy factory.