Mitsubishi has announced two models from its new "REAL Blu-ray" Blu-ray Disc recorder series. The two models are the "DVR-BZ200" with a 500-Gbyte HDD and the "DVR-BZ100" with a 250-Gbyte HDD. These are Mitsubishi's first Blu-ray recorders.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone have launched a website streaming every South Park episode ever made, all for free.

Now that Blu-ray is the high-definition format, and prices of Blu-ray content and hardware are still high, we can expect a showdown between the HD format and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV).

iPhone operator partner O2 has announced it will team up with Napster to offer the UK's largest full track mobile music download service.

The BBC has moved to fix an exploit in its video on demand iPlayer service that was letting users download and save programming DRM-free, as we reported in Get BBC Programs On Your Mobile Device.

Nine Inch Nails' experiment with selling a new album almost exclusively by itself has netted more than $1.6 million over just the space of a week, the band have claimed.

Japanese companies plan to cut off the Internet connection of anyone who illegally downloads files in one of the world's toughest measures against online piracy, a report said Saturday.

Becoming the first major studio to issue an extensive next-gen price cut, Fox has announced it is discounting 22 of its top Blu-ray catalog releases.

The Eee PC sold great last year, and continues to sell even better. Many sub-notebook fans can hardly wait for the next-generation of Asustek's ultra-mobile Eee. While the Asus Eee PC is getting
more and more popular, rumours regarding the premature wearing out of its different hardware components are frightening its users.

It has been described as the worst deal ever, but a brown bag full of crappy items is proving to be a huge hit amongst computer geeks throughout the UK.

Online retailer Big Pockets, bigpockets.co.uk, is struggling to keep up with demand for its quirky bag o’ crap offer which is selling at the knockdown price of £2.99. They have sold 4000 of them in the last 48 hours.

It has emerged that you can now download the shows on the BBC iPlayer using the MP4 format, which is used by devices such as the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and systems such as the Eee PC.

The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available as a free download on Xbox Live Marketplace when you request a token.

Gameloft has announced its intentions to develop games for the iPhone, with plans to release more than 15 titles by the end of 2008.

Samsung and Adidas are teaming up to compete with Apple and Nike's Nike+iPod program, introducing the miCoach workout tracking system. The miCoach system combines the miCoach phone with a heartrate monitor and stride sensor to provide accurate feedback about workout activities.

Film and television producer LionsGate has said that it is working with Apple to provide customers who buy certain DVD and Blu-ray movies with an included digital copy of the movie through iTunes as well.

Microsoft is planning a brand new Xbox that will include a Blu-ray drive. Confirming that Sony and Microsoft are in talks, a senior Sony President has claimed that the move will not hurt the Japanese consumer electronics company.

CMC Magnetics will not start commercial production of blank Blu-ray Disc (BD) discs until the global BD market emerges to some extent, according to company chairman, Robert Wong.

Plextor is extending its range of personal storage products with the new 320GB pocket hard disk ? Plextor PX-PH320US.

Last January Warner left the HD DVD format and immediately a destructive ball started spinning. Now that Blu-ray is the official high definition standard and the Blu-ray Disc Association owns the market, Toshiba could do two things: they could make their own Blu-ray drives, or buy one and integrate them in their notebooks/PCs.

Blu-ray's victory in the next generation disc market is all but assured. However, after years of a standards war, the major question for Sony and the Blu-ray camp is whether a physical format for HD still has any relevance to consumers in this era of Internet-delivered movies and video on demand, according to research firm iSuppli.