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New Music Download Service: Free & Legal (Update)

Qtrax: It's protected by DRM, it's mainly made by the music industry - but it's as free as p2p. Well, nearly, because you have to go through some advertisement before you can download your song ... ... [More]

Universal doesn't give up on HD-DVD

After Warner's decision to stop supporting HD-DVD (and after people vote with their purses for Blu-ray), nearly every studio was leaving the HD-DVD train - except Universal, officially stating to continue supporting HD-DVD. ... [More]

Hitman: Digital Copy included

Hollywood's Fox recently released the final specs for the Blu-ray debut of 'Hitman,' coming March, 2008. As stated, the studio promises a movie with lots of supplements - and the long awaited first standard resolution "digital copy", going along with the high definition disc. ... [More]

Ooops, sorry, wrong piracy numbers

Does it really surprise anybody? As recently published by Ars Technica, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had to admit, that their college piracy numbers had been grossly inflated. ... [More]

Sony: No PS3 price drop after reduction of production cost

Recently Sony announced to have a 50 % drop of production cost in manufacturing their PS3 game console - provoking rumours of heavy price drops for a new device. Now the company makes clear: A $299 PS3 is nothing more than wishful thinking. ... [More]

Die hard copy protection

Even though anti-piracy functions vanished on audio CDs for consumers, they still survived in other places - like discs that are given to professional reviewers prior the release of a new record. No big surprise, that some of these records are too protected to listen to, which in return leads to a negative review ... ... [More]

Toshiba cuts prices for HD-DVD player

As a reaction to the latest 'victories' of the Blu-ray competitor (many studios dropped HD-DVD) Toshiba now drops all prices of their devices - either to get their head up again or at least to make some money before consumers worldwide will ignore HD-DVD. ... [More]

3D TV from Samsung

In the near future Samsung is going to publish two plasma HDTV screens, that are capable of displaying 3D content. As Samsung announced, they believe, there is a big market for 3D movies and, of course, computer games. ... [More]

Microsoft ready to back up Blu-ray on their Xbox 360?

"It should be consumer choice; and if that's the way they vote, that's something we'll have to consider," a Microsoft-spokesman said earlier this week - which means, that, despite the format war is still going on, the concern considers supporting Blu-ray with the Xbox 360. ... [More]

Warner Bros turns Blu

Seems the time, Warner Bros uses both Blu-ray and HD DVD, is over. Hollywood's biggest seller of DVDs just turned to Blu-ray - exclusively from June, 2008 on, followed instantly by New Line. ... [More]

Happy new year - we're back!

We are back from holidays - just in time to wish all our customers, readers and business-partners a happy new year as well as some curiosity about what we are going to present 2008: new products, better versions of our top titles and a fresh website. Stay tuned ... ... [More]