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DS Downloads come to the Wii

As Nintendo recently announced, the company will launch a new channel to go along with the Wiiware download platform and which is supposed to offer streaming video, game trailers, previews, and developer interviews. ... [More]

Buffalo brings Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo

HD-DVD might be dead, but it seems, that doesn't stop certain companies from still producing devices to play the discs. As Buffalo, which brings a Blu-ray combo drive supporting HD-DVD as well. According to their press release the drive is placed to satisfy the 'tech-savvy customer'. ... [More]

AACS without managed copies

Does anybody wonder? It seems like the final specifications of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), industry's content protection, misses out the once promised Managed Copy function. This function was supposed to allow customers coping high-def content in less picture quality for private use. ... [More]

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS released

Hardy Heron comes to town. Less sensational, less feature-supercharged, but more stable und more user-friedly than ever before. Even Die-Hard-Windows-User will be amazed: a new installer will setup Linux directly on your harddisk - without leaving Windows, without partitioning and without extra CD-boot. ... [More]

3D as Plan B for DVD

The DVD Forum recently announced, that it might be possible to integrate 3D movie technology into the DVD format specifications. Right now they have plans to study ideas of bringing the new technology into the old standard. ... [More]

Nintendo's Wii still No. 1

In Microsoft-speech it's the Xbox 360, which outsold Sony's Playstation 3, for the rest of the world it's Nintendo's Wii, which outsold both, Sony's PS3 as well as Microsoft's Xbox 360. Regarding to NPD analyst Anita Frazier the Wii sales represent 31 % "of the industry's dollars [...] across hardware, software and accessories". ... [More]

iPlayer found it's way to Sony's PS3 - unofficially

The iPlayer is the base of the BBC's on-demand Internet TV service - now on Sony's PS3 as well, even though not officially und through a site, that masks the PS3-browser's user-agent string and makes some changes in favor of JavaScript and CSS functioning well on the console. ... [More]

XBOX 360 HD-DVD Update

The fact, that HD-DVD is dead, doesn't mean, all of it vanished from the earth. And even though Microsoft has stopped production of the XBOX 360 HD-DVD add-on, people still have problems regarding the once bought accessory, especially compatibility-difficulties with certain HD-DVD titles. ... [More]

HD-DVD: Early-adopter-reward at Amazon

Since Toshiba's HD-DVD evolved to Optical Media's Next No Go, Amazon plans to ease some pain for early adopters, who purchased an HD-DVD set-top player, with a $50 credit. ... [More]

Streaming BBC content on your Wii

Nintendo has teamed up with Britain's BBC to bring their popular iPlayer video service to the Wii this summer - unfortunately only in the UK. The iPlayer will allow streaming and downloading of BBC programmes directly on the gaming console. ... [More]

DTS-HD Master Audio: Coming Upgrade for Sony's PS3

Long after the first release-infos, Sony and DTS made another plan to add DTS-HD Master Audio output for Blu-ray to the PlayStation 3 - this time it seems for real. As Sony announced, there will be a firmware upgrade early next week, which brings the feature. ... [More]

Apple & Adobe stop security leaks in their players

Not as an attempt to dance together, but by chance Adobe and Apple released new versions of their media players for security reasons. Both updates addresses a wide range of security holes. ... [More]

The best place to be when the content industry wants you ...

... is an Australien police department. Because hundreds of police officers across South Australia were being caught using their work computers to illegally copy movies none of them will be charged. 'They are too many' ... ... [More]

Silverlight 2 doesn't know Flash

The roadmap for Silverlight, as it has been published by developer Ashish Thapliyal, reveals the final launch for this summer - and, more important, that Microsoft doesn't have any intentions to make Silverlight Adobe-compatible to play back Flash video files (.flv). ... [More]

Xbox 360.1?

As different sources in the internet report, Lite-on seem to build Blu-ray Disc drives for the Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console. Why these rumors stomp out is widely unknown, since the company officially supports Downloads instead of a new optical drive - especially since the production cost will rise from 18.- to 20.- US-Dollar for a DVD drive up to 100.- Dollar for a Blu-ray drive. ... [More]

Plextor 750GB HDD plays HDX4 and else

As hardware producer Plextor recently announced to add a 750GB model to their external harddisk series. Like it's predecessor the disk will be connectable directly to a TV set and be able to playback MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 like HDX4, Xvid and DivX as well as MP3 music and High Definition JPEG pictures. ... [More]

Resurrection: Chinese company bought HD-DVD rights

As the Chinese company 'Pri Laneo' in a press release recently announced, they obtained licenses to all relevant patents regarding HD DVD media and hardware. Also the company claimed to have closed deals for pressing and distributing HD DVD movies - mostly adult films and Bollywood productions. ... [More]

Apple updates Apple TV to Version 2.01

Not very long ago after their latest big Update, Apple published version 2.0.1 of their Apple TV. The update brings some bugfixes as well as some new features: ... [More]

Cell phones harass iPod, MP3 & Co

Who needs an iPod or any other music player after buying a music phone? As a report of MultiMedia Intelligence shows, more than 500 million phones capable of playing music were shipped in 2007 worldwide, 300 million devices more than dedicated MP3 players. ... [More]