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LG ready to launch DVD players with MPEG-4-HD

LG Electronics shows at this week's IFA two DVD players ready to play MPEG-4 HD content from DVDs, one of them, the DVS450H with a unique design: the device can be used horizontally or vertically and even mounted on a wall. ... [More]

Vote with Microsoft

Regarding a news shown at Afterdawn.com the Redmonds are going to gather Xbox 360 user as voters in the next US Presidential elections. Therefor Microsoft has partnered up with Rock the Vote, trying to help the group mobilizing two million under-30 voters. ... [More]

Sony Ericsson starts DRM-free music store in Scandinavia

First announced in 2007, Sony Ericsson's starts this Monday its long awaited DRM-free download store PlayNow Arena - complete with 1 million DRM-free tracks for cell phones. 4 million more are yet to come, when the service is worldwide available. For now only Scandinavians can use it. ... [More]

How to build a hype: Actors mimic iPhone buyers

If there's no hype, build one. Like Orange, the largest mobile phone operator in Poland, who paid dozens of actors to make up queues in front of 20 stores around the country, pretending interest in Apples iPhone debut in Poland. ... [More]

Bad news for PlayTV concerned: Sony skips back to DRM

As Sony recently announced, the upcoming PlayTV device will not be the DRM-less device it was supposed to be - and therefor not half as interesting as the past hype intimated. By the way: PlayTV will not be compatible with HD signals as well. ... [More]

Coming soon: PSP-3000

Rumors had been there all along, now it seems certain, that Sony plans to publish a new PSP model very soon. Since any new device needs a FCC filing, before it can be brought to market, you can tell by the facts Sony had to communicate, it's dubbed PSP-3000 and looks exactly like the forerunners. ... [More]

UK may increase copyright penalties

The United Kingdom may increase copyright penalties. As a speaker of the Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) confirmed, the jurisdiction is currently consulting on plans to elevate the maximum fine for online copyright infringement from £5,000 up to £50,000. ... [More]

Sorry, this Application is disabled by Apple

Just in case and of course just to protect customers, Apple is able to remotely disable App Store applications, as CEO Steve Jobs recently confirmed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. ... [More]

LightScribe DVDs now available in colour

LightScribe is a technology for burning labels directly on DVDs by using the same burner who wrote the data - but unfortunately only in greyscales on a gold background. Up to now, since the LightScribe disc labeling system now presents DVD discs, that add red, orange, yellow, blue, and green colours. ... [More]

Sony to release new PS3 firmware this week

An update for an update: One week after Sony released the long anticipated 2.40 firmware update and bricked a few consoles as well as introduced freezing glitches and other failures, a new firmware 2.41 is supposed to fix what 2.40 left behind. ... [More]

Nice price: ?31,500 bill for one TV show download

A nightmare for consumers, a wet dream for cell phone providers: Hardly anybody realizes how severe data roaming charges can be - as Iayn Dobsyn, an IT worker from Britain, who downloaded a Prison Break episode plus some music on holidays in Portugal. Using his Manchester-based Yes Telecom mobile broadband card, the bill reached the enormous ammount of ?31,500. ... [More]

Does Firefox 3.1 support native Ogg video and audio?

It seems that the Mozilla foundation is seriously interested in implementing an Ogg video and audio decoder into their Firefox browser - despite recent W3C standards and the usual way of things leaving the format choice to developers and users. ... [More]

McFly plans giveaway album

Just like Prince, who gave away his album 'Radio:ACTIVE' with a Sunday newspaper in the UK, the pop band McFly plans to follow this idea of promoting their songs by bypacking their new album to 'Mail on Sunday' on July 20th. ... [More]

New cut price on Xbox 360?

Rumours say, Microsoft will cut prices again on its Xbox 360 game console. Plans are to reduce the price of the Xbox 360 Pro model by $50, to $299 in the next few weeks. ... [More]

PS3 DualShock comes to Europe

Finally: As Sony Europe confirmed yesterday, the DualShock 3 controller for the PlayStation 3 will be available in Europe on July, 4th - some months after its release in Japan and the United States. ... [More]

BBC starts Freeview HD

As the BBC recently announced, they have started testing HD services over the second generation DVB-T specification DVB-T2. If successful, the broadcaster plans to publish HD content by December next year. ... [More]

PS3 firmware 2.4: Some details leaked

As online service CVG claimed, they got their hands on the final list of features for the PlayStation 2.40 firmware update, which will be available and officially announced very soon. ... [More]

Google's Media Server

Google's latest Windows application is a media server to connect UPnP devices like PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to internet video services like Youtube. ... [More]