Samsung's Blu-Ray Player Now Available for $299 |
Samsung Electronics, a leading maker of various equipment, has quietly started to sell its BD-P1400 Blu-ray disc (BD) player for $299 in certain locations. The decision moves Blu-ray format in... |
Nintendo Mulls to Stop Wii Advertising Due to ¤’nprecedented?Demand |
Nintendo Corp. said on Friday that it was thinking about withdrawing TV advertisements of Wii game console-related products for some time. The motive for such an extraordinary decision was cla... |
Microsoft's Game Console Gets DivX Shortly After PlayStation 3 |
Shortly after the PlayStation 3 from Sony got support for DivX movies playback, its more successful rival – Microsoft Xbox 360 – also obtained the same functionality. The move came... |
HD DVD Add-On Drive for Xbox 360 Now Available for $129 |
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest maker of software and a strong backer of HD DVD format, has quietly slashed pricing of its add-on HD DVD drive for Xbox 360 game console. The decisio... |
Director Accuses Microsoft of Eventual Blu-Ray and HD DVD Failure |
Both Blu-ray disc (BD) and HD DVD have been available for a little less than two years now, but neither of them have become truly popular on the market. Perhaps, the reason is that high-def mo... |
350 Thousand Nintendo Wii Sold During Thanksgiving Week |
Nintendo of America announced on Wednesday that during the Thanksgiving week, the first week of holiday shopping season, record numbers of Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii game consoles were sold ... |
Art Lebedev Unveils Prices of Cut-Down Optimus Keyboards |
Art Lebedev, the design studio from Russia primarily known for its innovative Optimus keyboards, announced late on Tuesday three additional configurations of its full-size Optimus keyboards. T... |
Blu-Ray Camp Claims Disc Sales Lead in Europe, HD DVD Boasts with Installed Base in the U S |
Both Blu-ray disc (BD) and HD DVD promotion groups on Tuesday released statements claiming achievements of their formats. The Blu-ray disc Association said that one million of movies on BD hav... |
Game Developer Expect PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 to Cost $199 in Two Years |
Chief executive of Activision, a large game publishing company, said at a media summit on Tuesday that Microsoft Corp. and Sony need to aggressively reduce pricing of their latest game console... |
Sony PlayStation 3 Turns One Year Old, Recent Price-Cuts Have Effect, Sony Claims |
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) this week celebrates the first year anniversary of the PlayStation 3 game console release. Even though the console has hardly managed to become successf... |
Ageia Makes Physics Processing Units More Affordable |
Despite of being the only dedicated physics processing unit (PPU) for consumers on the market, Ageia PhysX has not become popular so far, although it has been available for about one and a hal... |
HD VMD Movies Delayed Amid Player Availability |
New Medium Enterprises, the developer and supplier of HD VMD – the third high-definition video format – hardware and content said that instead of November it would start to sell mo... |
Nintendo Predicts Wii Shortages Amid Producing Million Wii Game Consoles a Month |
A Nintendo marketing chief said in an interview that while Nintendo’s manufacturing partner Foxconn Electronics currently produces up to 1.8 million Nintendo Wii game console units ... |
Warner Has No Plans to Push Total HD Alone |
Warner Home Video, a leading content maker, said that it does not make any sense for it to promote Total HD hybrid discs alone and for the moment the intention to put both Blu-ray and HD DVD l... |
Blu-Ray Backer Approves New HD DVD Standard |
Walt Disney Home Entertainment, a major Hollywood studio and one of the strongest backers of Blu-ray disc format, voted for approval of a preliminary specification of 51GB triple-layer HD DVD ... |