Apple Signs Deal to Rent Movies via iTunes Store |
Apple announced at the ongoing Macworld conference that its iTunes store now offers renting as well as buying movies from all the major studios from Hollywood in certain regions. The new servi... |
AMD and DivX Sign Agreement, Set to Increase DivX Support by Consumer Electronics |
Advanced Micro Devices, a leading maker of various chips, and DivX, a digital media company, said on Wednesday that they had signed an agreement under which certain AMD Xilleon digital media p... |
Sony PlayStation 3 Costs Approximately $400 to Make, Says Analyst |
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. does no longer lose hundreds of dollars on every Sony PlayStation 3 game console it makes, an analyst said late last year. Apparently, the latest game system f... |
Toshiba Deploys New HD DVD Marketing Initiatives |
Toshiba Corp.’s U.S. subsidiary announced on Monday new pricing of HD DVD players as well as new initiatives to boost interest towards HD DVD format. The move is projected to keep HD DVD... |
Sony BMG to Sell DRM-Free Tracks via Amazon |
A little more than two years after failing to “protect” its records using malicious software implemented on every CD Sony BMG record company decided to allow Amazon.com online musi... |
Sony Ceases Sales of PlayStation 3 20GB and 60GB in Domestic Market |
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan said this week that it had stopped shipping versions of its PlayStation 3 game console with hardware backwards compatibility to Japan. As a result of the deci... |
Blu-Ray Disc Backers Demonstrate Interactive Content Features |
Blu-ray disc association, the organization that oversees development of Blu-ray high-definition video disc, demonstrated its BD Live technology at Consumer Electronics Show. With no exact avai... |
Panasonic Displays 150?Plasma TV with 4096x2160 Resolution |
Panasonic Corp, a leading maker of consumer electronics and the world’s largest producer of plasma televisions, demonstrated its new plasma TV that has extreme size and resolution that e... |
Retailers Still Do Not Consider High-Definition Media Mainstream |
In spite of the recent announcements by Warner Bros., high-ranking executives of leading retail chains in the USA do not think that the war between Blu-ray disc (BD) and HD DVD is over. Moreov... |
Art Lebedev's Keyboards to Become More Affordable, Company Says |
Art Lebedev, a leading design studio from Russia best known for its innovative gadgets, said in a brief interview that the price of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is set to drop in future. The p... |
Sony PlayStation Portable Gets Skype |
In a bid to create the most feature-rich mobile entertainment devices Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced at Consumer Electronics Show that its well-known Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP... |
HD DVD Promo Group Shows the Perfect Outlook |
Despite of the sudden decision by Warner Bros. to release its titles on Blu-ray disc (BD) exclusively starting from June, 2008, the HD DVD Promotional Group still believes that the forma... |
MSI May Prepare Competitor for Asus Eee PC |
MicroStar International (MSI), one of the world’s largest suppliers of computer hardware, recently disclosed that it plans to release a personal computer priced at about $300 in order to... |
Microsoft Xbox 360 Game Console Celebrates Record Year |
Microsoft Corp. said at Consumer Electronics Show on Monday that it had managed to sell 17.7 million of its Xbox 360 game consoles. With shipments numbers close to those of life-to-date sales ... |
Warner Set to Cease Support of HD DVD Format |
Warner Bros. Entertainment on Friday said that starting from May, 2008, it will only release its high-definition movies on Blu-ray discs and will cease to support HD DVD. The decision is a maj... |