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The march of videogames to world domination is not slowing down. In the roughly 30 years since videogames have been around, they have become more and more important, both on a cultural and on an economical level. Some day, all other forms of entertainment that rely on visuals and sound to deliver an experience will h... |
3 July 2008
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HVDs, or Holographic Versatile Discs, are a type of optical digital data storing devices bearing a striking resemblance to the construction and operation of more common optical storing devices, such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray, relying on read/write techniques based on the principles of holography. Similar to typical op... |
3 July 2008
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Although most of us still rely on DVDs in order to pass information from one device to another, this procedure will soon be considered history. That's because Blu-ray technology can now allow more data to be stored on a single disk. But maybe, just maybe, this standard still has a fighting chance, that is if ind... |
30 June 2008
08:42 GMT |
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The fight against movie and software piracy has just recorded another win as the MPA along with the help of other organizations, including here the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft, managed to shut down an illegal DVD facility located in Kajang, Malaysia. According to a press statement signed by the MPAA,... |
9 May 2008
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Since Blu-ray has become the ultimate victor of the next-generation DVD format war, just about every major player on the consumer electronics' market has either prepared or launched something for this particular segment. And one such major name is Panasonic who has finally shed some new light on one of latest of... |
7 May 2008
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Despite the fact that the HD-DVD high-definition standard collapsed, and the new HD movie titles are only available in the Blu-Ray format, Sony's standard seems to have significant adoption issues among consumers.According to a report released by Market analyst ABI Research, the Blu-Ray format has to carry anoth... |
22 April 2008
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Germany-based video company DVD-D unveiled a new optical medium that is able to store data just like a regular DVD disk, except for the fact that data mysteriously disappears after 48 hours. The new single-use DVDs are already available on the French, Italian and Scandinavian markets, and are mostly used in movie ren... |
18 April 2008
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It all started in 1982, when compact discs became commercially available. They were the first optical devices used to store data in a digital format, have typical capacities of up to 700 megabytes, or 80 minutes in audio format, and diameters between 60 to 120 millimeters. In 1997, a new optical storing medium became... |
17 April 2008
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Malaysia doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to respecting intellectual property rights, and the authorities are trying to take measures to change that. Two male Labradors, specially trained to sniff out the chemicals used in DVD production, have been brought from Northern Ireland and will become the ... |
4 March 2008
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The Christmas shopping spree is in full swing as we speak and everyone's running like crazy from one mall to the next, storming (or better said, stampeding) each store in search for those perfect gifts. However, it seems that Europeans have already decided on their assortment of gifts for this year, and the DVD ... |
19 December 2007
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Yes, folks, the ongoing battle between the two competing next-gen DVD formats is far from over and it seems that the scales are slowly tipping in favor of Sony's little Blu-rayed baby, as the latest figures released by the Blu-ray Disc Association show a huge gap between the two formats, although just in a speci... |
23 November 2007
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What has the world come to? The AVS Forum, probably the largest online forum on audio/visual discussion is up against a new kind of problem, one that was previously reserved for game consoles only - Fan Flame Wars. It sounds like an episode of Scooby Doo but it's actually a good reason for everybody to take a st... |
8 November 2007
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Amy Winehouse has some serious nerve - or maybe it's a delayed effect from all the serious drug-taking and boozing she's been doing lately, we'll never know. But the troubled British star is definitely one stubborn addict and now she's making it all public by releasing a DVD ironically entitled "I... |
23 October 2007
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LaCie announced the launch of another line of products designed by the well known industrial designer Sam Hecht and this time we are talking about portable optical disc drives that come with the latest technologies enabled.On the outside the new LaCie Portable DVD burning optical drives are sporting a slim and stylis... |
20 September 2007
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Asus announced the launch of a new optical disc drive which is designed and aimed for users needing high performance drives that can playback high definition movies and offer a complete solution for writing optical discs. The next generation of Asus DVD writer drivers is the BC-1205PT, a multi format capable drive w... |
7 September 2007
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It would seem that Epson's been on quite a roll lately, launching quite a wide array of products in several of the most important areas of the consumer electronics' market. Thus, after announcing yesterday its high-end EMP-TW2000 3LCD projector, the company has come back with two new compact combo models fr... |
5 September 2007
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At the IFA trade show from Berlin Toshiba presented a new HD DVD-Writer which also integrates support for the most popular optical disc formats out there. Coming as a combo drive and featuring HD DVD-Writer and HD DVD Super-Multi properties the latest Toshiba optical drive unit is personal computer compatible.The new... |
3 September 2007
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Asus announced the launch of a new line of high performance optical drives which features the DRW-2014 L1T internal DVD and CD rewriter. This new internal disc burner computer hardware part also is fully compliant with the latest specifications of the LightScribe technology allowing users to select and draw their own... |
30 August 2007
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LG Electronics announced the release of a new optical drive that is intended for external operation and comes packed in a slim and easily portable form. The new external optical drive comes in two versions, the simpler GSA-E50N and the LightScribe capable GSA-E50L and it is specially created for use with laptops and ... |
29 August 2007
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Most computer users that are the proud possessors of an older optical burning drive have just about three options in order to label their freshly backed CDs or DVDs. First of all, there is the option of using a soft tipped marker pen and hand writing your very own label, but this option leaves the optical discs in a ... |
27 August 2007
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Mempile, an Israeli company that is specialized in technologies related to optical storage and the development of new optical mediums, announced the successful testing of its TeraDisc technology that is capable of storing one terabyte of data on a single and cost effective DVD-like optical medium.One terabyte of data... |
23 August 2007
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I almost felt sorry for the supporters of HD DVD last week, when an independent report informed us that Blu-ray was twice as popular as its rival. Back then, I questioned the marketing tactics adopted by the HD DVD support group, but it would seem that said tactics (with a little extra "incentives" on the side) have ... |
21 August 2007
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Now, this crap won't make your child a brainy Hawkings but on the contrary, dumb as a rock. Encourage your child to learn language from DVDs and videos like "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby" and he/she will hardly manage to express himself/herself...A new research made at the University of Washington and Seattle... |
10 August 2007
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Sony Electronics announced the release of its next generation DVD burner that supports the dual format DVD/CD recordable drives and comes in three separate designs in order to meet the industry's fastest recording speeds. This new series is called the 840 and it fully supports the 20X DVD±R recording speeds, bei... |
8 August 2007
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Jessica Simpson is a great actress, one of those few genuinely talented thespians who know all the tricks in the book to making a mind-blowing movie... in her head alone! She might be cute and cuddly-like, she may have the good looks and the financial power to back up all her forays into the art of cinematography, bu... |
3 August 2007
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PlayStation fans truly have it their way today and although Sony hasn't really announced anything new for the powerful system, confirmation that the PS3's time has come, is indeed something to make your day. According to this piece up on Evil Avatar, David Karraker told GamesIndustry.biz that their investme... |
1 August 2007
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Here's something you never thought you'd hear during this generation of gaming hardware: the developers of Project Gotham Racing 4 are having trouble with space when coming up with the highly anticipated Xbox 360 exclusive. Apparently, it has something to do with creating the textures for each time of the d... |
1 August 2007
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The Denon company is an important member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, so it's no wonder that it's actively involved in the development of various equipment compatible with the next-generation DVD format promoted by Sony. And their latest announcement proves just how far this commitment really goes, as t... |
25 July 2007
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Sharp is quite a well-known manufacturer of various electronic devices, but its expertise in the DVD and Blu-ray players' field is rather limited, at least compared to other major manufacturers. This is why the rumor that the company might actually release a Blu-ray player came as quite a surprise, especially si... |
10 July 2007
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You're going to change your perspective on how many gamers are out there, after you read this. Apparently, a study conducted by The Diffusion Group shows that 80 percent of the 2000 console owners surveyed, are aware of their systems' capabilities - mainly, DVD playback. It seems that only 30 percent know t... |
2 July 2007
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The race (well, it's an all-out war, but race sounds a lot more...fairer) between the next-generation DVD formats is far from over, each of the two sides trying to do their best in order to outmaneuver and gain a lead over the other. And the latest move in this ongoing marketing chess game has been made by the B... |
29 June 2007
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The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has come up with a plan of turning into reality one of the craziest ideas that ever popped into their heads. Due to the fact that currently DVD sales are pretty poor (all hail the DVD-ripping software!) and the fact that HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays will soon have the same fate, the... |
25 June 2007
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The format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is far from over, and every week marks yet another major development in this competition. Even if only a few days ago HD DVD supporters announced that they've got the lead in this race, it would seem that the tables have turned, at least after Blockbuster's surprise... |
18 June 2007
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Here are some interesting facts on how technology affects us, how the time when these processes start affecting us plays a crucial factor. The report pokes the issues of penetration of consumer electronics (CE) in kids' lives today and how this has changed since the earlier 2005 and 2006 studies, measuring devic... |
6 June 2007
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Snails are famous for their "incredible" speed and they never seem to be in a hurry. Well, this time they seem to be pretty fast when it comes to getting in the outer space. It took them almost two hours to get to the International Space Station (ISS).They have been launched on Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in... |
14 May 2007
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Just yesterday we talked about St Helens Police conducting a surprise raid resulting in the arrest of seven people, one of which had been using his house as a mini factory to make illegal copied Xbox, PlayStation2 and PC games. Today's news says practically the same thing, only the location and numbers are diffe... |
11 May 2007
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DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc, is one of the most popular video formats used these days. The DVD media format can be used to store data or movies with high video and sound quality, the latter being called DVD-Video discs. If you have ever thought of converting your AVI movie collection to a DVD one, with ... |
10 May 2007
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Let's say you have a DVD camcorder, you've recorded some important events and now you want to convert them into AVI format. What are you going to do? The following guide will teach you how to achieve this task in a few minutes (except the conversion process, which is done automatically and takes between 3... |
6 May 2007
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When I'm thinking of a DVD, this common media support that in a very short period of time has spread all over the world, making the life of the CD so hard, everything related to it comes to my mind: action movies, my relative's wedding capture, high quality video concerts, my huge collection of photos that ... |
5 May 2007
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Ripping DVD movies to more compressed formats is quite an old practice. It was more popular in the past, when everyone had small hard disks and, at that time, it was more practical to store a 700MB avi file rather than a 4GB DVD image iso file. Even today, when the latest hard disks allow us to store a far more great... |
25 April 2007
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Parents (especially parents of twins) can now sleep in peace during long trips knowing that Disney's new Dual-Screen Mobile DVD system makes it possible for both their kids to squint at the same movie without bumping their heads. What a breakthrough! Will this mobile DVD player make kids enjoy movies quietly fro... |
16 April 2007
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In the last couple of years, multimedia support in Linux has evolved quite nicely. Nowadays, modern distributions provide software for playing, editing or remastering video and audio files, several cool games with complex and modern graphics have already got released and I'm sure many more will follow. At this e... |
12 April 2007
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Bollyood and Hollywood movie lovers, take note! Toshiba has started hitting the US retailers' shelves. Toshiba's HD-A20 joins the existing Toshiba DVD line-up which includes the entry level HD-A2 and the top of the line, HD-XA2. This expanded line of products offers enhanced functionalities of the HD DVD fo... |
12 April 2007
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Hammacher Schlemmer, a retailer of luxury goods, is selling a peculiar media player. The thing, dubbed the Portable Video iPod Enlarger and DVD Player, is mainly intended to play DVDs on the go but also to act as a video iPod "enlarger". You can dock a 30, 60 or 80 GB iPod video device into the back, allowing you to ... |
6 April 2007
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OpenSource applications have been an intriguing subject for a long time. Who makes them, how do they make them and most of all, why they are made are the main themes of this never-ending discussion. As for every delicate situation, people are divided into three large categories: those who are pro, those who are again... |
4 April 2007
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Kaleidoscope is a company that manufactures home media servers, composed out of a server, a music player and a movie player. The price tag is of around $10.000 for one of these, so one must wonder why pay such a price for a multimedia center, a very powerful one nevertheless, but still it's just a multimedia cen... |
30 March 2007
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A not so well known name in the computer industry is Israel-based Mempile company; they have proven that up to 250 hours of HD programming or one terabyte of information can be stored on a sigle, DVD-sized optical disk. This has been achieved through their TeraDisk technology, which allowed them to record 500GB of da... |
29 March 2007
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Have you ever tried video editing when you know nothing about transferring home videos to your PC? It can really give you a lot of trouble. We all know most PCs don't come with FireWire, composite or S-video connection that enables the capture of video from a camcorder, VCR or other video device. And of course y... |
23 March 2007
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Since the release of the HD-DVD, there have been many arguments, both for and against it, and competition from rivaling Blu-ray technology hasn't exactly made things any easier. Sure, it's nice to watch a movie in HD format, the quality of the image and the sound are beyond the capabilities of normal DVDs d... |
21 March 2007
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Handmark recently announced the immediate availability of Hollywood.com Mobile, optimized for today's most popular mobile phones. Hollywood.com Mobile features a customized movie search, the most recent DVD listings, the latest movie news and a comprehensive database of celebrity information. Movie search provid... |
15 March 2007
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