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iPodMeister, a company known to offer brand new iPods and iPhones in exchange for used CDs and DVDs, has announced an initiative to extend its program to include the new Apple iPad. Although requiring double, or even triple the amount of discs in exchange for a unit, compared to what they ask for an iPhone 3GS, the d... |
22 March 2010
07:57 GMT |
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Fluendo has announced the launch of the Fluendo Media Center for Linux, a multi-purpose media player. It bundles the company's DVD player with all of the other codecs it has acquired licenses for in a single package, which should allow Linux users to legally enjoy all the media files they own. Fluendo Media Cent... |
17 March 2010
22:41 GMT |
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Even though it has been years since the Blu-ray disk and drive was invented, DVDs are still the primary means of enjoying multimedia for mainstream users. The reasons for this are multiple, but one of them is on its way to disappearing now that Blu-ray technology is maturing. Prices of Blu-ray disks and drives have b... |
9 March 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Many of this summer’s huge releases have already gone into full promotional mode, some of them as early as approximately one year ahead of the official due date. One sequel that is mysteriously flying under the radar, as MTV News points out in a recent piece, is the third installment of “The Twilight Saga... |
16 February 2010
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Touting them as the “fastest, most chic optical drives around,” ASUS has released the SBC-06D1S-U and SDR-08B1-U slim external optical disk drives. These units are tailored to “[discern] users keen on award-winning design, meticulous craftsmanship, enhanced multimedia capabilities and environmentall... |
12 February 2010
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Final Fantasy XIII is set to arrive on Western markets on March 9 on both the PlayStation 3, the traditional platform for the Japanese role playing game from Square Enix, and the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft.The problem with going multiplatform has been the amount of data the new Final Fantasy title comes pac... |
4 February 2010
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Serving as one of the places for small, but significant announcements regarding Blizzard games, the Battle.net forums have revealed that the upcoming StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will follow the company's tradition of including both Mac and PC versions on the DVD installation disc. A recent post on the offici... |
1 February 2010
10:21 GMT |
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When the Blu-ray storage technology was developed and introduced to the IT industry, it was obvious that its much higher storage capacity and ability to store video in Full-HD quality made it significantly superior to the DVD. However, even four years after its development, the technology has still not become mainstr... |
26 January 2010
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Samsung has been releasing more products than can be counted at this year's Consumer Electronics Show and it seems that the company isn't even nearly ready to stop. The hardware and electronics maker has already launched transparent laptops, an e-reader and an NVIDIA 3D Vision-ready LCD, among other things.... |
8 January 2010
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2009 might have ended on a rather sad note for certain industry people, especially in the light of all those “best” and “worst” charts (here’s looking at you, Megan Fox), but that’s not to say that everything was bad in the year in that ended. The DVD rental business, for instance,... |
5 January 2010
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Software bragging about getting you a perfect backup for your DVD movies is easy to find, and no doubt plenty of them will deliver the promised quality provided they can decrypt the protection of the original disc.DVD-Cloner 7 has been in the business of offering comprehensive software for making perfect copies of yo... |
23 December 2009
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Even with the rapid ascension of Blu-ray media and Blu-ray drives on today's market, consumers still keep interest in DVD burners, as they are more accessible and DVDs have already a large-enough data capacity for reliable and efficient data storage. Pioneer's latest DVD burner, the DVR-S17J, not only p... |
7 December 2009
11:10 GMT |
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The iHAS524 DVD writer is Lite-On's first optical scribing drive that features the LabelTag technology. But we will get to that later. The product was announced earlier this year, namely in spring, but only now, nearing the winter holidays, does it finally reach the European market segment. The product is design... |
24 November 2009
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Global leader in the field of optical storage, Lite-On introduced its new external DVD burner, the eHAU424. Featuring a high write speed of 24x for DVD, this optical storage unit combines the regular capabilities of everyday optical drives with a couple of supplementary technologies aimed at increasing usability. Li... |
19 November 2009
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Stating today, October 20th, Digiarty Software, the developer of a sum of applications bent on video manipulation, is offering the latest version of its DVD authoring tool for free. Even with Blu-ray gaining more and more turf and DVD standard slowly falling into oblivion, there is still demand on the market for apps... |
20 October 2009
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In a clear bid to capitalize as much as possible on the hype around “New Moon,” the second installment in “The Twilight Saga,” Revolver announced the other day it would release a Robert Pattinson documentary in November. Now, the first trailer for “Robsessed,” the production in que... |
9 October 2009
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Robert Pattinson fans have more surprises waiting for them in November than just the release of the second “Twilight” film, “New Moon.” Customers in the US and the UK will also get, roughly on the same date with the vampire flick, a brand-new documentary on the whole Pattinson phenomenon, aptl... |
7 October 2009
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Ever since its launch, iPhone has turned into the new hype. Everybody on the Internet talked about it, Apple fans (and not only) were hysteric about it. Although all the sensation toned down a notch with the release of iPhone 2, the appeal of the device was still a craving desire for many. One of the abilities of th... |
16 July 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Millions of fans were left heart-broken and bitterly disappointed by the way in which the four-year “Prison Break” series ended a couple of weeks ago, but perhaps they should not rush to forget about the show that literally wrote the book on prison-themed series. On July 21, a special DVD edition, “... |
26 May 2009
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iSkysoft has announced a beta release of DVD-Library for Mac, the software application that enables users to build their own DVD libraries, as well as back up, convert, share and playback their favorite DVDs. iSkysoft points out that DVD-Library for Mac Beta is “a legal DVD-backup application for Mac OS X,&rdq... |
25 May 2009
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As humanity advances, the need for increased storage solutions becomes a critical issue, giving researchers something to work on. However, according to a recently published article by researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, today's DVDs could soon be replaced by “five-dimensiona... |
21 May 2009
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“Powder Blue,” the heart-wrenching story of an exotic dancer with a heart, as it’s been described in the media, has just received the fatal blow of being labeled by movie critics not only an utter waste of time, but also a painful one while we’re at it. Starring Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Fores... |
18 May 2009
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Considering that a myriad of small devices have invaded the market with the sole purpose of offering video-watching and music-listening alternatives for those on the go, DVD ripping is far from being considered a lost art. In fact, the companies developing such software have specialized and adapted their applications... |
8 May 2009
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Scarlett Johansson, while admittedly one of the best actresses of our times, has had little luck with crossing over to directing so far. A segment of the movie/series “New York, I Love You” that she personally directed will go straight to DVD because it is not commercially viable, Wenn reports, via Hollyw... |
4 May 2009
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Back in her “Seventh Heaven” days and even long after that, Jessica Biel was one of the most sought after actresses of her generation. Combining charm with talent and a certain lovability about her, she was usually the first choice for many studios for the female lead, with thousands of fans crowding in f... |
28 April 2009
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Lindsay Lohan has often blamed the media and the excessive coverage she’s getting for her personal life for the fact that she no longer receives movie offers that would make the most of her acting talent. Were she to speak the truth, the fact that her latest movie, “Labor Pains,” might see a straigh... |
27 March 2009
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Media Control GfK International, a market research firm, has released data suggesting that the revenue derived from the sales of videogames exceeded the revenue obtained from the sales of movies on DVD and Blu-ray discs during the course of 2008.It seems that the company is tracking something it calls “packaged... |
27 January 2009
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Among the new updates available from Apple today is iDVD 7.0.3. Part of the iLife suite, iDVD lets you create professional DVDs using animated menus, buttons, scene selection, and more, all customizable. The update you are about to download is free and is aimed at users of Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Mac OS X 10.5.6 or late... |
27 January 2009
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Although blu-ray discs are just starting to get a hold of the market, having won the battle with the HD DVD data format, they are already threatened by a new technology, HVD (Holographic Versatile Discs). The new data support is not yet designed up to the point where it can physically replace BDs, but, when they are ... |
23 January 2009
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The epic “Kill Bill,” as most fans must know by now, was never envisaged as two halves of a whole, but as a single bloody adventure, as it also premiered at Cannes. However, the movie studio decided that, as such, it would be too long and would probably not warrant the massive investments it got. Luckily,... |
21 January 2009
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Pirated CDs and DVDs are a major dent in profits for large companies, considering the fact that some countries use stolen software on 70 to 80 percent of its market. This means that no revenues enter the pockets of the manufacturer, while its products are widely used. Now, scientists at the University of Granada ... |
7 December 2008
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This year has been extremely important for Sony and its Blu-ray disc, since it was officially crowned the "next-gen DVD format" after the utter defeat of Toshiba's HD DVD. After that fateful moment (which, as you might recall, occurred in early spring), things took the path everyone expected them to, the players... |
12 November 2008
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The world's communication network is now estimated to contain about 369 exabytes of data, which is roughly equivalent to 369 followed by 18 zeros bytes. This mind-boggling amount of information is currently stored in tens, if not hundreds, of file formats, each of them licensed to a certain producer, class of de... |
28 October 2008
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Apple has released an update for Migration and DVD/CD Sharing for new MacBook and MacBook Pro units. Desktop Mac owners will see the update popping up on their screens as well, with Software Update stating that the update is recommended for “all users”. This software is used to get stuff from an optical d... |
17 October 2008
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World of Warcraft is one of the most popular games out there, with a fan base spreading from school kids to adult men or women, having over 11 million subscribers. Part of this huge popularity is that it is accessible from the weakest computer to the most high end gaming rig. It is also available on DVD and the old ... |
26 September 2008
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For those of you who don't know, Dead Space is a third person survival horror game developed by Electronic Arts. It puts you in the shoes of a space ship engineer called Isaac Clarke who is forced to battle a race of aliens called Necromorphs, and all of his battles will take place on a ship gravely damaged by t... |
25 September 2008
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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
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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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