Topic: News

LG Display is to demonstrate a pair of round LCD panels and will show them for the first time at the Society For Information Display's (SID) conference next week.

Plextor JP wil release the DVD super-multi-drive PX-820A and PX-820 SA seeries of 20x DVD burners in Japan by the end of the month.

An anonymous RIAA representative has come out detailing the organization’s methods in seeking out file sharers on college campuses in the United States. In many ways the method is almost identical to the way one searches for music on peer-to-peer networks, except it searches a lot quicker.

LG and Samsung announced their plans to develop a device that will allow the access of digital television on cell phones.

It's another sign of the impending update to Apple's mobile phone: AT&T, the device's US carrier, has informed its retail staff to limit sales of the iPhone to customers.

The adoption of Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray will accelerate in 2009, but DVD burners will continue to be "the leading volume product until 2012," according to a new report from IDC, a market intelligence firm with headquarters in Framingham.

Expanding its broad line of professional LCD monitors, Sharp has announced the new TL monitor line, a full 1,920×1080 2-megapixel high-definition (HD) resolution series.

Samsung and LG have decided to scease production of their respective players that can play both Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies, in a move to cut costs.

Planetary arbiter Microsoft may now be deciding what its Vista Media Centre users can watch on the box.

Besides being a gaming console, playground and a Blu-ray player, the Playstation 3 will now also be 'TV' with PlayTV. PlayTV is a new device that allows you to watch digital TV on your Playstation 3.

Advanced Media, which is behind the popular Ridata brand, has just unveiled its ultra-high capacity 32GB CompactFlash card with 233x write speed.

The "second generation" of HD Radio programming is rolling out, says the HD Digital Radio Alliance, citing new HD2 and HD3 subchannels that play new and unsigned artists, tightly niched HD channels, and former over-the-air stations getting new life via HD.

Wal-Mart is reportedly selling a $298 Blu-ray player in select stores, roughly $100 off the previous entry-level price of the high-def disc player.

Amazon Unbox to go HD on TiVo Although there have been rumors swirling for months that it was going to happen, TiVo has officially confirmed that Amazon Unbox will be going HD.

Orb Networks claims to have "the world's first way to stream live TV to the iPhone and iPod Touch." The company designed OrbLive, an app created to work with jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches.

Rounding off a series of court decisions and actions regarding BitTorrent sites, torrent.is users will have something to celebrate. The BitTorrent tracker favored by Icelandic downloaders, has won yet again in Court, and the site will reopen May 16th.

Details of an entirely new kind of electronic device, which could make chips smaller and far more efficient, have been outlined by scientists.

Microsoft has flatly denied reports of a Blu-ray drive for its Xbox 360 gaming console.

Unlicensed music discovery service Project Playlist is being sued for copyright infringement.

Retailers and studios are confused over how to price Blu-ray titles with reports that consumers are balking at premium prices.