Topic: News

Sonic is hoping to spark a home entertainment revolution today with the release of its DVD On Demand software and Qflix recordable Content Scramble System (CSS) program. If successful, this means you’ll be able to burn movies you download at home to a DVD, or purchase custom-made DVDs online or at a retail kiosk, and have these discs work in any DVD player.

Sharp will introduce into the Japanese market seven AQUOS Blu-ray Disc Recorders that reflect Sharp's persistent focus on true image quality and easy operability.

The summer boxoffice broke records, which confounded dire predictions and brought a shot of much-needed adrenalin to Hollywood. Now the big question is whether the declining DVD business can get a similar boost when those movies debut in the fourth quarter.

Apple have put out a short and sharp press release informing the everyone that those folks crazy enough to unlock their iPhones to work on any network were about to have their phones turned into $400 paperweights.

A video uploaded to YouTube depicts a group of Hungarian gamers donning military garb and breaking into a warehouse, all to get their grubby, thieving mitts on a copy of soon-to-be blockbuster Halo 3.

Players and discs using a new high-def format will appear soon--but will consumers make room for yet another combatant in the HD format wars?

Sales of next-generation DVD players are not likely to see a significant boost for another 18 months according to a study by Forrester Research. The study claims that consumers are still so disorientated by the format war that they are scared of when confronted by the options.

CMC Magnetics, Ritek, Prodisc Technology and Gigastorage, Taiwan-based producers of optical discs, have seen a significant increase in OEM orders for blank DVD+R/-R discs since the beginning of September with their production capacities being fully booked for the entire fourth quarter of 2007 or until January 2008, according to the companies.

Amazon.com launched the public beta of its digital music store Tuesday, offering over 2 million DRM-free tracks.

Intel has announced that a new USB 3 standard will be released early 2008. The revelation has come from the chip-making giant at its Developer Forum, where they announced the formation of the USB 3 Promoter Group.

Apple's celebrated video-editing program for mere mortals, iMovie, is coming to Windows! Better yet, it’s the old version of iMovie, before Apple stripped out all the features in iMovie '08.

A way has been cleared for consumers to legally burn DVDs of films downloaded from the internet, after a meeting of Hollywood studios, technology companies and the group that licenses DVD software.

The group calling itself the MediaDefender-Defenders (MDD) has, as promised, struck again, this time leaking what appears to be the full, uncompiled source code to anti-piracy watchdog MediaDefender’s toolset.

Starz Media has announced two deals to expand its online presence by distributing movies and digital content through Amazon's Unbox video download service and Xbox 360 Live Marketplace.

The folks at the P2P torrent site Meganova have cyber squatted MediaDefenders' attempt at a honey trap.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has shut down six eDonkey servers in Germany through a series of injunctions from regional courts in Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, and Frankfurt.

Microsoft's implementation of HD DVD's interactivity layer will be soon promoted on Toshiba HD DVD hardware and Hollywood movies using a fancy new logo.

With Microsoft's antitrust appeal now decided, the next U.S. technology company to get a place on the European Union (EU)'s regulatory hot seat may be Apple, an antitrust expert said today.

The reason consumers hate digital rights management isn’t due to the technology itself but to how copyright owners have used it, DRM providers said at the Digital Rights Strategies conference.

RealNetworks have announced the integration of Sonic's Authorscript media formatting and disc burning engine into the new version of RealPlayer.