News March 2006 News Archive

Sony PlayStation Portable's days as a hand-held movie-viewing device might be numbered ... Read more ...

Nero has released a small update to the Nero Vision and Recode applications of the Nero 7 suite concerning Nero Digital™ MPEG-4/ASP and H.264/AVC content ... Read more ...

The disc's are coming but, what are you going to play them in? ... Read more ...

Panasonic Blu-Ray disc player's availability and pricing ... Read more ...

Most TVs sold in the past 3 years aren't capable of playing Blu-Ray or HD-DVD at their full resolution ... Read more ...

Microsoft has announced the launch of a new site dedicated to public feedback for Internet Explorer 7 and future versions ... Read more ...

Dell and other OEM's will have Vista shipped to them to pre-install on their new PC's before Christmas ... Read more ...

Version v1.09.2 is a bug fixing release, with various corrections made to correct the structure of the resulting copy. ... Read more ...

Reduce DVD+R DL coasters by using DVD+RW DL ... Read more ...

Find out what's going to be added to DivX 6.2 before it goes final ... Read more ...

Alienware™ & Dell™ merge together ... Read more ...

Sony plans to launch its own online service with the PlayStation 3 ... Read more ...

Vista gamers need 2GB plus of memory ... Read more ...

Why the Playstation 3 can't lose ... Read more ...

It might be a gaming device with multimedia playback features, thus challenging Sony and Apple ... Read more ...

Two to three times as many Xbox 360 machines will be sent to retailers beginning this week for customers who decide not to wait for the PlayStation 3. ... Read more ...

Windows Vista will release in the year 2007 says Microsoft ... Read more ...

The French parliament has backed plans to give consumers more choice over music downloads from the internet. ... Read more ...

RIAA is licking its wounds after losing a bid for unfettered access to the hard drive of an Oregon mother it's victimizing in a p2p file sharing case. ... Read more ...

Will HD-DVDs be 720p/1080i or perhaps 1080p? What about copy protection? Will they release Hybrid disc's? ... Read more ...

Studies still show that piracy is indeed a problem for the industry, it also shows that P2P users buy more music than is typically noted ... Read more ...

Ciba has filed a patent infringement suit in Germany and the Netherlands against RiTEK and its european subsidiaries ... Read more ...

A flaw in the Xbox 360 DVD firmware could allow someone to install custom firmware in the machine ... Read more ...

Got a older HDTV ? Sony says it will work with Blu-Ray ... Read more ...

Get a glimpse of the new possibilities you can get with HD-DVD menu ... Read more ...

How much are your documents worth? The virus encrypts your "documents" and then ask you to pay to get them back ... Read more ...

Let Microsoft Vista tell you if your PC basically sucks ... Read more ...

The HD-DVD/Blu-Ray players may be coming out in May but, where are the DVD's? ... Read more ...

Copy protection is not cool ... Read more ...

Finally we get a month of the launch ... Read more ...

This could indicate that Sony is hoping to provide a service for the PS3 similar to Nintendo's Revolution digital download system ... Read more ...

The Finnish press caught warezing! ... Read more ...

Verbatim has released their high speed 8x DVD+R Double Layer media manufactured as usual by Mitsubishi® Kagaku Media (MKM Media ID). ... Read more ...

TDK will no longer make recordable CD's and DVD's ... Read more ...

NEC recently developed an optical disc drive that can write to HD-DVD disc's ... Read more ...

Nero fixes some bugs in its Nero 7 software package and adds some new features ... Read more ...

First laptop with HD DVD hardware that is region free by Toshiba ... Read more ...

Microsoft has unveiled its answer to Apple's iPod. ... Read more ...

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The phone can play files in several formats including MPEG-4/H.264 video and MPEG-4 AAC, AAC+ and MP3 audio. ... Read more ...

There is a slight chance the PS3 will be released before Christmas of 2006 but, don't get your hopes up ... Read more ...

Ricoh Co., Ltd has developed recordable disks for Blue-ray Disk and HD DVD ... Read more ...

TDK announced that it is to begin shipping 25GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc (BD) media across Europe and will follow with 50GB media in April. ... Read more ...

A bill that could legalize P2P in France is being debated ... Read more ...

LG has apparently abandoned plans to ship a Blu-ray DIsc player this Spring ... Read more ...

VoIP (Voice over IP) revolution has received a big boost from the biggest name in Internet networking, Cisco Communications ... Read more ...

Google known for their cozy relationship with Intel, has switched to AMD Opteron processors for its servers ... Read more ...

The makes of NEC drives bring out the first HD DVD multi-reader ... Read more ...

Plans to extend support for the Windows XP Home OS & Windows XP Media Center ... Read more ...

Lite-On plans to produce 18X DVD burners in the third quarter of this year ... Read more ...

After 6 months of work, the "new" Digital Digest is now online and active. This re-design marks the biggest change to Digital Digest since its launch way back in 1999. For the first time in a long time, Digital Digest is now a single, unified website with a unified design, completely database driven, searchable and hopefully, it will be an easier website to both use and maintain ... Read more ...

Download movies to your DVR using DirecTV ... Read more ...

From the makers of Taiyo Yuden ... Read more ...

Find out the release date for Blu-Ray disc's ... Read more ...

MPAA tells movie industry they have come up with a idea to stop ... Read more ...