Toshiba, in continued efforts to promote the HD DVD format, will launch three third-generation HD DVD players for sale in the US soon. The mid-range HD-A30 will launch in September at a recommended retail price... More...

Toshiba has retained the discounted prices on its entry-level HD DVD players in the U.S.: the Toshiba HD-A2 player will stay at $299 and the HD-A20 at $399. The HD-XA2 will also reportedly remain at... More...

Two Taiwanese companies are making laptop PCs users can hook up to their high definition (HD) TVs to make more use of the laptops' internal high definition optical drives, either Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD.... More...

Sony Corporation has announced it will begin selling HD digital radio players in July, including a tabletop radio as well as a model for cars, the first step in what the electronics giant says is... More...

According to an interview over at SFGate.com with Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft has surpassed its own goal of selling one million Zunes. Microsoft hoped to meet the target by... More...

The greatest thing to happen for High Definition has been undoubtedly fierce competition. The HD DVD Promotional Group is launching a new campaign: a $100 instant in-store rebate on some Toshiba HD DVD players. Between... More...

The North American HD DVD Promotional Group has announced that more than 100,000 dedicated HD DVD players have sold in the U.S. in the format's first year on the market. This figure does not include... More...

Having recently settled various lawsuits over their use of invasive DRM in CD's, Sony has decided to try their luck with pushing more DRM into DVD's which has caused some recent issues in Sony's own... More...

World of Warcraft players are being targeted by hackers exploiting flaws in how Windows handles animated cursors, a flaw which has recently been patched by Microsoft. Warcraft players seem to be one of the targets... More...

Dear Mr. Early Adopter, start crying. The Blu-ray Disc Association has mandated that all players of the format released after October 31 must support BD Java which is currently not standard for today's hardware. All... More...

Sony has announced firmware version 3.30 for the PlayStation Portable that gives users Wi-Fi capabilities at over 7,000 T-Mobile US HotSpots (from Starbucks to Border bookstores to over 70 major airports). The free Wi-Fi access... More...

Creative Technology, a maker of digital media players and a supplier of various audio equipment for personal computers (PCs), has reported a profitable quarter amid helpful sales of music players and a payment by Apple.... More...

A consortium backing the encryption system for high-definition DVDs has confirmed hackers have stolen "title keys" and used them to decrypt high-definition discs. Both the title keys and a number of decrypted films have been... More...

Following the commercial launch of the universal player that can tap both Blu-ray and HD DVD markets there are many more similar devices incoming according to technology research firm ABI research, which believes that such... More...

LAS VEGAS -- New movie releases, more market entrants, improved technology and 1.8 million HD DVD players from Toshiba are the weapons companies plan to use in the format battle against rival Blu-ray Disc this... More...

Nielsen has found out some very interesting statistics for VCRs and DVDs in American homes. The year 2006 has resulted in 79.2% of all American households having at least one VCR and 81.2% having a... More...

Proof-of-concept code that exploits a critical bug in Windows Media Player has gone public, Microsoft Corp. warned users late Thursday. A vulnerability in Media Player 9 and 10 can be used by attackers to grab... More...

The missing consumer link in the move to HDTV is a universal DVD player that would accommodate both the new HD DVD and Blue-ray formats. Such a player could be coming soon, thanks to Broadcom... More...

Toshiba will soon put its second generation of HD DVD players on sale in the U.S. The Tokyo company kicked off the high-definition movie battle in the U.S. earlier this year when it put its... More...

Napster UK is giving away free MP3 players to all new subscribers of its portable music service. Anyone taking out a three-month Napster to Go subscription from 14 September will receive a 512MB Sandisk Sansa... More...

College students are to be given free iPods so they can catch up on missed lectures in their own time. South Kent College in Dover has spent £25,000 on Nano iPods for 250 students in... More...

Sony's first Blu-ray player is now expected to launch mid-August, two months later than originally suggested. According to the Sony Style website, the BDP-S1 will now ship "on or about August 15, 2006." Priced at... More...

Even though the high definition video discs are just around the corner, due to the high manufacturing costs of Blu-ray and HD DVD players and broad availability of conventional DVD devices and content, the market... More...

After originally planning to release HD-DVD players to the US market late this year, Toshiba has announced a delay until February or March of 2006. Toshiba and other HD-DVD supporters have agreed that a... More...

As European World of Warcraft players grow increasingly frustrated with the lagging issues that continue to plague many servers, developer Blizzard has pledged to compensate players for their trouble. "Two days' compensation will be offered... More...

News of Blizzard--the publisher behind the highly addictive game "World of Warcraft"--scanning players' computers for cheat software has players up in arms. Blizzard asserts they are only scanning hard drives for known hacks that let... More...

Sun Microsystems' Java technology will be built into Blu-ray DVD players, executives said on Monday, a development that advances the technology in the consumer electronics market for which Sun originally developed the software. ... More...

Reigncom, the company behind IRiver-brand digital music players, has shown four new flash-memory based music players ahead of this week's SEK exhibition in Seoul. Among them is an addition to its H10 product line and... More...

These updates improve the robustness of the Windows Media DRM platform and add additional integrity checks to the DRM system, via the installation of two components on end users' computers. License issuers can verify that... More...

Blizzard continues to uphold its aggressive policy on exploits. Blizzard Entertainment has permanently banned more than one thousand users from its massively multiplayer World of Warcraft title after an investigation into "gold... More...

iRiver has formally introduced its Linux-based Portable Media Player (PMP) family in the UK. The device maker also said this week that it has cut the price of its H series colour digital music players.... More...

Halo 2 will allow four people to connect to Xbox Live on the same Xbox at the same time. That's just one of many closely guarded details that a cheeky beta tester announced to Microsoft's... More...

Supposedly, the main source of high quality movie rips is from screeners; a screener is a pre-release of the movie on DVD that awards groups (e.g. The Academy, runners of the Oscars) send out to... More...

If you like Roxio's digital media player and Napster then you're in luck. With a one-year subscription you can get a Rio Chiba Sport or 1.5GB Rio Nitrus. Roxio Inc.'s Napster... More...

Two weeks ago, The Sports Business Journal, one of the most respected trade journals of the athletic entertainment business, revealed the identity of Madden NFL 2005 cover athlete Ray Lewis several days before EA Sports... More...

"That 20-gigabyte MP3 player going under the Christmas tree this season could soon cost 20 per cent more if the Copyright Board approves a proposed levy tomorrow on the sale of digital music devices. It... More...

Several graphics card suppliers, including Asustek Computer, CP Technology, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI), will ship products using processors from XGI Technology, a new entrant in the graphics processor market, sources said. ... More...

Leading game developer David Braben takes issue with the recent assertion by Laura Fryer, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, that games are still something for just "geeks and guys". Games... More...

Thanks ooo for this one. "Sigma Designs, a leader in IP video streaming solutions, today announced that its EM8500 DVD decoder chip has been selected for use in the LVD-2001, a new series... More...

Two of the biggest names in copy-protection have now been merged. Macrovision has acquired the technologies developed by Midbar Tech and it intends to use these to help mature its own copy-protection system. ... More...

Epic Records has taken a drastic step to prevent two new albums from being pirated online before their official release; sealing or gluing the reviewers portable CD players shut and gluing headphones onto them to... More...

Intel's page on problems with the 845G and games make somewhat alarming reading for people buying PCs. The page, which you can find here has a big list of games which have problems – or... More...

Sales of VCR's fell about 35 percent in 2001, while sales of DVD players rose almost 50 percent, according to new industry figures released this week. Statistics released by the Consumer Electronics... More...

Listen.com has signed music distribution deals with two major record labels, giving it a long-awaited power boost in the race to create the perfect online jukebox. The San Francisco-based company said it... More...

Bill Gates, in his keynote address at the 2002 International CES show this evening, will demonstrate WMA support in DVD players with the unveiling of the new Panasonic DVD player model DVD-RV32, the first of... More...

Universal has chosen to experiment with copy protected CD's with the release of the soundtrack from the teen drag-racing movie "The Fast and the Furious." Although the music is unlikely to make any critics'... More...