...egal downloads on BitTorrent in less than seven days. The data, published by Torrent Freak, includes DVD rips, DVD screeners and R5 rips – and makes The Dark Knight most pirated movie of last week a...
Thursday, November 20, 2008 00:07
...wan's leading optical disc makers. Judging from previous experience in the development of the CD-R and DVD -R/+R markets, 20 million units is a pivotal number in terms of economies of scale, Ritek rema...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:58
...00-01e, which includes a 750 GB HDD, 3 GB of memory, a 920 CPU, an ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, a DVD burner and Windows Vista Premium 64-bit for $1250. The company also offers a version with the...
Monday, November 17, 2008 13:07
...ll a Limited Edition with an ERP of $69.99. The Limited Edition is packaged in a collectible SteelBook DVD case and includes a 48-page hardbound book titled “Beneath the Surface: An Inside Look at Gea...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 15:03
Netflix will no longer be pushing and selling previously viewed DVD s, beginning December 1, in an effort to focus on both streaming video and DVD rentals. "Our core business is delivering gre
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:42
...e film sold out, leaving Knapp and producers hopeful that the film could receive a wider showing, or a DVD release. The film has cost close to $2 million to produce and distribute. ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 13:57
...e average netbook offers. The model eMD620-5777 comes with a 14.1” screen, a 160 GB hard drive and a DVD burner. In addition to the 1.6 GHz, 15-watt processor, the system includes 1 GB of memory as ...
Friday, October 31, 2008 19:48
...old television screens. Based in Los Gatos, California, Netflix has typically been recognized for its DVD subscription service that mails discs in red envelopes. Lately, the company has been hitting ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:04
...plates, unmatched integration and easy-to-use applications to create and manage music, photos, videos, DVD s, blogs and websites. It is the cloud service that lags behind. Although MobileMe offers 20 G...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 23:38
...pability. Power efficiency was also stressed: There are less disk I/Os from the Registry and Indexer, DVD playback has been improved and code components have been enhanced to increase the power effic...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 13:09
... choice to watch more than 12,000 movies and TV shows via Internet streaming. Only the basic $4.99/One-DVD -per-month plan limits video streaming to two movies per month. Netflix video streaming is al...
Monday, October 27, 2008 17:32
...ive. Example: Vista has been touted as a high-definition operating system, yet there was no Blu-ray/HD DVD playback included (which requires a chain of HDMI/HDCP hardware). Vista SP2 now will get Blu-...
Monday, October 27, 2008 00:56
... however there are also challenges due to price and customer satisfaction with the quality of standard DVD s research firm NPD recently noted. This week, Netflix cited the downward spiraling economy ...
Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:13
... be written in 15 minutes and a 50 GB disc in about 30 minutes. The internal SATA drive also records DVD s at up to 16X, CDs up to 48X, and supports DVD -RAM recording. Pricing has not been announced...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 17:16
...ice does not include a Blu-ray drive (after all, it is Toshiba). The notebook is only available with a DVD burner that supports 11 different media (CD and DVD ) formats, Toshiba said. All X305 notebo...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:23
...The special edition PCs come with 5 GB of RAM, Windows Vista Home Premium and a LightScribe dual-layer DVD burner that. The Verde Special Edition includes an Athlon X2 4850e dual-core processor (2.5 ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 00:16
...– with some
tolerance for marketing messages - the first sub-$100 Blu-ray player –
the Insignia NS-BRDVD at Best Buy. Chicago (IL) – Last Friday we reported about average Blu-ray player prices near...
Monday, October 20, 2008 15:17
...a-focused LX-series: The LX6200-01 includes AMD’s Phenom X4 9500 quad-core CPU, a 750 GB hard drive, a DVD burner and Windows Vista Premium 64-bit. The compromise is an ATI Radeon 3200 graphics card, ...
Monday, October 20, 2008 00:01
...u
may find a name-brand player for just a few bucks more than you would
pay for a high-end upscaling DVD player. With movie prices dropping as
well, it appears that Blu-ray is positioned to gain mu...
Friday, October 17, 2008 00:05
...ust plug the system into a power outlet. The video quality on the 15” isn’t much better than a regular DVD and isn’t worth the effort. Add inn the limited selection of Blu-ray movies and you are begin...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 14:09
...elivers the refreshed hardware with 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, a 120 GB hard drive and an 8X DVD burner (SuperDrive sounds a bit strange when Blu-ray is available and Apple does not offer it...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 00:09
... likely introduce such a capability. The expansion ports are located on the left side and the optical DVD -R drive is found on the right side. The notebook features Magsafe power connector, Gigabit Et...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 13:40
...minimum of hardware, including 1 GB of memory, a 160 GB hard drive, Nvidia 6150 integrated graphics, a DVD burner and Windows XP. The MSRP is $298. An extra $51 (for a total of $349) buys an upgraded ...
Monday, October 13, 2008 13:57
...e again, Microsoft blasted Blu-ray as not having enough traction. "It's pretty clear it's not the next DVD ,” Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg said. Microsoft has every opportunity to offer a...
Friday, October 10, 2008 16:31
...t the company might ship an external Blu-ray drive with the same strategy as it shipped an external HD DVD drive in between November 2006 and March 2008. Microsoft repeatedly mentioned that it would ...
Thursday, October 09, 2008 00:00
...he surcharge is necessary to help Netflix to “to make up for this significant cost difference” between DVD and Blu-ray media. “We've decided to charge a little bit more for those who want to rent Blu-...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 17:26
...SN Messenger IMs during your games. Of course, all the usual things are included like USB ports, DVD drive (optional Blu-ray) and 802.11 wifi. HDMI and eSata ports are also on the chassis....
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 17:44
Online DVD -rental pioneer Netflix said Monday that it ended the third quarter with fewer subscribers than it had anticipated and that fourth-quarter subscribers will fall short of expectations as w
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 13:12
Hollywood studios scored the first goal in its match against Real
Networks’ RealDVD software. The MPAA apparently forced Real Networks to
take RealDVD off the market for now, as the software
Monday, October 06, 2008 12:20
...een television sets that were streaming eight season’s worth of Stargate at the same time – that’s 256 DVD -quality video streams at once. The files all resided on a Fusion-io card and we were to...
Friday, October 03, 2008 22:41
...of America
(MPAA) have filed dueling lawsuits in U.S. courts with one side trying
to protect the RealDVD DVD copying software and the other trying to
kill it. And while one may be wondering what MP...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 18:03
...al Networks today said that it has filed a lawsuit against major
Hollywood studios to protect its RealDVD software from potential legal
actions of these studios. RealDVD is a software package that a...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:03
...ndwidth of 12.8 GB/s. Included are a DVI to HDMI adapter as well as support for DirectX 10.1 and DVD upscaling. Prices will range from $45 to $55, according to AMD. AMD claims that 4550 cards w...
Monday, September 29, 2008 23:03
... can viewed later or
exported to Apple iPods or the Sony PSP. You can even burn the content
to DVD s. New York (NY) – Nero has announced its LiquidTV software that turns your Windows computer...
Monday, September 29, 2008 16:38
... under its house brand Insignia for $230, which isn’t that far
away from the most expensive upscaling DVD players anymore. Chicago (IL) – Bargain hunters may have found two especially interesting pro...
Monday, September 29, 2008 00:05
...what we store on our hard drives, what images we load from our own personal digital cameras, even what DVD s and CD-ROMs we use, and more. It is theoretically possible that vPro could enable any remote...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 09:58
...by a global vendor. For $2100 you will get a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo SU9300 processor, 2 GB memory, a DVD /CD combo unit, a 160 GB hard drive and Windows Vista. A downgrade to Windows XP is avai...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 14:10
...ay media. The drive is also rated to handle other media at varying speeds, including Blu-ray BD-RE 2x, DVD RAM 5x, DVD -R 16x, DVD +R 16x, DVD -RW 6x, DVD +RW 8x, CD-R 48x and CD-RW 24x.
The exter...
Monday, September 22, 2008 14:08
... the
DisplaySearch/NPD HDTV conference in Los Angeles. Sure, Blu-ray
effectively vanquished HD-DVD back in January, but people just aren’t
switching to the format quickly enough. The fo...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 18:30
...: It delivers Mac's EFI firmware interface to your PC,
fooling the original OS X Leopard installation DVD into thinking it is
running a genuine Mac. Chicago (IL) - Running OS X on a bare-bone PC has...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 13:57
...tion formats and told the audience that Blu-ray hardware and disc prices are behaving the same as when DVD players were first getting popular. “There’s not enough market [volume] to lower the pr...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 03:58
...nsion, noted for its addition of achievements to the World of Warcraft franchise, will be available on DVD -ROM for Windows XP/Windows Vista and Macintosh in two packages. One is a standard edition cos...
Monday, September 15, 2008 18:21
...ata should work much better with the ioSAN card. During his on stage demo, Flynn and White threw DVD s at each other and said you can transfer five DVD s worth of information in about fifteen seco...
Monday, September 08, 2008 19:08
Real Networks is back with a new application that can easily save
and play DVD s from your hard drive. The Real DVD app will also
organize saved DVD s into a nice library and you can even
Monday, September 08, 2008 12:36
...lso allows the creation of virtual devices, such as allowing a hard disk ISO file to serve as a CDR or DVD , often with significant speedups realized. Virtualization also allows a single machine to re...
Monday, September 08, 2008 11:40
.... There was a deal with content owners that made movie purchases and rentals available the same day as DVD releases. The company subsequently brought movies to New Zealand and Australia, France, Canad...
Monday, September 08, 2008 11:27
...B port that plays
music, pictures and videos from common handheld devices. Standard
definition DVD s can also be played and the BD300 will upsample the
video to 1080p resolutions. But pe...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 18:48
... the first pictures of the Sony “Mega Changer” which sports a 400-disc capacity of Blu-ray and regular DVD discs. Available in early 2009, this monster player would take nearly $10,000 to fill (...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 18:14
... in some of the company’s notebooks for some time, upconverts 480i and 720p (standard TV, video games, DVD ) signals to 1080p, and enhances image sharpness, brightness as well as color output resulting...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:50
...m sure that comes
as a shock to most of you since the format only recently won its battle
against HD-DVD and is now locked in another format battle against DVD .
In an interview with Pocket-li...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 14:54