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1. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   In an attempt to “Go Social” TG Daily would like to invite each and every one of our readers to participate in a product giveaway and interactive contest. Gone are the days when comments are enough, ...

2. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Association TGD     31 iHD less expensive than Blu-ray alternative, thanks to Vista, says HP TGD   Nov 1  ...

3. Universal Pictures: "DRMs do not stop piracy"

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... HD DVD is iHD, which we think is easier to program and provides a richer set of extras that can be produced in a shorter period of time. TG Daily: Rich features - or interactive features - are one of ...

4. HD DVD goes interactive, Microsoft rallies support for format

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... to help ISVs implement VC-1 and iHD and improve HD DVD playback.  ...

5. CES 2006: Philips partners with Microsoft on VoIP phones, while promoting Blu-ray

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... the iHD interactive layer, was redubbed "Advanced Navigation" by Toshiba today. Both layers enable interactive content to be encoded along with the main program, including such features as commentary tracks ...

6. Progress in negotiations for final AACS copy protection specification for HD discs

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... iHD interactive layer championed by Microsoft and used in Windows Vista, would make production of Blu-ray equipment cost prohibitive. Since that time, the BDA appeared to reverse its stance on MMC - partly ...

7. Can Xbox 360 succeed as a mainstream consumer electronics gadget?

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... "convergence" re-enters the picture. As Crotty pointed out, the company co-developed, and maintains a major investment in, the iHD interactive layer, which is the XML-based language that supports the underlying ...

8. iHD less expensive than Blu-ray alternative, thanks to Vista, says HP

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

     Microsoft's plans to make the XML-based iHD interactive provision a component of Windows Vista will drive down production costs for computer manufacturers, says an HP official. The cost reduction, ...

9. New Blu-ray member Warner Bros. would support iHD layer, oppose mandatory managed copy

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... for marketing management, Steve Nickerson, told us his company would support a motion by fellow Blu-ray Disc Association member Hewlett-Packard to adopt iHD as the interactive program format for BD discs, ...

10. HP to Blu-ray: Take us seriously, or we'll join HD DVD

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... iHD interactive layer. But if the BDA doesn't make a similar U-turn, he told us, HP may join the HD DVD Promotions Group - and it might not go alone. Fort Collins (CO) - Hewlett-Packard is turning up ...

11. HP requests feature additions to Blu-ray disc technology

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... of legally-obtained discs, either to backup discs or to hard drives for streaming throughout a networked household; and iHD, the interactive functionality layer developed by Microsoft and Disney. Blu-ray ...

12. HD DVD maybe not a "long-term" standard - Microsoft

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... contributed to the iHD interactivity layer and the VC-1 codec, both of which have been adopted by HD DVD, but which were also offered to Blu-ray; the latter rejected iHD but embraced VC-1. Still, it's ...