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1. CoD:MW2 Will Not End Recession

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... North American and British sales. Furthermore, The Dark Knight eventually pulled in over a $1 billion overall at the box office, plus sold another several hundred million dollars worth of DVDs and Blu-rays." ...

2. Corel takes on Adobe with Digital Studio 2010

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 02 September 2009

   ... DVDs, you'll enjoy the same elegant look and feel across the Studio. Once you learn how to do one task, you'll quickly know how to do them all," added Davies. Davies also noted that Studio 2010 was ...

3. Thatcher government cockup throws UK DVD laws into disarray

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 24 August 2009

   A bureaucratic blunder by the Tory government back in 1984 means that the UK law covering illegal DVDs and videos is unenforceable, leaving pirates free to produce illegal copies of movies and sell ...

4. Another judge sides with the MPAA over DVD copies

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Thursday, 13 August 2009

   ... by the DVD CCA of failing to abide by the terms of the Content Scramble System (CSS) license, which forbids the copying of DVDs. Kaleidescape argued there was nothing in the license that banned copying ...

5. RealNetworks defeated over DVD copying

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 12 August 2009

   ... RealNetworks in a federal court, winning a preliminary injunction preventing the company from selling its RealDVD device. The device allows consumers to copy DVDs to their computer hard drives. The Motion ...

6. Carmack: Rage a "console" game

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 23 July 2009

   ... anti-aliasing. In addition, Carmack stated that Rage would be "cut," or sold on two discs.     "We would love to set the thing up where it filled one Blu-ray disc versus three DVDs, which is ...

7. Carmack: PS3 offers "theoretical" raw performance

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 21 July 2009

   ... one Blu-ray disc versus three DVDs, which is about the right mix, but the game just...we can't cut it into a third like that. We can cut it into two pieces. We've got two large wastelands on there. ...

8. Jacko death downs Twitter

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Friday, 26 June 2009

   ... Trendrr, the number of posts referring to Jackson climbed as high as 220,000 per hour. Amazon has sold out of CDs and DVDs, listing up to two weeks delivery. Jackson is currently holding all of the top ...

9. Dead discs: Blu-ray’s failure to launch signals end of spinning media

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Monday, 22 June 2009

   ... First Alert figures for the week of May 24 show year-over-year Blu-ray sales increasing by almost 120%, they don’t make up for DVD’s 13% drop. That’s because DVDs still outsell Blu-ray discs by a wide ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... videos and video greeting cards • Upload videos instantly to YouTube™ and MySpace™ • Capture snapshots from videos • Create custom movies with your own music • Order DVDs and have them shipped anywhere ...

11. Amazon offers MP3 albums for 47 cents

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... too, err, relaxed, to know better, only to find a day or so later that I already owned the CDs and DVDs that had just dropped onto the doormat. Maentwrog, Wales - I've always had a soft spot for Amazon. ...

12. The Great Digital Scam: TV is irrelevant

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 16 June 2009

    ... ready. But even now, after spending billions on advertising, the change and distributing coupons for converter boxes, tens of millions of Americans find themselves wrestling with TVs, DVDs, VCRs and PVRs ...

13. Fusion-io and Fatal1ty launch ioXtreme for 64 bit systems

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 03 June 2009

    ... that seamlessly handle massive amounts of data," spun Fatal1ty. "Imagine playing the most intense game, working on complex 3-D graphics, manipulating massive files, ripping multiple DVDs and installing ...

14. Mother finds porn in Wikipedia entry on childrens' book

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    ... children. It's available on DVDs and to download," he said.      ...

15. New type of DVD will hold thousands of movies

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 20 May 2009

    ... on the same physical disc location. This is a major improvement on current DVDs that are recorded in a single colour wavelength using a laser. The researchers were also able to introduce an extra ...

16. Dateline 2600 - one of our civilizations is missing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 19 May 2009

    ... for all of us. In my  lifetime I've had 78RPM [not inch, sheesh, sorry]  records, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, eight inch floppy  disks, five 1/4 inch floppy disks, 3.5-inch floppy disks and ...

17. RealNetworks and Hollywood battling over DVD ripping

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 24 April 2009

    ... case, whether or not RealNetworks’ DVD copying software, RealDVD, violated a licensing agreement which covers the digital-rights-management protocols utilized by DVDs.Seattle (WA) - RealNetworks and ...

18. Upscale your DVDs to HD quality with GPU-accelerated software

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... algorithm is sufficient to upscale most traditional DVDs into full- or near-HD quality through software alone -- meaning this $110 to $140 investment could turn your DVD library into a near-Blu ray library ...

19. Microsoft kills Encarta: Is society getting dummer?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 31 March 2009

    ...  How the Internet challenged Encarta As higher-capacity DVDs took over the CD's domain, Encarta also evolved. But a growing popularity of the Internet (and especially the broadband aspects of it) slowly began ...

20. Another price hike for Netflix Blu-ray users

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 30 March 2009

    ... adds $2 to $10.99 per month, the 2 DVDs-out-at-a-time plan adds $3 to $16.99 per month, the 3 DVD-out-at-a-time plan adds $4 to $20.99 per month – you get the pattern. The most expensive plan, 8 DVDs-out-at-a-time ...

21. Lies, damn lies, and energy benchmarks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... that a consumer might actually use it for watching DVDs when it's not plugged-in to the wall socket. But most systems simply don't have enough battery life to watch a full-length DVD movie, let alone do ...

22. Sony’s “miracle” DVD burner hits 24x write speed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 26 February 2009

    If you thought Blu-ray is the way to go for data storage these days, think again. Sony Optiarc Europe just announced a new 24x DVD burner, which writes DVDs at a 50% faster speed than what manufacturers ...

23. Marvel to debut motion comics on the iPhone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 12 February 2009

    ... including its own marvel.com homepage and even YouTube. Marvel is also considering re-formatting motion comics for DVDs and mobile devices. The company hopes these additional formats might attract new ...

24. UPDATED: Blu-ray sales quadrupled in 2008

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

      Late last week at CES, Andy Parsons, president of the Blu-ray Disc Association announced that 2008 was a banner year for Blu-Ray sales. Surpassing the adoption rate of DVDs, CDs and HDTVs (as well as ...

25. Eleven jailed in $2 billion software piracy case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 31 December 2008

    ... ring that enabled them to mass-produce and distribute pirated Microsoft software globally. The group reportedly operated like an international corporation that produced and sold CDs and DVDs that were ...

26. No recession here: Amazon.com reports best Christmas season ever

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 26 December 2008

    ... Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home &  Student Edition. The most successful DVDs were Wall-E and the The Dark Knight; the best-selling Blu-ray disc was The Dark Knight, the company said. There ...

27. Can a Blu-ray/DVD hybrid disc save Blu-ray?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 22 December 2008

    ... pay more Blu-ray discs over DVDs, but there is no doubt that the cost is rather high.    And at least at this time, there seem to be more pessimistic than optimistic Blu-ray people out there: ...

28. New York Governor plans sales tax on digital downloads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 December 2008

    ... with other sources, like sales tax on CDs and DVDs. The tax would be applied to any entertainment service that is delivered electronically including photos, games, software, movies, and downloaded music. ...

29. DVD sales plummet, last chance for Blu-ray this Christmas

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... – and hope that Blu-ray will finally become mainstream – or disappear. Time Warner-owned Warner Bros., the largest distributor of DVDs, said DVD sales dived about 4% this year and it appears that especially ...

30. Side by side: Windows 7 vs. OS X Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 28 October 2008

    ... Live "Wave 3" combination closes the gap. iLife still offers stunning templates, unmatched integration and easy-to-use applications to create and manage music, photos, videos, DVDs, blogs and websites. ...

31. Samsung netflixes Blu-ray players, LG player in stores now

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 23 October 2008

    ... to price and customer satisfaction with the quality of standard DVDs research firm NPD recently noted. This week, Netflix cited the downward spiraling economy for cutting its current-quarter subscriber ...

32. Sony NEC announces 8x Blu-ray writer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... 30 minutes. The internal SATA drive also records DVDs at up to 16X, CDs up to 48X, and supports DVD-RAM recording. Pricing has not been announced. There was no information when the drive will be available ...

33. Is Steve Jobs right on Blu-ray and HDMI?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 15 October 2008

    ... don’t have to worry about scratching or losing the DVDs.      Most PCs aren’t connected to TVs and watching a Blu-ray movie on a monitor instead of a big screen, even if it’s a 24” or 27” ...

34. Netflix draws ire with Blu-ray surcharge

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 08 October 2008

    ... 5.9% for subscribers of the 3 DVDs-at-a-time plan and 20% for the 2 DVDs-per-month $4.99 plan. Teitz believes that a $1 increase is “pretty modest” in exchange for higher quality movies. Of course, Blu-ray ...

35. Hollywood – Real Networks: 1:0

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 06 October 2008

    ... a message on the RealDVD website reads. “Rest assured, we will continue to work diligently to provide you with software that allows you to make a legal copy of your DVDs for your own use.” In another ...

36. MPAA sues Real Networks over RealDVD – and has reason to be upset

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 30 September 2008

    ... files are locked down and a mass-reproduction of the content is prevented, why would the movie industry sue Real Networks? Simple: Think about rental DVDs.    According to the MPAA, the “RealDVD ...

37. Outmaneuvered: Real Networks hits Hollywood with preemptive suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 September 2008

    ... that allows consumers to copy DVDs, but integrates the usual copy-protection that limits the use of those copies. We aren’t quite sure why Hollywood would be upset about RealDVD, other than the fact ...

38. Turn your PC into a Tivo with Nero’s LiquidTV

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

    ... onto computer hard drives.  These shows can viewed later or exported to Apple iPods or the Sony PSP.  You can even burn the content to DVDs. New York (NY) – Nero has announced its LiquidTV ...

39. Big Brother potentially exists right now in our PCs, compliments of Intel's vPro

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 24 September 2008

    ... what images we load from our own personal digital cameras, even what DVDs and CD-ROMs we use, and more. It is theoretically possible that vPro could enable any remote agent to do far more than is currently ...

40. Blu-ray Disc Association says it’s too early to lower prices

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 16 September 2008

    ... selling for $300 to $600 dollars.  DVD players in contrast are almost give-aways these days, costing less than $100.  Blu-ray movies often sell for $25 and up while DVDs can easily be bought ...

41. VIDEO - Fusion-io says hard drives are the “new tape”, hints at a gaming card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

    ... anything that requires moving a lot of data should work much better with the ioSAN card.  During his on stage demo, Flynn and White threw DVDs at each other and said you can transfer five DVDs worth ...

42. Kick those DVDs to the curb with Real DVD

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

      Real Networks is back with a new application that can easily save and play DVDs from your hard drive.  The Real DVD app will also organize saved DVDs into a nice library and you can even ...

43. Blu-ray has only five years left – Samsung

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 03 September 2008

    ... a report stating that Blu-ray sales would exceed standard-definition DVD sales by 2012 – just one year before the inevitable “doom” claimed by Griffiths. But some people believe DVDs may never be supplanted ...

44. Samsung, Sony roll out BD-Live Blu-ray players

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 28 August 2008

    ... of Blu-ray discs, upconversion of standard DVDs, and viewing of JPEG images.” There is also an HDMI 1.3 output with deep color, a 24 fps film mode and support for Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby ...

45. Nvidia to become a software publisher and a digital distribution giant?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Tuesday, 26 August 2008

    ... CDs or DVDs, but rather just a key that unlocks a select number of games. And imagine that this game will come from a hardware manufacturer and will include the appropriate and latest driver right away. ...

46. 10 ways to modify your Xbox 360

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 25 August 2008

    ... your graphics display. 10. Backup your games via hotswap: This Youtube video   teaches individuals how to back up their games utilizing the hotswap method. Hotswapping games and DVDs allows you ...

47. Toshiba’s new Blu-ray beater is a … DVD player

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 18 August 2008

    ... the fact that Blu-ray discs contain six times the image detail and information than DVDs, which means that this new XD-E500 will not be able to achieve the image quality a Blu-ray player can. But it you ...

48. Blu-ray players stuck above $300

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 08 August 2008

    ... The company has reportedly been working on a Cell-processor powered DVD player than can deliver near-HD quality video playback from regular DVDs. The first Toshiba players should be out by the end of the ...

49. Macrovision-funded survey shows rampant DVD pirating

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 July 2008

    New York (NY) – A new survey shows that one in three US and UK residents have regularly copied DVDs in the past six months. Males between the ages of 18 and 24-year-old were most likely to copy discs ...

50. PS3 expected to remain the driving force behind Blu-ray sales

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 01 July 2008

    ... The EMA believes that this trend will continue for some years with revenues declining to $23.6 billion in 2008 and $23.3 billion in 2009. A total of 12,177 DVDs (including HD media, and all types of content, ...