Erik Deppe has released a new version of his famous disc analysis and benchmarking tool Nero CD-DVD Speed. The most interesting change in this new version is the support for Blu-ray disc quality testing for drives that are based on Mediatek chipset. Also included is preliminary support HD DVD-RW SL/DL.
The console war is constantly heating up as Microsoft announced their response to Sony’s recent price cut of the PlayStation 3. Starting this week the different editions of Xbox 360 are now $50 cheaper than before. Microsoft however denies that the price adjustment had nothing to do with Sony’s offering, and said that it is [...]
Despite the efforts of the RIAA and the huge success of iTunes (and similar), illegar music sharing on the Internet is still going strong. According to a recent research, a 43% of people questioned are using P2P to download music from the Internet. One of the key reasons must be that BitTorrent and sites like [...]
Adult entertainment, or porn, has historically played a significant role in media publishing market. Adult entertainment was among the first industries to be profitable on the Internet, and it has also been speculated that porn was one of the key factors affecting the ancient Beta vs. VHS video tape war which turned into the favor [...]
As Blu-ray seems to have an edge on the emerging high definition market, Microsoft has announced today price reductions and promotions of their Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on drive. Indeed, priced now at $179 it seems like a very affordable solution for HD video, although it requires the Xbox or a PC for playback. In [...]
All major game consoles are showing off impressive sales growth figures. King of the hill is still Nintendo Wii, followed by Microsoft Xbox360 and Sony Playstation 3. But perhaps most substantial change is the figures is the recent sales boost of PS3. According to the source the $100 price cut is showing immediate impact and [...]
Sony will be releasing an updated firmware version for the PlayStation 3 console tomorrow, the 24th of July. The update will bring a bunch of technical and usability improvements, fixes to bugs and even new features. There will be animated avatars in the chat, new functionality to rearrange games in the dashboard, ability to change [...]
Apple managed to create major fuzz about their iPhone, which is again a neatly designed but technically less than impressive device by the fruit company. Apparently they have left in a severe security issue while working on the web browsing features of the phone. The Safari web browser of the iPhone has the ability to [...]
Whoops, we are a bit late with this one but the finest freeware audio CD ripper always deserves some attention. EAC, or Exact Audio Copy, has been recently updated to a version 0.99pb1. Although it is labeled as a pre-beta release, the quality of public EAC releases has usually been extremely good – better that [...]
Sony made an annoucement recently that the price of PlayStation 3 will be slashed -100$, but some people speculate whether hundreds bucks is enough to raise interest. Has Sony made a mistake by creating a console with a high end philosophy? The source shows some interesting historical facts about console sales vs. price, and if [...]
