At the same time the media praises the $500 Apple iPhone (a 2-year contract!), there has been constant whining about the price of Sony PlayStation 3 ($599). Well, Sony doesn’t have the media appeal of Apple or Steve Jobs as spokesman, so they have to slahsh prices in order to remain competitive. On the other [...]
The media is eagerly waiting for Sony to announce price reductions for the PlayStation 3 console, mostly due to the sales figures. PS3 has stuck to the third place in “next-gen” cosole sales, aftet Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox. It has been speculated that the slower than expected sales are due to the combination of [...]
Hacker Jon Lech Johansen, a.k.a DVD Jon, became a living legend by defeating the CSS copy protection of the DVD video discs. It seems that DVD Jon has been attracted by the Apple iPhone hype and he has been working on the iPhone activation scheme. US telecommunications operator AT&T has an exclusive distribution agreement with [...]
Microsoft’s Xbox360 has ran into serious production quality issues. The source reports that Microsoft’s UK center is shipping thousands on Xboxes daily to Czech Republic for repairs. Some good news too, Microsoft has informed a Spanish website that the Xbox360 Elite will be launched on August 24 in Europe
Some time ago LG released a stand alone player with support to both high definition formats, and now they are offering multi format drive for PCs. The GGW-H10NI can record to BD-R and read HD DVD media and comes with a whopping price tag of $1199. While the drive is way too expensive for a [...]
The legendary virtual drive emulation software DAEMON Tools has evolved to a commercial Pro version. This new version of the software is offered as shareware or free adware version. A virtual drive emulator mounts disc images on your hard drive as CD/DVD drives, and enables you to access the disc content without the physical media.
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Blockbuster has 1450 retail stores for movie rentals, and they have been renting both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats in 250 of them. According to Blockbuster the Blu-ray format was dominant with of the 70% popularity of high definition movie rentals, which indicates an obvious customer preference towards Blu-ray. This has been considered as huge, [...]
According to DigiTimes, OEM price for blank CD-R discs have dropped to below US$0.10 due to oversupply. Demand for CD-R discs is lower than expected mainly because brand and retail channel clients in the US and Europe had replenished their inventories in the first quarter of 2007 and therefore placed few OEM orders this quarter. [...]
The well known gaming site IGN has made an attempt to forecast the development of game consoles and makes a prediction how will the technology evolve to the year 2010. The year 2010 however is only 2,5 years away, and if you look at the life span of Sony PlayStation 2, one would expect that [...]
Couple of days ago Audioholics.com published an interesting editorial which predicts a dark future for the new high definition video disc formats, the HD DVD and Blu-ray. The author wrote the original article about a year ago with the title Demise of the competing high definition formats and now he returns to the topic with [...]
