Sony is firing their legal guns to all directions. Now they are aggressively pursuing the hackers that cracked the PlayStation 3 copy protection. According to the source PS3 firmware version 1.10 and 1.11 have been cracked, forcing the console to boot copies of games. However, booting is not enough yet - hackers have not been [...]
Their opponent the Blu-ray camp has previously made several statements about the success of their format. Their claims have been backed by PlayStation 3 sales and some success of selling Blu-ray movies. Now the HD DVD party boast that they have a 60% market share in set-top players sold. This is hardly surprising, as their [...]
Recently there has been strong rumors that Microsoft would be willing to cut the price of the Xbox 360. Microsoft and especially Sony have a reason to be worried, as Nintendo’s different kind of approach on the ‘next generation of gaming’ has been surprisingly succesfull so far. While the Wii is technically much less advanced, [...]
Korean LG was the first hardware vendor to deliver a player that is capable of handling both of the high definition formats, the Blu-ray and HD-DVD. AVRewview got their hands on to LG BH100, but unfortunately the first impressions seem to be failing expectations. The device is lacking several essential next generation, like the support [...]
Sony “does not rule out the possibility of lowering the price of the PS3“, Sony president Ryoji Chubachi told the daily Yomiuri Shimbun. PS3 is facing fierce competition from Nintendo’s Wii which was outselling the PS3 by more than five to one in Japan in May.
Sony began shipping its new Blu-ray Disc (BD) player to major consumer electronics retailers and specialty dealers nationwide for a list price of $499. The BDP-S300 is expected to broaden the high-definition disc player market while delivering new features including the advanced Dolby® Digital Plus audio codec.
SlySoft has recently aquired the Game Jackal software from Australian Jacal Consulting Pty and this is the first version released by SlySoft. Game Jackal is a neat tool which allows you to play PC games without inserting your original CD. This gives you many benefits, like faster game loading times, no wear and tear to [...]
The term Inconvenient Truth has been popularized by Vice President of the USA Al Gore in his climate campaign. Now the IFPI, International Federation of Phonographic Industry, has made the lamest campaign gimmick ever, by using the same slogan in their anti-piracy efforts. They have today announced a list of 10 ‘inconvenient truths’ on their [...]
Finland has one of the hardest implementations of the EUCD copyright directive, and it is now being tested in the Finnish Court. Basically the law currently criminalizes decryption and bypassing of copy protection mechanisms. It also bans the distribution of decryption tools, and even organized debate of copy protection decryption. On the 25th of May [...]
Arstechnica predicts that Apple might be releasing their non-restricted DRM free music catalog at iTunes later this week - perhaps as early as on Tuesday? Apple and record company EMI have been working on a deal to distributed non-protected music via iTunes for quite some time, and the source beleive that an agreement has been [...]
