Posted November 30, 2005 
Comments(0) Sony has been rolling out firmware updates to PSP (Playstation Portable) with quite a pace. The latest upgrade to version 2.6 comes with some quite usable improvements and feature affitions.
Posted November 29, 2005 Comments(0) Our friends at CDR-Zone have published an article discussing the quality issues of recordable media, and a list of media which they have divided into quality categories: Premium, Recommended, Budget and Landfill. Of course it is very difficult to produce a definitive list, as the performance of the media is always affected by the test environment.
Posted November 29, 2005 Comments(0) Sony’s Blu-ray disc technology appears to be the front-runner in the nasty fight to determine how the DVDs of the future are produced, movie studios and disc manufacturers are beginning to realize the cost of manufacturing the discs. According to a top manufacturing executive, a manufacturing line for HD DVD discs produced nearly twice as many usable discs as a similar line producing the Blu-ray format.
Posted November 28, 2005 Comments(0) SlySoft has released another update to their magnificent DVD copy protection remover. The new version has an improved support for Macrovision RipGuard. Also, the Sony ARccOS support has been fine tuned again.
Posted November 28, 2005 Comments(0) The DVD Forum has given Chinese engineers the go-ahead to look into developing a next-generation DVD format which will compete with Blu Ray and HD-DVD standards. The China-only format will offer higher definition, better sound quality and more effective means of combatting piracy than Blu Ray and HD-DVD.
Posted November 25, 2005 Comments(1) The website Afterdawn.com has been contacted by Macrovision, who have acquired and are the owner of the DVD Decrypter, that they are no longer allowing the software to be distributed or licensed for the end users.
Posted November 25, 2005 Comments(0) We haven’t even started the shift from DVDs to Blu-ray (or HD-DVD), while the yet another generation of discs are already on their way in. InPhase Technologies and Hitatchi/Maxell have formed an alliance to manufacture and market these holographic discs with monstrous 300GB capacity already in the 2006.
Posted November 24, 2005 Comments(0) while almost everything is said about the Sony XCP DRM during the recent weeks, now the attention is turning towards their older protection solution: The MediaMax by SunnComm. Yesterday two more lawsuits were filed against Sony by Texas Attorney General and the EFF.
Posted November 24, 2005 Comments(0) U-Tech Media, the largest producer of pre-recorded discs in Taiwan, is preparing to produce, both HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie discs, with volume production to begin in the first half of next year. U-Tech cooperates with the Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories under the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in developing HD-DVD pre-recording technology and has acquired related technology from the US.
Posted November 23, 2005 Comments(0) In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films, Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent - Bram Cohen. The agreement requires to prevent bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies.
