We are pleased to announce that we have upgraded our discussion forum software to the latest SMF (The Simple Machines) version. The new forum comes with a whole new set of features, including private messaging. At the same time we restructured the forum categories into a fewer number of subcategories.

You can access the forum directly from http://forum.bitburners.com, or via the menus as usual. Please do send us your comments or possible bug reports regarding the new forum

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A new version of the comprehensive next generation optical recording has been updated. The new version has plenty of new information based on the announcements made at the CES expo.

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Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox 360 is to support the HD-DVD next-generation disc standard, with an add-on HD-DVD drive. It will be launched for the console by the end of 2006.

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Verbatim Corporation and its parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Verbatim/MKM), announced today that it will begin shipping its new Blue-ray Recordable/Rewriteable media in early 2006 when hardware and software products supporting the formats are launched. Produced at MKM’s optical disc manufacturing facility in Mizushima, Japan, Verbatim initial products will include 25GB single layer media in both write-once (BD-R) and rewritable (BD-RE) formats. Verbatim/MKM has already supplied burner/recorder manufacturers and their software suppliers with engineering samples of its new high-capacity media for securing read/write compatibility.

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Starting from today the BitBurners are supporting the developement of HC Encoder by providing the developer Hank315 the server resources needed for distributing the software. HC Encoder is a very high quality freeware MPEG-2 encoder. From now on you can find the latest public release of HC Encoder from an official homepage, which is updated by the developer Hank315 himself.

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Droppix Receives LightScribe Certification for Droppix Label Maker Pro Software, the First Multi-Drive Application of Lightscribe Droppix Label Maker Pro Lets Users Create Professional Quality Labels and Print With Laser Precision to Multiple LightScribe-Enabled Optical Drives Simultaneously.

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CMC Magnetics and Ritek, will each float unsecured ECBs (euro convertible bonds) worth US$200 million in order to procure manufacturing equipment for Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD discs, while also bolstering their finances, according to the DigiTimes.

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The long awaited XviD v1.1.0. is out. There is lots of changes since v1.0.3. Low bitrate quality has been improved, various decoder and encoder speedups, new postprocessing functions etc.

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