Posted March 31, 2006 
Comments(0) Toshiba Corporation today took the home video experience to the next, high definition level, as it started the Japanese roll out of the world’s first commercially available HD DVD player. The new player, HD-XA1, delivers high definition images and crystal clear sound, bringing home entertainment to a new level.
Posted March 29, 2006 Comments(0) Nero has released a small, but perhaps commercially significant update to the Nero Vision and Recode applications of the Nero 7 suite. The latest update adds preconfigured settings profiles to the video encoding applications, simplifying the process of transferring video content to iPod or any other MPEG-4/AVC compliant mobile device
Posted March 29, 2006 Comments(0) Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company today announced the upcoming availability of the company’s first Blu-ray Disc player, the DMP-BD10, available this September.
Posted March 28, 2006 Comments(0) Did you know that most of the 20 million high-definition TVs sold over the past three years aren’t capable of displaying the HD DVD or Blu-ray disks in their full resolution? That is not all, at least one major studio intends to downgrade the picture even more unless consumers hook their players up through a special, pricey cable aimed at preventing piracy.
Posted March 27, 2006 Comments(0) The highest quality DVD-to-DVD-R transcoding tool DVD Rebuilder has been updated. Version v1.09.2 is a bug fixing release, with various corrections made to correct the structure of the resulting copy. The Pro version requires a small donation, but you can also get the v0.97 free edition of this awesome software.
Posted March 27, 2006 Comments(0) Infomedia, a second-tier maker of blank optical discs in Taiwan, on March 22 announced it has obtained certification from Philips for the 8x DVD+RW format, the fifth maker globally and the third in Taiwan following Ritek and CMC Magnetics.
Posted March 23, 2006 Comments(0) It seems that HD-DVD took another hit Wednesday with Toshiba announcing it is holding off on shipping next-generation players until April, a month behind schedule.
Posted March 22, 2006 Comments(0) According to Reuters, Microsoft is also working it’s way to the budding mobile gadgets market. At this time there is very little information available, but it would seem to be a gaming device with multimedia playback features, thus challenging Sony and Apple.
Posted March 21, 2006 Comments(0) Two to three times as many Xbox 360 machines will be sent to retailers beginning this week, Microsoft said today in a statement. The increased shipments will help Microsoft overcome its own shortages so that the company can win customers who decide not to wait for the PlayStation 3.
Posted March 20, 2006 Comments(0) By updating the hacked firmware, hackers have succeeded in being able to play official Xbox360 games copied onto recordable DVD+/-R media. A video of a the Xbox 360 firmware hack announced a few days ago to show their success. The hackers team insists they will not release the hacked firmware as not to advocate piracy.
