Nintendo has been forced to upgrade its Wii console after users discovered a major flaw - the weakness of a piece of string. The string which attaches the remote control handset (known as the wiimote) to the player’s wrist has been breaking. The wiihaveaproblem.com feature photographs of people with black eyes, bruises and dislocated knees as weel as broken windows etc caused by over-enthusiastic use of the devices. Nintendo announced today that it would be exchanging free of charge the straps on all 3.2 million wiimote controllers already sold.

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Many recent software updates have been concerning the support for Windows Vista, and CloneDVD makes no exception. New version 2.9.0.3 comes with Vista support, signed drivers and a signed setup file. Updating is free. CloneDVD is one of the best and fastest DVD-to-DVD-R compression software, that produces decent quality very quickly, has an intuitive user interface and the robust Elby DVD recording engine

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One has to give credit to Apple for popularizing the online music stores. Many had tried and pioneered the business model before, but Apple was the first to really cut it - accompanied with the neat iPod music player. But now according to the Forrester Group research, the sales figures are slumping.

There are various potential reasons for the decrease. The market trend could be declining as the hype is calming down, and after all the music at iTunes is not very cheap. Also, there are now many high profile compteritors for the iTunes service

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Wii made its highly anticipated debut across Europe on Friday 8th December, with thousands of people desperate to get their hands on Nintendo’s new console. Wii was an instant hit and selling out in stores all over Europe in just a matter of hours, 325,000 units were sold in the first two days making it the fastest selling home console in history.

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The Pioneer Elite BDP-HD1 Blu-ray player and the Sony BDP-S1 appear to be almost identical twins, or at least very much based on the same technology. The reviews and comparisons of these high quality players have revealed same components being used and identical performance, while the Pioneer has a few more advanced features and a more stylish piano black design. Based on Pioneer’s statement, they are manufacturing their own player while Sony has sent out a comment that they have used Pioneer components in a device designed by Sony. Either way, the both players have received rather good reviews, but the Pioneer comes with a +$500 more on the price tag.

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According to DigiTimes, Lite-On IT has launched LH-2B1S serial ATA Blu-ray Disc (BD) Triple Writer, in Japan at a retail price of US$600. The price is much lower than BD burners offered by other vendors (approx. US$1000). The price gap between the BD burners and HD DVD-ROM drives offered by Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard is now also much narrower.

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Everyone’s focus is on the next generation consoles and their sales figures, but the fact is that PlayStation 2 is still dominating the market. In fact the PS2 is out-sold all other entertainment systems in November and seems to be going towards yet another succesfull holiday season. But the revenue stream of PS2 sales is truly needed by Sony, which is expected to make huge losses per every PlayStation 3 sold. Still, Sony is committed and according to the source on delivering one million PS3’s in 2006.

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According to DailyTech, Nintendo has been hit with the patent infringement lawsuit over its Wii controllers. Interlink Electronics is suing Nintendo over the Wii Remote’s trigger button, which Interlink claims to be its own original patented design. The Wii Remote trigger is similar to the Z-trigger found on the Nintendo 64, which was released in North America on September 29, 1996. Interlink filed its patent for its trigger operated electronic device on September 17, 1997. The N64 controller shows that Nintendo had the trigger design in its labs long before Interlink patented its idea.

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A new version of the famous ConvertXtoDVD software has leaked from the download servers of the VSO Software. The version comes with the version number of 2.1.6.181 and there are a lot of bug fixes included. ConvertXtoDVD, or “X2D”, is an excellent tool that converts virtually any video file into the standard DVD format. Go download the new version as long at it is available on the VSO servers. Note that this version is not officially released, so it should be considered as beta.

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The best BitTorrent client has now been acquired by BitTorrent, Inc. and the author Bram Cohen and one can immediately smell the fish here. BitTorrent, Inc. is pushing hard to improve the reputation of BitTorrent protocol, as it is often considered synonymous to Internet piracy and they have also made deals with the movie industry. At the same time uTorrent has become the most popular BitTorrent client as it is an excellent piece of coding, offering the best features and low memory footprint (compare to bloatware Azureus, etc). So was this just a tactical maneuver to buy uTorrent out of business, or a genuine attempt to improve BitTorrent development?

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