Topic: News

As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major labels are getting ready to launch the "ringle," which combines the mostly defunct single format with ringtones.

The UK government has responded to an electronic petition that called on it to ensure the BBC's iPlayer works on non-Windows PCs.

Resident DVD expert Flash continues his series looking at common questions around the theme of DVD writing. Today he is looking at how to play HD Movies on the Kiss 1600 and Freecom MP350 If you have a question you would like Flash to answer please please email him.

Verbatim has been flaunting the latest addition to its range of recordable high-definition discs – a 30GB dual-layer, single-sided, write once HD-DVD-R disc.

At IFA, Microsoft has made another step to help the HD-DVD format. The maker of Xbox 360 announced a 20-euro cut in the price of its HD DVD add-on drive for the gaming console. According to the Redmond company, the blue-laser high-definition-disc drives are to retail in Europe for 180 euros ($244).

Vringo, a startup launched last year, wants to help you send video to your friends' phones.

Matsushita thinks plasma is still superior to LCDPlasma television technology has a bright future despite an onslaught on its home turf from rival LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs, makers of plasma screens told Reuters at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin.

TiVo is still struggling to add customers, and miscalculations over the popularity of its HDTV products also hurt the company's bottom line for the quarter ending in July.

Responding to consumer demand, Sony has restocked the 60GB PlayStation 3 online.

P2P traffic is dominating the Internet these days, according to a new survey from ipoque, a German traffic management and analysis firm. ipoque's "preliminary results" show that P2P applications account from anywhere between 50 percent and 90 percent of all Internet traffic.

Hollywood studios are becoming deeply divided over which high-definition technology will replace the DVD, increasing prospects that it will be years before next-generation players become standard equipment in households.

Sony took another step to lure new customers for its high-end PlayStation3, saying it would sell a device to let users record live television that can be stored on the game console or transferred to the PlayStation Portable for later viewing.

The first season of NBC's smash hit TV series Heroes is available for pre-order on Amazon.com in DVD and HD-DVD format.

Team Symbiote have released a DVD Player for the Wii. It seems as if a lot of hackers were at work on the project and it is a total software solution to get DVDs playing on the Wii.

When the first CDs rolled off the presses at the Philips factory near Hannover, Germany on August 17, 1982, nobody realized these newfangled compact discs would revolutionise entertainment.

Internet service providers in the UK are reportedly upset that the BBC's new iPlayer is hogging too much bandwidth. The iPlayer, which the BBC launched in beta last month, will have a full rollout in the fall. The on-demand service allows viewers to download BBC content for free within the UK.

New data released Tuesday by Home Media Research provides a first look at actual disc sales numbers for the first half of 2007, and it's more good news for Blu-ray.

As expected, Sony is selling exclusive models of its LCD televisions through US discount retailer Target right now.

Sony Electronics launched its largest integrated marketing campaign in the U.S., centering on its high definition DNA known as "HDNA."