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Plextor, a well known supplier for high quality professional optical drives, has announced a new 4x Blu-ray ReWriter drive, model PX-B920SA. This drive is an Internal drive, featuring an SATA interface and a 4MB buffer. Like the PX-B300SA, this is a dual-format drive, capable of playing HD DVD & Blu-ray, along with the usual CD and DVD support.

Despite aggressive price promotions on HD DVD players from Toshiba, sales of Blu-ray Disc players continued to outsell HD DVD units by a wide margin through the week ending January 26, according to leaked NPD Group reports, but the gap has narrowed significantly from reports issued two weeks earlier.

Nearly six million Americans with digital receivers may still lose TV signals when digital-only broadcasts begin next February, a new study says.

First seen at CES in January, the Archos TV+ has been launched in the UK and is available in two variations: the 80GB and 250GB model, priced at £180 and £250, respectively.

Plextor announced today the new the PX-B920SA 4x Blu-ray DVD ReWriter drive as well as a combo DVD- Rewriter that also plays Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies - the Plextor PX-B300SA.

Microsoft’s recent admission that it would be willing to incorporate a standalone Blu-ray player for the Xbox 360 -- should HD-DVD not prove to the winning format in the high-definition war -- might be on the cusp of coming true.

Apple has updated its iPhone and iPod Touch lineup, doubling the memory and setting a new premium price for its high-end models.

Online retailer Amazon is to become the largest shareholder in DVDs-by-post company Lovefilm in a deal that will bring together the two firms' competing UK film rentals businesses.

Companies have been trying, and failing, to get PCs into the living room for several years, so why should Asustek succeed with a cut down Linux-based solution, when the likes of Intel, AMD, Microsoft and Sony, among countless others, have all had their efforts rejected by consumers?

Kingston Technology announced it is adding a 16GB Class 4 SDHC Flash memory card to the current line of SDHC products. The new 16GB card is the largest capacity in Kingston's line of SDHC cards, which include 4- and 8GB SDHC Class 2/4/6 versions.

In theory, everyone in the U.S. who has an iPhone is an AT&T customer, as this telecom has an exclusive contract with Apple. In reality, more than one-quarter of iPhones have been unlocked so that they can be used with other telecoms.

Neil Young has apparently decided to skip a traditional CD release for the first in a series of releases which are intended to form a retrospective of his career from the 1960s through the present day.

When it comes to peer-to-peer file-sharing, as soon as one site is shut down, another takes its place. The current darling of the P2P world is The Pirate Bay, a search engine for BitTorrent files across the Web.

P2P directory Pirate Bay has managed to sign up its 10 millionth peer making itself the world's largest P2P tracker.

The British Board of Film Classification has caused a bit of a rumpus by approving for general release on DVD the famed "video nasties" which were 20 years ago deemed unfit for human consumption.

The battle of the recordable DVD formats - DVD+R/RW versus DVD-R/RW - is finally and officially over more than five-odd years after it began, and several years after the fight became largely symbolic.

Woolworths stores will stock only Blu-ray high-definition movies from March in the latest setback for the rival HD-DVD format.

Sony Ericsson said it had signed deals with 10 music labels to add content to its PlayNow service, which lets users download music via their mobile phones.

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a different kind of heads-up display that takes the approach of imprinting the screen on a contact lens-type of device that sits on the eye itself. The image is presented to the viewer overlaying the real-world.

Asian LCD makers who have bet big on flat screen TVs are starting to see returns as the booming sector matures, but only a handful of companies with strong brand clients or exposure to the most advanced TV panels will see a significant profit boost.