Topic: News

Singulus received orders for 21 Blu-ray dual-layer machines in the first quarter and believe the figure showed the new technology was being adopted faster than its predecessor, DVD, 11 years ago.

Amazon.com is now selling a Samsung 61-inch 1080p HDTV for $1,349 -- 41 percent off the suggested list price. The DLP set, model HLT6176S, has a picture resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, 3 HDMI inputs, a contrast ratio of 10,000 to 1 and weighs just 74 pounds.

Tsutaya, Japan's biggest rental chain, have announced it will launch an HD video on demand service, allowing users to download titles from home.

Japansese VMJ and Sharp, will this month begin shipping the first 65" 3D LCD display to high-power professionals, airports or shopping centers.

With the high definition DVD format war settled, Wal-Mart Stores Inc is now aggressively promoting sales of Blu-ray players.

CBS Corp said on Wednesday it reached a deal to allow its Web videos to be carried by Yahoo Inc, part of a broader plan by the media company to add new outlets for its television shows.

Traxdata has extended its Blu-ray Recordable media range to incorporate BD-R4x, making it one of the few brands to currently supply certified Blu-ray Recordable 4x Media.

Ritek, a leading optical-disk manufacturer in Taiwan, has recently announced the production of their first pre-recorded BD for the movie Rambo IV. This disc is the first of its kind in Taiwan. This BD disk is also the first to have a storage capacity of 50GB.

Press Release: LG Electronics have unveiled its new line of optical disc drives, which feature one of the fastest Blu-ray reading and writing speed of 6x.

Although the scheme has been running successfully in the States for sometime, with some US content available here, iTunes U has just received its full UK launch.

The battery life of portable gadgets has always been a source of frustration. But Apple may have found an eco-friendly way around the problem – by integrating a solar panel behind, say, the iPhone’s LCD display.

High-end consumer electronics retailers expect set-top Blu-ray players to begin outselling DVD players by August, as a wave of new models eases current supply problems.

Samsung has announced that it has developed the world’s fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface, at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum. Samsung’s new 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface.

Speaking at yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip.

Apple is continuing to expand on its newfound variable pricing policy for TV shows, an announcement for the UK reveals.

Representing the latest effort to compete with iTunes in the burgeoning movie download space, CinemaNow is now offering a variety of paid content services through Windows Media Center.

Activision is adding drums, bass guitar, and microphone to its popular Guitar Hero video game.

Samsung, a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its one terabyte EcoGreen F1 hard drive with low power features.

Speaking at a summit yesterday, Nintendo of America's VP of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway said that the Wii had sold more than 50 million units of software during the first 18 months that it has been on the market.

In the first quarter of 2008, global LCD television sales outpaced the sale of plasma televisions by a whopping eight to one margin.