Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 16 April 2004 | Tagged as: Business, DVD, Legal
Los Angles police have arrested two men, one attempting to record “The Passion of the Christ” and the other at a showing “The Alamo” in cinemas.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 24 March 2004 | Tagged as: Music, Cross platform, Platforms, DVD, Storage, Video Hardware, Industry Trends, Gaming
It has taken a while, but Sony have finally launched the PS2 hard drive - and it has Final Fantasy XI pre-installed.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 22 March 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, DVD, Storage, Standards, DVD-Centric
Manufacturers are launching new DVD burners at CeBIT, and it looks like the format wars are settling down a bit … for now.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 17 March 2004 | Tagged as: Platforms, PVR/DVR, DVD, Gaming
Sony’s PSX home media centre will make its European début at CeBIT this week – and the company hopes to launch the console/PVR box in Europe by Q4 2004.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 2 March 2004 | Tagged as: HDTV, Cross platform, Digital TV, Platforms, DVD, Mobile, Portable, Video Hardware, Video Displays, Audio Hardware
Sony unveiled a range of impressive products at its annual Open House event yesterday, including new Clié PDAs and a location-free portable broadband television.
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 January 2004 | Tagged as: Business, DVD, Legal, Software
After years of legal wrangling, Norwegian state prosecutor, ØKOKRIM, have declared they will not appeal against a not guilty ruling for deCSS author Jon Lech Johansen, otherwise know as DVD-Jon.
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 December 2003 | Tagged as: Cross platform, Platforms, Music, DVD, Industry Trends, Storage, Gaming
Sony has reduced the features and supported format of the PSX between its announcement and actual release to the public, the most confusing being its now-lacking Ethernet port. Analysts have reacted strongly against this, but the consumers appear to be lapping it up.
Posted by Simon Perry on 9 October 2003 | Tagged as: Platforms, DVD, Video Hardware, Gaming
Finally the Sony PSX details are released. It is an Ethernet-connected games console that can record TV programmes to its large hard drive, store and play both photos & music and record DVD’s. This will give Sony total vertical integration - their media direct to the consumer’s lounge.
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 October 2003 | Tagged as: Platforms, Components, DVD, Computer-Centric
Relative new comer, Emuzed, has signed a number of deals to provide video cards to Media Center OEMs and could start to threaten Hauppauge.
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 September 2003 | Tagged as: Business, DVD, Legal, Software
Further lawsuits have been filed by two US film studios against the creators of DVD backup/copying software.
