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  • Amazon To Launch ‘Literary iPod?’

    Amazon To Launch 'Literary iPod?'Online bookseller Amazon is about to unveil a wireless electronic book reader, according to The Independent.

    Described as “a kind of literary iPod,” the paper reports that UK publishers are already scrambling to digitise their entire range of titles in time for the product’s launch, rumoured to be as close as a month away.

    The book reader follows hot on the heels of the Sony eBook Reader, which impressed us after a brief hands-on trial a while ago. Sony’s device is around the size of a hardback book, is easy to read in daylight and can store up to 80 digital books with a battery life of around 7,500 pages.
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  • iPlayer Petition Gets Bland Response From Gordon Brown

    iPlayer Open Beta: A Flawed GemThere was a petition put on to the Number 10 Web Site questioning if the iPlayer should only be available on the Microsoft platform. On the last look it had 16,071 signatures on it from members of the public concerned about it as well.

    Just now the Prime Minister issued his response.
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  • NXP Nexperia PNX5100: HD TV 2 Is Coming: Podcast & Video: IFA

    NXP Nexperia PNX5100: HD TV 2 Is Coming: IFA 2007If you thought that HD TV was the best picture you’re ever going to see, think again. The release of 100/120 Hz Full HD TVs gives you a pretty clear idea that the market is moving again.

    NXP showed us a chip the Nexperia PNX5100 which really ups the game for HD. Lower down you can listen to the interview with those involved and watch a video of it working.
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  • Philips Launch Aurea

    Philips Launch AureaPhilips continue their run of staging press event differently. At IFA they started with a stage with dancers, before the boss came on stage to tell us all about the wonderful things they’d been working on.
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  • Samsung BD-UP5000 Duo HD Player Actually Released: IFA

    Samsung BD-UP5000 Duo HD Player Actually Released: IFATwo years after Samsung first announced their intention to sell a dual fomat HD player that would play HD-DVD and Blu-ray – in the same unit.

    As well as being the first dual format player, the BD-UP5000 Duo HD Player supports both formats interactive formats – DB Java and HDi.
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  • Paramount Dumps High-Def Blu-Ray DVDs

    Paramount Dumps High-Def Blu-Ray DVDsMovie big boys Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have announced that their next-generation DVDs will exclusively be in the HD DVD format, as both companies dump support for Sony’s rival format Blu-ray format.

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  • Solwise HomePlug AV Price Drop & Certification

    Solwise HomePlug AV Price Drop & CertificationIt’s been a busy time for Solwise of late. Near the start of this week their high-speed HomePlug, the AV 200Mbps / PL-200AV, passed the HomePlug AV certification testing at the recent PlugFest in France, giving them the right to display the “HomePlug AV Certified” logo.
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  • Virgin Media lose 40k Subs But Changes Ahoy

    Virgin Media lose 40k Subs: Changes AhoyThe latest results results from Virgin Media, Q2 2007, show that they’ve lost 40,000 cable TV subscribers. The most likely reasons – the loss of Sky TV programming, following their spat with Sky. To rub salt into the wounds, Sky gain 90,000 TV customer over the same period.
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  • Fujitsu Creates A Colossal 231″ Screen

    Fujitsu Creates A Colossal 231Not that long ago, a 24″ CRT TV screen sat in your living room would mark you out as a well-wedged consumer, drawing envy from lesser mortals squinting at bedsit portables or bog standard 20″ units hired out from the once mighty Radio Rentals.

    Come the 90s, impressively well dimensioned Plasma and LCD screens started to take a hold in upmarket homes, with the slimline, stylish goggleboxes expanding to wall filling screen sizes of 37″, 42″ and upwards.
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  • Torchwood Sells to HDNet

    Torchwood Sells to HDNetThe BBC Dr Who Spin-off, Torchwood, set and shot in Cardiff, Wales, has been sold to US TV network HDNet.

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