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Sony recalls risky rootkit CDs

News More than 2.1 million of those discs have been sold. We share the concerns of consumers regarding discs with XCP content-protected software, and, for this reason, we are instituting a consumer exchange programme and removing all unsold CDs with...

16 November 2005, 10:03

HD DVD studios promise 200 movies

News Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, HBO Video, New Line Entertainment and Warner Home Video stood up with Toshiba at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and pledged that movies such as Million Dollar Baby, Harry Potter and the Goblet of...

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5 January 2006, 9:59

News.blog: Sony launches 200-disc Blu-ray changer

News With its rectangular, tower-like design, the HES-V1000 is a 200-disc changer that can play and record to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. With only about 300 total Blu-ray discs on the market, that might be overkill, but you can fill the gaps with your...

7 September 2007, 9:30

Sony details Blu-ray plans and new products

News But the company said on Wednesday that it will also release, in the summer, an as-yet-unpriced Blu-ray player called the BDP-S1, and, by the end of the year, an external computer drive that will play and record the high-definition discs.

5 January 2006, 11:04

Panasonic beams Blu-ray to your home

News Blu-ray backers, however, say their discs will hold more data. The player, which plays discs but can't record, will retail for $1,299.95 (£715), while the receiver will sell for $999.95. Panasonic has developed a spin-coat method for discs that...

23 June 2006, 9:34

Sony stops production of rootkit CDs

News The company said it is not halting production of all discs that contain additional copy-protection technologies. When the discs are played on a computer, the listener is asked to click through a consent form and install the copy-protection software.

14 November 2005, 9:46

Intel and Microsoft endorse HD DVD

News Among them: HD DVD requires that films may be copied to a consumer's hard drive, making it easier for people to send them around home networks; HD DVD supports standard DVD recordings on the flip side of the disc, letting people sell hybrid discs...

27 September 2005, 10:28

Rootkit controversy not hurting Sony sales

News According to data from market tracker Nielsen SoundScan, the discs carrying Sony's copy protection software suffered little, if any, decline in sales compared with other medium-selling titles at similar points in their release cycles -- at least...

22 November 2005, 9:04

New hi-def DVDs to use old video tech?

News The new advanced codecs aren't immediately necessary for discs released in Sony's high-capacity Blu-ray format, Sony Pictures executives said in an interview with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com, and the studio would instead use the 11-year-old...

Tags: matter, production, high definition, blu

30 November 2005, 9:33

DVD-swapping site presses retailers for play

News Consumers, of course, can keep the discs they obtain permanently, he added. A few months ago, the stock available on the Peerflix network amounted to 3,000 discs. The company never takes ownership of the discs.

20 July 2005, 9:21

HP backs both rivals in DVD war

News However, HD DVD discs are much more similar to today's DVDs in construction. The mandatory managed technology has been called for in future discs by Microsoft and Intel. However, HP said that the Blu-ray Disc Association did not agree to support a...

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19 December 2005, 9:24

Sony's Blu-ray laptop to launch next week

News While Blu-ray discs hold more than discs based on the rival HD DVD standard, Blu-ray equipment costs more than HD DVD equipment. Although it's technically possible to make a single player that can play Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, the licensing and...

13 June 2006, 9:40

Hi-def DVD format war just got hot

News Disc prices that stingBuying discs can also set movie buffs back. Blank discs from Blu-ray that can be used to record will retail in the US for between $17.99 and $59.99 (£10 and £34). Toshiba's HD-A1 at $500 (£280) and higher-end HD-XA1 at $800...

19 April 2006, 10:27

Government loses 25 million child benefit records

News November -- three weeks after the discs had failed to arrive at the A junior official in HMRC sent the unencrypted discs to the Darling, said that two discs containing the details of everybody in the NAO, but HMRC were not informed that the discs...

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21 November 2007, 8:56

LG to sell first Blu-ray/HD DVD player

News The Korean electronics maker unveiled the Super Multi Blue, the first player that can play discs from the competing Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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8 January 2007, 10:20