NEWS 2007
Given its global position as an electronics giant, Sony is quite familiar with patent law and the potential penalties for infringement.....Read More Licensing discussions are underway which could see consumers being given the right to make a number of legitimate copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray movies. But is it too late for managed copying?..Read More The chairman of the European Blu-ray Disc Association was in bullish mood at the start of CeBIT, claiming that his format will have crushed HD-DVD within three years....Read More Sharp has launched a Blu-ray drive with a new high-speed infrared link designed to allow cameraphones to transfer pictures directly....Read More Sony Corp. said Monday it is bringing out a cheaper player for Blu-ray discs early this summer, a crucial step in its battle to make the high-definition format the replacement for DVDs....Read MoreThe first independent data on Blu-ray and HD-DVD disc sales has found that Blu-ray is outselling its rival by a factor of more than two to one....Read MoreMuslix64 has done it again. Just one month after rocking the movie world with a neat little sidestep for HD-DVD copy protection, the hacker has applied his expertise to bypassing the protection features on Blu-ray....Read More LG Electronics said Thursday that it would launch the world's first dual-format high-definition video player capable of running both Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats....Read More
2006 Japanese consumer electronics maker Sharp Electronics said on Tuesday it has started the commercial production of blue laser diodes, taking aim at a market with strong growth potential..... Read MoreCyberlink is aiming to protect people from any fallout from the Blu-ray versus HD DVD high-definition format war by supporting both formats in the latest version of its Powerproducer authoring software....Read MoreChipmakers such as Broadcom, NEC and STMicroelectronics are preparing components that will allow consumer electronics manufacturers to come out with players and PCs that will play both Blu-ray Discs and HD-DVD discs.....Read More. Researchers announced at ISOM 2006 important new developments involving high-speed recording on Blu-Ray media, presenting recordings on Blu-Ray discs at speeds as high as the 12x....Read MoreVidaBox LLC, an innovator of media center systems, announced today the world’s first dual HD-DVD & Blu-Ray Media Center lines...Read MoreA truce between the Blu-ray and HD DVD worlds is still probably a way off, but NEC has come up with a chip that could help companies bridge the gap.....Read MoreForrester Research is again predicting that Blu-ray Disc will beat out HD DVD in the format war, but only after a long, drawn-out battle....Read MoreSony will launch a pair of Blu-ray Disc video recorders in Japan this December, the company said Tuesday.....Read MoreA UK company has announced a solution that could solve the upcoming high-definition war between the rival Blu-ray and HD DVD disc formats.London-based New Medium Enterprises (NME) has developed a low-cost, multilayer DVD disc that can store Blu-ray content on one layer and HD DVD content on another......Read MoreSony's forthcoming 20-gigabyte version of the PlayStation 3 video game console will feature an HDMI 1.3 output, the company announced on Friday at the Tokyo Game Show...Read MoreSony will announce next month that it has developed an 8-layer version of the Blu-ray disc that is capable of storing 200GB of data, according to a company spokesman..... Read More The dream of many gadget kooks these days--a box that can play both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD movies--may come some day, but it doesn't appear likely in the near future....Read MoreSony has announced its new range of notebooks and two Media Center PCs under the Vaio brand.....Read More Sony has delayed the launch of its next-generation Playstation 3 games console until March 2007 in territories outside North America and Japan....Read More Sony predicts that by April 2007, six million homes worldwide will be using the high-definition Blu-ray format, thanks to sales of its PlayStation 3 gaming consoles....Read More Conference attendees have different theories as to how the format competition between HD DVD and Blu-ray will play out. ...Read More The Blu-ray high definition DVD format could face an uphill battle to become the dominant force in Europe after one manufacturer admitted that it may be next year before it has products ready for market....Read MorePanasonic wants to remodel the entertainment center around Blu-ray....Read MoreIn another blow for the Blu-Ray format, Samsung, Sony and Pioneer have all pushed back the release dates for their DVD players....Read More
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