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First details on 2007 eGames & Entertainment Expo emerge
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2007-08-03 20:59:19
Following on from the success of the inaugural event last year and coupling up with the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) conference, this years eGames & Entertainment Expo promises to be bigger and more informative than ever. In what is looking to be a pivotal year in electronic entertainment, what will this expo deliver to consumers?
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2007-08-03 20:59:19
Following on from the success of the inaugural event last year and coupling up with the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) conference, this years eGames & Entertainment Expo promises to be bigger and more informative than ever. In what is looking to be a pivotal year in electronic entertainment, what will this expo deliver to consumers?
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Xbox 360 needs to compete with PlayStation 2
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2007-08-02 06:31:32
More rumours of a price cut for the Xbox 360 coming soon. Okay, but in doing so who should Microsoft be gunning for in the console wars?
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2007-08-02 06:31:32
More rumours of a price cut for the Xbox 360 coming soon. Okay, but in doing so who should Microsoft be gunning for in the console wars?
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Vista patches leaked - Service Pack 1 coming?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-07-31 02:21:30
Beta versions of two hotfix packs for Windows Vista have been leaked, leading to speculation that they may form the basis of a service pack.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-07-31 02:21:30
Beta versions of two hotfix packs for Windows Vista have been leaked, leading to speculation that they may form the basis of a service pack.
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Porn finds its way to Blu-ray
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2007-07-31 01:47:11
Sony's reluctance to allow pornography onto Blu-ray has been cited as one of that HD format's barriers to success. But things have changed.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2007-07-31 01:47:11
Sony's reluctance to allow pornography onto Blu-ray has been cited as one of that HD format's barriers to success. But things have changed.
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Blu-ray Target deal intensifies pressure on HD DVD
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-07-29 20:34:00
The latest news that Target, the second largest retailer in the US, is going to stock Blu-ray players exclusively in its physical stores over the holiday shopping season is a worrying sign for Toshiba and the backers of the HD DVD high definition video format.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-07-29 20:34:00
The latest news that Target, the second largest retailer in the US, is going to stock Blu-ray players exclusively in its physical stores over the holiday shopping season is a worrying sign for Toshiba and the backers of the HD DVD high definition video format.
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Microsoft trims Xbox HD DVD price
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2007-07-26 17:47:43
Microsoft has announced a price reduction of $US20 for the Xbox 360 HD DVD player.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2007-07-26 17:47:43
Microsoft has announced a price reduction of $US20 for the Xbox 360 HD DVD player.
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Quickflix reports record subscriber growth
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Financial News
2007-07-25 00:10:14
Web-based DVD rental service Quickflix signed up a record 5342 subscribers in May, taking the count above 18,000 by the end of the 2007 financial year.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Financial News
2007-07-25 00:10:14
Web-based DVD rental service Quickflix signed up a record 5342 subscribers in May, taking the count above 18,000 by the end of the 2007 financial year.
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Toshiba: HD DVD "behind the eight ball" in fight with Blu-ray
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2007-07-17 00:41:19
Toshiba has launched a new range of HD DVD players in Australia, but concedes locally HD DVD is "behind the eight ball" in its war with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format.
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Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2007-07-17 00:41:19
Toshiba has launched a new range of HD DVD players in Australia, but concedes locally HD DVD is "behind the eight ball" in its war with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format.
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HD format wars get murkier, dirtier as EU gets involved
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-07-05 01:02:42
It's no longer any secret that Blu-ray has taken a clear lead at the point of sale over its rival HD DVD high definition video format. No matter how you spin it, Blockbuster and Nielsen VideoScan report more Blu-ray than HD DVD discs being rented and sold. Sales and rentals are largely a factor of two things: high definition player sales and movie studio support. The latter is where things get murky, why the war is still not over and why the EU has entered the fight.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-07-05 01:02:42
It's no longer any secret that Blu-ray has taken a clear lead at the point of sale over its rival HD DVD high definition video format. No matter how you spin it, Blockbuster and Nielsen VideoScan report more Blu-ray than HD DVD discs being rented and sold. Sales and rentals are largely a factor of two things: high definition player sales and movie studio support. The latter is where things get murky, why the war is still not over and why the EU has entered the fight.
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Amazon.com and Microsoft form alliance to push HD DVD
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2007-07-02 00:59:11
Amazon.com and Microsoft have teamed up in a push to encourage independent film makers to produce films in the HD DVD format. The new alliance, which aims to make HD DVD a more affordable format for smaller producers to produce and distribute films, marks another phase in the ongoing HD format wars.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2007-07-02 00:59:11
Amazon.com and Microsoft have teamed up in a push to encourage independent film makers to produce films in the HD DVD format. The new alliance, which aims to make HD DVD a more affordable format for smaller producers to produce and distribute films, marks another phase in the ongoing HD format wars.
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Has Blu-ray won the HD war or just round 1?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-06-25 06:25:44
With the announcement that Blockbuster has decided to give HD DVD the flick from shelves of 1450 stores after an initial trial of 250 stores, many market watchers have declared Blu-ray the winner of the high definition video format wars. However, the HD DVD camp is far from admitting defeat and they claim to have some good reasons. But do they?
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-06-25 06:25:44
With the announcement that Blockbuster has decided to give HD DVD the flick from shelves of 1450 stores after an initial trial of 250 stores, many market watchers have declared Blu-ray the winner of the high definition video format wars. However, the HD DVD camp is far from admitting defeat and they claim to have some good reasons. But do they?
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HD DVD spin wears thin after Blockbuster goes Blu-ray
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-06-18 17:39:03
Just one week ago the North American HD DVD Promotional Group issued a media release broadcasting that "HD DVD is significantly ahead in the dedicated consumer electronics player market with 60% of all high definition set-top players sold." However, the announcement that the Blockbuster video store chain will stock only Blu-ray titles in its remaining 1200 stores after an initial 500-store trial exposes HD DVD spin for what it is.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-06-18 17:39:03
Just one week ago the North American HD DVD Promotional Group issued a media release broadcasting that "HD DVD is significantly ahead in the dedicated consumer electronics player market with 60% of all high definition set-top players sold." However, the announcement that the Blockbuster video store chain will stock only Blu-ray titles in its remaining 1200 stores after an initial 500-store trial exposes HD DVD spin for what it is.
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Blockbuster to Blu-bust HD DVD off the shelves
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-18 11:20:55
Has Blockbuster become the HD DVD-buster by deciding to stock only Blu-ray titles in their 1700 corporate-owned stores, leaving HD DVD titles only in the initial 250 store test, adding only more HD DVD titles see higher consumer demand?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-18 11:20:55
Has Blockbuster become the HD DVD-buster by deciding to stock only Blu-ray titles in their 1700 corporate-owned stores, leaving HD DVD titles only in the initial 250 store test, adding only more HD DVD titles see higher consumer demand?
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Blockbuster backs Blu-ray - HD DVD on the ropes?
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Seeking Nerdvana
Category: The Digital Lounge Room
2007-06-17 23:50:37
In another blow to HD DVD, the giant Blockbuster video rental chain has thrown its weight behind Blu-ray in the fight to see which format is the high definition successor to the humble DVD.
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Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Seeking Nerdvana
Category: The Digital Lounge Room
2007-06-17 23:50:37
In another blow to HD DVD, the giant Blockbuster video rental chain has thrown its weight behind Blu-ray in the fight to see which format is the high definition successor to the humble DVD.
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Microsoft, LG, patents and Linux get cross
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-07 10:28:11
A cross-license patent agreement between software behemoth Microsoft and Korean electronics powerhouse LG may result in some interesting products. Will we see an LG HDTV with built-in Xbox 360?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-07 10:28:11
A cross-license patent agreement between software behemoth Microsoft and Korean electronics powerhouse LG may result in some interesting products. Will we see an LG HDTV with built-in Xbox 360?
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Intel's Bearlake chipsets debut at Computex
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-05 04:29:56
Intel's 3 Series chipsets - codenamed 'Bearlake' - have arrived at Taiwan's Computex trade show.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-06-05 04:29:56
Intel's 3 Series chipsets - codenamed 'Bearlake' - have arrived at Taiwan's Computex trade show.
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Toshiba unveils slim HD DVD-RW for notebooks
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-04 11:35:35
Toshiba releases a slim new HD DVD-RW drive for notebooks at Taiwan’s Computex as they fight with Sony’s Blu-ray to become the dominant movie and data standard.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-04 11:35:35
Toshiba releases a slim new HD DVD-RW drive for notebooks at Taiwan’s Computex as they fight with Sony’s Blu-ray to become the dominant movie and data standard.
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Arrr! Sparrow’s Pirates is “The One”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-02 23:44:48
Pirate antics on the high Blu-ray seas have bested the mind bending Matrix trilogy in HD DVD in unit sales, but big differences between the two prove there is no spoon.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-02 23:44:48
Pirate antics on the high Blu-ray seas have bested the mind bending Matrix trilogy in HD DVD in unit sales, but big differences between the two prove there is no spoon.
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Can the AACS manage to get managed copy right?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-24 22:42:45
MMC, or ‘mandatory managed copy’ is a feature of the AACS specification that allows users to make one or more legal backup copies – but the feature still isn’t implemented with studio horse-trading still ongoing.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-24 22:42:45
MMC, or ‘mandatory managed copy’ is a feature of the AACS specification that allows users to make one or more legal backup copies – but the feature still isn’t implemented with studio horse-trading still ongoing.
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HP to offer Blu-ray/HD DVD hybrid
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-05-08 01:35:03
Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce this week an optional dual-format Blu-ray/HD DVD drive for some of its PC models.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-05-08 01:35:03
Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce this week an optional dual-format Blu-ray/HD DVD drive for some of its PC models.
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