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Saturday, 04 August 2007 06:59
First details on 2007 eGames & Entertainment Expo emerge
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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Thursday, 02 August 2007 16:31
Xbox 360 needs to compete with PlayStation 2
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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Radioactive IT
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:21
Vista patches leaked - Service Pack 1 coming?
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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Business Telecommunications
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:47
Porn finds its way to Blu-ray
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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Business Telecommunications
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Monday, 30 July 2007 06:34
Blu-ray Target deal intensifies pressure on HD DVD
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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Beerfiles
Friday, 27 July 2007 03:47
Microsoft trims Xbox HD DVD price
Microsoft has announced a price reduction of $US20 for the Xbox 360 HD DVD player.
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Entertainment
Wednesday, 25 July 2007 10:10
Quickflix reports record subscriber growth
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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Listed Tech
Tuesday, 17 July 2007 10:41
Toshiba: HD DVD "behind the eight ball" in fight with Blu-ray
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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Entertainment
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 11:02
HD format wars get murkier, dirtier as EU gets involved
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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Beerfiles
Monday, 02 July 2007 10:59
Amazon.com and Microsoft form alliance to push HD DVD
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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Market
Monday, 25 June 2007 16:25
Has Blu-ray won the HD war or just round 1?
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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Beerfiles
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 03:39
HD DVD spin wears thin after Blockbuster goes Blu-ray
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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Beerfiles
Monday, 18 June 2007 21:20
Blockbuster to Blu-bust HD DVD off the shelves
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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Fuzzy Logic
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Monday, 18 June 2007 09:50
Blockbuster backs Blu-ray - HD DVD on the ropes?
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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Seeking Nerdvana
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 20:28
Microsoft, LG, patents and Linux get cross
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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Fuzzy Logic
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 14:29
Intel's Bearlake chipsets debut at Computex
Intel's 3 Series chipsets - codenamed 'Bearlake' - have arrived at Taiwan's Computex trade show.
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Home Tech
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Monday, 04 June 2007 21:35
Toshiba unveils slim HD DVD-RW for notebooks
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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Fuzzy Logic
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 09:44
Arrr! Sparrow's Pirates is 'œThe One'
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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Fuzzy Logic
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Friday, 25 May 2007 08:42
Can the AACS manage to get managed copy right?
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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Fuzzy Logic
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Tuesday, 08 May 2007 11:35
HP to offer Blu-ray/HD DVD hybrid
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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Home Tech
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