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Pioneer Electronics yesterday announced one of the industry's first Blu-ray Disc computer drives will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2006. The company expects the drive to revolutionize digital and high-definition media storage. The new Pioneer BDR-101A uses shorter wavelength blue lasers in...
With a spate of headlines that demonstrate the importance of the Internet as a lever for political and social issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian birthplace of Graz is making a name for itself in a new way: political critic. It started when Schwarzenegger asked that his name be removed from a s...
Digital cinema projection and distribution moved one step closer to the mainstream this week as three major theater companies announced their collaboration on a digital cinema business plan. National CineMedia founding members AMC Entertainment, Cinemark USA and Regal Entertainment said they would w...
What do you get when you mix information science with Hollywood's film industry? Computer-based predictions of the next blockbuster hit. Professor Ramesh Sharda, an information systems specialist at Oklahoma State University, has developed a computer program to help Hollywood predict the potential s...
Mobile phone giant Sprint Nextel is reportedly set to offer movies for its cell phone subscribers through a subscription service, a strategy analysts said will likely struggle against limited demand for small-screen content. The company's mobile devices will accommodate downloads of full-length feat...
Sony BMG's overzealous moves to insert digital rights management into its music CDs is causing the company more trouble. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the non-profit Internet rights group, said that software Sony embedded into 27 CD titles on sale in the United States and Canada opens a hole t...
The Grateful Dead found out this week what happens when you give and then take away: consumer uproar. The Dead, a band who has always encouraged tape sharing of its multitude of live shows, a few weeks ago asked the non-profit Internet Archives to remove free downloads of their concerts from its sit...
Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum. Jupiter Research said file-shar...
What began as a promising way to protect CDs from piracy has become a public relations nightmare for Sony BMG Entertainment and its digital rights management (DRM) partners, First 4 Internet (F4I) and SunnComm. The new lawsuits leveled at Sony BMG stem from its sale of audio CDs protected with a sch...
It used to be that peer-to-peer (P2P) operators and major music and movie entertainment companies mentioned in the same statement indicated some sort of legal action by either side, but the latest announcement -- a deal for NBC Universal content to be available on Wurld Media's Peer Impact P2P servi...
A new report issued at a press conference held by the six major television networks this week said digital video recorders (DVR) increase viewership. But advertising agencies are still holding fast to their displeasure with the technology. According to the networks, homes with a DVR watched 5.7 hour...
Just days after Sony decided to drop its controversial anti-piracy software on its CDs, more bad news has surfaced for the music giant: Sony's uninstall program makes the computer even more vulnerable to malware. Princeton researcher J. Alex Halderman posted instructions for how to find out if your ...
Wireless carrier Cingular announced yesterday it had teamed up with MobiTV to offer MobiRadio. For US$6.99 a month plus kilobyte use fees, Cingular subscribers with radio-ready handsets can stream any of 44 commercial-free radio channels directly to their handsets. The stations, programmed by Music ...
Vodafone UK and British Sky Broadcasting Group struck a deal unveiled this week that will provide mobile television service in the UK with news, music videos and other entertainment offered in a hot, but untested space. The companies said Sky MobileTV will give 3G handset users access to 19 mobile c...
Samsung plans to enter the nascent online music market and although there's a vast pool of consumers who have not yet made the leap to downloading songs, it will take "an incredibly compelling proposition" to make a dent in Apple's hold on the segment, one analyst said. Speaking to South Korean medi...
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