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2005 will see the next big battle for the home. The concept of the digital hub is slowly becoming reality, and both TiVo and Microsoft are making a run for the gold. ReplayTV is all but gone. Apple seems to have taken a pass on the entire concept. Sony is a player but has never been able to gain t...
Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division. The company, however, took a step closer to NEC and Toshiba's HD DVD ...
Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown their considerable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs, escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs. Sony, Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are among the other companies that are promoting Blu-ray.
The proliferation of video servers was amazing at the EHX show, as was the cost of some of these devices. The norm seemed to be about what PCs sold for in the early 1980s -- $2,000 and up -- and you certainly could see strong margins even if you couldn't see strong volumes at these prices. I rea...
Video game distributors are under fire from two groups today that claim children can still buy games with violent and sexual themes despite a rating system designed to prevent just that. In separate events, The National Institute on Media and the Family and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Respons...
Landing a contract with a major record label can be nirvana for an artist, but it's a heaven out of reach for many musicians. That's because backing an act is risky business. And while record companies can make millions from an artist's success, they can also lose millions, if the artist fails to ca...
Forget about a spot on the grassy knoll: A new Internet video game offers players the opportunity to shoot President John F. Kennedy themselves, for a $9.99 download. JFKReloaded, released today, the 41st anniversary of the president's death, is a first-person game in which the player sees the view ...
As Nintendo seeks to keep its command of the mobile gaming market with the dual-screen DS handheld unveiled this week, Sony will try to make the market a dual-player game with its forthcoming PlayStation portable device, the PSP. Touting two 3-inch, color, LCD screens and two ways to connect wirele...
The major movie studios will copy the tactics of the recording industry in their attack on online film piracy. While announcing its intent to file hundreds of civil lawsuits against individuals alleged to have infringed movie copyrights by sharing files online, the Motion Picture Association of Amer...
SBC has jumped into the IP TV market, sealing a 10-year, US$400 million deal with Microsoft to provide television services using the software giant's TV Internet protocol television edition software platform. Microsoft has been trying to crack the TV market for years, investing billions of dollars i...
Tesco, the UK retail giant that sells everything from groceries to insurance, has opened its own online music market. The download site contains about half a million song files in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. IPods, which have captured more than 50 percent of the UK market, do not play WMA ...
Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced Thursday that it will go the route of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which since September 200...
Take-Two Interactive Software, owner of the "Manhunt" video game that was banned in New Zealand and which sparked the adoption of new video/CD purchase and rental rules in Canada, recently announced a partnership with one of the members of the record label cartel that's currently suing p2p users aro...
A version of the popular "Halo 2" video game for Microsoft's Xbox platform has appeared online in an act of digital piracy. While games figure as the least pirated digital entertainment medium, falling far below music and movies, "there was going to be piracy, no matter what," Yankee Group senior an...
Nintendo is enforcing its dominance in the portable gaming world with the launch of its wireless Nintendo DS, a handheld double-screen console that will allow players to control games with touch or voice, monitor two-screen action and even compete wirelessly with others. Nintendo DS will launch in t...
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