dvd in comment and analysis
Julie Meyer: Microsoft v Sony: A fight to the death?
Comment The delay is due to Sony making the Blu-ray drive (next generation high capacity and high definition DVD format) central to the PS3; they are having problems building them in quantity. In effect, they are sacrificing PS3... [14 Nov 2006]
Leader: Are the kids really 'all that'?
Leader For as long as parents have required the services of their seven-year-old to set the video/DVD-R/TiVo, it's been the case that emerging technologies appear to have an upper age-limit to understanding. [19 Oct 2006]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment The iTunes movies are described as 'near-DVD' quality and unlike the flat pricing model on iTunes music, new movies are priced at $14.99 with a rebate for those pre-ordered and $9.99 for older flicks. [09 Oct 2006]
Leader: Why Orange has been a bit green on security
Leader Or their DVD players or their toasters - and then come up with a product to service the need created? Today Orange announced it has struck a deal with F-Secure to provide antivirus protection to mobile phones. [17 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Good-bye CDs
Comment In contrast the move from CD to DVD was only ~10:1. So my prediction is that the CD will go quickly, overtaken by the DVD and USB stick, and promoted by exactly the same mechanisms that killed the floppy... [14 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 17
Comment Before I can pull my camera out or even leave the cab, there's a frenzy of various beggars and dodgy DVD salesmen opening the cab door and trying to pull me in all sorts of directions. This is his warts-and-all diary,... [26 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.03.06
Round-Up New Line is also responding to fan demand by producing an R-rated DVD version of the PG-13 film containing more nudity, death, gore and, naturally, more snakes. The same studio was rumoured to be doing a similar thing on... [31 Mar 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Life after DRM doesn't look so bad
Comment Fortunately DVD players have proved easy to modify to multi-region, thus defusing what might otherwise have become an issue. If rights holders put too stringent demands on how we can use digital information, we may well... [14 Feb 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Goodbye VHS
Comment How could we live without the higher definition video and the surround sound offered by DVD? So what, besides the DVD player, has replaced the VHS box? But in the end a newer more powerful technology... [03 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Online shopping spree
Comment When the entire history of production, sale, ownership and use can be logged, then the exchange of clothing might migrate toward the CD, DVD, book and car model. Just over 10 years ago I can remember contributing to the... [16 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.09.05
Round-Up The only difference this time is its site claimed it was selling the TV for just 49p, and threw in a combination DVD player as well for good measure. 'Oops we did it again. If Argos was after a corporate song it could do... [02 Sep 2005]
Inside Amazon.co.uk: More than just a boy wizard
Comment And anybody who walks to one of the furthest corners of the Amazon distribution centre will find a self contained area which hosts one of the companies most recent new ventures - the DVD rental service launched in... [31 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up Quite how much isn't known for sure but judging by a Seattle-bound order of 800 metric tons of bananas and the complete series of LA Law on DVD it was probably a lot. Bravo for Bill Gates! No, really. [12 Aug 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hollywood's real threat
Comment In the far east it is CD and DVD copying on an industrial scale, whilst in the west it is a pandemic of internet downloading. From a London hotel with free Wi-Fi and LAN I have always felt that death comes from a... [07 Jul 2005]
Leader: Is file-sharing sacking too heavy-handed?
Leader He was invited because he had been served legal papers earlier this year by Hollywood film body the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), accusing his DVD-Core website of being a BitTorrent hub that encouraged... [04 Jul 2005]
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