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Comment The wars over DVD formats seem to have been slightly different. If we had gone with the-worst-technology-wins theory we could have expected HD DVD to win because it only involved a tweaking of the well-established CD technology.
[17 Mar 2008]
Comment This includes speakers, two DVD drives and a gaming graphics card. What do staff really do at home with their company machines? Our embattled hero - newly appointed CIO at a largish firm - discovers there's a big difference between home workers and...
[04 Feb 2008]
Comment So when my new machine does arrive it will also lack wired LAN and FireWire ports - and, most dramatic of all, no CD/DVD drive. Can I really manage without a CD/DVD drive? During the past 15 years I have seen one generation of laptop after another...
[28 Jan 2008]
Comment The ability to copy data onto portable devices, be it CD, DVD or portable drive should be extremely limited. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding...
[24 Jan 2008]
Comment Does Warner's move to support Blu-ray exclusively mean that HD DVD is dead? The last studio announcement was Paramount going exclusively to HD DVD, so there's been some back-and-forth. Obviously, you've been a big supporter of HD DVD.
[08 Jan 2008]
Comment They are paranoid that they will get ripped off and lose all of their revenues from DVD sales or from selling onto other TV networks. As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda...
[30 Oct 2007]
Comment Every car journey made to the video store to rent a DVD produces more carbon than hosting the film in a data centre and streaming it on-demand. Data centres don't have to be power-hungry monsters. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines looks at ways of...
[21 Sep 2007]
Round-Up Just try and explain the difference between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to the Round-Up and watch it whimper and try to find some contextual common ground with the VHS/Betamax debate, leading to yet more inter-generational confusion.
[27 Jul 2007]
Comment There, we saw the arrival of CATV, VHS, satcom, DVD and Freeview (Digital TV to Air). And even here the movies tend to be on DVD and not off air. IPTV is gradually taking over my viewing time as conventional TV content seems to be declining in...
[30 Apr 2007]
Leader As for 'those new-fangled DVD players', they're even more perplexing - three-quarters of us can't set one to record. It might seem charmingly Luddite to claim an inability to programme a DVD player but it's not necessarily something to be proud of.
[25 Jan 2007]
Round-Up This is of course the show where the VHS video recorder was first unveiled and, lest we get all sentimental about that machine (which some of us could never really programme), the show also gave us the DVD player which kicked VHS into touch and...
[12 Jan 2007]
Leader silicon.com certainly saw some cool gadgets - from a robot cleaner and the world's largest LCD screen (108 inches) to a digital sewing machine - and witnessed more of the Betamax-type format wars between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
[11 Jan 2007]
Comment Back in October 2003 I wrote a fairly glowing write-up of a then-new DVD rental service called ScreenSelect.co.uk (now owned by LoveFilm). Ever have trouble unsubscribing from an online service? Ecommerce sites may believe this is a good way to...
[18 Dec 2006]
Comment Failing that, some rum truffles, a subscription to one of those online DVD clubs, a Wii - and make sure there's some dance mats in there too - a MacBook, a Studio Ghibli boxset, a Solio gadget charger and an LG Chocolate phone wouldn't go amiss.
[14 Dec 2006]
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 to make Blu-ray the next...
[14 Nov 2006]
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]
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 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]
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 - file size growth, increased storage demand...
[14 Jul 2006]
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, which appears daily this month.
[26 Jun 2006]
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