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Sony Misses Christmas - DVD To Launch In '97
News Although the company had not previously set a date, it was expected to be among the first few manufacturers to ship DVD players: others, such as Toshiba and Compaq, have already said they will be ready for Christmas.
[August 29, 1996, 16:19]
Nuggets: DVD on the beach
News Well Sharp has joined the likes of Panasonic in creating an ideal machine for you if you're into DVD. The DV-L70S is the world's smallest and lightest portable DVD player, at 188 x 25.4 x 141mm and weighing 620g.
[February 7, 2000, 13:45]
Nuggets: DVD can sound great too...
News Blimey, your DVD system sounds rather fab. You've got your new DVD player and you've been suitably awed by the quality of the picture. The system provides support for Dolby ProLogic, MPEG-2 stereo and stereo surround, and can be used with any DVD...
[March 31, 1999, 16:26]
DVD - on the TV or the PC?
News The rivalry between the TV and the PC rages in the DVD arena as it does in the fight for Internet eyeballs. The average price for a DVD player is around £350, but with Samsung slashing prices to £250 and rumours Asda is to produce one for around...
[May 14, 1999, 15:28]
Hitachi spins out CD-ROM, DVD drives
News DVD drives will be manufactured toward the end of this year, and the first DVD-RAM drives are likely to be available from the end of 1997. The drive uses a dual-mode operation that allows it to switch between speeds for certain operations that need...
[September 20, 1996, 15:56]
DVD set to boom but is not without its challengers
News At the DVD Summit in Dublin Monday, speakers took turns to reiterate the phenomenal growth of the medium and, against a backdrop of threats in the guise of piracy, broadband and video-on-demand (VoD), predicted a boom with the advent of Sony's...
[April 18, 2000, 9:05]
DVD chipmakers sued by Hollywood
News The Motion Picture Association of America said Monday that it has sued two chipmakers for selling DVD chips to companies that are flouting copy-protection rules. The lawsuit is the second to target DVD hardware makers and is part of a new campaign...
[August 24, 2004, 8:30]
A Year Ago: DVD group pushes for common format
News DVD promises consumers high-quality digital recording of TV programming and the ability to back up massive amounts of data. The industry association announced plans to meet with 29 companies over two days to establish a specification that will...
[January 12, 2000, 6:02]
DVD standard wins approval
News Japanese electronics giants Toshiba and NEC have had their next-generation DVD standard approved, just weeks after China clarified its own EVD format. The DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, granted...
[December 1, 2003, 8:30]
DVD burner sales on fire
News Retail sales of laptop and desktop computers with DVD recorders jumped 550 percent in unit terms during the first half of this year, according to research from NPD Group. The number of laptops and desktops with internal DVD recorders sold by...
[August 1, 2003, 10:45]
Nuggets: DVD on your lap? No problemo...
News Watching DVD movies on your laptop is a fantastic way to pass the time on long journeys but only a few laptops come with built-in DVD-ROM drives. Portable Add-ons, that saviour of the road warrior, has brought out the DVD Mobile to solve just that...
[July 9, 1999, 11:28]
Pioneer debuts "world's first" DVD-R and RW PC drive
News US manufacturer Pioneer announced Tuesday what it claims is the world's first combination DVD recordable and re-recordable drive for PCs. The device can read and write to DVD-R (write once) DVD-RW (re-recordable), CD-RW and CD-R formats.
[November 16, 2000, 6:09]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: DVD ready to play
News The big guns in DVD showed off their products at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas this week. Lucky Goldstar (LG), Pioneer, Toshiba and Panasonic were among vendors who confirmed they planned to ship DVD-ROM players in the opening months of 1997.
[November 20, 1996, 9:16]
DVD encryption break is a good thing
News The NSA and the FBI don't care about DVD encryption. Every DVD player, including hardware consoles that plug into your television and software players that you can download to your computer, has its own unique unlock key.
[November 12, 1999, 9:52]
Trident spears 3D, DVD, AGP on a chip
News Trident Microsystems has joined the 3D graphics fray with a two-pronged attack which the US company hopes will also spear it a chunk of the emerging digital versatile disk (DVD) market and be a contender for a hot new generation of motherboards...
[November 29, 1996, 16:05]
DVD industry's fallback plan: Sue!
News On Tuesday, the DVD Copy Control Association Inc.filed suit against 21 individuals and 72 Web sites for posting information and utilities designed to break the copy protection on DVD movies. The) defendants have disclosed .proprietary information...
[December 29, 1999, 11:55]
DVD copier driven out of business
News DVD copying software maker 321 Studios has closed its doors, driven out of business by a succession of court decisions that said its most popular product was illegal to distribute. Executives said that the company's popular DVD X Copy, which...
[August 4, 2004, 12:10]
Nuggets: DVD player in the palm of your hand
News Mini DVD player adds cool to Panasonic Panasonic is launching its second generation portable DVD player -- the DVD-L50 Palm Cinema. Panasonic says the Palm has most of the features of a standard DVD player including digital output for dts and Dolby...
[April 7, 1999, 12:24]
DVD group pushes for common format
News DVD promises consumers high-quality digital recording of TV programming and the ability to back up massive amounts of data. The industry association announced plans to meet with 29 companies over two days to establish a specification that will...
[January 13, 1999, 11:00]
DVD Jon seeks compensation
News Jon Lech Johansen, also known as "DVD-Jon", will seek compensation from the Norwegian government following his acquittal in an appellate court on charges related to alleged copyright violation. While Johansen is widely reported as being the "lone...
[January 28, 2004, 10:20]
