Hitachi multi-layer DVD holds 200 films
News Japan-based electronics giant Hitachi has developed a technology which allows 200 movies to be packed into a single DVD disc. This is achieved by stacking multiple data-storing layers on a disc to allow reading and writing of a vast amount of data...
[May 20, 2003, 8:35]
Mail Room
News Will this be the end of decent films and games. I myself enjoy watching brutal and gory films and play at the same time brutal and gory games. There is nothing that can beat some good primal death and destruction, I cant think of any good films...
[April 22, 1999, 7:54]
Leonard Maltin 2007 Movie Guide
Downloads Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; The masterworks of Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock; The timeless comedy of Buster Keaton; The animated classics of Walt Disney; The greatest foreign films ever made.
[December 5, 2007, 6:00]
Opinion: What I Hate Most About Windows 98
News But this isn't Hollywood, where you can choose from hundreds of films. Or how it finally includes the improved drivers Microsoft promised for 1995? Or how it adds yet another interface metaphor on top of the six it has already, giving us the...
[June 25, 1998, 13:29]
UK sees 1999 DVD sales explode
News More than 4.1 million DVD films were sold in 1999, compared to just 180,000 the previous year. Over 40 percent of the whole year's sales occurred in December, with 1.4 million films sold. The first full year figures for DVD sales released by the...
[January 6, 2000, 14:11]
'Star Wars' effects studio shifts to Intel
News ILM created the special effects in the "Star Wars" series of movies, among other blockbuster films. Industrial Light and Magic has joined the Empire, hardware-wise. The technical effects studio has switched from using RISC-Unix workstations from...
[July 22, 2002, 8:02]
192 dial tone rings dead
News As for BT, it is offering 'Finder' services for cinemas or specific films or TV programmes, as well as listings that tie in with the Scoot business it purchased this year. Directory enquiry services in the UK will never be the same again from...
[December 9, 2002, 15:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You may remember those old promotional films about the wonders of computers, where scratchy newsreel footage of halls full of clerks working their way grimly through piles of paper faded to spinning tapes and a couple of white-coated technicians...
[October 31, 2003, 14:20]
BT justifies broadband plans
News It includes a music channel, where musicians will get the chance to jam online, a photo editing and publishing suite, a database of short films to watch on demand and snail racing. In a glitzy conference in London's West End Monday, BT presented...
[October 17, 2000, 8:19]
DVD technology explained
News The studios challenged the DVD Forum -- responsible for DVD standards -- to create a system that protects their investment in new films. But DVD is essentially the same technology as its older sibling the CD-ROM.
[May 14, 1999, 16:11]
A Year Ago: DVD technology explained
News The studios challenged the DVD Forum -- responsible for DVD standards -- to create a system that protects their investment in new films. Know the difference between your RAMs and your ROMs? What about the RW?
[May 15, 2000, 7:01]
V8 racers get in-car Linux safety system
News The system films at 25 frames per second at 720 by 576 resolution and the data is stored on the computers' hard drive. Linux-based computer systems are being placed on board V8 Supercars to provide visual information on crashes and relay the data...
[August 19, 2003, 14:25]
Cliff Stanford: The maverick Internet pioneer
News He also became involved in films, the music business, glassmaking and a wide range of other investment opportunities unconnected with Internet technology. No one can ever say that Essex boy Cliff Stanford hasn't been prepared to take a risk.
[September 16, 2005, 13:20]
Naked innovation online
News Videos resulted from that impetus because they were originally unclassified and the age rating didn't apply to them — only to films played in cinemas," Jackson explains Although few at the top of the IT industry would like to publicly admit it...
[November 18, 2005, 14:10]
US Report: DVD seeing off Divx threat
News While all the major Hollywood studios are planning to release movies on DVD, Time Warner Video and Sony Pictures Entertainment (the owner of Columbia and Tri-Star) have refused to commit their large library of films to Divx.
[September 10, 1998, 7:11]
Images: The Apollo 11 moon landing
News The exercise gave me an odd sensation and looked even more odd when I later saw the films of it. Those two were Neil Armstrong (left), the flight commander, and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin (right), who piloted the Apollo lunar module to the surface of the...
[July 20, 2009, 16:40]
