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Coming attraction on DVD players: PC content
News DVD players are the fastest-selling products in consumer-electronics history, and manufacturers have been adding new features to players to capitalise on their popularity while promoting other emerging technologies such as wireless networking.
[December 17, 2002, 8:09]
Cannot handle Macrovision signals from DVD players
Member Review Then I tried the films on two other different DVD players (one an Xbox) with my projector, and the flickering was still evident. Good image -- but not if you connect it to a DVD player! A friend watched the same films on my DVD player connected to...
[March 15, 2004, 10:12]
Yet more DVD to go from Panasonic
News Any last remaining doubts about the future of the DVD format should be firmly killed off by the flood of DVD players being announced at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. First up is the DVD-LV75, shipping in the US in June for...
[January 7, 2000, 11:59]
News Burst: Long wait for recordable DVD
News It will be at least another two years before recordable DVD players hit UK stores according to experts. For instance Pioneer's new player supports DVD-RW, which is not compatible with DVD-RAM, which Panasonic supports.
[November 29, 1999, 11:58]
Pioneer backtracks on DVD-Audio launch
News Pioneer has bowed to public demand and decided to release its DVD-Audio players on schedule. Pioneer's two DVD-Audio players will go on sale in Japan later this month. As a new copy protection system is expected to take at least six months, Pioneer...
[December 14, 1999, 12:07]
Long wait for recordable DVD, could be a blessing
News It will be at least another two years before recordable DVD players hit UK stores according to experts. Panasonic, for example, is one of the major players in the DVD arena and is not yet a member of the Forum.
[November 29, 1999, 16:27]
DVD sales to soar - analysts
News Sales of DVD films are set to soar in the US and Europe, with DVD players becoming widespread by 2005, according to a report from analyst firm Strategy Analytics. Sales of DVD players will see a worldwide growth rate of 182 percent in 1999 to reach...
[September 8, 1999, 11:29]
Nuggets: DVD does MP3
News The world just can't have enough DVD players at the moment. Not wanting to be left out of this DVD frenzy, LG Electronics has a couple of new players out this month. DVD has been the fastest adopted consumer electronics format ever.
[March 28, 2000, 14:07]
Pioneer DVD drives are too hot to handle
News Pioneer Electronics said on Tuesday that its DVD rewritable drives can cause PCs or DVD players to overheat when recording on certain high-speed disks. Representatives from Philips Electronics USA, based in Long Beach, California, said that writing...
[September 18, 2002, 7:30]
Sony unveils new year DVD lineup
News This week's Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas has seen Sony announce a whole raft of new DVD players to take it into the new year, including three single-disc models, two five-disc changers, two of those wonderful portable players, and a...
[January 7, 2000, 6:25]
Recordable DVD hits the mainstream
News DVD-RAM players DVD+RW players DVD-RW players Players read current DVD-Video discs but DVD-RW are incompatible with current machines. The fact that DVD-RAM players will hit the market first, combined with Samsung's excellent track record in pushing...
[March 30, 2000, 14:41]
Apple takes early DVD lead
News Apple Computer on Monday said it had shipped nearly half a million computers with DVD recording drives capable of making movies that consumers can play in home DVD players. The company started with DVD-RAM, which perhaps is the easiest of the DVD...
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
Format wars heat up with Panasonic DVD launch
News The struggle to establish a de-facto standard for recordable DVD players hotted up this week, with Panasonic announcing it would launch the world's second recordable player this summer which could hamper development of the format.
[January 14, 2000, 14:40]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
Talkback Regarding double layer technology, most of people overlooked key point that is compatibility with existing DVD players and drives. Since firmware needs to be upgraded, technically most of existing DVD players and drives CAN NOT READ the disc...
[May 26, 2004, 20:12]
Philips aims to bring DVD-rewritable costs down
News Philips Electronics is aiming to use a new reference design to make newer, DVD-rewritable players as successful as the enormously popular everyday DVD player. DVD players are limited to playing DVDs, whereas DVD+RW players let users record and re...
[October 23, 2002, 7:52]
Ogg Vorbis enters the living room
News Kiss Technology, based in Denmark, will add Vorbis playback to its new DVD players, and is offering a Vorbis upgrade to its DP-450 player. A Danish consumer electronics maker has unveiled the first DVD player to support the Ogg Vorbis music format...
[January 14, 2003, 15:24]
China developing 'super DVD' format
News The new format, called EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc), will be playable only on EVD players and promises five times the image quality of DVD movies and a higher computer data-storage capacity, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
[October 28, 2003, 8:55]
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]
Sony mod-chip lawsuit leaves DVDs in the clear
News A UK High Court ruling in Sony's favour against a company that made mod-chips for the PlayStation2 will have big consequences for the games industry, but multi-region DVD players are unlikely to be affected, according to lawyers involved in the case.
[January 25, 2002, 17:29]
Clone2Go DVD to 3GP Converter
Downloads Clone2go DVD to 3GP Converter is an easy-to-use program specially designed for DVD to 3GP conversion with the formats needed in mobile phone players or some other media players. With this program, you may rip DVD movies to 3GP video format; you may...
[September 11, 2009, 13:22]
