Tag: dvd

Hardware

Sony facility burns in London riots

Aug 9, 2011 | Comment Now

Reports: Huge fire in optical media facility.

Hardware

Drug raid leads to illegal DVD bust

May 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

Lab could have made three million discs per year.

Hardware

AFP seizes computers from pirate DVD house

Mar 17, 2010 | 14 Comments

Website shut down with help of film industry.

Storage

Samsung scores Swinburne DVD breakthrough

May 21, 2009 | Comment Now

Swinburne University of Technology researchers have licensed to Samsung a technique to create ‘five-dimensional’ discs with storage capacities 2,000 times larger than DVDs.

Hardware

Red-ray DVD flies the flag for China

By Robert Jaques | May 28, 2008 | Comment Now

The Blu-ray versus HD-DVD war may be over, but industry experts warn that a dual-format battle might kick off again in China..

Hardware

CO2-infused plastics may yield green CDs and DVDs

By Liz Tay | Apr 9, 2008 | Comment Now

A new technique for the production of plastic may yield CDs and DVDs that thwart global warming.

Software

DVD Jon to 'liberate your media'

By Clement James | Feb 21, 2008 | Comment Now

DoubleTwist Corporation, the company formed by infamous hacker DVD Jon, unveiled its first product today, described as a platform "devoted to helping consumers liberate their ...

Hardware

HD DVD refunds exit alongside the doomed format

By Mitchell Bingemann | Feb 20, 2008 | Comment Now

Australian consumers who purchased now moribund Toshiba HD DVD players will receive no form of refund after the company officially announced its exit from the high definition ...

Hardware

Microsoft launches Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator

By Guy Dixon | Dec 14, 2007 | Comment Now

Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator, which the company claims will eliminate the need for expensive hardware or time-consuming and costly trial-and-error ...

Hardware

ClearPlay DVD player censors sex scenes

By Clement James | Dec 10, 2007 | Comment Now

US firm ClearPlay has launched a content-filtering DVD player which can automatically remove 'objectionable' scenes from movies..

Hardware

Nintendo Wii to get DVD next year

By Clement James | Nov 13, 2007 | Comment Now

Nintendo has confirmed that it is preparing to add DVD capabilities to the Wii games console, but not until next year..

Security

Customs to destroy 11,000 Bollywood DVDs

Sep 28, 2007 | Comment Now

Australian Customs is this week on the verge of destroying more than 11,000 pirated Indian movies that arrived in both Sydney and Melbourne via Sea Cargo in March.

Hardware

LG adds features, cuts price on dual HD DVD player

Sep 5, 2007 | Comment Now

South Korea's LG Electronics introduced on Wednesday an updated version of its high-definition DVD player that supports both Blu-ray and HD DVD, offering a possible solution to ...

Hardware

Blu-ray inching ahead in DVD wars

By Shaun Nichols | Jul 30, 2007 | Comment Now

Sony's Blu-ray format has taken the upper hand in the battle for the high-definition video market in the US, according to research from Parks Associates.

Hardware

Melting DVD players recalled in Japan

By Simon Burns | Jul 18, 2007 | Comment Now

Almost half a million DVD players manufactured in China have been recalled in Japan after reports that some had emitted thick smoke and begun to melt.