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• 04 September 2009

• Opinion: Five requests for YouTube film rentals

  Rumour has it that Google is working on a possible deal with Hollywood studios that would give YouTube a streaming rental store.

• News: Philips launches Wireless HDMI Link

  Philips has announced a wireless HDMI product that lets consumers connect home electronics products, like a television and a Blu-Ray player, without using any wires, it said on Thursday.

• News: Toshiba shows first Blu-ray laptop

  Toshiba showed its first Blu-ray Disc player and laptop computer on Thursday, less than a month after confirming it was putting the high-def disc format battle behind it by joining the Blu-ray Disc Association.

• 03 September 2009

• News: Sony to launch 3D TV next year

  Sony will next year launch a television capable of showing 3D images, it said on Wednesday at the IFA electronics fair in Berlin. The TV will be the first step in what is expected to be a big push by the consumer electronics company to popularize 3D movies, TV and computer games.

• News: YouTube to offer film rentals

  YouTube is in talks with Hollywood movie studios to offer streaming movie rentals, according to The Wall Street Journal.

• 26 August 2009

• News: Blu-ray PCs not mainstream for at least 5 years

  Despite a rapid rise in the sale of consumer Blu-ray Disc players due to a drop in prices and an increase in high-definition movie content, Blu-ray players in PCs are not seeing any significant increase in sales, according to iSuppli Corp.

• 25 August 2009

• News: Channel 4 to broadcast 3D TV in Autumn

  Channel 4 will be the first TV channel to publicly broadcast a number of programmes in 3D it has been revealed.

• 24 August 2009

• News: Average gamer is 35 and overweight

  When you think of a hard-core gamer, do you picture a teenage boy battling his friends in World of Warcraft?

• 20 August 2009

• News: Sony launches TV recycling scheme

  Sony is giving consumers that scrap their old analogue TVs in favour of a new digital-enabled TV from the company, up to £150.

• News: Updated Cell chip for PlayStation 3 Slim

  The PlayStation 3 Slim gaming console from Sony Computer Entertainment is not only smaller and cheaper, but adds hardware enhancements that make it speedier, including a new Cell microprocessor.

• 19 August 2009

• Sony PlayStation 3 'Slim'

  To no one's huge surprise, Sony has launched a thinner version of its PlayStation 3 games console. The Playstation One and Playstation 2 both had thinner versions, so the long-rumoured 'PS3 Slim' was always a good bet.

• News: Comics turn Sony PSP into e-book reader

  At a GamesCom press conference in Cologne yesterday, Sony announced that a brand new digital reader will be released on the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) this December.

• News: Sony announces PS3 slim, PlayStation 3 price cut

  Sony yesterday announced a slimmed down, cheaper version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console, and slashed the price of the existing PS3.

• 14 August 2009

• Video: Netgear Powerline AV - In Brief

  The Netgear Powerline AV kit puts an ethernet port wherever you have a power outlet.

• News: Microsoft Zune HD available for pre-order in US

  icrosoft announced that its Zune HD will go on sale Sept. 15 and said retailers were taking pre-orders starting today.

• 10 August 2009

• News: Apple broadcasts 'live' concert to iPhone

  Apple on Saturday broadcast its first-ever 'live' streaming music event: a gig in San Francisco by Underworld.

• News: 61% of young adults illegally download music

  Nearly two thirds of 14 to 24 year olds illegally download music over peer-to-peer (p2p) networks, says UK Music.

• News: Official: Toshiba to launch Blu-ray Disc players, laptops

  Toshiba today confirmed rumours that it is planning to launch players and laptops with support for Blu-ray Disc later this year.

• 05 August 2009

• News: BT offers free I-Plate BT Broadband Accelerator

  BT has announced that it is now offering all its customers a dedicated broadband accelerator (previously known as the I-Plate) that promises to increase received broadband speeds by 1.5Mbs.

• 04 August 2009

• News: Tutorial: Stream music, movies and photos

  Many of us are guilty of clogging up our PCs with digital media. A better solution is an external storage drive, which offers a secure location for your media and, if attached to your home network, lets you stream content between devices.

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