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  • News: VIDEO: 108-inch TV taller than a person

    The Piccadilly cinema in Tokyo's Shinjuku district is the first place in the world that people can see Sharp's monster 108-inch LCD screen in use.

  • News: Amazon launches new video store

    Amazon is offering 40,000 downloadable movies and TV shows in its new online store Amazon Video on Demand.

  • Video: Nintendo and Sony dominates day two at E3

    Day two of E3 and big news from Sony and Nintendo. First from Nintendo and the makers of the Wii are responding to the popularity of music simulations games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band with one of their own.

  • News: Nintendo demos gesture-controlled Wii Music

    Nintendo has given a real-time demo of long-rumoured title Wii Music at the E3 exhibition, demonstrating gesture-controlled instruments and the new Wii MotionPlus attachment.

  • News: Sony overhauls PS3 Home at E3

    Sony demonstrated a visually overhauled PS3 Home today at the E3 exhibition in California yesterday, along with a video download and rental service for the PS3 and PSP.

  • Video: Day one at E3 brings lots of Xbox 360 news

    E3 is underway in Los Angeles and the big news from day one is a coup for Microsoft: The Xbox 360 will be getting Final Fantasy 13 on the same day as it appears on the PlayStation 3.

  • News: Third of TVs still rely on analogue signal

    Nearly a third of the UK's 60 million TVs still aren't connected to digital services from the likes of Sky, Virgin of Freeview, according to a new Ofcom study.

  • News: 8-step guide to watching TV on your PC and mobile

    What better way to relax than to curl up in front of a good TV show? PC Advisor explains how you can get your daily fix on your PC, wherever your travels might take you.

  • News: Who's Townshend slams iTunes as 'heartless'

    In his personal blog The Who guitarist Pete Townshend - and self-confessed "thinning-haired old rocker in my sixties" - angrily responds to an article by Simon Jenkins in The Sunday Times.

  • News: Concerns of growth of DVD piracy in the UK

    The number of UK consumers making copies of their DVDs is on the rise reports a new survey.

  • News: Sony's Second Life-killer to open this autumn

    Sony has confirmed that its virtual world Home will launch this autumn.

  • News: BBC plans pre-booking system for iPlayer

    BBC iPlayer users could soon be able to pre-book shows they want to watch a week before they’re broadcast. The new queuing system will be set up in such a way as to minimise the load on the network, with shows set to download at an "optimum time for the user, the UK internet and the BBC", according to the BBC. The new feature is only in the planning stage. Proposals to put the plan into effect have been put to the BBC Trust, which must give its permission for the feature to be introduced.

  • News: Pioneer develops 400GB optical disc

    Pioneer has developed a 400GB optical disc, easily surpassing previously announced prototypes. The new disc manages to pack 16 layers, each with a 25GB capacity, into a conventional 12cm-diameter optical disc.

  • News: Google made to hand over YouTube user details

    A US court today forced Google to hand over details of the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube.

  • News: Internet radio attracts 14.5m listeners

    Some 14.5 million people have listened to internet radio at least once a new survey reports.

  • News: BBC begins HD trial on Freeview

    The BBC has begun transmitting HD programmes on Freeview as part of a a trial of the service.

  • News: Regulators halt BBC's Kangaroo video service

    Internet TV service Project Kangaroo has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

  • News: Sony denies PS2 downloads coming for PS3

    Sony claims a screenshot showing PlayStation 2 (PS2) game downloads for the PS3 "must have been mocked up by an excited consumer",

  • News: BT to cut off file-sharing customers

    BT has become the latest ISP to join forced with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in a bid to get tough with illegal file-sharers, announcing plans to cut off customers who use their accounts to illegally download software from P2P networks.

  • News: PS3 gets movie download service

    Sony is to launch a movie download service for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) this summer in the US.