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31 May 2007
News: Apple unveils quad-power TV

Apple has started selling its Apple TV home-entertainment system with a hard disk four times the capacity of the original: a whopping 160GB.
News: Apple TV links with YouTube

Apple is bringing YouTube content to the living room with its Apple TV home-entertainment system. Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV.
29 May 2007
News: 20th Century Fox plans Sims: The movie

The Sims game is to be made into a film, with 20th Century Fox securing the rights.
News: Finnish court rules DVD DRM 'ineffective'

A Finnish court ruling is prompting questions over the wording of a European copyright directive that prohibits publishing information that could enable illegal DVD copying.
25 May 2007
News: Toshiba's SED TV delayed again

Toshiba won't launch flat-panel TVs based on SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) screens this year after all.
News: Sony, LG.Philips unveil flexible Oled displays

Sony and LG.Philips, two of the world's biggest flat-panel display makers, unveiled flexible full-colour screens at a display industry show in California this week
24 May 2007
News: Film industry to allow copying of HD DVD, Blu-ray

Consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films they've purchased, if a licensing agreement in its final stages reaches completion
23 May 2007
News: Blu-ray, HD DVD unveil big-name releases

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has released the first two instalments in its Pirate of the Caribbean trilogy on Blu-ray Disc, while Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has launched two versions of The Matrix trilogy on HD DVD
22 May 2007
News: Rewriteable Blu-ray Disc prices to drop

Ritek plans to start mass producing BD-RE (Blu-Ray Disc Rewritable) discs as well as HD DVD-RE (high definition) discs in the third quarter of this year. Taiwanese disc maker Ritek's move is seen as an important step towards reducing the cost of rewriteable Blu-ray Discs for users.
News: Apple sued over 'flawed' MacBook LCD screens

Apple has been served with a lawsuit over the quality of its laptop screens. Two Californians filed suit against Apple over the MacBook LCD displays. Fred Greaves and Dave Gatley want a judge to rule their claims a class action.
News: 15 technology myths: what's nonsense and what's not?

The tech world abounds with hype, rumour and innuendo. It can be hard to tell IT fact from fantasy fiction. Fortunately, PC Advisor has rounded-up 15 technological rumours and given them a thorough shake down, so you can tell what's nonsense, and what's not.
18 May 2007
News: LG Electronics to cut PDP production

LG Electronics plans to cut back production of PDP (plasma display panel) screens as part of it efforts to improve the business performance of its display operations.
16 May 2007
News: PS3 blow as Sony misses target

Strong sales of digital consumer electronic gadgets helped Sony achieve record sales and higher net profit in the financial year just-ended but shipments of PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles missed their target, the company said today.
15 May 2007
News: Apple's popularity surged in April

Apple's US website saw traffic jump 42 per cent in April 2007, according to the latest ComScore Media Metrix figures.
News: End is nigh for paid-for iTunes videos

The iTunes Store's salad days as an outlet for paid video downloads are short, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The company claims that paid video downloads will peak this year, to be replaced by advertising-based systems instead.
13 May 2007
News: High-def iTunes video rentals rumoured

Apple may introduce a subscription-based film rental service through iTunes and the Apple TV, company executives hinted during a shareholder meeting.
12 May 2007
News: IT news of the week - Saturday 12 May

Stay on top of the week’s biggest IT news with PC Advisor’s one-stop round-up of the top stories of the past seven days.
10 May 2007
News: Essential Vista/iPod fix released

Microsoft has released what it calls the "final" Vista fix for a problem that iPod and iTunes users had been having with the new operating system since its 30 January launch
News: Disney breaks iTunes sales record

The Walt Disney Co sold 23.7 million television episodes and two million movies via Apple’s iTunes Store in its most recent quarter, according to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
09 May 2007
News: Cheapest-ever PS3 launched in UK

Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles are being sold at a discounted rate at online shop Globaldiscounts.