More Digital Home News

08 May 2007
News: AACS takes on HD-DVD DRM key bloggers

The AACS (Advanced Access Content System) copy-protection body has threatened legal action against bloggers who posted to the web a software key that unlocks the DRM (digital rights management) encryption on some HD-DVDs. The row erupted after Digg removed from its site stories featuring the leaked key.
07 May 2007
News: Google starts paying YouTube contributors

YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post.
02 May 2007
News: Hitachi ships UK's first single 1TB hard drive

Hitachi today announced the first 1TB (one terrabyte) capacity single internal hard drive available to all UK consumers. The Deskstar 7K1000 first shipped in March 2007, and is now available through PCWorld.co.uk and PC World stores throughout the UK for £249.
01 May 2007
News: Joost TV now commercially available

Joost, described as the world’s first broadcast-quality internet television service from the founders of Skype, has commercially launched today.
News: PSP & PS3 cameras coming soon

Sony is releasing a camera for its PlayStation Portable (PSP) console in the UK later this month.
News: Google hits back at Viacom's YouTube claims

Google yesterday rejected a claim that it enables copyright infringement on YouTube.com. This was Google's first response to entertainment behemoth Viacom's $1bn lawsuit, which was filed in March.
News: BBC iPlayer coming this year

The BBC has announced the forthcoming release of an on-demand service called iPlayer that will enable computer users to view BBC television shows after they're broadcast. BBC iPlayer is Windows-only, though the company has been asked by the organisation that oversees it to make iPlayer Mac-compatible.
30 April 2007
News: Sony slammed over goat slaughter

Sony is at the centre of an animal cruelty dispute following an extravagant event to promote the launch of the PlayStation 2 (PS2) game, God of War II, where a live goat was decapitated.
News: Nintendo to boost Wii & DS software sales

Nintendo said that it hopes to double its annual software sales of the Wii and DS consoles to 300 million units.
27 April 2007
News: iTunes movies coming to Europe

Apple plans to offer films for sale through iTunes before the end of the year, a senior Apple executive has claimed.
26 April 2007
News: Shock as Nintendo Wii misses target

Nintendo reported a big increase in sales and profit for its financial year just ended, although sales of its smash-hit Wii console missed their target by a whisker.
25 April 2007
News: Sony launches quad-HD technology

Sony has unveiled a digital cinema projector that can display an image with four times the resolution of a high-definition picture across a 20-metre screen.
24 April 2007
News: ITV boss Grade calls for free HDTV

ITV's Michael Grade has warned that most UK viewers will not be able to receive HDTV (high-definition TV) when British TV goes digital in 2012. He's concerned that only cable and satellite stations will be able to afford HD bandwidth.
20 April 2007
News: Wii beats PS3 & Xbox 360 in US

Nintendo’s Wii was the most popular next-gen games console in the US in March selling 259,000 units, results from market research firm NPD show.
News: PS3 update adds support for original PlayStation

Sony has released a PlayStation 3 (PS3) update allowing PS3 owners to download and play PS1 software on the new console. Downloadable PS1 software compatible with the PS3 will be available soon from the PlayStation Store.
19 April 2007
News: Sony planning PS3 price cut

A price cut for the PlayStation 3 games console may be on the cards as Sony looks to strengthen the platform and expand its penetration.
18 April 2007
News: HD-DVD players reach 100,000 sales mark

The North American HD DVD Promotional Group has claimed a milestone: it said that 100,000 HD DVD players have been sold since the introduction of the format to the North American market a year ago. That figure doesn't include HD DVD drives in PCs or ones sold as Xbox 360 accessories, either.
17 April 2007
News: Intel plans to take over digital home

Consumer experience will drive the adoption of home media technology, not a particular piece of equipment, an executive of Intel's Digital Home Group.
News: P2P crackdown snares BitTorrent uploader

A man from Columbus, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to two felonies related to distribution of copyright materials over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday.
16 April 2007
News: Blu-ray & HD DVD tackle hackers

Next week, new HD DVD movies will hit the shelves that won't play on some players, the first countermeasure by the content and software industries to combat intensive efforts by hackers to break copy-protection technology.