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  • 09 April 2007

  • News: Opinion: How to hack the Apple TV

    When Apple unveiled Apple TV at January's Macworld Expo, there were oohs and aahs… and complaints. The most commonly-heard gripe: the device's "limited" functionality. Now Apple TV is here, hackers are finding ways to extend its usefulness

  • 06 April 2007

  • News: Opinion: hacking Apple TV

    We've only just seen the release of the Apple TV, Apple's media-streaming box, but hackers across the world have already been able to turn the £199 multimedia box into a fully fledged computer

  • 03 April 2007

  • News: Virgin Media launches free digital TV

    Virgin Media is to offer customers 40 free-to-air channels and 25 digital radio stations through a set-top box. However, the service is limited to those who sign up to a Virgin Media broadband package.

  • News: iTunes to reject DRM-free movies

    Apple chief executive Steve Jobs may be pushing for music labels to lift copyright protection on digital music but he doesn't appear so eager to do the same for video content, despite his position as the largest shareholder in Walt Disney.

  • 02 April 2007

  • News: Excitement over UK Apple launch today

    EMI chief executive Eric Nicoli will hold an event in the UK with Apple boss Steve Jobs as a special guest, according to an invitation sent to press yesterday.

  • 31 March 2007

  • News: Google TV under development in UK

    Google is coming to your television set. The web search giant is hiring a team of software engineers to develop products for television and is building a sales team that will secure advertising for Google's TV offerings

  • 30 March 2007

  • News: PS3 helps Blu-ray outsell HD DVD

    News from the front in the format wars: just two weeks after its release, 100,000 copies of the Blu-ray edition of Casino Royale have shipped in the US, the first time any high-definition DVD title has hit that benchmark.

  • 29 March 2007

  • News: iPod & iPhone market to double

    The iPod-dominated market for media and music players to double between 2005 and 2010, according to researchers at iSuppli.

  • News: Vista fix repairs Apple iTunes & iPod bug

    Microsoft has released several fixes for Windows Vista bugs, including one involving the ubiquitous iPod music player that Apple didn't fix in an iTunes update three weeks ago.

  • News: PS3 upgrade as Sony plans 80GB version

    Sony to fight back against Microsoft's Xbox upgrade with a higher-capacity PlayStation 3, according to documents uncovered in the US

  • 28 March 2007

  • News: Sony claims Blu-ray has HD sewn up

    Sony is to launch a consumer Blu-ray player in Europe this summer, claiming the same device was an overwhelming success in Japan, where it was launched last year. Sales figures it cited today suggest that rival high-definition format HD-DVD has been marginalised, with Blu-ray accounting for more than 95 percent of the player/recorder market in Japan, the test market for HD devices.

  • News: Sony expands UK digital SLR range

    Sony announced at the Sony Media Experience 2007 event in Rhodes yesterday that it will add two more digital SLR cameras to its lineup, both of which will be branded Alpha and will "sit alongside" the company's existing A100 model launched last July.

  • News: Higher-spec Xbox 360 launching next month

    Microsoft reveals plans to release an upgraded version of its Xbox 360 console next month, and intends to undercut the PS3, at least the US

  • News: PS3 breaks UK sales record

    Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) sold more than 165,000 units in the UK in the first two days on sale – more than both the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 during their respective launch weekends.

  • 23 March 2007

  • News: Disney sued over Apple iTunes deal

    Starz Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Disney for copyright infringement and breach of contract. The lawsuit was filed because Disney began selling the same movies to Apple and Wal-Mart as it had previously offered exclusively to Starz.

  • 21 March 2007

  • News: Apple TV shipping in the UK now

    Apple has confirmed Apple TV is now shipping in the UK. Reports from PC Advisor’s sister title, Macworld, yesterday confirmed Apple's front-room media streaming device was ready to reach customers.

  • News: Is Apple TV bigger than the iPhone?

    Apple TV isn't the first product to collect, manage and play on TV video that was downloaded to desktop computers. But then, the iPod wasn't the first portable digital audio player.

  • News: Open IPTV Forum to push TV-over-broadband

    Several big telecoms carriers and equipment suppliers hope to accelerate the deployment of internet-based television services by agreeing to a set of interoperable technology specifications.

  • 15 March 2007

  • News: CeBIT: Blu-ray claims bragging rights

    As predicted by backers of the rival HD DVD format earlier this afternoon, Blu-ray proponents used their CeBIT press briefing to underline the strong studio support for the latter format.

  • News: Netgear launches Apple-TV-killer

    Netgear is shipping its Digital Entertainer HD (EVA8000) device in the US, just as Apple begins to ship its Apple TV.

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