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New ConvertXtoDVD 2.2.2 Released |
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
 Amongst
other improvements, ConvertXtoDVD 2.2.2 now fixes audio synchronization
issues, handles damaged Avi files and offers a better quality of the
preview.
The new version can be downloaded here.
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Wii outsells Sony PS3 5-fold in Japan |
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
 Sony took another blow with Nintendo's Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, raising
doubts over Sony's nascent earnings recovery. Sony sold 45,321
units of the PS3 in May, compared with 251,794 units of the Wii. In
April, the ratio was four to one in favor of the Wii. Sony's
game division posted an operating loss of 232 billion yen ($1.91
billion) in the year ended due to hefty start-up costs of the PS3,
dragging down Sony's overall profitability... |
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Second Generation Blu-ray disc player under $500 |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
 A
second generation Blu-ray Disc player will make its way to stores this
month as the first to carry a list price of under $500.
The
BDP-S300, first announced in February, was originally planned for an
MSRP of around $600, but Sony confirmed today that it slashed the price
by $100, bringing it down to $499.
It's the first Blu-ray player
to retail for less than a Playstation 3, which remains the dominant
hardware for BD sales. Toshiba is winning the price war, though, with
its HD-A2 HD DVD player, currently selling for a limited-time price of
around $300. Sony attributes falling production costs and increasing
consumer demand for the new, lower price. Sony says the BDP-S300 should
be available within the next week and a half.
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New AACS key cracked in a day |
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 |
The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the
AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet
another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the
hackers came out on top.
A hacker posted the new decryption key for
AACS on the Freedom
to Tinker web site, just one day after the AACS Licensing
Authority (AACS LA) issued the key. In true tongue-in-cheek hacker
fashion, the hacker posted the 128-bit key as a method of decrypting a
small haiku that they placed on the same page, noting that it just
might accidentally be the same key that will decrypt new
high-definition discs as well.
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Dell, Intel and Microsoft to promote flash memory for PC platforms |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
 Dell,
Intel and Microsoft today announced the formation of the Non-Volatile
Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) working group to develop a
standard software programming interface for PC-based NAND flash memory.
The new initiative, which is chaired by Intel with Dell and Microsoft
serving as “core contributors”, aims to create
operating system drivers to access NAND flash memory in hard drives,
motherboards, solid state disks and external devices. The three
companies said that the NVMHCI will “complement”
the standardization work that is being done in the Open NAND
Flash Interface (ONFI) working group. ONFI currently has includes 55
members, including AMD, Hitachi GST, Intel, Micron, Nvidia, Qimonda and
Seagate. |
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