For various reasons, everyone likes to talk about the “analog hole” problem with DRM protection: pretty much all security falls down in the face of a well positioned camera and mic setup in the back of a movie theater. Well not for long… the movie industry just unveiled a system at their DVD Forum in [...]

ProSiebenSat.1 launched high-definition television in Germany on Wednesday, becoming Europe’s first major broadcaster to transmit using the high-resolution format. Other European broadcasters including BSkyB in Britain, CanalSat in France and Sky Italia in Italy have all promised HDTV by next June in time for the soccer World Cup, which will be used as a showcase [...]

You probably already know that Sony BMG has started selling at least some CDs that include built-in copy-protection, making it difficult to play the CDs on a computer using any media player other than the one bundled on the CD, and limiting the number of copies you can make. But it turns out that, behind [...]

MPEG-4 Simple Profile (SP) is designed primarily for devices with low processing power such as mobile and wireless devices. Also known as MPEG-4 Part 2 this key video format adopted by Sony for its handheld entertainment device the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). full text: http://cdrinfo.com/Sections/News…

Shifting video content to a PSP is all the rage these days, and Hagiwara of Japan is about to release a product that promises to make the record-transfer process as easy as possible. The HNT-MDR is a video recording device that captures signals from a TV, DVR, or camcorder and writes directly to a MemoryStick [...]

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“3″ is offering its customers (it now has 3.2 million subscribers) cash to share their video clips. Users send in thirty second video clips which are then uploaded to the ‘See Me TV’ channel for other 3 customers to view. Each time a clip is downloaded by a 3 customer the performer gets paid 1p, [...]

Well, well. Digital Television takes a few baby steps closer to becoming reality in the US as Senate Commerce Committee Chairman, Ted Stevens, said he supports a 2006 2009 hard date by which broadcasters would be required to shut off their analog signal

Japan’s Canon has developed tiny fuel cells that it hopes will start replacing conventional batteries to power some of its digital cameras and printers in three years. Fuel-cell technology mixes hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity and is considered a promising replacement for today’s lithium-ion batteries. While most of the development of tiny fuel cells [...]

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The next maintenance release of the Ashampoo Burning Studio 5 (v5.5) will add support for the new Blu-ray Disc format. The softwatre will support the Bluray format in addition to the established CD and DVD formats. The company claims that the integration of Blu-Ray burning is seamless, since Blu-ray Discs are burned in exactly the [...]

Matsushita, Hitachi and Pioneer have jointly developed a new plasma display that they claim runs on half the power of current models, which is a massive cut in power. The companies expect to commercialize the tech within three years

The software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page. Commuters in Japan already anger bookstore owners and newsagents by using existing cellphone software to try to [...]

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