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Legit P2P Service in Limbo
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 29, 2008  | 
Legit P2P? It seems too good to be true. And it is, at least for now. Qtrax missed its debut this week.
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Digital Music Still Grows, But More Slowly
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 28, 2008  | 
Sales of music downloads and the devices that love them grew in 2007, but more slowly than in the past, according to figures from various sources.
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Samsung's New BD-UP5000 to be Replaced by Mid-Year
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jan 27, 2008  | 

Just as Samsung started shipping its long-anticipated BD-UP5000 combo Blu-ray/HD DVD player, the company announced that the product will be discontinued as of May or June of this year, stressing that this time frame is subject to change. Retailers will be allowed to sell their existing inventory, but production will cease. A new model is scheduled to be released sometime in the second half of 2008, but no other details were revealed. Meanwhile, the company will continue to support the BD-UP5000 with firmware updates.

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Petitioners Beg for HD DVD's Life
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 25, 2008  | 
In a surprising show of support for HD DVD, 20,000 people have signed an online petition begging for the underdog high-def disc format's life.
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TWC Mulls Extra Bandwidth Charges
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 24, 2008  | 
Here's reason number 37,878 to resent the cable industry: It may soon start charging prohibitive tariffs on high-def downloads to penalize consumers who buy or rent from non-cable-controlled download services.
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Did Fox Flip Warner?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 22, 2008  | 
Warner's decision to drop HD DVD and concentrate on Blu-ray releases may have been the climax of an epic bout of flipflopping. Or so says the rumor mill.
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Microsoft Rebrands DRM
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 21, 2008  | 
Courting confusion to an even greater degree than usual, Microsoft has renamed its digital rights management. What was formerly known as Microsoft PlaysForSure is now called Certified for Windows Vista. Why?
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My My, Hey Hey, Will EMI Punt RIAA?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 18, 2008  | 
The music-industry trade groups that have launched mass lawsuits against consumers may be about to become three-legged stools. EMI, of the four largest music labels, may be moving to cut its funding for the Recording Industry Association of America and its British cousin, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
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Apple Does High-Def Download Rentals
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 16, 2008  | 
The Blu-ray folks who have been guzzling champagne for the past week might want to put the cork back in the bottle and put it in the fridge. Yesterday's raft of Apple announcements included the company's entry into high-def movie downloads and deals with several major studios.
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Plasma's Got Game
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 15, 2008  | 
What a difference a year makes. It wasn't long ago when LCD sales were trumping plasma in flat-panel land. But manufacturers like LG and Panasonic now expect higher plasma sales in 2008, according to Reuters.
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Toshiba Takes an Ax to HD DVD Prices
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 14, 2008  | 
Are you hankering to get into high-definition disc consumption at a bargain price? Toshiba has just made its HD DVD players even more attractive with big price cuts--though as a statement on the format's future, the move is ambiguous at best.
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Universal Will Not Renew HD DVD Pact
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 10, 2008  | 
Universal Home Entertainment will not renew its exclusivity pact with HD DVD, Variety has reported.
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Stores to Carry Analog-TV Lifesavers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 04, 2008  | 
One of the most significant pieces of the transition from analog to digital TV broadcasting fell into place with the recent announcement that major retail chains would carry the set-top boxes necessary to keep analog sets from going dark.
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Breaking News: Warner Moves To Blu-ray Exclusively
 |  Jan 04, 2008  | 

Hot off the presses, in a move anticipated for some time, Reuters is reporting that Warner will support only Blu-ray Disc starting in June of 2008. This move leaves only Universal and Paramount supporting HD DVD and has the obvious potential to finally end the destructive format war between Blu-ray Disc and its rival HD DVD once and for all.

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Warner Goes Blu
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 04, 2008  | 
Warner Bros. -- which until now has released titles on both Blu-ray and HD DVD -- will go Blu-ray-only, Reuters reported today.
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