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JVC and Funai Team Up on LCD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 04, 2008
Add JVC and Funai to the growing list of companies partnering to make the best of the booming but volatile flat-panel TV market.
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Apple Delays Movie Rental Upgrade
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 02, 2008

At MacWorld Expo last month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised that an upgrade of the Apple TV software to allow online movie rentals would be available by the end of January. But, as with so many things tech, the release of that software will now be delayed by "a week or two" according to a company statement issued on January 31. The software will be made available as a free download to existing Apple TV customers when it's finally deemed ready.

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Sharp Buys Big Stake in Pioneer
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 01, 2008
In a possibly momentous move, Sharp acquired a significant stake in Pioneer late last year. Sharp's $358 million investment bought it 14 percent of Pioneer, making it the latter's biggest shareholder. Pioneer also acquired 0.9 percent of Sharp.
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Blu-ray Prospers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 31, 2008
It took only a week after Warner defected to the Blu-ray camp for the latter to establish a more commanding position in the market, according to the NPD Group.
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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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