Fw: DVD Forum Sets New Rules On China HD DVD Format

URL: http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=f1e3c766f1f860db29efe592a79c45f5
The HD DVD is dead, but the DVD Forum apparently has not given up hope
on the Chinese version of the format yet. Toshiba will chair the
Steering Committee over the next two years.

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Fw: Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries

URL:
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/243351200/article.pl
damienhunter notes a Wired story on the power-hungry ways of the first
generation of Blu-ray players coming soon to a laptop near you. "With
the Sony-backed HD format emerging victorious from a two-year showdown
with Toshiba's HD DVD, many laptop manufacturers are now scrambling to
add Blu-ray drives in their desktop and notebook lineups. Next month,
Dell will even introduce a sub-$1,000 Blu-ray notebook... But the
promise of viewing an increasing variety of HD movies on your laptop
may be overshadowed by ongoing concerns over the technology's vampiric
effect on battery life. Indeed, if the first generation of Blu-ray
equipped laptops are any indication, you might not get more than
halfway through that movie before running out of juice completely,
analysts say."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Fw: Sony Announces Profile 2.0 Blu-ray Disc Players

URL: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10862
The next generation of Blu-ray Disc players crib from HD DVD feature
set...

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Fw: Tecnologia Blu-ray agora tem piratas virtuais pela frente

URL:
http://redir.folha.com.br/redir/online/folha/informatica/rss091/*http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u376837.shtml
Um brasileiro comprou um tocador de HD DVD em novembro e o vendeu no
início deste mês, porque quase não o usava. Ele disse que baixa filmes
em alta definição no seu computador e o conecta à sua TV de LCD. A
história mostra que, depois de vencer o HD DVD, na semana passada, o
Blu-ray ainda tem pela frente os downloads na internet --abrangendo,
claro, os ilegais. Os usuários já conseguem colocar em redes piratas
conteúdo em alta definição. Por enquanto, a maioria vem da transmissão
da TV, mas a proteção do Blu-ray já foi quebrada há mais de um ano.
Leia mais (28/02/2008 - 10h29)

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Fw: Dell Ships Second DisplayPort Equipped LCD

URL: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10893
Dell ships 24-inch 2408WFP LCD with DisplayPort...

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Fw: Lite-On, Philips Introduce First External Blu-ray Disc Drive

URL: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10889
Hook a Blu-ray Disc drive up to your laptop...

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Fw: AMD Tests First Chips Made Utilizing Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography

URL:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20080226231650_AMD_Tests_First_Chips_Made_Utilizing_Extreme_Ultra_Violet_Lithography.html
AMD Announces Chip Manufacturing Tech Breakthrough, Gets Close to 22nm
Process Tech

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