While the courts decide the legality of posting code that subverts DVD encryption, a Rhode Island company is on a mission to develop a new security method that will make discs self-destruct after a specified amount of time.
Less than a year after Circuit City put an end to its ill-fated Divx format, [...]
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The emergence of MP3 portable players has helped to drive the once obscure compression format onto city streets and into the mainstream music radar. Now, a bevy of products are in development to get MP3s into other off-line devices, such as cars, boom-boxes, and home stereos.
A new system developed by X10.com has [...]
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In the wake of DVD mania, the double-density CD (DDCD) demands another look. DVD, still in its formative years, has found great success among consumers as a video format. But its ultimate goal is to replace the tried-and-true CD, which, holding but a mere 650 Mbytes of information, pales in comparison to DVD’s boasts of [...]
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According to Cahners In-Stat, the wireless data market alone will grow from about 170 million subscribers worldwide in 2000 to greater than 1.3 billion in 2004. However, carriers, ISPs, and the content providers they partner with are finding that, in order to manage the delivery of new content, they must deploy a new infrastructure and [...]
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In the wake of DVD mania, the double-density CD (DDCD) demands another look. DVD, still in its formative years, has found great success among consumers as a video format. But its ultimate goal is to replace the tried-and-true CD, which, holding but a mere 650 Mbytes of information, pales in comparison to DVD’s boasts of [...]
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Once a new technology gets a firm foothold with consumers, you don’t need to wait long for variations on the theme. DVD is no exception. Now that the straight DVD player is becoming a mainstream product, manufacturers are combining it with other technologies in search of that elusive market hit. So, if you didn’t get [...]
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Once a new technology gets a firm foothold with consumers, you don’t need to wait long for variations on the theme. DVD is no exception. Now that the straight DVD player is becoming a mainstream product, manufacturers are combining it with other technologies in search of that elusive market hit. So, if you didn’t get [...]
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Separate reports from the DVD Entertainment Group and InfoTech, an independent market researcher, confirm the obvious: consumers are snapping up DVD players at an astounding rate. Both groups agree DVD players will reach the milestone figure of 10% penetration among US households this year.
The DVD Entertainment Group reports that 5.4 million players have found homes [...]
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