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Disney has joined the digital download revolution. A selection of around 30 titles from its current and back catalogue have been made available via the US CinemaNow download site.
Files can be viewed either on a PC or a portable device. Titles include Pirates of the Caribbean (star Keira Knightley is pictured at the UK premiere, […]

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Market research organization Insight Media believes that LED-backlight LCD TVs will come to market much quicker than originally thought. Both Sony and Samsung have shown LED LCD TV products, but high prices have prevented them being developed into mainstream products.
“Conventional wisdom predicts that LED-based backlights will not make significant inroads into large screen LCD TVs […]

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Confirming its commitment to the European market, Sling Media, maker of the ground-breaking Slingbox place-shifting viewing device, has appointed Stuart Collingwood as the company’s Vice President of Europe.
For the last three years Collingwood has worked with pay TV providers, digital media companies and technology start-ups, gaining extensive experience of new digital platforms and technology. Previously […]

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Sony today announced an upgrade on its long-evolving Digital Reality Creation TV picture improvement technology. First introduced in 1997, this new iteration called DRC Multifunction v2.5.has been developed to create 1080p HD images from any type of digital signal input.
It extends the basic DRC concept, which centers around improving the resolution of various input signals […]

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Slingbox, the original place-shifting remote viewing device, is now available in the UK. Priced at 180 pounds from PC World, the unit allows owners to watch their own TV content, either live via a Sky+ or PVR, anywhere in the world on a laptop or PC. According to Sling Media’s VP for Market Development, […]

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