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After two years of negotiation, Matsushita Electric (parent of Panasonic) has finally filed a lawsuit against Taiwanese disc manufacturer CMC Magnetics, and its two US affiliates Hotan and KHypermedia, alleging that their DVD recordable media infringes upon its patents. CMC supplies replication plants worldwide and manufactures HP-branded blank media.

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Sky has confirmed that it had installed 38,000 Sky HDTV systems by June 30. Currently the total number of bookings for its HD box stands at 90,000. The satcaster says it will take till September to fulfill all its orders.
According to information released by sales analysts GFK, 2.73 million HD ready screens will be sold […]

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The MPAA and RIAA have won another legal victory over the file sharing community. Kazaa has agreed to pay 115 million dollars in fines and has vowed to install filtering software designed to prevent the sharing of copyrighted material by its users.
The Motion Picture Association of America declared the Australian court ruling “another milestone […]

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They’ve already taken potshots at iTunes, now European antitrust regulators are focusing their attention on the licensing arrangements behind the next generation HD disc wars, in an attempt to see if Sony and Toshiba are stifling competition by tying movie studios to exclusivity deals for either Blu-ray or HD DVD.
According to a report in trade […]

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Lionsgate has announced its second slate of Blu-ray releases, due August 22. The movies, Stargate, The Devil’s Rejects, Total Recall and Stir of Echoes, will all sell for 30 dollars and come with no extra material.

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