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You may not have seen one on sale yet, but Nintendo says that it has sold 800,000 Wii consoles in Europe to date. Worldwide it has shifted 3.19 million machines, with 1.25 going to North America. The company expects 6 million Wiis to have been shipped by the end of March.

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The hacker known only as Muslix64, who recently made headlines by defeating the copy protection on HD DVD, has now nobbled Blu-ray as well. Once again, a software HD player has provided inroads to the heavily protected format, because software encryption keys are not protected in memory when a disc is played. Muslix64 enlisted the [...]

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A new consumer survey conducted by the Solutions Research Group has discovered that most Americans believe that illegal parking is a more serious offense than downloading copyrighted movies and TV shows from peer-to-peer networks on the internet.

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Don’t write off hi def packaged media just yet. Despite reservations about the ongoing HD DVD/Blu-ray format war, a new study by Adams Media Research, which sets out to examine film revenue streams from 1996 through 2010, predicts that the major Hollywood studios will pocket upwards of 42 billion dollars worldwide from HD discs by [...]

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The crash in flat panel TV prices may be good news for consumers, but for panel-makers it’s caused massive problems. In its latest set of financials, LG Electronics admits that the price erosion on LCD has led to a massive drop in profits. The company has recorded a Q4 operating loss of 43 billion won. [...]

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Sky has confirmed that it will broadcast the 79th Annual Academy Awards in high definition. Both the live ceremony and red-carpet coverage will get the HD treament. Sky One HD’s 90 minute preview coverage will start at 11pm on Sunday 25 February. Fearne Cotton will host. Then Sky Movies and Sky Movies HD will begin [...]

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Philips Q4 financials reflect the tough trading experienced by many CE giants, but reveal that its restructuring to a more brand-driven company have paid dividends. Philips net profit was up 2 percent, at 8,128 million Euros, but consumer electronics sales were down year-on–year. Operating margins, however, were up. President and CEO Gerard Kleisterlee says, “Our [...]

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Sony has dumped its high-bitrate Superbit line of premium DVD releases. The Studio says it now wants to concentrate on Blu-ray high definition products. The decision to limit the life of the brand was apparently made back in 2001: “With regular Blu-ray releases there is no room in the market for a standard definition higher-quality [...]

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