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Microsoft continues to pay a high price for its Xbox dream. Redmond’s Entertainment and Devices division has reduced estimates for Xbox360 sales through 2007 and posted a 289 million dollar loss for its second quarter.  Microsoft now says it will ship 12 million consoles by the end of June, down from an earlier estimate that […]

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Expect more giveaway electronics from Asda. After announcing its headline stealing nine quid DVD player (pictured above), a spokesman said there would be more such offers to come: “You can expect much more of this kind of activity from us.”
The price initiative is part of a bigger battle between Asda’s US parent Wal-Mart and Argos, […]

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The Advanced Access Content System License Administrator (AACS LA), the body which regulates the advanced copy protection used by HD DVD and Blu-ray, has confirmed that so-called title keys have been stolen and used to decrypt HD packaged media. However the organsisation maintains that the AACS system has not been compromised. A spokesman said […]

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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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