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Sony Computer Entertainment has said that the European PlayStation 3 will lack the same level of PS2 and PS1 compatibility as US and Japanese machines. According to a release from the company, the Euro PS3 (along with models for the Middle East, Africa and Australasia markets) will feature a different hardware specification from the first [...]

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There are more troubles in store for SED. Despite Toshiba relinquishing its share of the SED Inc project to Canon, a US judge has ruled that Canon has still violated its licensing agreement with Nano-Proprietary. As a consequence, Nano-Proprietary still had a right to terminate its agreement with Canon, as any “breach is measured at [...]

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Hitachi has released details of its budget-priced 50-inch plasma TV. The T-series P50T01 (pictured below), which is expected to go on sale in April for around 1500 pounds, is based on a 1280×1080 resolution panel, has a Freeview tuner, and utilizes the latest generation of the brand’s proprietary Picture Master processing technology. The brand says [...]

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The latest US HD disc sales, for the week ending February 18, show Blu-ray titles gaining momentum over HD DVD, but only just. The data, released by Nielsen VideoScan First Alert reveals that for every 100 BD movies sold, HD DVD shifted 98.71. Ken Graffeo, Universal’s HD DVD chief says that when you factor the [...]

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Microsoft says that it will appeal a US Federal Court order to pay 1.52 billion dollars in an MP3 patent dispute with Alcatel-Lucent, claiming that the verdict against it is “unsupported by the law or facts.” The ruling is a victory for Alcatel-Lucent which claims ownership of two key MP3 patents, via Bell Labs. If [...]

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Within weeks of pulling all the clips from its programming off YouTube, Viacom has inked an advertising revenue deal with up and coming video site

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LG is stepping up its investment in OLED display technology. Currently its Korean rival Samsung is the market leader in OLED screens, with a share of 21 per cent. New data from DisplaySearch reports that LG’s OLED business grew by 179 per cent in 2006, after it doubled its production capacity to 2.4 million units, [...]

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Burgeoning AV PR operation Andy Giles Associates has signed Murdo Mathewson (pictured), former Test Editor for What hi-Fi Sound and Vision magazine, to its team. After over four years at Haymarket, Murdo is returning to PR. before his life as a journalist, Mathewson was Group Media Relations Manager with the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. [...]

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