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Bond is top of the HD charts. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it’s being used as an incentive to lure early PS3 adopters, the Blu-ray release of Casino Royale has shipped 100,000 copies since its release, setting a new record for the number of HD copies of a movie. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment says sales of [...]

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Microsoft has officially confirmed the existence of its Xbox 360 Elite. It says that the HDMI 120 GB versions will go on sale in the US at the end of April priced at 479 dollars. The 120GB version of the HDD can be purchased separately for existing systems, at 179 dollars. Read More… » « [...]

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Sky has launched its Anytime on TV service for users of Sky+ and Sky HD receivers. The new service showcases a selection of the week’s programmes on-demand. From today, Anytime on TV is available to all Sky HD customers; the service will be rolled out to users of the main Sky+ service in coming weeks. [...]

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They’re coming! Black Xbox 360 Elites coming off a Chinese production line have appeared on Chinese games site tgfcer.com. The shots reveal the new 120GB HDD and all black livery of the HDMI-enabled system. Availability of the Elite model is expected to be limited. The existing Premium 360 package will be replaced with an Elite-spec [...]

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Sony says that with sales of 165,000 (from a stock of 220,000) over its launch weekend, the PlayStation 3 is the fastest selling games console in UK history. Supply shortages famously limited the introductions of its rivals. Nintendo’s Wii sold 105,000 units when launched in December and remains elusive still. The Xbox 360 debuted with [...]

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It’s been resurrected for every format going, and now the original laser disc game Dragon’s Lair is coming to Blu-ray. It will be the first game disc for the format built from BD Java. The Don Bluth adventure first appeared in arcades in 1985. “I’ve seen the newly restored footage and it just looks amazing,” [...]

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Current Blu-ray players will be rendered obsolete by the end of the year. The Blu-ray disc association, in an effort to realize the hitherto unseen potential of the format, has mandated that all BD players going on sale after October 31 must offer fully-functioning BD Java, in order to deliver PIP interactivity. Frustration comes from [...]

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Bizarre scenes greeted the European arrival of the PlayStation 3 this weekend. At an event on the Seine, Microsoft France outmaneuvered Sony by bringing its own Xbox 360 boat alongside the PS3 event. While in Germany, a retail store encouraged Xbox owners to destroy their 360s by throwing them from a wall, in order to [...]

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