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Sky is to acquire Amstrad’s set-top business for 125 million pounds. If the deal is approved by Amstrad shareholders, the satcaster will find itself with an in-house hardware division that should enable it to speed up new tech developments and better control costs.
Hitherto, the company maintained that it did not want to be in the […]

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Spartan epic 300 may be headed to Blu-ray for a second time. Speaking at the San Diego Comic Con, Deborah Snyder, wife of director Zack Snyder and executive producer of the movie, admitted that the film could be re-released with new extras that bring it more in line with the current HD DVD title, when […]

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It’s all but been written off as a consumer format, killed by its conflict with DVD-Audio, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from finally introducing a Super Audio CD capable head-end for the in-car entertainment market.
At the American launch of its XAV-W1 DVD/SACD player, Sony’s mobile electronics marketing manager, Kengo Kurokawa, said the product addressed “a […]

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Spider-man has helped Sony double last year’s Q1 profit. The success of the super-hero movie, coupled with strong sales of cameras and computers, helped the company post a 66.46 billion yen profit in its first quarter financials. Sales were up 13.3 percent to 1.977 trillion yen.
There was bad news from its TV division though, which […]

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In the US, Microsoft is cutting the cost of the Xbox 360 HDTV disc to 180 dollars. Buyers will also get to pick five free HD DVD discs as part of a generic format promotion. The reduction, which begins on August 1, is expected to herald a more general cut on the console itself. Says […]

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