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Blu-ray movies discs have outsold rival format HD DVD by a margin of approximately two-to-one during 2007, according to a market study by trade title Home Media Magazine. The publication says 2.6 million BDs were purchased during the period compared to 1.4 million HD DVD discs. However analysts expect the margin to narrow as new [...]

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Nintendo says that consolidated sales for this fiscal year will come in more than 10 per cent up on a previous estimate, at 1.55 trillion yen. It has also reported a consolidated net profit of 132.4 billion yen for the first six months of 2007. Nintendo is looking for even greater profits with the release [...]

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Warner has remastered its famed Looney Tunes animation library in high definition and has begun to offer them for sale through Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace. 50 titles featuring Bugs Bunny and the iconic gang are now available to US subscribers. The hi-def shorts are also expected to find their way on Blu-ray and HD DVD [...]

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It what is being seen as a groundbreaking announcement, Korean semiconductor giant Samsung says that it has developed the world’s first 64-gigabit NAND flash chip. The device has been made possible through the pioneering use of a 30-nanometer fabrication process using self-aligned double patterning technology (SaDPT). Samsung say that it will commercialize solid state memories [...]

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Hitachi is bailing out of the PC business. Citing cut-throat competition, the decision brings an end its 29 years as a PC hardware maker. In those markets where it continues to sell PCs, thel brand will sell products sourced from Hewlett-Packard. The company says it will redeploy its PC engineers to work on flat-panel TVs.

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Tit for tat promotions are spoiling USD HD buyers with choice, as each camp tries to use software to swing buyers to their format. Samsung is the latest to up the ante. it believes that the promise of eight free Blu-ray discs (plus a 50 buck price cut) will help it find an audience for [...]

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Responding to the challenge of OLED TV technology, Hitachi has announced a new series of ultra-slim LCD TVs which are just 35mm thin. The company says it has achieved the size reduction by adopting a new LCD panel module design and moving bulky electronics outside of the frame into a separate Media Station box. This [...]

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The combined sales of HD disc players in the US have topped 2.4 million units according to market analysts DisplaySearch. This includes 1.7 million PlayStation 3 plus 200,000 HD DVD drives for the Xbox 360. Combined sales of HD playback devices are predicted to reach 5 million units in 2008. DisplaySearch estimates that only 29 [...]

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