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There’s light at the end of the tunnel for advanced Blu-ray features. Fox says it will use the sci-fi thriller Sunshine to debut picture-in-picture interactivity. The feature will allow viewers to watch movie-makers talking about the production of the film in a separate window from the film. Nearly all current Blu-ray players will be […]

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Reports of the PS2’s imminent demise, killed off not by falling consumer demand but Sony’s need to focus eyes and wallets on the under-performing PlayStation 3, may be exaggerated. To mark the console’s seventh anniversary, Sony has announced it will ship a limited edition ceramic white version for the holiday season. The model will sell […]

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While media regulator Ofcom still refuses to reserve new spectrum space for terrestrial high definition broadcasting, it says that the dream of Freeview HD isn’t dead yet. Ofcom’s Ed Richards says that there is still a way to deliver the extra space required for HDTV, without sacrificing revenue from the sale of redundant analogue frequency […]

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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 […]

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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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