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Looks as though it's just an issue with PowerDVD Ultra so I'm sure this version of PowerDVD will be blacklisted soon enough. Just hopefully Cyberlink is going to provide free upgrades to anyone who buys their software.

Of course they're going to promote their own products over competitors what company wouldn't. After all they have shareholders they have to keep happy now and if they start giving up revenue they could have had for themselves to competitors, I'm thinking most investors wouldn't be too happy...

Considering Fox was the main lobbying force for the inclusion of BD+ I can easily see them willing to shut out consumers to protect their copyrights. As far as other studios you just have to remember how many people they alienated by deciding at first to implement Image Token Constraint...

From a BDA Press Release: On Blu-Ray at least this shouldn't be a big issue as one of the main features of their copy protection is the ability to shut down a specific player or line of players that have been compromised. They also added the ability to modify the code the players are...

Doesn't matter to me as it's just a service I'm linking to.

Call it a Christmas present to the nearly ten million Xbox 360 owners worldwide. Microsoft said Friday it would extend the warranty period from 90 days to one year for all consoles sold in the future, as well as those still in their first year of ownership. The Redmond company said the move...

Unfortunatley having quality games doen't amount to selling systems, if it did the Dreamcast would have been a massive success and SEGA would still be in the hardware business. It pretty much comes down to who has more marketing dollars and with Sony bleeding money and hedging all their bets...

In a move curious only due to its relatively late timing, the major record production labels in the US have filed suit in federal court against Russian online music distributor AllofMP3.com, seeking $150,000 USD for each single violation of copyright infringement for tracks the site posted...

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The only problem is VGA inputs aren't encrypted with HDCP so I can't think of a single studio who would be willing to support it, especially since they're still mulling Image Token Constraint which would remove component cables from being able to display HD content.

Maybe wehn Blackcomb comes out, after all MS is developing Halo 2 for the PC now as a Vista only game to help sell the new OS so why not wait 5-10 years to release Halo 3 as the next OS driver.

Using online music services to share songs without paying for them may be illegal, but casual users don’t usually find themselves under the steely gaze of an angry recording industry executive. Unless Dad is the head of Warner Music Group. We asked Edgar Bronfman, the head of the world’s...

For today only AOL is offering 30 movies for free on their video portal. From their site: Offer good from 12/2/06 at 6:00 am ET through 12/3/06 at 6:00 am ET, or until supply of free videos is depleted, whichever comes first. Open only to U.S. residents, 18 or older, who have an AOL or...

A spokesperson with the US Dept. of Justice this afternoon confirmed to BetaNews the existence of an investigation into possible antitrust and anti-competitive practices in the graphics card industry. That statement is important, because some companies involved in the graphics component industry...

I'm not saying they haven't hurt companies, but using the point of "buying the competition" I can't see as a valid reason as the US government has allowed those transactions to go through and didn't fell as though they warranted an anti-trust violation.

Microsoft is providing a free virtualized copy of Windows XP SP2 to assist developers in migrating IE6 applications to IE7. However, it will only work until April 1, 2007. The time-limited Virtual PC image would come with a pre-activated copy of Windows XP SP2, Internet Explorer 6, and the...

Wonder how she's going to win the buying out competitors point when any transaction they do would have to go before anti-trust regulators who obviously approved them.

As far as I've seen it's just for IBM processors like the cell and PowerPC chips.

The sky is the limit for a Playstation 3 running Yellow Dog Linux, a feature packed operating system designed exclusively for the Playstation 3. You will be able to edit photos, chat on AIM and MIRC, share files between your PC and PS3, and much more! Yellow Dog is completely open source, which...

Albeit running a tad bit slow, Windows XP now unofficially runs on the PlayStation 3 thanks to a few dedicated fans. The popular version of Windows appears to be running in emulation mode in Fedora Core 5, a free distro of Linux. Many in our forums and other discussion boards across the web...