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Afternoon News: Daily Dose of Harry Potter, Brit Drivers Going To Jail For Talking, Microsoft & Freetards Makin' Deals and More
• Warner Bros. set up a hotline to replace HD DVDs found in Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire Blu-ray packages. I love Harry Potter news. [HD Digest]• British drivers caught using their cellphones may be sent to jail for two years and face an extremely scary sounding "unlimited fine" under new laws published today. [Reuters]
• Samsung is shipping a 320GB 2.5" hard drive for notebooks. It retails for $250. [Tom's Hardware]
• Microsoft signed a deal with open source software company Samba as a result of sanctions for anti-trust violations from the European Commission. The Borg and freetards together? Someone check to make sure Fake Steve is still breathing. [NYT]
3:59 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Benny Goldman
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Latest by GOKOR: @diverguy: Really, the majority of US readers refer to it as the Philosopher's Stone? That's news to me...meaning I've more »
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Afternoon News: Harry Potter Is Too Close for Comfort, DirecTV Breaking Promises?, Best Buy's Profits Soar and More
• Daniel Radcliffe, a/k/a Harry Potter, just bought an apartment in Manhattan. Coincidentally, it's only four blocks from our NYC headquarters. Luckily we have our own Dark Lord Balthazaar to protect us from his spells. [Gridskipper]• Less than two weeks remain for DirecTV to add 15 more HD channels in order to reach their promise of 100 by the end of 2007. Hope you like the sound of Drying Paint HD, Growing Grass HD and Water Boiling HD, DirecTV customers. [Broadband Reports] [Thanks, Erin!!]
• Toshiba is joining IBM, AMD, Samsung, and others to work on 32nm chip technology. Now the alliance is just an wind, fire and heart away from summoning Captain Planet. [Reuters]
• XM Satellite Radio has settled its lawsuit with Universal Music Group over the time-shifting recording capabilities of XM's Inno player. Surprisingly, the terms still allow for the creation of more time-shifting devices. [Digital Trends]
• Best Buy's profits spiked 52% this quarter, due to fewer promotions on flat-panel TVs. Thanks a lot, Best Buy. [Market Watch]
portable media
Limited Harry Potter Archos 605 Raises Wands Everywhere
The Archos 605 Wi-Fi is a fine player when you want to watch movies on the go, but have you noticed that it's not quite Harry Pottery enough? Archos hears your cries, and is introducing a special edition loaded with the first four Potter movies (with the fifth being downloadable from the Archos Content Portal). This may or may not be a UK-only deal, but we'll keep you scarf-wearing superfans updated. [Shiny Shiny]
oops
Harry Potter Blu-ray Includes Unintended HD DVD
The hi def DVD industry never fails to disappoint. Because now even the consumers who are versed in the differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD—those who can tell a blue box from a red one with ease—are also getting shat on by a mixed up industry. Numerous reports have surfaced that a new $100+ Harry Potter box set has a fourth disc in HD DVD format—that's Goblet of Fire for those interested. It looks like even Warner Bros' conservative route of supporting both formats has its risks. [tgdaily]
the state of hd dvd
Where Blu-ray is a freight train of unrivaled weight and marketing might, backed by 13 of the world's most well known electronics and computer makers, HD DVD is a Little Engine That Could, the product of a much smaller group of collaborators that has gotten over each obstacle by simply thinking it can. Judging from early buzz, HD DVD should have been beaten long ago. Today, though, it appears healthy and gaining in momentum thanks to lower prices, less confusion about disc standards, less in-fighting among the format's supporters and a high likelihood of cheap Chinese models arriving soon. This piece answers the following questions: How in hell has the HD DVD camp lasted this long? And how will the format's backers stay competitive in the next year in the face of cheaper and more plentiful Blu-ray players?
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The State of HD DVD
Where Blu-ray is a freight train of unrivaled weight and marketing might, backed by 13 of the world's most well known electronics and computer makers, HD DVD is a Little Engine That Could, the product of a much smaller group of collaborators that has gotten over each obstacle by simply thinking it can. Judging from early buzz, HD DVD should have been beaten long ago. Today, though, it appears healthy and gaining in momentum thanks to lower prices, less confusion about disc standards, less in-fighting among the format's supporters and a high likelihood of cheap Chinese models arriving soon. This piece answers the following questions: How in hell has the HD DVD camp lasted this long? And how will the format's backers stay competitive in the next year in the face of cheaper and more plentiful Blu-ray players?
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1:00 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Wilson Rothman
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102 comments
Latest by tezrin: The much touted dual format Samsung player has already been discontinued due to a highly unsucsessful launch and extremely buggy more »
chamber of drm
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD's Portable Video Copy Locked Down Like Die Hard
Both Fox's Live Free or Die Hard and Warner's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix come with digital copies of the flicks for your computer and portable media device. PC World's reporting that Order's DRM will be very similar to Die Hard's except that it transfers to "your PC hard drive first and then moves to your portable unit." It'll work with "any device that supports Windows Media digital rights management." Die Hard's also PlaysForSure, meaning it totally doesn't play for sure on your gear. More »
home entertainment
New Harry Potter DVD Comes Bundled With Portable Video
Warner Home Video announced today that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be the first DVD to come bundled with multiple video formats on a single disk. In addition to the regular DVD format, the disk will include versions for both home computer viewing and playback on portable media players. There has been no word on whether DRM could be part of the equation, but keep in mind that protection schemes are typical with Warner releases. More »
accio governator
Voldemort Vs. Terminator, Who Wins?
Happy Harry Potter Day, techies. But in a fight between magic's biggest badboy and technology's most feared, who would win? Should Harry not fight, but travel through time and reprogram a robot to do his bidding? Will he?? There's only one way to find out. Read the book? No way. Vote and then argue in the comments (without spoiling it if you already know Harry goes all John Connor on His-Ass-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named).
stupified
Late last week, the new Harry Potter book leaked onto the torrents in painstaking, photographic form. But instead of the uploader's identity remaining anonymous, the pictures actually left a trail in their metadata [read: those meddling wizards were gossiping again].
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Canon May Bust Harry Potter Hacker!
Late last week, the new Harry Potter book leaked onto the torrents in painstaking, photographic form. But instead of the uploader's identity remaining anonymous, the pictures actually left a trail in their metadata [read: those meddling wizards were gossiping again].
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