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Onkyo Corporation has decided that Onkyo will discontinue the development and production of HD DVD players. Onkyo has distributed and sold approximately 2000 units of the HD DVD players in the …

Good news for the video gaming industry 2007 was a banner year according to sales numbers from NPD. Overall, the industry posted a 43% revenue gain from 2006, earning $17.94 billion in 2007 verses …

According to the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association (JEITA), a Japanese industry group that tracks these things, flat panel television sales (both LCD and plasma) are expected …

Not content with motion tracking, eye-tracking or even full body suits of motion-control devices, one gaming accessory developer, Emotiv Systems, is bringing us the EPOC neuroheadset. It reads your …

After a mere 45 days of partnering with the e-store, Impact Acoustics is enjoying great success. "For a website to be live for such a short time and already drive so many orders for us, is quite …

In all the talk about how analogue television is being phased out, it's easy to miss a milestone in the history of cellular phone service which is passing this week. As of today, analogue phone …

In May Nintendo will be releasing its new Wii Fit Excersise system that will incorporate a weight and motion-sensing device dubbed the Wii Balance Board, a low, flat device that looks remarkably like …

iPod or cell phone running low on juice? What if you could plug it into your shirt to recharge the batteries! According to a report on Reuters, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have …

DisplaySearch released a report today that indicates Sony took a commanding lead in LCD TV sales last quarter - jumping from fourth position to first. According to their Global TV Shipment and …

As expected, Universal Studios, one of the two major studios that was putting out HD DVDs, will now switch its manufacturing, marketing and distribution efforts to the rival Blu-ray high definition …

The high definition disc format war that has raged for the last two years ended in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Toshiba announced it would stop development, manufacturing and marketing HD DVD …

Strong industry rumors are leading many editors to believe that this week will mark the end of the high definition DVD format war. If things go as suspected, and industry insiders are correct, then …

A consumer group charges that Samsung has knowingly sold defective Blu-ray players since June 2006 and is looking for $5 million in compensation. Samsung sold lead plaintiff Bob McGovern a BD-P1200 …

New Line Cinema is again finding itself on the wrong side of a lawsuit involving the lucrative Lord of the Rings trilogy. It seems that the Tolkien estate is alleging that the studio hasn't paid them …

It was the movie Rambo that may have drawn our popular culture's attention to post-traumatic stress disorder. It was also widely reported that certain dark, realistic films like Apocalypse Now and …

Reuters is reporting today that the online DVD rental company Netflix has announced that they will only stock Blu-ray discs. Until now, Netflix has supported both high definition formats. With four …

Cables To Go (with its Impact Acoustics audio/video line) has just released new "port savers". With right-angle or rotating connectors, these cables, adapters and connectors will protect those …

According to recently published research in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, male brains exhibit functional differences that appear to account for the predisposition to video gaming in the …

It seems the recently defunct Miller & Kreisel Sound Corporation (M&K) has a new lease on life after a group of Danish audio veterans invested in the brand according British AV news site AV Zombie. …

Mitsubishi unveiled its Laser HDTV at CES last month and we have a good idea what the company is going to call its new line. Taking a nod from the text messaging dialect known as L33T SPEAK, Mits has …

Apple doubled the memory capacity of both the iPhone and iPod Touch models Tuesday. Rather than take advantage of dropping memory prices, to lower the cost of entry for the new phones, Apple simply …

Trying to catch the movies that are up for Oscars is a chore. When the Oscar nominations are out most of the movies haven’t been released to DVD yet. A few are still loitering in theaters but most …

So what does it take to successfully pull off a Super Bowl in high definition? We emailed Fox Sports requesting some info on the game and what would be involved and also dug up some information form …

Neural Audio Corp., THX Ltd. and the NFL have teamed to deliver the HD international broadcast of Super Bowl XLII in Neural-THX Surround. The Neural-THX Surround technology will enable international …

Is Nintendo Wii an Xbox 360 gateway console? Microsoft seems to think so. Critics of Nintendo’s successful game system cite dated graphics and lack of next generation media features as reasons the …

Engineered Music Products “EMP Tek”, the audio video industry’s newest manufacturer of home audio products, today announced the debut of their new web site, www.emptek.com and that they are now …

In what has got to be the worst false start since Toshiba announced its first 1080i HD DVD player, Qtrax has stumbled onto the scene with its new download service. Apparently the Pentium II server …

After years of consumer-targeting lawsuits and a constant decline in the levels of CD sales, the music industry has switched tactics and decided that all music downloads should be FREE and LEGAL. …