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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. …

Fox News has challenged EA to an on-air monkey court in efforts to expose the naked truth about Mass Effect’s in-game sexual content. Don’t light that cigarette just yet, the controversy over the …

Warner's CES announcement of Blu-ray exclusivity has created quite an uproar in the media. Many claim that the HD war has been won by the Blu-ray camp. Does Warner really believe that Blu-ray is the …

It’s possibly the biggest story of Macworld and it has little to do with Apple - Fox is integrating its Digital Copy program to iTunes. Since the inception of DVD, the MPAA has been fighting your …

At today’s Macworld Jobs demonstrated MacBook Air - the world’s thinnest notebook. But it’s actually more of a wireless device than a legit computer. iTunes movie downloads were also announced which …

After just finishing at CES with the apparent win over rival physical format HD DVD, Blu-ray will again be challenged for title home video successor to the DVD. The latest threat is from Apple's …

Steve Jobs shall take the stage tomorrow and deliver unto the children of Mac - his keynote address. And Jobs shall hold aloft his latest offering from the Kingdom of Apple wherein his children shall …

Toshiba today announced that it is stepping up its successful marketing campaign for HD DVD as it experienced record-breaking unit sales in the fourth quarter of 2007. Major initiatives, include …

EchoStar made its name in satellite receivers for Dish Network, but the company is doing a good job at reinventing itself as an everyman’s set-top-box company. It recently bought Sling Media, makers …

It’s been a busy week for high def disc formats and it’s only Tuesday night! Soon after the Warner / Blu-ray announcement, Toshiba told the press that HD DVD wasn’t out of this format war just …

We got our first look at the SlingCatcher back at CES 2007. It’s the Wi-Fi enabled set-top box that streams web-based media, PC or Slingbox content to your TV.

Just when you thought that Audioholics' coverage of CES couldn't get more complete - we take it a step further. We're broadcasting live from our hotel room as much as possible. Visit our page on …