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Digital TV Transition Bill Wins Committee Approval

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn’t deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcastover-the-air analog TV channels — a process that, under current law, issupposed to occur by 2007 — but only if 85 percent of the households…

Sony Embraces MP3 in Ploy To Please Public

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sony Electronics, maker of the first portable music device in the Walkmancassette player, has switched course on the format of its latest digitalplayers, which will now support the consumer format of choice: MP3. Sony’s MP3 move is a departure from supporting only its own Atrac format,which is among a number of proprietary alternatives that, while…

Coming Soon to a Living Room Near You

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Call it the Pleasure PC. Digital Living Space. Or, as Microsoft would like you to think of it, Media Center. Vendors and analysts have been flagging a new era for home PCs, and there is more than just talk in the air. Dell, Gateway, and other computer makers are busy touting PCs optimized for entertainment.…

Nintendo DS Readies for Portable Gaming Competition

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Nintendo is enforcing its dominance in the portable gaming world with the launch of its wireless Nintendo DS, a handheld double-screen console that will allow players to control games with touch or voice, monitor two-screen action and even compete wirelessly with others. Nintendo DS will launch in the United States on November 21 for about…

Pirates Hijack Xbox’s ‘Halo 2’

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A version of the popular “Halo 2” video game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform has appeared online in an act of digital piracy. While games figure as the least pirated digital entertainment medium, falling far below music and movies, “there was going to be piracy, no matter what,” Yankee Group senior analyst Mike Goodman told TechNewsWorld.…

Gaming Industry Peddles Murder-Ware to Teens

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Take-Two Interactive Software, owner of the “Manhunt” video game that was banned in New Zealand and which sparked the adoption of new video/CD purchase and rental rules in Canada, recently announced a partnership with one of the members of the record label cartel that’s currently suing p2p users around the world. Take-Two’s publisher Rockstar Games…

MPAA Hatches Plan To Sue Movie File-Sharers

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced Thursday that it will go the route of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which since September 2003 has sued more than 6,000 people it claims have…

Tesco Squeezes into Crowded Online Music Market

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Tesco, the UK retail giant that sells everything from groceries to insurance, has opened its own online music market. The download site contains about half a million song files in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. IPods, which have captured more than 50 percent of the UK market, do not play WMA files. There are…

SBC Inks Deal with Microsoft for IP TV

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

SBC has jumped into the IP TV market, sealing a 10-year, US$400 million deal with Microsoft to provide television services using the software giant’s TV Internet protocol television edition software platform. Microsoft has been trying to crack the TV market for years, investing billions of dollars in companies and seeing little result. “I do think…

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