 | 'Justin Timberlake: Live at Madison Square Garden' Gets Wide Blu-ray Release (High-Def Digest, 4/11/2008 6:00pm) |
| Ending an exclusive run at Best Buy stores, Sony BMG says the 'Justin Timberlake: Live at Madison Square Garden' Blu-ray will be made available to retail at the end of the month. Sony first released the... ... (Read Full Article) |
| 'Dispatch: Zimbabwe' Bound For Blu-ray, HD DVD (High-Def Digest, 12/03/2007 9:00pm) |
| Indie rock band Dispatch is headed to HD DVD and Blu-ray disc this January with the release of their recent reunion concert, 'Dispatch: Zimbabwe - Live at Madison Square Garden.' One of only a handful...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/194486826" height="1" width="1"/> ... (Read Full Article) |
| Elton John Throws Blu-ray Bash with 'Elton 60' (High-Def Digest, 12/03/2007 5:00pm) |
| Captain Fantastic is due to make his high-def debut this week with the Blu-ray bow of the concert spectacular 'Elton 60: Live at Madison Square Garden.' Captured entirely with high-def cameras, 'Elton...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/194478595" height="1" width="1"/> ... (Read Full Article) |
| Best Buy to Offer Exclusive 'Justin Timberlake: Live' Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 1/10/2008 11:13pm) |
| Mr. SexyBack is headed back to high-def in the Best Buy exclusive Blu-ray release of his HBO concert, 'Justin Timberlake: Live at Madison Square Garden.' First released by Sony BMG on standard DVD back... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Cablevision faces Verizon petition for HD content (HD-Report, 7/08/2009 8:01pm) |
| Verizon has petitioned the FCC to allow Cablevision and its Madison Square Garden network to provide Verizon with local sports programming in HD. According to the complaint, Cablevision has denied access to the high-definition versions of any of its regional sports programming.
Cablevision owns the high-definition rights to broadcasts of New York Knicks, New York Rangers, [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | On Command Launches HDTV Entertainment Content to Select Hilton Garden Inn(R) Hotels (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 6/17/2005 1:00pm) |
| On Command Video Corporation, a leading provider of in-room interactive entertainment for the hotel industry and its guests, announced today the successful launch of high definition television programming to select Hilton Garden Inn® hotels. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Peggle 2, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare hit Xbox One first (Joystiq, 8/20/2013 10:42am) |
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PopCap is bringing the exuberantly announced Peggle 2 and 3D shooter (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba lights up massive LED HDTV in Times Square (Engadget, 7/16/2008 2:06am) |
| Filed under: Displays, HDTV
Next time you take a stroll through Times Square, look up, as Toshiba's posted a brand new high definition display at the top of One Times Square Building. The 51.2-foot by 52.5-foot consists if 1280x1248 LEDs controlled by Toshiba's Technovirtual pixel-sharing technology to create "virtual pixels". Whether or not we can figure out how that works, the LEDs display o ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray discs sold hit 9 million milestone (AfterDawn, 3/27/2008 8:18pm) |
| Citing strong sales of 'No Country for Old Men,', the Blu-ray camp has now topped 9 million discs sold since its launch.
BD sales for the first 11 weeks of 2008 is about 3 million units, adding to the 6 million that the format had sold since its inception in Q2 2006. The sales are clearly stronger than past years and analysts predict 16 million sold total for 2008.
For the week ended March ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Bravely Default's Surprising Japanese Idol Influences (Kotaku, 4/11/2013 8:00am) |
| For several weeks after its release, every game store I went to was sold out of Square Enix's 3DS game, Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. The game has proved to be a hit in Japan, thanks in part, [...] (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 hits new milestone in Japan (AfterDawn, 4/11/2008 10:54pm) |
| The PlayStation 3 has surpassed another milestone in Japan, passing the 2 million units sold mark after a strong sales week.
Sony's popular handheld, the PSP, had a very strong week as well in the territory and sold 121,000 units for the week ended April 6th. The Nintendo DS sold under half of the PSP, with 55,000 units for the week. The usually strong Wii sold a little less than usual at 44, ... (Read Full Article) |
| 90,000 HD DVD Players Sold Last Weekend [Format War] (Gizmodo, 11/07/2007 5:05pm) |
| Reducing the price of those HD DVD players to a rock-bottom $99 must be catching on, with 90,000 of its HD DVD sold last weekend. Most of them were those Toshiba HD-A2 players (pictured here) sold by... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony: 30M PS3s sold in EU/PAL territories (Joystiq, 12/20/2012 2:15am) |
| As of December 17, the PlayStation 3 has sold 30 million units across the great breadth of the United Kingdom, the European Union and [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nearly 1 million more Xbox 360s than Wii U consoles sold last month (CNET News, 1/11/2013 1:54pm) |
| According to Microsoft, it sold 1.4 million Xbox 360 units in December. Nintendo, meanwhile, said that it sold about 460,000 Wii U units in the same [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Reaches 9 Million Sold, 3 Million in 2008 (Format War Central, 3/25/2008 9:39pm) |
| Scott Hettrick is reporting on his Hollywood in Hi-def Blog that Blu-ray has reached 9 Million units sold since inception according to HMR research.
Perhaps even more iinteresting is that 3 Million of those were sold in this year, putting the format on pace to easily hit at least 15 million units for 2008.
The average weekly [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| HD DVD players sold out at Best Buy (Punch Jump, 2/25/2008 5:15pm) |
| Best Buy Co. Inc. this week sold out of two HD DVD player SKUs following Toshiba Corp.’s announcement that it will exit the HD DVD business. ... (Read Full Article) |
| LG Blu Ray HD DVD player sold out at Best Buy (Punch Jump, 1/29/2008 5:10pm) |
| Best Buy this week sold out of the Blu-ray, HD DVD multi-format LG Super Blu High-Definition multiplayer to online customers in the midst of a battle between the two formats at retail. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony Sold 525,000 PS3s Last Week (Kotaku, 11/29/2012 7:45pm) |
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The week of Thanksgiving marks one of the most [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Nokia Theatre Times Square Set for September New York City Debut (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 8/03/2005 2:49pm) |
| Nokia Theatre Times Square will bring entertainment's hottest performers to New York's most famous destination when the new 2100-capacity concert venue, developed and operated by AEG LIVE, officially opens this September. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray has best week ever, thanks to 'Iron Man' (AfterDawn, 10/12/2008 3:59pm) |
| According to Nielsen VideoScan data from Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray Disc had its best week ever as a format, thanks mainly to the blockbuster smash hit Iron Man.
'Iron Man' sold 7.2 million DVDs for the week of September 29th to October 5th and sold 510,000 Blu-ray Discs, smashing previous first week records for the HD format.
Paramount added that the disc sold 260,000 units on its first ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Square Enix Puts 3D-Printed Final Fantasy Figures Out of Business (Kotaku, 8/17/2013 10:00pm) |
| Square Enix consistently protects its trademarks and copyrights. And still people consistently use [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Microsoft Sold 750,000 Xbox 360s Last Week (Kotaku, 11/27/2012 7:49pm) |
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Turns out people like video [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | There's An Official Xbox 360 Car Being Sold In Mexico (Kotaku, 1/10/2013 7:00am) |
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| (Unranked) | Nearly 1 million more Xbox 360s than Wii Us sold in December (CNET Blogs, 1/11/2013 1:54pm) |
| According to Microsoft, it sold 1.4 million Xbox 360 units in December. Nintendo, meanwhile, said that it sold over 460,000 Wii U units during the same period. (Read Full Article) |
| High-def billboards in Wisconsin's future? (UPI, 5/08/2006 4:09pm) |
| MADISON, Wis., May 8 (UPI) -- The future is near in Wisconsin, where Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to sign a state law permitting giant high-definition television screens along highways. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 shortages causing lagging sales? (AfterDawn, 3/16/2008 8:23pm) |
| After the latest figures from the NPD Group showed that the Xbox 360 was once again lagging substantially behind its competitors in US sales, Microsoft has cited a "shortage in console availability" as the main reason for the lagging sales.
The 360 sold 254,600 units for the month while the Nintendo Wii sold 351,800 units and the Sony PlayStation 3 sold 280,900 units. The console equally trai ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Angry Birds Trilogy swoops onto Wii U, Wii this year, 1M sold (Joystiq, 2/15/2013 3:30pm) |
| On the back of a million copies sold on PS3, Xbox 360, and 3DS, the foul-tempered fowl of the Angry Birds Trilogy are raging onto the Wii U [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Carmike Cinemas Announces Grand Opening of the Bradley Square 12 in Cleveland, Tennessee Including the Critically Acclaimed Signature “BIGD” Ultimate Entertainment Experience (Business Wire, 12/09/2012 12:00pm) |
| COLUMBUS, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carmike Cinemas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CKEC), a leading DIGITAL cinema and 3-D motion picture exhibitor, is announcing the December 13th unveiling of its newest entertainment complex in the Bradley Square Mall located at 200 [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Pikmin 'didn't seem like Pikmin' on the 3DS (Joystiq, 7/29/2013 3:15pm) |
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The cross between Wii U and 3DS seems like a good business idea for just about any Nintendo game, but it also seems like a natural gameplay fit for the garden-based strategy of (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Bravely Default: Flying Fairy Is Coming To The US In 2014 (Kotaku, 4/17/2013 2:32pm) |
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Square Enix's 3DS role-playing game Bravely Default: Flying Fairy is coming to North America next year. Nintendo will publish the game along with Square Enix.
Described by some players [...] (Read Full Article) |
| 2 Million Blu-ray Discs Sold Across Europe (Format War Central, 2/13/2008 11:37pm) |
| We read at DVD Times that the BDA has held a press conference in London to draw attention to a new sales milestone in Europe.
According to speakers at the even, since launch there have been 2.37M Blu-ray Discs sold across Europe.
At IFA last year (which is Aug/Sep time frame) the total was said to be [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Last Week's Japanese Vita Sales Barely Rate Compared to the 3DS (High-Def Digest, 11/15/2012 6:30pm) |
| The Vita's 4,021 units sold and the 3DS' 187,077 units sold give the 3DS a near forty-seven to one edge for the week. Gamasutra points out that the debut of Nintendo's 'Animal Crossing: New Life,' [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nintendo to pay royalty to 3D patent holder for every 3DS unit sold (Joystiq, 1/06/2014 6:30pm) |
| A U.S. federal judge has established a royalty rate Nintendo will pay to Tomita Technologies International for every Nintendo 3DS handheld console sold worldwide. The ongoing fee stems from a a 2011 lawsuit that found Nintendo liable for damages [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Microsoft: We've Sold 28 Million Xbox 360s [Numbers Game] (Kotaku, 1/06/2009 2:20am) |
| The Redmond giant and relative newcomer to the console wars revealed that it has sold over 28 million Xbox 360s since launch. Yes, that's much more than the originals Xbox's lifetime sales.
In... ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 to get trophies (the INQUIRER, 6/02/2008 10:32am) |
| Dean Pullen the Inquirer, Monday 2 June 2008. 10:49:00 Console round-up XBLA restrictions eased SONY'S PSP is still topping sales figures in Japan. According to Gamesindustry.biz the PSP shifted 64,449 units over the past week ending May 25th, with the Wii at second place with 49,047 units sold. The Nintendo DS sold 37,404 units, and the PS3 only managed a meagre 9,071 units.... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Microsoft sold 750,000 Xbox 360 units over weekend (AfterDawn, 11/28/2012 1:44am) |
Large discounts on bundles led to a huge day for the company.
Microsoft has announced today that they sold 750,000 Xbox 360 units in the U.S. on [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Why Aren't Computer Makers All Over Blu-ray Disc? (Home Media Magazine, 9/09/2009 12:16am) |
| The computer industry is slow to migrate to Blu-ray Disc, with iSuppli research showing only 3.6% of computers sold this year are equipped with Blu-ray drives--and even by 2013 Blu-ray drives will only be in 16.3% of computers sold. What's the holdup? (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 Sold Faster Than Xbox 360 In Same Period [Console War] (Kotaku, 2/20/2008 5:00pm) |
| In a recent report released by VG Chartz, it was found that the Playstation 3 sold better in its first 14 months than the Xbox 360 did during the same period. According to VG Chartz, the Xbox 360... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Over 1 million Samsung HDTVs sold in the US last month (Engadget, 11/05/2012 2:42pm) |
| If it wasn't busy enough selling (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Xbox 360 reaches 70 million units sold (AfterDawn, 10/22/2012 12:09am) |
Microsoft has sold 70 million Xbox 360, a strong milestone for the aging console.
The console launched in November 2005, a year ahead of the rival (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare equips undead with dolphin guns (Joystiq, 1/22/2014 6:00pm) |
| The cartoon exaggeration of the original Plants vs. Zombies enhanced the inherent silliness of PopCap's beloved strategy game. Here is latest tease for the full-on 3D shooter spinoff, wherein a zombie militia erupts from the hideously carved mouth [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Murdered: Soul Suspect, Square Enix's Newest Game, Is Out Early 2014 For Xbox 360 And PS3 (Kotaku, 2/20/2013 4:45pm) |
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| Toshiba sold 100,000 HD DVD Player (I4U, 4/18/2007 3:51pm) |
| HD DVD players are on the market since 1 year and the HD DVD Group is celebrating 100,000 stand-alone HD DVD players sold in the United States.
Toshiba's pricing strategy of their HD DVD player apparently paid off. The stand-alone Blu-ray player got... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Xbox 360 sold 281K units in January (Joystiq, 2/15/2013 4:00pm) |
| At least 281,000 people became the brand new owners of an Xbox 360 during the month of January, Microsoft has (Read Full Article) |
| January stats suggest more bad news for HD DVD (HDTV UK, 1/23/2008 8:00am) |
| According to research from NPD, sales of standalone HD DVD suffered a massive slump in the week following Warner Brothers' announcement in early January.
While in the first week of January, just over 14,500 HD DVD players were sold, in comparison to just over 15,000 Blu-ray players, by the second week of January, just 1,758 HD DVD players were sold, compared to 21,770 Blu-ray players.
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| Sony PS3 Beats Nintendo Wii for the First Time in Japan [Bitchfight] (Gizmodo, 11/30/2007 9:00am) |
| According to game magazine publisher Enterbrain, the Sony PlayStation 3 has beaten the Nintendo Wii for the first time in Japan: Sony sold 183,217 PS3 while Nintendo sold 159,193 Wii consoles in the four-weeks period ending November 25. Not a lot, yes, and while this is hardly a a sign of things changing anytime soon—and much less in the US and Europe, where Wii and Xbox 360 rule uncontested ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Sony, Ninty and MS square-up (Ferrago, 6/02/2005 8:21am) |
| Console bosses bitch in newspaper ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Microsoft Posts 22% Fewer Xbox 360 Sales During Black Friday (Home Media Magazine, 11/28/2012 12:51am) |
| Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game system may be the reigning hardware leader, but it sold 22% fewer units (750,000) during the Black Friday week (ended Nov. 23) than it did during the same period in 2011 with 960,000 units sold.
Last [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Report: 70 million Xbox 360s sold to date (Joystiq, 10/21/2012 2:00am) |
| Since its launch way back in 2005, the Xbox 360 has been purchased a grand total of 70 million times, according to (Read Full Article) |
| Sony Opens 20th Sony Style Retail Store (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 9/28/2005 2:20pm) |
| With purchasing power among women rapidly increasing, a new Sony Style® retail store is opening at the fashion oriented Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Garden City, N.Y., encouraging consumers -- especially women -- to test-drive a variety of electronic devices. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends blossoms on 3DS in April (Joystiq, 3/04/2014 11:30pm) |
| Cooking Mama is back for another round of garden-tending action in Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends, a newly-announced series entry coming to the Nintendo 3DS this spring from publisher Majesco.
Following up on 2009's Gardening Mama for the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Microsoft: Xbox 360 at 76M sold worldwide, Kinect at 24M (Joystiq, 2/12/2013 3:00am) |
| Microsoft has sent out a chest-thumping press release, boasting about new milestones for the Xbox 360, Kinect and Xbox Live. As of now, 76 [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New 3D Printer Makes Implantable Cartilage (DailyTech, 11/25/2012 11:28pm) |
| The end result were square constructs with a 10cm diagonal and 0.4mm [...] (Read Full Article) |
| HD Sets to Comprise Majority Of Total Set Unit Sales for First Time in 2006, Says Kagan Research (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 2/13/2006 8:11pm) |
| MONTEREY, Calif.----Feb. 13, 2006--A new study from Kagan Research, THE STATE OF HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION 2006, forecasts nearly 20 mil. HD sets will be sold to US consumers in 2006, and estimates 104 mil. cumulative HD sets will be sold to consumers by 2008, resulting in 78 mil. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 close to 2 million units sold in UK (AfterDawn, 4/01/2008 10:16pm) |
| According to the latest figures from Chart-Track, the Microsoft Xbox 360 is very close to hitting 2 million units sold in the UK. The figure, when hit, will be a big milestone for the console.
Thanks to a sales spurt brought upon by the Easter season and recent price cuts, the console is now in fierce competition with the PlayStation 3 in the territory.
Dorian Bloch, director of UK sales mon ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 nearing two million sold in UK (Joystiq, 4/01/2008 2:00pm) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
UK sales monitor Chart-Track says that by next week the Xbox 360, is likely to have sold two million units in the UK since launching in December of 2005. GI.biz reports the recent price drop boosted sales for the console, with Chart-Track noting another boost over the Easter weekend. This was followed by a drop with the launch of the P ... (Read Full Article) |
| Wii outsells PS3 by three-to-one in Japan during March (Tech Digest, 4/04/2008 1:53pm) |
| Latest sales figures for March show that Nintendo sold 265k Wiis in March,
compared to Sony's rather poor 81k PS3s. And the gap is widening - just last
week, Sony sold slightly over 11,000 PlayStation3s in Japan, while Nintendo
shifted nearly 49k Wiis. Poor old Sony just can't turn things around for PS3... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Comcast adds 6 HD channels to S. Jersey areas (HD-Report, 7/16/2009 6:17pm) |
| Comcast has added new high-definition (HD) channels to areas in Southern New Jersey. Customers in Comcast’s Garden State markets will now get History Channel HD (Ch. 217), CNN HD (Ch. 221), USA HD (Ch. 222), Discovery Channel HD (Ch. 224), Animal Planet HD (Ch. 230), and AMC HD (Ch. 238).
The areas which Comcast serves include [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Sony PS3 outsells Xbox 360 again in May (I4U, 6/14/2008 1:00pm) |
| The Sony PS3 outsold the Microsoft Xbox 360 in May in the United States according to new NPD video game sales numbers. In February the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 the first time.
Sony sold 209,000 PS3 consoles and Microsoft sold 187,000 Xbox 360 consoles... ... (Read Full Article) |
| New HD Wii coming in 2011? (DVICE, 9/21/2009 5:45pm) |
| Square Enix is the biggest game developer in Japan, so when president Yoichi Wada speaks, people listen. And when he says that Nintendo is prepping a next-gen, high definition Wii with a brand-new motion controller for 2011, we believe him.
The current Wii is by far the most underpowered of the current crop of gaming consoles, so it makes sense that they'd be working on an update far earlier than Sony and Microsoft. Heck, it doesn't do HD! In this day and age, that seems crazy. So will 2011 be the year of the Wii 2? We'll just have to wait and see.
Joystiq via Gizmodo (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | PS3 sales fall in Japan post PSN restore (Punch Jump, 5/21/2011 3:25pm) |
| Media Create Co. this week said the Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 ranked third in hardware sales in the latest Japan post restore of the Playstation Network division. The PS3 sold 13,789 units between May 9 and May 15 to rank No. 3 in overall hardware sales. By comparison, it sold 20,883 units the week prior. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Xbox 360 sales decline in latest Japan figures (Punch Jump, 5/21/2011 3:45pm) |
| Sales for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 hardware held as the No. 7 hardware in the latest Japan retail figures. Media Create Co. on Fri. reported that the Xbox 360 sold 2,763 units between May 9 and May 15 to rank No. 7 in overall sales. By comparison, the hardware sold 3,419 units the week prior. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray sales grow, but home video revenue still down (AfterDawn, 4/25/2008 10:28pm) |
| Despite large growth in the high definition market, standard DVD sales continue to sag, and home video revenue will continue to fall, report a few notable analysts.
According to Reuters, 5 million HD movies have already been sold this year (mainly Blu-ray) and that puts the pace far ahead then 2007 which saw only 10 million movies sold for the entire year.
This strong growth however is not ... (Read Full Article) |
| TDK Announces Blue Laser Disc Technology to Support 200GB Capacity (Broadcast Newsroom, 8/31/2006 4:30pm) |
| GARDEN CITY, N.Y., BUSINESS WIRE -- TDK, a world leader in digital recording solutions, has reached a landmark in the development of recordable blue laser technology, achieving a groundbreaking capacity of 200GB. Surpassing existing optical media technologies several times over, a 200GB blue laser disc would double the capacity of TDK's existing 100GB Blu-ray prototype. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Animal Crossing: New Leaf at 2.3M sold in Japan, bringing in new female 3DS owners (Joystiq, 1/08/2013 10:00pm) |
| Japanese sales of Animal Crossing: New Leaf are at around 2.3 million, with [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | What? (Kotaku, 9/02/2013 1:00pm) |
| What? Bravely Default is evolving! On December 5, Japan is getting an updated and expanded re-release of the interestingly-named 3DS JRPG, [...] (Read Full Article) |
| PlayStation 3 aims to blast competition (Chicago (Chicago Sun-Times, 5/17/2005 9:36am) |
| LOS ANGELES -- You see the billboards throughout the Los Angeles area; Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) controller\\\'s familiar triangle, square, X and circle button-scheme, but the symbols are cut in half. ... (Read Full Article) |
| PlayStation 3 aims to blast competition (Chicago (Chicago Sun-Times, 5/17/2005 11:25am) |
| LOS ANGELES -- You see the billboards throughout the Los Angeles area; Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) controller\\\'s familiar triangle, square, X and circle button-scheme, but the symbols are cut in half. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Review: 'Final Fantasy' music sings on 3DS (USATODAY, 8/04/2012 2:14am) |
Square Enix's 'Final Fantasy' video-game franchise is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
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| Video 'Snacking' On Phones: The Next Killer App? (Advanced IP Pipeline, 8/11/2005 5:23pm) |
| While consumers may not have the patience to watch a feature-length movie on a 2-in. square LCD screen, they may likely view commercially-produced short clips-- "video snacks"-- up to 10 minutes in length. ... (Read Full Article) |
| They Want the World, And They Want it Now (AdWeek, 12/19/2005 3:55pm) |
| NEW YORK In 1985, for the first time, more U.S. TV sets were sold with remote controls than without. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX' for the PS3 Announced for North America (High-Def Digest, 2/25/2013 6:30pm) |
| The Square Enix Disney Collaboration returns with both 'Chain of Memories' and '358/2 Days' Content Both fans and strangers to the 'Kingdom Hearts' series have been hoping and awaiting a HD [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Video snacking on cell phones the next killer app, says panel (EE Times, 8/10/2005 11:02pm) |
| SAN FRANCISCO — While consumers may not have the patience to watch a feature-length movie on a 2-in. square LCD screen, they may likely view commercially-produced short clips-- "video snacks"-- up to 10 minutes in length. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Luxury home winners (The Beacon (The Beacon News, 5/09/2005 8:24am) |
| Imagine yourself sitting poolside, overlooking a lake, enraptured by the melancholy sounds of small, lapping waves reaching the shore. A guest house adjoins the pool, which is shadowed by your custom designed estate, commanding space in excess of 5,000 square feet. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Clueless about Blu-ray? Disney's got the answer with visit to local mall (KATU Portland, 9/15/2007 8:54pm) |
| Washington Square Mall hosts Sony and Disney's interactive Blu-ray Disc display this weekend. KATU film critic Tony Robinson previews the demo and gives his take on the high-definition home video war. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | ‘Titanic’ Tie-In Goes to Times Square (Home Media Magazine, 8/29/2012 10:50pm) |
| Paramount Home Media Distribution has launched a unique fan tie-in for the Sept. 10 release of Titanic on 2D and 3D Blu-ray Disc.
Visitors to Facebook.com/TitanicMovie can [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Zepp 3D motion sensor captures sports data, helps step up your swing (Engadget, 10/04/2013 7:16am) |
| Activity trackers like FuelBand are great if you just want to exercise, but Zepp Labs' new 3D motion sensor might be more useful if you're seriously training in a sport -- especially if it's tennis, baseball or golf. A 1-inch square of negligible [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Tuesday, July 18, 2006 (TVPredictions.com, 7/18/2006 1:00pm) |
| Best Buy to Sell $1,500 Plasma HDTV The 42-inch set will be sold under the company's private label. By Phillip Swann ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dragon Quest 7 reborn on 3DS Feb. 7 in Japan [update] (Joystiq, 10/31/2012 7:00pm) |
| Square Enix has opened an official Japanese website for the (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Bravely Default coming out in North America (Joystiq, 4/17/2013 3:35pm) |
| Square Enix's 3DS RPG Bravely Default: Flying Fairy will be released in North America, in partnership with Nintendo. It's expected in 2014, which is ... a long time from now! (Read Full Article) |
| Infinite Loop: Canucks to get Loonies back (Ars Technica, 8/15/2005 3:07pm) |
| You might remember last year the Canadian government placed a tax on all blank media and MP3 players sold inside the country. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Disney Teams Up With Sensio on 3D VOD Deal (About.com, 3/04/2013 6:45pm) |
| Although there are some vocal naysayers, 3D home entertainment is alive and well, as more 3D TVs are sold and more 3D content via Blu-ray Disc, cable/satellite, and streamed from ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony: We've sold 70 million PS3 consoles worldwide (CNET News, 11/16/2012 1:18pm) |
| Six years on, the PS3 chugs past another big round number, matching the tally logged by the rival Xbox not so very long [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nomura: Final Fantasy 15 on PS3 may have 'caused us to look inferior' (Joystiq, 6/19/2013 6:00pm) |
Square Enix game director Tetsuya Nomura has elaborated on the choice to bring (Read Full Article) |
| Hacking Your TiVo (Connected Home (Connected Home Media, 5/11/2005 4:17pm) |
| With more than a million units sold, TiVo is fast becoming a household name. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Old-School Final Fantasy Is Back With A New Name (Kotaku, 9/27/2013 4:00pm) |
| Here's the first English trailer for Bravely Default, an upcoming Square Enix role-playing game for 3DS that seems like old-school Final Fantasy in everything but name. (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remasters coming to Japan in December (Joystiq, 10/10/2013 7:00pm) |
Square Enix has finally pinned a release date on Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD Remaster - in Japan, that is. The Vita and PS3 [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Sharp Announces Gen 10 LCD Plant (HDTV Almanac: Your source for independent HDTV information from an industry expert you can trust., 8/02/2007 2:00pm) |
| Got a spare $3.2 billion? Then you too can build a tenth generation — 10G — LCD production plant just like Sharp. Sharp is the first company to announce plans for a production line that will handle sheets of glass substrates this large. As already reported here, the glass will be more than 10 feet square. This size can make six 60″ HDTVs per ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Theatrhythm: Curtain Call brings another gorgeous 3DS XL to Japan (Joystiq, 2/05/2014 1:00pm) |
| Oh, to live in Japan and have enough yen to buy all the 3DS XLs. Square Enix adds to the handheld's library of super-sized stunners with a black and gold number for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, the follow-up to 2012's Final [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Bravely Default Will Still Be Called Bravely Default In North America (Kotaku, 4/18/2013 12:00am) |
| For quite some time now, the world has been laughing at the name Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, even as we begged Square Enix to bring it out of Japan.
Today's good news: the 3DS [...] (Read Full Article) |
| FCC Adjusts DTV-Tuner Schedule (MultiChannel News, 11/03/2005 10:46pm) |
| Every new TV set sold in the United States after March 1, 2007, must include an over-the-air digital tuner, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Big-box retailers battle on prices (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 12/04/2006 11:54am) |
| WASHINGTON - The Panasonic 42-inch plasma high-definition television sold for an average of $1,762 at Circuit City in September. By October, it was $1,687. And the day after Thanksgiving, the price hit a temporary low of $1,199. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Roth Capital Partners New York Conference 2005 Presenter Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 9/06/2005 6:57pm) |
| The Roth Capital Partners New York Conference takes place Sept. 7-8 at The Westin New York at Times Square. For in-depth information about the event visit http://www.rothcp.com/. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster gets same-day release on Vita (Joystiq, 12/16/2013 2:30pm) |
| Well, this is a bit of a surprise: The Vita gets Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on the same day as the PS3. The $40 Vita version looked set for an extended delay after being left out of last month's release date announcement, but Square Enix [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Chocobo Racing 3D cancelled, creator says (Joystiq, 10/12/2013 3:30am) |
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An upgraded Nintendo 3DS version of Square Enix's PSOne-era mascot racer Chocobo Racing has ceased development, creator Takashi Tokita confirmed with (Read Full Article) |
| Has Dan Farmer Sold His Soul? (BusinessWeek, 4/05/2005 2:20pm) |
| The security guru and fiercely independent creator of free software tool SATAN explains why he teamed up with VCs to launch Elemental Software (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Hey, remember that Kingdom Hearts compilation for the PS3? (Kotaku, 8/30/2013 1:53pm) |
| Hey, remember that Kingdom Hearts compilation for the PS3? The HD 1.5 Remix? It's still on track for this fall—September 10, specifically. Recently, Square Enix put out a new trailer to [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Wii HD expected in 2011, says exec (Punch Jump, 9/23/2009 3:35pm) |
| Square Enix Holdings Co. CEO Yoichi Wada told The Financial Times this week that he expects a new version of Nintendo Co.’s Wii hardware to be released in 2011.
Yoichi said that he expects a Wii HD include functionality more like Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 and Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 and a possible new controller for [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Panasonic's 103-incher, up close and personal (Engadget, 1/09/2006 9:55pm) |
| Filed under: CES , HDTV What's about 7 and a half-feet long, 4-feet tall, has about 30 square feet of viewing space, a 3001:1 contrast ratio, pushes over 2 million pixels progressively, and requires Howie Mandel to demo it? That'd be Panasonic's behemoth 103-inch plasma at CES this year, which we got in close enough to get some sweet shots of. The color was rich, the blacks were natural ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Report: Final Fantasy X-2 HD could include 'Last Mission' (Joystiq, 5/13/2013 11:00am) |
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Final Fantasy X-2 HD could feature content never previously released outside of Japan, although Square Enix is reportedly "undecided" about [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX' Dated with Limited Edition Artbook (High-Def Digest, 5/07/2013 6:30pm) |
| Square Enix teasing limited stock in hope of securing pre-orders. 'Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX' for the PS3 is coming to North America September 10th and to Europe September 13th. 'Kingdom Hearts HD [...] (Read Full Article) |
| MTV World to Showcase Korean Pop Superstar Rain With Its First Ever Live Music Production, 'MTV Presents: Rain - Live (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 2/01/2006 12:29am) |
| MTV World today announced plans to produce an exclusive live performance special featuring Korean pop superstar Rain on Friday, February 3 at MTV's Studios in Times Square. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix announced for PS3, features remastered PS2 games (Joystiq, 9/20/2012 3:00am) |
| Square Enix has revealed Kingdom Hearts is finally on its way to current-era home consoles. In typical wacky naming fashion for the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Telecast Viper Aids Russian Victory Day Festival Broadcast (Broadcast Newsroom, 7/05/2005 11:32pm) |
| Telecast Fiber Systems' Viper family of fiber optic transceivers was used for transmitting video and audio of Russia's 60th anniversary celebration of the country's victory against Germany in the Great Patriotic War during World War II. Held in Moscow's Red Square, the event utilized multiple cameras from various outdoor locations around the venue. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Marley (Blu-ray Review) (Home Media Magazine, 8/02/2012 10:05pm) |
Street 8/7/12
Magnolia
Documentary
Box Office $1.4 million
$26.98 DVD, $29.98 Blu-ray
Rated ‘PG-13’ for drug content, thematic elements and some violent images.
Bob Marley sold millions of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Kingdom Hearts 'Remix' Hits PS3 On September 10 (Kotaku, 5/07/2013 1:20pm) |
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Kingdom Hearts 1.5 will be out on September 10, the folks at Square Enix said today.
The PS3 exclusive features an HD remake of the original Kingdom Hearts and the PS2 game Kingdom [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix coming to PS3 in NA, EU this autumn (Joystiq, 2/25/2013 3:00pm) |
| Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix is headed west in the fall. Square Enix confirmed the PS3 localizations today, much speculated after series [...] (Read Full Article) |
| As HDTV gets popular, shopping for DVDs gets complicated (Rocky Mountain News, 12/07/2006 8:43am) |
| The electronics industry expects high definition televisions to rank among the most popular purchases this December. More than 3 million have already sold in the fourth quarter of 2006. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Confusion over high-definition TV (BBC News, 3/21/2005 10:44am) |
| Thousands of flat-panel TV sets have already been sold as "high-definition", but are in fact not able to display HD. (Read Full Article) |
| Camcorders Catch Up to High-Definition (New York Times, 3/09/2006 1:06am) |
| With more high-definition televisions sold by the day, Sony is releasing a more compact HD camcorder. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Dedicated HD DVD players outsell Blu-ray counterparts (Ars Technica, 4/18/2007 3:01pm) |
| HD DVD celebrated its first birthday today, and the platform is doing better than Blu-ray when it comes to dedicated players sold. Factor in consoles and the picture is different. Read More... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray and HD-DVD Sales Growing Faster Than Standard DVD (About.com, 1/29/2008 5:00pm) |
| If you compare the number of Blu-ray and HD-DVD players, as well as disc titles sold since the formats became available to consumers, with the initial sales of DVD players... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Novato HDTV company raises $2.7 million in equity offering (BizJournals, 8/05/2005 10:13pm) |
| SpatiaLight Inc., a maker of liquid crystal displays, said Friday it sold 500,000 of its common shares to institutional shareholders at $5.40 a share, for a total of $2.7 million. ... (Read Full Article) |
| British Blu-ray Booming (High-Def Digest, 7/10/2009 9:00pm) |
| Sales have skyrocketed, while traditional DVD sales have dropped slightly. According to the British Video Association, roughly 3.1 million Blu-ray discs have sold in the UK since the beginning of this... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sears sells out of $179 Blu-ray player (Punch Jump, 11/18/2008 3:37pm) |
| Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold out of Sharp Inc.’s Blu-ray disc player following an early Black Friday sale to online customers. ... (Read Full Article) |
| BusinessWeek Says Blu-ray Ahead; Analysts Predict HD DVD FTW [Format War] (Gizmodo, 12/11/2007 3:59pm) |
| Too long since your last shot of format-war speculation? BusinessWeek uses three indicators to call Blu-ray (and Sony) the current leading contender:
1. Blu-ray has sold more than twice as many... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray disc sales up on $20 or less pricing (Punch Jump, 3/16/2008 3:57pm) |
| Blu-ray disc sales increased over the weekend as titles were sold at Amazon.com for $20 or less. ... (Read Full Article) |
| SpatiaLight Raises $2.7 Million in Equity Offering (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 8/05/2005 1:00pm) |
| SpatiaLight, Inc. , a manufacturer of state of the art liquid crystal on silicon microdisplays, announced today that it sold 500,000 of its common shares to certain institutional investors at a purchase price of $5.40 per share. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Bloggers Detail How to Create a Reality Television Show; Learn How Scott and Alexander Created, Produced and Sold Their (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 6/28/2005 6:44pm) |
| Have you ever wondered how to create, produce and sell your own television pilot? ... (Read Full Article) |
| HD DVD Promo Group: HD DVD Player Sales Top 750,000 (High-Def Digest, 11/27/2007 9:00pm) |
| A combined total of over 750,000 standalone set-top players and Xbox 360 HD DVD players have now been sold through to consumers. That's according to a just-issued press release from the HD DVD Promotions...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/191399886" height="1" width="1"/> ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | LG's UHDTV Hits Retail – Six Sold in First Two Hours (High-Def Digest, 10/29/2012 7:00pm) |
| Instead of the $20k MSRP, the 84LM9600 was going for $16,999. Video & Audio Center in Lawndale, California, was the first retail location to get LG's new 84 inch UHDTV and that honor earned them [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Bravely Default coming to Europe on June 12, Q1 2014 in US (Joystiq, 10/01/2013 3:46pm) |
Square Enix's Bravely Default: Where the Fairy Flies will be released for the Nintendo 3DS on June 12 in Europe, Nintendo announced today as part of its Nintendo Direct [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Bravely Default coming to Europe on December 6, Q1 2014 in US (Joystiq, 10/01/2013 3:46pm) |
Square Enix's Bravely Default: Where the Fairy Flies will be released for the Nintendo 3DS on December 6 in Europe, Nintendo announced today as part of its Nintendo [...] (Read Full Article) |
| New wave of Blu-ray disc titles priced at $9.95 (Punch Jump, 3/05/2008 5:01pm) |
| While Blu-ray disc titles carry a premium price tag, lesser known titles on the format will be sold for under $10. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony celebrates 80 million PS3s sold, reminds you that it's now seven years old (Engadget, 11/06/2013 7:20am) |
| It's been through a redesign (or two), but the PS3 is still going strong. Sony has announced that sales of its current home console have now topped 80 million, with just over a week to go before its replacement successor forces many to swap out [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | LG 55LM6700 1080p LED Cinema 3D TV Review (Big Picture Big Sound, 8/07/2012 8:01pm) |
| If you're sold on an LED TV with passive 3D capabilities and you don't mind an unconventional remote, LG's 55LM6700 is worth a [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nintendo 'looking at' Unity support for 3DS (Joystiq, 3/23/2014 3:30pm) |
| Developers working on Wii U projects have counted the Unity engine among their options since last year, but support for Unity is still absent from the 3DS. Considering more than 42 million 3DS units have been sold worldwide, in comparison to the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (No Title) (, 5/09/2006 12:40pm) |
| The Consumer Electronic Association expects some 600,000 HD-DVD and Blu-ray players and optical drives to be sold in the US alone this year. Following the successful launch of Toshiba's HD-DVD players , units are predicted to continue selling quickly to early adopters, despite the ongoing standards battle between the two rival technologies. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Machine Vision Camera offers HDTV aspect ratio. (ThomasNet, 1/11/2006 2:29pm) |
| Available in Camera Link and LVDS (RS-644) versions, TM-2016-8 is 2.1-megapixel camera with 1 in. progressive scan CCD and Kodak KAI-2093M imager. It delivers 1920 x 1080 resolution with 7.4 µm square pixels, and includes 8-bit output with lookup table. Pixels are arranged in 2K x 1K, 16:9 aspect ratio, and progressive scan provides full vertical and horizontal resolution at up to 8 frames/sec; ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360's HD DVD drive has over a third of the US HD DVD player market (Tech Digest, 12/18/2007 8:00am) |
| Uh-oh! Time for another update on the relative successes and/or failures of the new HD movie formats - this time as seen through the eyes of impartial American stat-compiler NPD.
According to NPD, 750,000 HD DVD players have been sold in America - and the cheap old Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on has been responsible for 269,000...]]>
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| Kagan Forecasts 82% of Households Will Be HD-equipped by 2010 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 11/09/2005 7:20pm) |
| MONTEREY, Calif.----Nov. 9, 2005--A new study from Kagan Research, THE STATE OF HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION 2006, forecasts 377 mil. cumulative HD sets will be sold to consumers by 2015, resulting in 110 mil. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 sales reach 17.7M worldwide (Punch Jump, 1/04/2008 6:00pm) |
| Microsoft Corp. this week said that sales for the Xbox 360 video game console have reached 17.7 million sold worldwide to date. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Consumers still not sold on Blu-ray (AfterDawn, 6/25/2009 3:07pm) |
| The results of a new survey by Harris Interactive show that despite winning the hi-def format war Blu-ray isn't showing any real signs it will become a mainstream success. In fact they indicate more people own standalone HD DVD players (11%) than Blu-ray players (7%).
When you factor in PS3 game consoles and the Xbox 360 add on HD DVD drive the numbers shift to favor Blu-ray, but it's not as ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV sales are up 118-percent (News 14 Carolina, 12/30/2005 9:09pm) |
| (FAYETTEVILLE) -- If you've been considering buying a high definition television, you're not alone. Almost all the televisions that are sold at Circuit City are high definition, a big change from just two years ago when only half were HDTV. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Report: Dragon Quest 7 remake on 3DS coming to Japan in February (Joystiq, 10/31/2012 2:30am) |
| Square Enix is porting PSOne RPG Dragon Quest 7 (known as Dragon Warrior 7 here in the states) to the 3DS, it would seem. According to [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Playstation 3 could shape future of Blu-ray (Personal Computer World, 5/09/2006 12:20pm) |
| The Consumer Electronic Association expects some 600,000 HD-DVD and Blu-ray players and optical drives to be sold in the US alone this year. Following the successful launch of Toshiba's HD-DVD players , units are predicted to continue selling quickly to early adopters, despite the ongoing standards battle between the two rival technologies. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Consumers not impressed with DVD formats (Sharewatch, 9/14/2006 9:14pm) |
| High-definition DVDs are supposed to provide sharp, wide-screen images to fill the more than 30 million HD television sets that have been sold. They are also meant to replace standard definition DVDs, providing studios with a new source of profits. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Panasonic to roll out Blu-ray player in September (Washington Post, 3/29/2006 11:51am) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Panasonic said on Tuesday it will start selling a Blu-ray high-definition disc player in September for under $1,500 and sees up to 5 million of these new DVD players sold industry-wide in their first year. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Current Top 10 selling Blu-ray Discs (HD-Report, 11/06/2012 8:10pm) |
| Anyone interested in knowing the top selling Blu-rays? Here’s a list of the Top 10 Blu-ray Discs sold for the week ending Oct. 28 as provided by Home Media Research. At the top is Disney’s “Secret of the Wings,” available in [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Microsoft: 76 Million Xbox 360 Consoles Sold (Home Media Magazine, 2/12/2013 3:55pm) |
| Microsoft is eyeing its Xbox 360 console as a conduit to delivering original and third-party content into homes, executives told a digital media conference.
This year Microsoft is planning to launch more than 40 voice-controlled, [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) Ships Over Half A Million [PS3] (Kotaku, 3/19/2009 8:00am) |
| PS3 exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 is a smash hit. The game sold 372,000 copies in its first week and is one of the biggest selling copies on the PLAYSTATION 3.
The game has in-game tie-ups with 27... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Drakengard 3 delayed to December 19 in Japan (Joystiq, 8/25/2013 1:00am) |
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Square Enix will keep Drakengard 3's [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Final Fantasy 14 for PS3 exists, and here are the screens to prove it (Joystiq, 10/11/2012 3:15pm) |
| Square Enix rebooted version of Final Fantasy XIV, "A Realm Reborn," is [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 Hits Seven Million In Europe [Xbox 360] (Kotaku, 11/20/2008 11:30am) |
| Microsoft Europe have today announced that the Xbox 360 - long (and still) the underdog in the European theatre of console conflict - has now sold seven million units across the continent. That's up... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Venturer's SHD7000 HD DVD player (Technorati, 11/29/2007 11:39pm) |
| [IMG ] a statement that got us worked up over a Remember when all our hopes were lost after Fuh Yuan retracted$299 HD DVD player at Wal-Mart? Ironically enough, an off-brand player is indeed finally available through the aforementioned retailer some seven months later, but frankly, we're underwhelmed. Sure, the 1080i SHD7000 -- which is being sold at $199.98, a full $50 lower than we'd heard pre ... (Read Full Article) |
| BDP-S350 and S550: Sony's First Full 2.0 Spec Blu-ray Players [Sony] (Gizmodo, 2/26/2008 8:01am) |
| PS3 aside, the Blu-ray players Sony sold up until now are worthy of only your garbage can. Now that HD DVD is dead like a doornail, the 800-lb. gorilla is getting serious. The $400 BDP-S350 will... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nintendo Announces Wonderful PAX Panel for The Wonderful 101 with Game’s Creator (Business Wire, 8/24/2013 12:00pm) |
| REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo is launching a ton of great video games for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in the second half of 2013, and many of them are headed to the sold-out PAX Prime event in Seattle. New installments in the Super Mario, The [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 Stands Out In Dull Third Quarter For Microsoft [Xbox 360 Sales] (Kotaku, 4/24/2008 9:40pm) |
| Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division saw revenue up 68 percent in its third fiscal quarter, thanks to "robust" demand for Xbox 360 consoles, the company announced today. The console sold 19... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | ”Smart TV” Gaining Traction: More than Half of Sets Sold Will Connect to the Internet Within Two Years (Broadcast Engineering, 2/27/2013 3:36pm) |
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The next big thing in television set technology is not 3D or Ultra HDTV. It is “smart TV†sets that connect to the Internet.
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| (Unranked) | The Current Top 10 Selling Blu-ray Discs (HD-Report, 3/25/2013 10:40pm) |
| What are the current top selling Blu-ray Discs? For the week ending March 17, 2013 the number one Blu-ray Disc sold was Paramount’s Rise of the Guardians in its first week of being released. Coming [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Microsoft sells 750,000 Xbox 360s during Black Friday (USATODAY, 11/27/2012 3:50am) |
Microsoft says they sold more than 750,000 Xbox 360 video game consoles during the week of Black Friday.
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| (Unranked) | Microsoft: We can reach 100 million Xbox 360 sales (AfterDawn, 5/25/2013 1:15am) |
| Microsoft has said today it believes that 25 million more Xbox 360s can be sold before the end of the console's life.The company wants to hit 100 million, despite launching [...] (Read Full Article) |
| One-third of US HD DVD player sales attributable to Xbox 360's add-on drive (HDTV UK, 12/19/2007 8:00am) |
| According to independent research firm NPD, one-third of the 750,000 HD DVD players sold in the US to date are the HD DVD add-on drive for the Xbox 360.
Given that the HD DVD camp has been quick to slam the Blu-ray camp's inclusion of Sony's PlayStation 3 in player figures, it will be interesting to see how they handle this news.
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| (Unranked) | Dassault Systèmes Announces SolidWorks Surpasses Two Million Licenses Sold (Business Wire, 1/25/2013 8:00am) |
| ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) (Paris:DSY), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Samsung owns LED HDTV Market (I4U, 6/29/2009 9:00am) |
| According to Digitimes Samsung revealed some interesting sales numbers for Samsung LED HDTVs last week.
Samsung has sold already 400,000 LED TVs globally since April, which amounts to a 90% market share.
Samsung projects to sell 2,000,000 LED HDTVs i... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Minecraft sales exceed 1 million in first month on PS3 (Joystiq, 1/25/2014 4:00pm) |
| After a month of generating new lands for PS3 users to explore, Minecraft has sold one million copies on the PlayStation Network. Mojang's David Kaplan shared the news on Mojang's blog, proving that there are actually still people on this Earth [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Venturer HD DVD Player Surfaces at Wal-Mart (High-Def Digest, 11/29/2007 7:00pm) |
| The long-anticipated budget HD DVD player from Venturer has finally arrived, and is being sold by Wal-Mart for $199. Back when it was first announced in late August, Venturer's SHD7000 player had been...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/192514502" height="1" width="1"/> ... (Read Full Article) |
| Japan: roughly 60% Xbox 360s unsold (Joystiq, 12/13/2005 4:31pm) |
| As some expected, the Xbox 360 hasn’t been selling well in Japan. Next-Gen reports that only 62,000 units have been sold from a shipment of 150,000. That represents just a little over 40% of the available units. From the article: “Microsoft Japan had been expecting to bring in more units in the weeks ahead, but with shortages biting elsewhere in the world, this now looks unlikely.†... (Read Full Article) |
| Sea Launch Begins A Sold-Out Year (SpaceDaily, 1/23/2006 6:16am) |
| by Staff Writers Long Beach CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2006 Following a banner year in 2005 with four successful missions and nine new commercial launch contracts, Sea Launch is now preparing for the first of six missions in 2006, planned for February. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Report: HD DVD Standalone Player Sales Nearing 500,000 Milestone (High-Def Digest, 11/08/2007 9:16pm) |
| Format backers say the total number of standalone HD DVD players sold is poised to hit the 500,000 mark by late November. That's according to a report published late Thursday by Home Media Magazine, which...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/181760860" height="1" width="1"/> ... (Read Full Article) |
| ProDesign's CHIPit Verification System Selected by Micronas for Complex Consumer SoC Designs (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 12/19/2005 4:00pm) |
| SAN JOSE, Calif. & MUNICH, Germany----Dec. 19, 2005--ProDesign, a leading supplier of high-speed ASIC and SoC verification platforms, today announced that it has sold its 150th CHIPit system. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Bravely Default's Success Is Good News For JRPG Fans (Kotaku, 3/14/2014 4:00pm) |
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Nintendo announced last night that Bravely Default, the excellent role-playing game released last month for 3DS, sold over 200,000 copies in three weeks in the United States. (Read Full Article) |
| HD DVD Market Penetration Revealed (Format War Central, 2/19/2008 6:18pm) |
| In comments following the Toshiba press conference, there are some interesting sales numbers for HD DVD players.
Toshiba stated sales of 600,000 players in the US and 300,000 Xbox 360 HD DVD drives. 100,000 units were sold in Europe. And about 10,000 players and 20,000 recorders in Japan. So about 1,030,000 units worldwide.
Personally I found those [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 Sales Drop Slightly [Entertaining The Future] (Kotaku, 1/29/2009 9:00am) |
| PS3 sales are down 9 percent. Sony announced today that the company sold 4.46 million PS3s from October-December of last year.
In the same October-December period in 2007, Sony shifted 4.9 million... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nintendo 3DS software sales increased in 2013, sold 11.5 million hardware units in US (Joystiq, 1/10/2014 3:00pm) |
| Avoiding a conversation about its other child, Nintendo announced this morning that the lifetime hardware sales for the 3DS have surpassed 11.5 million units in the US. The 3DS family includes the original system, along with 3DS XL and 2DS. The [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Best Buy taking Animal Crossing 3DS XL bundle pre-orders (Joystiq, 5/14/2013 6:00am) |
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If the thought of going to a store and purchasing something the day it comes out only fills you with panic (what if they're sold out?!) then [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Xbox 360 approaches 76 million sales (AfterDawn, 2/02/2013 8:44pm) |
| Microsoft's 7 year old console pushes on.An updated sales chart from the Redmond giant notes that it has sold 75.9 million Xbox 360 consoles. The [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba unveils HD-DVD recorder with 1 TB hard drive space (TG Daily, 6/22/2006 8:02pm) |
| Toshiba announced teh RDD-A1 HD-DVD record with a one Terabyte worth of hard drive space. Up to 130 hours of high-definition video can be stored and up to 230 minutes of that content can be burned to a single HD DVD disc. Unfortunately, the recorder will only be sold in Japan. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Panasonic offers up 32GB P2 memory card (Engadget, 9/17/2007 9:57pm) |
| Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV, Storage
It's been a short while since we've seen any news on the P2 HD front, but Panasonic is hoping to extract a few more hundies from those sold on the format by introducing a 32GB P2 card. The device, labeled AJ-P2C032RG, can be installed in sets of five into the AJ-HPX3000 and HPX2000 P2 HD camcorders for recording "up to 2.5 hours (over 3 hours in 24p) ... (Read Full Article) |
| March: Wii leads as Xbox 360 and PS3 were very close in huge month (AfterDawn, 4/18/2008 3:38am) |
| The NPD figures are out and nobody is surprised that the Nintendo Wii console is far up the ladder from its two competitors again. Microsoft and Sony ended the month only 5,000 unit sales apart, with the Xbox 360 taking the tiny lead. Specifically, the Wii console sold an impressive 721,000 units, followed by the handheld DS console which wasn't too far behind at 698,000 units.
The PlayStation ... (Read Full Article) |
| Trident Microsystems slides to a 3-year low as co. loses low-end HDTV share (Sharewatch, 10/26/2007 3:46pm) |
| NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Trident Microsystems shares tumbled to a 3-year low Friday, after the company said it was losing market share to new entrants and off-brands in smaller-screen high definition TVs (HDTV) sold at discount chains. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New Hitman HD Trilogy screens are a familiar face (Joystiq, 1/20/2013 3:30pm) |
| These screens for Hitman HD Trilogy, Square Enix's hi-def collection that [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Panasonic Taiwan to offer 65-inch PDP TV soon (Digi Times, 8/25/2006 9:38am) |
| Panasonic Taiwan plans to launch 65-inch PDP (plasma display panel) TVs in Taiwan in October, according to the company. The 65-inch model which supports full high-definition TV (HDTV) resolution (1,920¡Ñ1,080) will be the largest PDP TV sold in Taiwan, the company claimed. ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 beats out Xbox 360 in US January sales, says NPD (AfterDawn, 2/15/2008 7:48pm) |
| According to the NPD Group, year-over-years sales for the US videogame market fell 6 percent to $1.18 billion USD for January 2008.
Software sales for the month increased 11 percent however, to $610.6 million USD, but NPD's Anita Frazier attributed that increase mainly to higher prices, such as the expensive "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" bundles that both sold very well.
Hardware sales ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Microsoft sold over 750K Xbox 360s last week, more than double Wii U sales (Engadget, 11/27/2012 9:37pm) |
| Microsoft's aging Xbox 360 console still has some pep in its proverbial step, moving more [...] (Read Full Article) |
| E3, The Next Generation and the Future of Movies (Cinematical, 5/18/2005 4:41pm) |
| Filed under: Critical Thought & Trends , Sony The Playstation 2 and XBOX were very instrumental in the adoption of the DVD format. The PS2 brought the DVD player into 87 million households, with 1.5 million sold in the first month alone. And with a High Definition DVD format war on the horizon, we look to the video game industry to see the future of movies in our home. The annual E3 video ... (Read Full Article) |
| OLEVIA 265TFHD HDTV (Cybertheater.com, 10/16/2007 2:41pm) |
| [ olevia-247tfhd-hdtv.jpg] OLEVIA has recently announcedits all new striking black metallic 265TFHD HDTV with high-quality LCD panel to the world. Each of its features is updated to industrial designs. OLEVIA 265TFHD HDTV which will be sold worldwide through Costco and Olevia is also ... (Read Full Article) |
| (No Title) (, 2/16/2007 10:56pm) |
| ESS Technology, Inc. today announced it has sold its HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD technologies and related assets. The Asset Purchase Agreements among the company, ESS Technology International, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation and SiS Holding Limited cover the sale of certain tangible assets, the sale and licensing of related intellectual property .. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Wal-Mart price cuts HD DVD Player to $74.98 (Punch Jump, 3/06/2008 4:59pm) |
| Wal-Mart stores this week price cut Toshiba Corp.’s HD DVD Player to $74.98 in the latest promotion to clear inventory of the obsolete format.
Wal-Mart is offering the discounted HD-A3 HD DVD Player to in-store customers, though many locations are already sold out of the device.
The discounted price is the steepest among chain retailers. Best Buy [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| CES 2008: Blu-ray press conference upbeat, sales numbers a bit low? (HDTV UK, 1/08/2008 8:00am) |
| One side of the disc debate definitely not cancelling their press conference is the Blu-ray Disc Association.
Stuart liveblogged the event so if you want the nitty-gritty, head over there.
Here's the main points:
In 2007, Blu-ray sold 64% of total HD discs, compared to 36% HD DVD (Home Media Research figures).
Globally, Blu-ray took 66% disc sales, and 65% of hardware (including PS3).
1/2 mil ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 sales pass 2 million in Japan (Joystiq, 4/11/2008 10:20am) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
The PS3 rode the Blu-ray past the 2 million sales mark in Japan recently according to Media Create. GI.biz reports the PS3's little milestone was severely overshadowed by the incredible sales the PSP is currently pulling off due to Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, which surpassed 1.5 million units sold in two weeks since l ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 3DS XL sells 193K units at Japanese launch (Joystiq, 7/31/2012 3:05pm) |
| The 3DS XL has sold an estimated 193,441 units in its two days on the Japanese market, according to an Enterbrain report published by (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2′ opening Blu-ray & DVD sales (HD-Report, 3/05/2013 5:23pm) |
| Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 sold an estimated 3.85 million combined Blu-ray and DVD units over weekend, following the film’s home media release on March 2. According to Lionsgate, Blu-ray Disc [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray falling short of forecasts: Sony (HDTV UK, 1/14/2009 9:35am) |
| Sony has suggested that US sales of Blu-ray players and discs has fallen short of previous forecasts. A target of five million Blu-ray players sold worldwide this year will not be met, according to the head of Sony's US electronics unit, Stan Glasgow. He said that consumers may adopt Blu-ray players if the cost of movies comes down. "They (movie studios) need to make money, and the packaged medi ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray will be half of market sales by 2012, says Futuresource (AfterDawn, 6/28/2009 4:31am) |
| According to Futuresource Consulting, despite slower than expected growth, Blu-ray software sales will account for 50 percent of all home entertainment business by 2012.
Additionally, the company lowered its expectations for 2009, from 95 million discs sold to 75 million discs, specifically citing weak attachment rate with PlayStation 3s, which remain the most popular Blu-ray players. According ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 sales reach 1 million in UK (Joystiq, 2/13/2008 2:25pm) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Business
GamesIndustry.Biz reports that the PlayStation 3 has now sold over one million units in the UK, a milestone reportedly reached several weeks before the PlayStation 2 did back in its embarrassingly low-polygon day. Sony's black behemoth was launched in the region on March 23 2007 -- roughly 47 weeks ago -- and thus reached the million mark in (slightly) l ... (Read Full Article) |
| TANDBERG Purchases HD Disk Recorder From Pixelution (Broadcast Newsroom, 3/31/2005 6:01pm) |
| Specialist UK Reseller, Pixelution Ltd, has just sold another DVC Single Channel HD Disk Recorder to TANDBERG Television . TANDBERG Television received the HD Disk recorder last week and their exhibitions team is already preparing to ship it across to Las Vegas for NAB this year. (Read Full Article) |
| Magnavox Blu-ray Player Only $98 After Wal-Mart Price Rollback (Format War Central, 7/09/2009 11:34am) |
| Wal-Mart has just lowered the price on the Magnavox NB530MGX Blu-ray player. The new price is $98, which is a rollback from the previous price of $168. This is the same model player that was sold on Fathers Day weekend for $128.
Normally we would steer people clear of the low end Blu-ray players, but at [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| Taiwan market: Sony announces BWU-100A Blu-ray Disc burner (Digi Times, 11/17/2006 5:22am) |
| On November 16, Sony introduced its internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) burner model, the BWU-100A, to be sold in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$33,000 (US$1,006). The product is immediately available for pre-ordering, and its launch is scheduled for the end of this month, according to Sony Taiwan. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Muggles Gone Wild: Potter HD DVDs Claim Top 4 Amazon Ranking Spots (Format War Central, 12/27/2007 12:01pm) |
| In an unprecedented way, Amazon’s latest “Buy One Get One Free” sale has propelled the first 4 Harry Potter HD DVDs into Amazon’s top 4 sales ranking spots. These rankings include all DVD/HD DVD/BD media sold buy the online retailer. We know this is partly due to this weeks DVD releases getting pushed up to [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| MGS4 sells 476K units first week in Japan; UK PS3 sales impact 'minimal' (Joystiq, 6/17/2008 11:00am) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action, Business
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Here is the Metal Gear Solid 4 tale of two regions. In Japan, Famitsu reports that MGS4 sold 476,334 copies in its first few days, becoming the best-selling PS3 game to date in the region. Snake also boosted sales of the PS3 itself, with Japanese sales hovering around the 10K mark; the console s ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 3DS crosses 10 million mark in Japan (Joystiq, 1/08/2013 7:00pm) |
| According to Enterbrain data, the 3DS has surpassed 10 million units sold in Japan, with 10,068,192 [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Recorders Outsell DVD Recorders in Japan (Format War Central, 12/10/2008 3:01pm) |
| Blu-ray Disc Recorders have exceeded 50% market share for DVD Recorders in terms of units sold in the first week of November 2008, according to the latest GfK Retail and Technology Japan numbers.
A year ago Blu-ray Disc Recorders held for a market share of only 10%.
It is also interesting to note that Blu-ray Disc Recorders are replacing DVD Recorders one and a half times faster than DVD Recorde ... (Read Full Article) |
| Reuters: PlayStation 3 catching up to Wii in Japan; Us: not really (Joystiq, 7/03/2008 9:29am) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii
While elsewhere in the world, the Wii has little trouble outpacing its competition - with nearly 25 million units sold worldwide, nearly double the PS3's 13 million and a solid 25% lead on the Xbox 360's 20 million in sales - in Japan, it's a two console race (sorry, Xbox). In a piece headlined "Sony PS3 catching up to Wii in Japanese sales," Reu ... (Read Full Article) |
| Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set (Home Theater, 8/20/2009 2:14am) |
| The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers (like Pioneer) out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with 42 percent more units sold [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Halo 3 bought by 52% of US Xbox 360 owners (Joystiq, 12/17/2007 7:28pm) |
| Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Business
Doing some simple math, GameDaily estimates that 52% of Xbox 360 owners in the US purchased a copy of Halo 3. With 4.1 million Halo 3 copies sold in the US through November and 7.9 million Xbox 360s purchased to date, it appears like a simple enough conclusion.NPD's analyst Anita Frazier says the power of Halo 3 is evident in the f ... (Read Full Article) |
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| Subscribe to News Feed Monday, July 23rd in HDTV News | No comments Latest HDTV news: PRWeb - Prices Fall on HDTV LCD, Plasma & DLP Televisions Just in Time for Football Season Pricing on HDTV plasma, LCD and DLP televisions continue to fall as more are being produced and sold ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 sales double in Japan (AfterDawn, 12/06/2008 3:32am) |
| According to data from Media Create, the Sony PlayStation 3 doubled its previous week sales, selling a solid 35,000 units in Japan for the week ended November 30th.
Japan continues to be dominated by Nintendo consoles however, which saw the DSi sell 87,000 units and the Wii sell 50,000 units, a 30 percent increase from the previous week.
The Sony handheld PSP sold 55,000 units. The DSi's pr ... (Read Full Article) |
| NEWS: Xbox 360 sees record Christmas sales in Europe (Pocket-lint, 1/05/2009 4:35pm) |
| Eight million consoles sold to dateEuropean sales data has shown that Xbox 360 had its strongest Christmas to date in 2008, with sales in Europe almost double those of Christmas 2007.
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| Fewer than 1 in 3 PS3 systems connected to PlayStation Home (Joystiq, 6/25/2009 10:30pm) |
| According to Peter Edward, director of PlayStation Home for SCEE, PlayStation Home has gained 7 million users worldwide, with 3 million in Europe alone. That certainly sounds like an accomplishment -- but with over 21 million PS3s sold worldwide, that number reveals that fewer than one third of PS3 systems have connected to Home. That's a surprising figure, considering Edward calls Home "the sta ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | NBA 2K13 sets franchise records, ships 4.5 million copies (Joystiq, 2/05/2013 9:35pm) |
| The Bieber-licious NBA 2K13 has sold-in (i.e. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Code of Princess producer likes PS4, Xbox One for a sequel (Joystiq, 6/24/2013 7:00pm) |
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Atlus' 3DS brawler Code of Princess sold "beyond" expectations in the US and [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | FIFA 13 sells 14.5 million in 2013, digital revenue up from FIFA 12 (Joystiq, 5/07/2013 9:35pm) |
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FIFA 13 sold through 14.5 million units in fiscal year 2013, up 30 percent compared [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Meeker Aviation and AirFilm Camera Systems gain STC for AS350/355 Lower Left Hand Singlepole camera / sensor mount (Rotorhub, 6/30/2005 5:00am) |
| Meeker Aviation and AirFilm Camera Systems are pleased to announce we have received FAA/STC # SR 01785 LA for our new AS-350 / 355 Lower Left Hand Singlepole camera / sensor mount. Designed and manufactured by AirFilm and sold through Meeker Aviation. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New Super Mario Bros. 2 tops Japanese sales charts again (Joystiq, 8/22/2012 9:40pm) |
| New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the 3DS has sold almost 1 million copies in Japan [...] (Read Full Article) |
| In the CR Test Labs: New LCD, plasma HDTVs (Consumer Reports, 8/04/2009 2:55pm) |
| The latest batch of televisions in the CR TV lab includes the new 46-inch Sony Bravia LCD. While many of us are gearing up for summer vacations, CR’s TV engineers are still hard at work testing more LCD and plasma TVs. Among this latest group are models with full-array LED backlights, and several 240Hz sets that take aim at reducing motion blur. We’re also looking at some new Toshiba models that will be the first to include Dolby Volume, a volume-leveling technology that attempts to minimize differences in loudness when you switch channels or when commercials come on. Here are the models currently being tested in our TV labs: LCD TVs Hitachi L26D103: This 26-inch 720p (1366x768) set is a TV/DVD combo with an integrated standard DVD player, headphone jack, and a built-in sleep timer. Hitachi L32A403: This 32-inch 720p (1366x768) set from Hitachi has four HDMI inputs, and comes with a swivel stand. JVC LT-46J300: This 46-inch 1080p LCD from JVC has the company’s TeleDock integrated iPod dock. LG 55LH90: This 55-inch 1080p LCD TV from LG is a high-featured model that has full-array LED backlights with local dimming, and the company’s TruMotion 240Hz technology, which combines a 120Hz refresh rate with a scanning backlight. It’s also a THX-certified set. Oddly for a higher-priced set, it doesn’t include access to LG’s NetCast Internet service. Magnavox 42MF439B/F7: Earlier this year Philips handed over the manufacturing and marketing of its Philips- and Magnavox-brand TVs in the U.S. to Funai, which also controls the Sylvania brand. This Magnavox, among the first TVs we've seen as part of the deal, is a lower-priced 42-inch 1080p LCD model that can play back digital photos and music stored on a USB flash drive. Philips 32PFL3504D: This 32-inch 720p (1366x768) set, available at mass merchants, warehouse clubs, regional dealers, and online retailers, is fairly low-priced for a major brand and includes a set-up assistant that uses an onscreen wizard to personalize settings. RCA L46FHD37R: A lower-cost 46-inch 1080p LCD, sold at Best Buy, Costco, Sam’s Clubs, and other retailers, that include a light sensor that automatically adjusts contrast to room light conditions. Samsung LN52B750: This 52-inch 1080p LCD from Samsung has new Touch of Color cosmetics (charcoal gray) and the company's Auto Motion Plus 240Hz technology that actually quadruples the TV’s frame rate. It also includes the company’s [email protected] Internet service, which uses Yahoo widgets to access online content, which will soon include instant movies from Blockbuster. Also comes with some preloaded content, such as recipes and games. It can wirelessly connect to a home network via an optional USB wireless dongle. Sharp Aquos LC-52E77UN: This 52-inch 1080p LCD from Sharp features a new design, 120Hz technology and has five HDMI inputs, the most we’ve seen. Sharp Aquos LC-C4067UN: This value-priced Aquos is a 40-inch 1080p LCD sold via the warehouse clubs. Sony Bravia KDL-46Z5100: This pricey 46-inch Sony LCD has Sony’s Motionflow 240Hz technology, which actually quadruples the TVs frame rate, plus the Bravia’s widget-based... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Gets Big Boost From Sony, Best Buy, and Apple (About.com, 9/28/2009 10:00am) |
| For those that are still Blu-ray doubters, the trend is against you. Blu-ray has not only been on a continuous growth pattern despite the current lackluster economy, but may experience substantially increased growth as a result of four new developments.
First: The large number of Blu-ray Disc players introduced at the recent CEDIA EXPO from both mainstream and niche-brand manufacturers.
Second: Sony has revealed that its new Playstation 3 Slim (which has a built-in Blu-ray Disc player) has sold more than 1 million units since it was released on September 1st.
Third: Apple is finally jumping on the Blu-ray bandwagon with an announcement that it will be including a Blu-ray Disc drive in its upcoming series of iMacs.
Fourth: Best Buy has announced that it will be marketing a new line of its Insignia-brand LCD TVs that will include built-in Blu-ray Disc players; just in time for the 2009 Christmas and Winter Holiday Season.
For more details on these developments, check out the reports from Channel Web, CNET, and High Def Digest. (Read Full Article) |
| News From CEDIA 2009: JVC Announces First Blu-ray Disc Recorders For U.S., Sort Of... (About.com, 9/10/2009 11:00pm) |
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In an anncouncement that created some brief excitement at CEDIA, JVC introduced the first Blu-ray Disc recorders available in the U.S. market at a press conference early Thursday morning. However, the excitement was very short-lived when the actual details were revealed.
The new JVC Blu-ray disc recorders cannot, I repeat, cannot record high definition television programming, either from over-the-air (there is no built-in tuner or RF input), cable, or satellite; there are no HDMI or Component video inputs for recording hi-def video, only standard definition composite and S-Video.
However, each recorder comes equipped with a either a 250GB or 500GB hard drive and can record either standard or hi-def content from SD Cards and digital camcorders via USB or Firewire interface. The target market for these recorders is not the mainstream consumer, but video editors and related professionals.
The SR-HD1250 is priced at $1,995 and the SR-HD1500 is priced at $2,550. Both units will be sold through JVC's professional division. For more details, check out the Official Announcement from JVC. Photos (c) Robert Silva - Licensed to About.com - Click on photos for larger view. (Read Full Article) |
| Mitsubishi shows off 155-inch OLED HDTV (AfterDawn, 10/10/2009 5:32pm) |
Mitsubishi has unveiled a 155-inch OLED TV this week at the CEATEC 2009 event in Japan, showcasing one of the largest displays ever for OLED.
Mainichi Japan says the "OLED display consists of 720 10-centimeter-square OLED blocks that can be rearranged to change the dimensions of the display using Mitsubishi's Aurora Vision LED screens at baseball stadiums."
The screen is also about three times brighter than any current LCD TV. Lifespan is about 200,000 hours.
Being that the OLED blocks are so small means Mitsubishi can create a TV of any size, ranging from the now standard 15-inch TVs to infinity.
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| NEWS: ViewSonic launches Blu-ray home theatre PC (Pocket-lint, 7/23/2009 4:39pm) |
pc mini VOT550 looks awfully familiar
The last of a slew of ViewSonic launches is the pc mini VOT550, although, again as with the previous two mini computers, this one comes in two different models with its more basic sibling going under the name of VOT530.
The VOT550 comes with Windows Media Centre and is intended as a home entertainment or home theatre PC and as such, ViewSonic has equipped the top of the line model with a Blu-ray drive. We're not sure how big of a selling point this is, especially as this is a rebadged system from AOpen that we've seen sold under several other brand names in the past.
In terms of features, the VOT550 has a mobile Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, eSATA and a DVI port. A dongle is supplied that turns the DVI port into an HDMI port which allows for easy connectivity to your HD TV.
The VOT530 shuns the Blu-ray drive in favour for a DVD super-multi drive and both models feature slot-in type drive, similar to those in a car CD player. Price wise the VOT530 is going to set you back £494, while the Blu-ray equipped VOT550 ups the price to £678, making both fairly poor value for money compared to the other mini PCs that ViewSonic has just launched.
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| WD intros WD TV Live HD Media Player (AfterDawn, 10/13/2009 6:04pm) |
Western Digital has officially launched its WD TV Live HD Media Player today, offering full HD playback from external drives via your HDTV.
Full specs are very interesting:
Full-HD video playback and navigation - up to 1080p -
This is the real thing; Full-HD 1080p playback. Sit back and enjoy the spectacular picture quality of brilliant high definition video and the crystal-clear sound of digital audio. Use the included remote control to make your entertainment choices using our crisp, animated navigation menus.
Play a wide variety of file formats -
WD TV Live supports a wide variety of the most popular file formats. No need to spend time transcoding.
Play videos, music and photos from the Internet on your big screen TV -
Explore and watch YouTube videos and Flickr pictures on the big screen. Rock out to thousands of radio stations via Live365 and discover new music with Pandora radio.
Access files anywhere on your home network -
Play movies, music, and photos from any PC or drive on your home network. The Ethernet port connects this player to your home network through a wired connection or via popular, supported WiFi adapters (sold separately).
Turn your USB drive into an HD media player -
Play content from most popular USB drives, and digital cameras, camcorders, and portable media players that can be recognized as mass storage devices. Optimized for My Passport portable hard drives.
Collect without limits -
There's no limit to the size of your media collection; just add more USB drives for more space.
Play media seamlessly from multiple USB drives -
Two USB ports on the player let you connect multiple USB storage devices and access them simultaneously. Our media library feature collects the content on all the drives into one list sorted by media type.
Transfer files easily -
Copy, move or delete files stored on a USB drive, a network drive, your camcorder, or a camera to the attached USB drive using the on-screen menus.
Show photos and movies directly from your digital camera or video camera -
Works with digital cameras, digital video cameras, in fact, any digital imaging device that supports Picture Transfer Protocol.
File Copy
Copy files between USB drives
HDMI 1.3, composite video and component video output -
The HDMI port lets you connect to the highest quality HDTV or home theater. Additional composite (RCA), and component outputs ensure compatibility with virtually all television sets.
SPDIF digital output -
The optical audio output sends digital signals to your AV receiver for the best surroundsound experience.
Access media files on your home network -
WD TV Live supports a direct Ethernet connection or a USB attached wireless connection to your home network. Click here to view compatible wireless-ready USB adaptors.
Ultra-compact design -
Fits easily into your entertainment center.
The player retails for $120 USD.
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