Media +Technology Intelligence
Toshiba on Monday officially confirmed last month’s rumor that it’s preparing to join the Blu-ray Disc ranks, issuing a one-paragraph statement saying it will roll out Blu-ray products, including set-top players and notebook drives “in the course of this year.” “In light of recent growth in digital devices supporting the Blu-ray format, combined with market Read More …
Somewhere, Tom Freston is laughing. Remember when News Corp. was supposed to have figured out this New Media thing way better than the other media empires, and Sumner Redstone was firing Freston for letting Rupert Murdoch snare MySpace? These days, not so much. New Corp., in fact, appears to be getting a bit panicky over Read More …
Sony formally unveiled two new e-book readers today, slightly ahead of schedule because details of the announcement began to leak on the web. The big news: one of the two models is priced at $199, a hundred bucks cheaper than the least-expensive Kindle (the fancier Sony device goes for $299). Clearly, Sony’s strategy is to position Read More …
Some news out of China last week laid a nostalgia trip on those of us who covered the long saga of the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format war. According to a report in the Timesof London, a recently introduced high-def DVD format developed in China, called China Blue High Definition (CBHD), is already outselling Blu-ray in Read More …
This can’t be good news for Blu-ray: Singulus Technologies, a leading manufacturer of Blu-ray replication equipment, said Friday that sales of complete Blu-ray production lines fell sharply in the first half of 2009 and show no signs of improving over the second half. “[T]he optical disc market shows little impulses for the remaining months of Read More …