Friday, September 03, 2004
TV-on-DVD Edition of 'Scene It?' DVD Board Game Coming!
which I suspect many of you who are reading this have played, heard of, or seen in
stores. For those of you who haven't discovered this great game yet, here's the nickel
tour...more
Thursday, August 19, 2004
News Corp. says net profit up 7.8 percent
Billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said quarterly net profit rose 7.8 percent, boosted by TV hit "Buffy" and by DVD and video sales for movies such as "Ice Age."...more
More on a disc
Will the DVD eventually give way to an even more powerful storage medium capable of holding more information or entertainment on a single disc? That's the aim of the Blu-ray disc, developed by a consortium of companies that includes Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony and Panasonic. Its goal is to put high-definition movies, which contain six times the picture information as a televised film, on a single optical disc.
Through refinements in laser technology, the Blu-ray consortium arrived at a disc that can store 25 gigabytes of information per side -- enough to hold the entire sixth season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on a single disc....more
