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