Posted: 15 Jan 2009 11:20 AM PST
YouTube wants to be on your TV set bad. It’s squeezing its way in through Apple TV, TiVo, and now videogame consoles: the Nintendo Wii and the Sony PS3. Just point those videogame browsers to www.youtube.com/tv and you can now watch a customized version of YouTube from your couch. The YouTube Blog reports www.youtube.com/blog: Read More »
January 19, 2009 - 11:41AM
The global music industry is making progress in clamping down on online piracy by evolving radical new ways of selling tunes, but 95 per cent of downloads remain illegal, a report said.
New business models helped the legal online music sector balloon for a sixth straight year in 2008, growing by 25 per cent to $US3.7 billion dollars in trade value, it said.
But some 40 billion music files were still illicitly shared last year, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in its annual report on the state of digital music.
“The music sector is still overshadowed by the huge amount of unlicensed music distributed online,” it said, citing studies in 16 countries showing that only one in 20 downloads are via legal channels. Read More »
Disney is to bundle some of its biggest 2009 releases into combo DVD and Blu-ray packs in a bid drive take-up of the High Def format.
The products will be available initially in the US but the family giant says the bundles will be available on a worldwide basis.
There has been no news yet when they will be available in Australia, although the first release could be the platinum edition of the Disney classic Pinocchio, which has been confirmed for a Blu-ray and DVD release in Australia in March.
As well as Pinocchio, the studio also intends offering High School Musical 3: Senior Year as a Blu-ray + DVD combo on February 17.
Asher Moses
January 20, 2009 - 11:50AM
The video games industry is now double the size of the box office and more than 40 per cent larger than the movie disc industry in Australia, thanks to explosive growth in social games that allow the whole family to play. Read More »
14:45 AEST Tue Jan 20 2009
By Katelyn John
As famed aviation pioneer Nancy-Bird Walton is farewelled at a state funeral, the Qantas A380 named in her honour will perform a flyover across Sydney.
Ms Walton died last Tuesday aged 93, just months after fulfilling her dream to see the launch of the superjumbo named after her. Read More »