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Congratulations America: you've been upgraded. Blu-ray Disc media are becoming the norm in the United States, and that pattern is set to extend across western Europe and Japan this year, according to Futuresource consulting (PDF).The firm also says the Blu-ray Disc players are on track for explo... More...

YouTube is reportedly shutting down third-party services that allow users to download videos for offline viewing. The move comes as the video-sharing Website announced last week that content providers can offer paid downloads for their videos. While YouTube is "testing" the paid down... More...

The global recession has been hitting the technology market particularly hard these past few months. Christmas sales across most electronics retailers (besides Amazon) were significantly down and CompUSA and Circuit City are even out of business. PC sales are down in just about every secto... More...

Comcast, the U.S.'s largest cable provider, plans to bring its OnDemand cable service to your computer by the end of 2009 . "OnDemand Online," as it is tentatively called, will function like the cable-based OnDemand service, bringing network and cable shows, movies, and various other e... More...

Don't get too accustomed to watching free streaming television shows on the Web: Hollywood is moving in and wresting control of content from popular online channels like Hulu. Citing pressure from content providers (read: Hollywood suits), Hulu has withdrawn its content from both the Boxee applica... More...

Apple has approved an iPhone application from the Nineties alternative rock group The Presidents of the United States of America. The PUSA app sells for $2.99, and lets you stream the band's entire catalog of music, which includes hits like "Peaches" and "Lump," over a Wi-Fi or... More...

Hundreds of broadcast stations will switch to digital on the original February 17 deadline. That means millions of Americans with analog TVs may see only snow on their favorite channels come Tuesday. Nearly 500 stations say they intend to switch to digital broadcasts that day, despite a recent Congr... More...

The Super Bowl score may have been settled on Sunday, but results from the broadcast's ads are just now coming in. Place your bets: It's time to reveal which commercials came out on top. We've put together the 10 most viral Super Bowl ads, based on Internet views worldwide. Online video analytic... More...

Hundreds of broadcast stations will switch to digital on the original Feb. 17 deadline. That means millions of Americans with analog TVs may see only snow on their favorite channels come Tuesday. Nearly 500 stations say they intend to switch to digital broadcasts that day, despite a recent Congressi... More...

First Pioneer , now Vizio. As a flat-screen TV technology, plasma's days appear numbered. Vizio, the Southern California-based upstart that's built a successful business selling relatively inexpensive HDTVs in warehouse stores such as Costco and Sam's Club, will stop selling plasma TVs and focu... More...

JVC on Wednesday announced the GY-HM700 , a new shoulder-supported compact camcorder aimed at video professionals. Pricing was not announced, but the feature list includes native support for Final Cut Pro. The GY-HM00 records directly to SDHC memory cards in QuickTime format for Final Cut Pro, and... More...

Americans are buying digital converter boxes in droves and preparing for the end of analog TV, which was recently delayed until June 12 . But so far, not everyone is happy with digital reception. Several readers reported reception problems in response to two separate posts in my PC World blog .... More...

The inauguration event ushering President Barack Obama and his family into the White House saw Washington, D.C.'s streets filled with crowds that were monitored using an advanced video-surveillance system . Read a story about the Obama inauguration causing network problems. The video surv... More...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Could Hollywood finally be getting the message and lowering the prices of Blu-ray movie titles? We hope so. An insightful report by Josh Dreuth at Blu-ray.com discusses the sudden price drop for Blu-ray titles, which critics have long griped were too steep for the high-def ... More...

Looks like college students have to go back to stealing. Ruckus Network, one of the major players in the DRM-ed "free music" download space that targeted universities, closed shop over the weekend. The Ruckus Network , owned by TotalMusic LLC, launched in 2004 at Northern Illinois Unive... More...

I just watched a wedding, went deep-sea diving, and checked out a crowded karaoke bar--all without having to lift my keister off my cushiony desk chair. I may be lazy, but I'm not alone. Reality TV has exposed us as a nation of voyeurs. Whether the subject on screen is people behaving naturally in... More...

The scoop: Octiv Air (M812), by Altec Lansing , about $400 (basic set, additional speakers cost $300). What it is: The M812 base package of the Octiv Air wireless speaker system includes an iPod docking station that acts as a transmitter, and one stereo speaker (40 watts per channel, two channel... More...

Cast your mind back to the golden yesteryear of 2005. George W. Bush had started his second term; Million Dollar Baby had come away with the Academy Award for Best Picture; and the English cricket team won the Ashes. Oh, right, and Apple introduced a brand new kind of iPod, the iPod nano, to replace... More...

Sony CEO Howard Stringer hinted on Thursday that the company has a number of new mobile devices in the pipeline. Speaking at a Tokyo news conference to outline Sony's plans for dealing with the poor economic conditions around the world, he said the mobile device area would be a focus. "We ... More...

Pope Benedict XVI marked his debut on YouTube Friday by releasing a speech in which he praised new communication technologies as powerful instruments for good, while also warning of the potential pitfalls associated with their misuse. In a speech entitled "New Technologies, New Relationshi... More...