News this week sees lawsuits filed against Baidu.com (the leading search engine of China) for freely distributing music files. While it is right to bring these lawsuits against such action, can we really prevent such activities happening - especially in China? When the total legitimate music sales from China (bearing in mind how large the [...]
So HD-DVD has moved aside to let Blu-Ray shine in the Hi-Def DVD front! FINALLY we can see direction for the DVD Manufacturing industry and now the consumer can complete their home entertainment suite safe in the knowledge that the film they want to buy WILL become available on the format they can play!! About [...]
Everywhere you read in the press the state of the music industry seems to be doomed and that MP3’s and WMA files etc etc etc are so “wonderful”. But do REAL music fans only want a file of their favourite artists latest release? Do they really only want a flash pen in their pockets [...]
Cast your mind back (or ask your parents!) to when Pirate Radio stations were broadcasting all over the airwaves and all authorities were trying to close them down! The claim by the authorities was the Pirates were “stealing” royalties from the artists and labels everytime they played their music but who really were complaining? The [...]
The DVD format exploded onto the scene all across America and around the world and in many areas has already made the trusty Video Tape a thing of the past. Now we see the next step into High Definition DVD but are the consumers or indeed the industry truly ready for this?
In the view of [...]