The rumour implied that Toshiba wanted to compete with Blu-ray with new DVD players that made a big improvement to the quality of the image from these DVD media. The company revealed its first DVD player of this new generation. Alas, the rumour was a bit too optimistic.
The XD-E500 certainly improves the quality of the video playback; it is a good1080p/24fps upscaling DVD player, but the product remains a reader of DVD.
It will be necessary some nevertheless to manage to sell this product with a cost close to $150, that is to say triple that of a standard reader DVD.
Apple has been forced to reveal the opening in the future of an Apple Store in Paris, however this information was not yet official internal to Apple. But now it has happened, with the employees having had confirmation.
However no date has been set for its opening. But the positions will soon be official with the status "to be filled".
PS: We do not have any information concerning the filling of these posts but will not fail to inform you as soon as possible.
Tataaa! Microsoft has eventually swallowed the fact that HD-DVD is dead and buried and is now about to release a "Feature pack" enabling Windows XP and Vista with Blu-Ray data storage. Video playback solutions will be left to third party software companies to implement. Except for AACS video playback - which requires DRM management solutions - Leopard already embeds Blu-Ray data burning and reading. What do you mean this was easy bashing? ;)
Apple has just released iPhone OS 2.0.2, get it while it's still hot by firing up iTunes, plugging your iPhone in and hitting that "Check for updates" button...
The update is, in the traditional Apple verbose style, said to:
"Fix several bugs".
We'll tell you more as soon as we get more details
A reader who opened his Penryn Macbook Pro send us that picture:
One can see Apple did used a 802.11n Wi-Fi card with only two anntena connectors instead of three for the previous ones. The unused third one got protected with black tape.
From now on, Apple has a single type of wireless card for the notebooks and the Mac Pro.
Technically, if this could result in Wi-Fi signal reception problems or even output issues, we didn't notice any significant differences between the old and the new cards when we offered our Core Duo computers a 802.11n upgrade.
