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Weekly Rewind: Sony CEO Calls Format War 'Stalemate'

Weekly Rewind: Sony CEO Calls Format War 'Stalemate'

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Written by Video Savant

Saturday, 10 November 2007

Sony's CEO calls the HD DVD-versus-Blu-ray format war a "stalemate" that "doesn't mean as much as all that"... Following Nielsen's recent lowball estimate of HDTV households, Leichtman Research ups the ante... HD Net sues over DirecTV's move to push the pioneering network's channels into a secondary HD pay package... Blu-ray's DRM protection is cracked -- not for the first time and likely not for the last... Flat panel HDTV prices are stablizing, and LCD and plasma TVs earn top marks for reliability... And Nintendo's Wii is keeping it simple.

Click the Read More link below to find out more about these and the other leading stories in home entertainment in the latest edition of The Weekly Rewind...

HD Disc Wars

Sony: Blu-ray-HD DVD War Is 'Stalemate' [TV Predictions]
Report: Weekend Toshiba HD DVD Player Sales Top 90,000 [High-Def Digest]
HD DVD Players Near 500,000 Mark? [TV Predictions]
Microsoft Denies Xbox HD DVD Rumors [High-Def Digest]
Warner Says Blu-ray Comments "Misquoted and Misconstrued" [High-Def Digest]
Blu-ray Takes Lead In Available Titles [TV Predictions]
Format War Fanboys Shut Down AVS Forum [news.com]
Sony Plans Blu-ray Player Price Drop; Profile 1.2 Players On the Way? [High-Def Digest]
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def Market Share for W/E Nov 4 [Engadget]

Digital TV Transition

Leichtman Research: Almost 30m HD Households [Broadcast & Cable]

HDTV Programming

HDNet Sues DirecTV Over $4.99 ‘HD-Only’ Tier [Multichannel News]
The Writers' Strike Effect on HD Programming [Engadget]
QVC Plans HD Channel in Early ‘08 [Multichannel News]
Verizon Expands HD Slate with Discovery, More on Way [Broadcast & Cable]
Cablevision Launches CNN HD [Multichannel News]
Charter Adds Weather Channel HD to Lineup [Engadget]
TiVo Temporarily Reinstates $400 Lifetime Subscription for Series3, HD [Engadget]

Copyright and Digital Rights

Blu-ray DRM Cracked [Wired]
AnyDVD's Second Blu-ray Crack Could Escalate DRM Arms Race [Hydrapinion]
Democrats: Colleges Must Police Copyright, Or Else [ZDNet]
Macrovision Plugs Gaping Hole in DRM Software [ZDNet]
Charges Likely To Be Filed Against The Pirate Bay [Techdirt]
Major League Baseball Makes News as Latest DRM Trainwreck [ZDNet]
File-sharing Pirates Attempt New Software Standard [Reuters]
Romney To Fox News: Here's A Lesson In Fair Use [Techdirt]
Sumner Redstone Confused By The Copyright Myth [Techdirt]

Display Technology

Flat Panel Prices Stabilizing, Projected to Hold Steady Through 4Q [ars technica]
LCDs and Plasma Televisions Highly Reliable [Digital Trends]
Sharp Takes Top Position from Vizio in North American LCD TV Market [Tech-On!]
Samsung No Longer Selling Flat Panels, Other Wares in Japan [Engadget]
Pioneer and Hitachi Consumer Electronics Feeling the Pinch [Engadget]
LEDs Poised to Drive a New Lighting Revolution [iSuppli]
OLED To Replace Plasma & LCD TV 42" By 2010 [Smarthouse]
Toshiba LCD Goes Nuts for Resolution [CNET]

Video Games

Nintendo Says No DVD-playing Wii for Japan This Year [Engadget]
Is Xbox 360 Getting DivX? [Kotaku]
PlayStation 3 v2.00 Firmware Released [Engadget]
Xbox 360 Trumps PS3 in Japan [CVG]
Microsoft Adds New Parental Controls to Xbox 360 [Reuters]
Microsoft and ESPN Are Teammates for Xbox Live [Reuters]

Broadcast & Pay TV

Comcast Clips NFL Network At FCC [Multichannel News]
Hands Off the Internet Points Finger at Comcast [Broadcast & Cable]
DirecTV CEO Downplays Scope of AT&T Talks [Multichannel News]
DirecTV Adds 600,000 HD & DVR Subs [TV Predictions]
Echostar Files with FCC to Split Company [Multichannel News]
Charter Communications Cites Poison Pill on Heavy Trading [Broadcast & Cable]
Cablevision Logs Customer Gains [Wall Street Journal]
Basic Losses Continue At Time Warner Cable [Multichannel News]
AT&T Ups U-verse Spending Estimates by $500 Million [Multichannel News]
AT&T Wins Statewide Ohio Franchise [Multichannel News]

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