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Sears.com now offers the Sharp Aquos BDHP21U Blu-ray player for $179.99, a $100 price decrease from the same site a few days...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Black-Friday-Blu-ray-deals-begin-to-surface.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>19/11/08 04:38</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Black-Friday-Blu-ray-deals-begin-to-surface.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Xbox Experience (NXE) to be released tomorrow]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/457772329/New-Xbox-Experience-NXE-to-be-released-tomorrow.html</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft Xbox 360 console owners will be able to try out the New Xbox Experience (NXE) in a few hours, as the new software update will become available Nov. 19.
Owners will not be forced to do anything special to receive the update, as it will download automatically in a similar fashion to...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/New-Xbox-Experience-NXE-to-be-released-tomorrow.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>18/11/08 23:57</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/New-Xbox-Experience-NXE-to-be-released-tomorrow.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vudu launches rack-mounted STB]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/457494048/Vudu-launches-rack-mounted-STB.html</link><description><![CDATA[Vudu has released a second-generation set-top player aimed at home theater enthusiasts who want good quality video and have deep pockets.
The Vudu XL2 HD is a slim 1U rack-mountable device that offers 1TB of storage, IP and IR input control, and outputs 1080p-grade HD.
Owners benefit from a...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Vudu-launches-rack-mounted-STB.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>18/11/08 19:06</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Vudu-launches-rack-mounted-STB.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[DRM-free games no worse off with piracy]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/457232403/DRM-free-games-no-worse-off-with-piracy.html</link><description><![CDATA[2D Boy has decided to estimate the piracy rate of its DRM-free PC game &quot;world of goo&quot; to try determining what impact DRM is having on game piracy.  This game provides an optional checkbox to submit game scores to 2D Boy's online server.  Each submitted score includes an IP...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/DRM-free-games-no-worse-off-with-piracy.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>18/11/08 15:26</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/DRM-free-games-no-worse-off-with-piracy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[USB 3.0 promises 10x speed increase]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/456785276/USB-3_0-promises-10x-speed-increase.html</link><description><![CDATA[The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has unveiled full specifications for the next-generation USB 3.0, or SuperSpeed, interface standard that is expected to make a splash in the coming years.
Promoters expect USB 3.0 to be up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0, which is currently used in the majority of...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/USB-3_0-promises-10x-speed-increase.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>18/11/08 04:30</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/USB-3_0-promises-10x-speed-increase.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law professor takes aim at RIAA lawsuits]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/456646563/Law-professor-takes-aim-at-RIAA-lawsuits.html</link><description><![CDATA[Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is tired of the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA)'s lawsuits, and will help to make a change while defending a Boston University graduate student who stands accused of copyright infringement.
The main argument Nesson will use is that the Digital...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Law-professor-takes-aim-at-RIAA-lawsuits.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>17/11/08 23:24</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Law-professor-takes-aim-at-RIAA-lawsuits.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duke University takes stand against RIAA]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/456295206/Duke-University-takes-stand-against-RIAA.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed thousands of John Doe lawsuits against alleged file sharers across the United States -- and one of their favorite targets has been students at major universities.
Most universities receive an RIAA notice and then forward the notice to...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Duke-University-takes-stand-against-RIAA.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>17/11/08 19:37</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Duke-University-takes-stand-against-RIAA.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese pirates go after Blu-ray format]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/455924017/Chinese-pirates-go-after-Blu-ray-format.html</link><description><![CDATA[Movie pirates have now taken advantage of a technological twist to make cheap copies that are difficult for consumers to spot, without resorting to expensive recordable Blu-ray discs.  Thanks to AVC HD's superior video compression, the pirates re-encode Blu-ray movies to the AVC HD video...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Chinese-pirates-go-after-Blu-ray-format.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>17/11/08 13:07</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Chinese-pirates-go-after-Blu-ray-format.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lenovo launches mobile &quot;vault&quot; portable HDD]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/455346213/Lenovo-launches-mobile-___vault___-portable-HDD.html</link><description><![CDATA[Lenovo recently announced a new ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive that offers consumers the unique combination of portability and security when using portable HDDs.
Several different manufacturers have released secure USB keys and external drives, but this marks one of the first times a...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Lenovo-launches-mobile-___vault___-portable-HDD.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>16/11/08 23:33</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Lenovo-launches-mobile-___vault___-portable-HDD.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save money due to Circuit City's demise]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/454599564/Save-money-due-to-Circuit-Citys-demise.html</link><description><![CDATA[Circuit City's ongoing downfall now offers North American shoppers another chance to save a couple extra dollars before Black Friday in a couple of weeks.  The company recently filed for bankruptcy protection and is shutting down stores across the United States, which means one thing --...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Save-money-due-to-Circuit-Citys-demise.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>16/11/08 06:28</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Save-money-due-to-Circuit-Citys-demise.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[NPD:  October game sales soared]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/454300631/NPD--October-game-sales-soared.html</link><description><![CDATA[Despite the U.S. economic troubles expected to run through the holiday shopping season, October video game sales rose 18 percent compared to the same period last year.
In the U.S., Microsoft's price cut on its Xbox 360 game console helped it again outsell the Sony PlayStation 3, which continues to...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/NPD--October-game-sales-soared.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>15/11/08 22:29</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/NPD--October-game-sales-soared.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers prefer Blu-ray over digital content]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/454262790/Consumers-prefer-Blu-ray-over-digital-content.html</link><description><![CDATA[A recent survey shows HDTV owners greatly prefer viewing movies on Blu-ray Disc as opposed to streaming content directly to their TV.
The survey of 1,600 HDTV owners conducted by SmithGeiger revealed a 10-to-1 preference for Blu-ray over streaming content, such as Netflix's growing...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Consumers-prefer-Blu-ray-over-digital-content.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>15/11/08 21:28</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Consumers-prefer-Blu-ray-over-digital-content.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[SanDisk talks SSDs, part two]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/453270944/SanDisk-talks-SSDs-part-two.html</link><description><![CDATA[CDFreaks yesterday posted the first article of our two-part interview with flash memory maker SanDisk, which is preparing for the solid-state drive (SSD) era.
Durability of SSDs when compared to HDDs is a huge selling point for enterprise and consumers, with storage backup hopefully becoming less...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/SanDisk-talks-SSDs-part-two.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>14/11/08 20:21</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/SanDisk-talks-SSDs-part-two.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 7 will treat SSDs different to HDDs]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/452989806/Windows-7-will-treat-SSDs-different-to-HDDs.html</link><description><![CDATA[Solid State Drives (SSD) have several significant advantages over traditional hard disks such as faster read performance when reading data from multiple areas of the disk, less generated heat and lower consumption.  However, the first generation of SSDs failed to live up to their hype for...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Windows-7-will-treat-SSDs-different-to-HDDs.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>14/11/08 15:32</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Windows-7-will-treat-SSDs-different-to-HDDs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix ditches HD DVD for Christmas]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/452872726/Netflix-ditches-HD-DVD-for-Christmas.html</link><description><![CDATA[Netflix subscribers have been informed the movie rental service will no longer carry HD DVD titles as of December 15. Come mid-December, any HD DVD titles in customers' queues will be replaced with standard DVDs. The move was foreshadowed in February, when Netflix announced it had stopped buying HD...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Netflix-ditches-HD-DVD-for-Christmas.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>14/11/08 13:09</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Netflix-ditches-HD-DVD-for-Christmas.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[SanDisk discusses SSD technology, part one]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/452317665/SanDisk-discusses-SSD-technology-part-one.html</link><description><![CDATA[The lower cost of of solid-state drives (SSDs) has led to higher demand, although there is plenty of work left to be done before SSDs are found in larger amounts of notebooks and PCs. 
To help give us a unique insight into SSDs and how the technology is changing, CDFreaks spoke with SanDisk,...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/SanDisk-discusses-SSD-technology-part-one.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>13/11/08 23:59</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/SanDisk-discusses-SSD-technology-part-one.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silicon Mountain introduces HDTV hybrid]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/452282751/Silicon-Mountain-introduces-HDTV-hybrid.html</link><description><![CDATA[Silicon Mountain has introduced two new high-definition LCD TV models that have fully-integrated PC, Blu-ray, CD and DVD players built directly into the TV.
The new 32 and 42-inch Allio HDTVs have the integrated HD tuner and HDMI inputs, but also have some features not included in other TVs --...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Silicon-Mountain-introduces-HDTV-hybrid.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>13/11/08 22:56</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Silicon-Mountain-introduces-HDTV-hybrid.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study:  HDTVs taking over American homes]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/452249337/Study--HDTVs-taking-over-American-homes.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Leichtman Research study indicates one-third of Americans now own an HDTV, with the number expected to rise in the next few quarters.
The 34 percent overall HDTV penetration rate is double the percentage in 2006.  
Twenty two percent of all homes in the United States purchased a new HDTV...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Study--HDTVs-taking-over-American-homes.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>13/11/08 04:19</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Study--HDTVs-taking-over-American-homes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung introduces 70&quot; outdoor display]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/451224327/Samsung-introduces-70___-outdoor-display.html</link><description><![CDATA[During a recent press event in New York City, Samsung Electronics allowed media and guests to view two new flat screen TVs that will be featured during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Samsung unveiled the 200nit LCD panel, a 70&quot; diagonal LCD signage panel that is &quot;the brightest...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Samsung-introduces-70___-outdoor-display.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>12/11/08 23:50</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Samsung-introduces-70___-outdoor-display.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony to launch world's fastest TVs]]></title><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CDFreaksNews/~3/451180165/Sony-to-launch-worlds-fastest-TVs.html</link><description><![CDATA[Before flat panel televisions took off, manufacturers tried many ways to improve their CRT sets such as making the screen flat, adding extra AV inputs, providing support for both PAL &amp; NTSC and so on.  One popular feature was the introduction of 100Hz (for PAL) and...<a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Sony-to-launch-worlds-fastest-TVs.html">read more...</a>]]></description><date>12/11/08 23:25</date><feedburner:origLink>http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Sony-to-launch-worlds-fastest-TVs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><feedburner:awareness>http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=CDFreaksNews</feedburner:awareness></channel></rss>
