<![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Digital Entertainment]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ en 10 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:44:45 +0200 <![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Digital Entertainment]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/logo_rss.png http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ <![CDATA[Sony Pops Out Pricey SACD Player]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Sony-SACD,news-2484.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:00 CEST But the SACD is dead, really.]]> <![CDATA[Intel and Gigabyte Go for Livingrooms]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Intel-Gigabyte-Canmore,news-2466.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:20:00 CEST IDF is over but we’re still talking about what went on in San Fransisco last week. One of the companies we never got the chance to discuss was Gigabyte, however that’s not to say it didn’t have anything interesting to say at the Intel Developers Forum.]]> <![CDATA[Divx Releases H.264 Encoder Alpha]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Divx-high-def-H-264,news-2456.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:50:00 CEST Chicago (IL) - DivX is joining the high-definition era: Following its first H.264 decoder, the company today announced the alpha version of its first H.264 encoder.]]> <![CDATA[Olympus Launches Five New Cameras]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Olympus-camera,news-2452.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:50:00 CEST Olympus on Monday launched five new cameras, including one that features a special touch-sensitive body to control the camera, which could reduce camera shake.]]> <![CDATA[iPod Rumors Take Off, Again]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iPod,news-2457.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:20:00 CEST Chicago (IL) - Digg’s Kevin Rose receives the honor for jumpstarting this year’s iPod update rumors with a picture and rather vague and strange information from his sources what this new update may bring. According to Rose, Apple will shelve the current ]]> <![CDATA[New Sony DJ System Now In Love With Apple's IPods]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Sony-iPod,news-2441.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:30:00 CEST Chicago (IL) - The reluctant mating of Sony products with Apple iPods is something the guys back at Sony Japan HQ will probably always kick themselves about.]]> <![CDATA[Xbox LIVE Gets Political: Microsoft And Rock The Vote Form New Partnership]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/xbox-microsoft-vote,news-2416.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:30:00 CEST On Wednesday, Rock the Vote and Microsoft Corporation announced a new partnership, which will allow Xbox 360 owners who are connected to Xbox LIVE to register to vote, participate in presidential polls and present their opinions to candidates.]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Gaming Keyboard And Gaming Mouse]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Microsoft-keyboard-mouse,news-2410.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:00 CEST Leipzig (Germany) -Microsoft announced its new ]]> <![CDATA[Captain Kirk Rakes In Real Dough From Virtual Autographs]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/kirk-shatner-liveautographs-video,news-2395.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:10:00 CEST San Francisco (CA) - William Shatner, known to millions of Star Trek fans as Captain Kirk, is making some serious cash from virtual video autographs through his new business liveautographs.]]> <![CDATA[Toshiba to Release Uber DVD Player to Fight Blu-ray]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Toshiba-Blu-ray-XDE-HDDVD,news-2379.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 CEST Toshiba today announced its "near HD" DVD player, which effectively succeeds the company's HD DVD players that were removed from the market earlier this year.]]> <![CDATA[Blizzard Holding Lottery for Extra BlizzCon Passes]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/BlizzCon-tickets-Blizzard-warcraft-wow,news-2368.html Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:40:00 CEST Blizzard has announced that it will raffle off tickets to BlizzCon in an attempt to satisfy the huge demand for passes to the event.]]> <![CDATA[Lian-Li Solves The Xbox 360 Overheating Dilemma]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Xbox-360,news-2361.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:04 CEST Taipei (Taiwan) - Most, if not all problems the Xbox 360 console had over the past several years were related to the fact that Microsoft chose a cost-effective, but very weak cooling solution.]]> <![CDATA[Dymo Whips Up Beautiful Color Disc Covers In About A Minute]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dymo-color-disc-cover,news-2359.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:03 CEST Los Angeles (CA) - Disc labelers aren't anything new and they certainly aren't the most exciting things to report on, but we saw a nifty little labeler from Dymo that could churn out full color covers in just one minute.]]> <![CDATA[iFrenzy Continues: Speakal Launches iPig Docking Station]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iPod-iPig,news-2338.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:10:02 CEST During the past half-decade of iPod frenzy, we learned that you can put an iPod dock into almost anything and we got used to the letter "i" as a prefix on anything even remotely connected to Apple hardware.]]> <![CDATA[Nintendo Wii Gets DVD Playback Thanks to Homebrew]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nintendo-wii-dvd-homebrew-hack,news-2334.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:10:00 CEST Console modders have developed a way to enable DVD movie playback on the Nintendo Wii.]]> <![CDATA[Get Ready to Be Taxed for Online Music]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-itunes-music,news-2340.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:10:00 CEST Most people are enjoying their experiences of purchasing music online, thanks to a seemingly tax free system. However, things are about to change.]]> <![CDATA[Shutterfly Flutters Into Social Networking Offering]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Shutterfly-digital-camera,news-2320.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:50:00 CEST Shutterfly added that more than 60,000 individual Share Sites have already been created since it opened its beta test earlier this summer.]]> <![CDATA[Canon Patents Fuel Cell Powered Digital Camera]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Canon-fuel-cell,news-2323.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:10:00 CEST Fuel celled powered DSLR cameras could be the future according to a discovered Canon patent.]]> <![CDATA[Hitachi Kicks Out Triple Media Blu-ray Camcorder]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Hitachi-Blu-ray-camcorder,news-2304.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:10:00 CEST Hitachi unveiled a new three format "hybrid" Blu-ray Disc camcorder which will let you record onto BD media.]]> <![CDATA[Canon Unveils Three New Consumer HD Camcorders]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Canon-camcorder-hd-avchd-mpeg,news-2303.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:20:00 CEST Canon announces three new high-end consumer full HD camcorders featuring SDHC support and either internal flash memory or internal hard disk drive memory]]> <![CDATA[Cryptic and Leonard Nimoy Reveal Details of Star Trek MMO]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Cryptic-Star-Trek-MMO,news-2297.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:40:00 CEST A couple of weeks back Cryptic Studios announced that it had bought the rights to develop and publish PC and Console versions of the Star Trek MMO from CBS. ]]> <![CDATA[Is Your IPhone 3G Worth A $14,990, Diamond-studded Case?]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iPhone-accessories,news-2298.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:50:01 CEST Does the idea of a cheap iPhone 3G case make you think twice about wrapping your new phone in it?]]> <![CDATA[Blu-ray Players Stuck Above $300]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Blu-ray-players-prices,news-2292.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:00:00 CEST Pricewatch - HD DVD players are gone for almost half a year and the victorious Blu-ray format is plugging along, but there seems to be few convincing incentives for consumers to actually make the jump to the high-def format. ]]> <![CDATA[Google Launches Free Music Service in China]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Baidu-China-Online-Music,news-2265.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:10:01 CEST <![CDATA[Sony Pictures Acquires Rocketboom]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Sony-Rocketboom-Acquisition,news-2234.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:30:00 CEST Distribution rights to video blog (or vlog) Rocketboom have been acquired by Sony]]> <![CDATA[Thailand Pulls GTA IV Following Murder of Taxi Driver]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/GTA-stabbing-thailand-murder,news-2207.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:30:00 CEST Popular video game, Grand Theft Auto IV has been pulled from Thai shelves following the murder of a cab driver at the hands of an teenage boy.]]> <![CDATA[MSI Has New Gaming Notebooks]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MSI-notebook,news-2205.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:30:00 CEST Chicago (IL) - MSI Computer launched new notebooks which are targeted towards gamers and are available with features such as a Blu-ray player.]]> <![CDATA[Not Everyone Ready To Buddy Up To Blu-ray]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Blu-ray-Sales-DVD,news-2191.html Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:50:00 CEST Chicago (IL) - The forces behind Blu-ray disc may have won the battle against rival HD-DVD earlier this year, but they still have yet to win the war for the hearts, and dollars, of consumers.]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo Relents, Gives Coupons, Refunds To Music DRM Captives]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Yahoo-DRM,news-2166.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:00:00 CEST Yahoo is trying to make the best of a potentially ugly situation that would leave many of its customers stuck between a rock and a hard place come September 30.]]> <![CDATA[iPod Rumor Mill: 64 GB IPod Touch On The Way?]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iPod-iPhone-Apple,news-2164.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:01 CEST Chicago (IL) - It time for a new round of Apple rumors.]]>