IBM is working hard on developing a new generation of communication technology that gives up on wire, in favor of light. This might sound crazy, but seems to be up to ten times more fast and efficient than our current technologies. Due to this, HD and Super-HD television may be much closer than you think, through internet.
The Optocards feature integrated “Optochips” and reach transfer rates of up to 8Tbps. It’s not as fast as Alcatel-Lucent’s latest announcement, but still is a noticeable improvement in our current transfer technology and is …

 Mvix has just released a HD media streamer with quite usual features nowadays, like a HDD slot, Ethernet and 802.11b/g/n WiFi, along with a lot of supported file formats. The MX-780HD can play DivX, XviD, AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, AAC, OGG, AC3, MP3, WMA, JPEG and much more, it sports coaxial / optical audio ports and a front LCD display. It’s price isn’t that high and it seems to be worth $299.99.

It was the time for Paramount and Universal to publish their movies on a HD disk drive and now it seems they took action. Well, now it’s obvious what formate they have chosen once with HD DVD’s death. Yes, you guessed, Blu-ray is the winner.
Craig Kornblau, Universal’s President made a statement: “While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray,” so it’s official.
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 Onkyo, a company known for producing HD audio PCs has just finished a new version, named the APX-2 and built in partnership with SOTEC. The APX-2 features a 1.66Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, a 500GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and a digital audio amplifier. Also, being made especially for sound, it’s extremely silent, with the HDD stored in a Super Floating HDD unit that ensures an excellent noise cancellation of up to 22dB.
Onkyo doesn’t use Vista’s volume mixer, due to it’s poor HD audio support, but comes with Pure …

NPD Group is global market research company which provides information about manufacturers and retailers. According to their latest report, Blu-ray player sales increased after Warner’s announcement that they will go Blu-ray. Although, HD-DVD is less expensive than Blu-ray, in December, 60% players sold were Blu’s, in the first two weeks of January the Blu-ray had a 70% market share.
After Warner’s announcement, HD-DVD sales decreased to an unbelievable 7% rate which means Blu-ray had a 93% market share. If these media sales continue, HD-DVD manufacturers will have to take drastic measures …