15th November 2006 Archive

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Developer confirms DVD-edition Wii coming H2 2007

Nintendo to bundle DVD app or sell it separately?

Nintendo's plan to bring DVD playback functionality to its as yet unlaunched Wii games console has been confirmed. US-based software developer Sonic Solutions this week revealed Nintendo will use its CinePlayer CE application for the purpose. The utility will be incorporated into "a future version of the Wii gaming console", …

Consoles 15 Nov 2006, 09:48
AMD rebrands ATI chipsets under its own name?

ATI brand only for discrete GPUs

AMD may be retaining the ATI brand for its discrete graphics chip products, but it's going to drop the old name from its newly acquired chipset business, it has been claimed. Out will go CrossFire Xpress, in will come AMD x80X CrossFire. The exact numbering will depend on the chipset family, DailyTech reports which cites the …

Bits 'n' Chips 15 Nov 2006, 10:01
LG brings 4x Blu-ray burner to UK

Double-speed but not dual-layer capable

LG has begun punting its GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc burner at UK buyers, pitching the product's 4x 25GB BD-R write speed - double the more commonplace 2x speed provided by rival suppliers' drives. There's a catch, alas. The GBW-H10N writes rewriteable BD-RE at the standard 2x speed and won't burn dual-layer Blu-ray media, either …

Storage 15 Nov 2006, 11:19
AMD 2007 roadmap plots course to the stars?

Cosmic, man

How is AMD planing to follow next month's debut of the 65nm Athlon 64 X2 processors it's codenaming 'Brisbane' - the 3800+, 4400+, 4800+ and 5000+? Let's have a peek at what's its roadmap is being claimed to state. Q1 2007 will see the arrival of 'Lima', the 65nm single-core Athlon 64. According to roadmap details reported by …

Bits 'n' Chips 15 Nov 2006, 11:29
Five critical vulns mark November Patch Tuesday

0day + one

Microsoft delivered six patches on Tuesday, five of which address critical vulnerabilities, as part of its regular patch Tuesday update cycle. Two of the five critical patches address flaws that have been actively exploited by hackers this month - a flaw in XML Core Services (MS06-071) and an Internet Explorer remote code …

PCs 15 Nov 2006, 11:44
Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc player

Review The first consumer Blu-ray machine lands in the UK

Around a decade ago I witnessed my first demo of a DVD player. I stupidly then proceeded to tell a room of fellow journos that it would never take off as a format until it was recordable. Well, as you can imagine, certain people have never let me forget that indiscretion. So when faced with the first sample of Blu-ray - the next …

HD 15 Nov 2006, 11:52
Toshiba puts back UK HD DVD roll-out

Delayed models make Japanese debut

Toshiba has been forced to put back the UK release of its HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD players thanks to what it called a "minor reliability issue" with one of the machines' internal components. Due to ship this month, the HD-E1 will now arrive in December. Likewise, the HD-EX1, originally scheduled to ship before Christmas will …

HD 15 Nov 2006, 12:24
Dell unveils quad-core XPS gaming PC

Latest CPU - not the latest GPU

Dell finally went public with its XPS 710 gaming machine yesterday, equipping the follow on to its XPS 700 with a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 quad-core processor. Beyond the CPU, the 710 has the same basic spec as the 700: Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset, up to 4GB of dual-channel DDR 2 SDRAM and up to 2TB of RAIDable hard …

PCs 15 Nov 2006, 13:44
Sony to ship '150-200k' PS3s for US launch

Rather more Wiis than that, analyst forecasts

Sony will ship rather fewer PlayStation 3 consoles into the US than it previously said it would, a US analyst has claimed. The allegation comes just days after the PS3's Japanese launch and just ahead of Nintendo's pledge to ship 400,000 Wii consoles in Japan early next month. According to Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin …

Consoles 15 Nov 2006, 14:19
Apple orders '12m iPhones', paper claims

Top candidate for Macworld Expo unveiling

Apple has awarded an 12m-unit manufacturing contract for its much-rumoured iPhone product to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision - aka Foxconn - if unnamed industry sources cited by Chinese-language newspaper the Commercial Times are to be believed. The paper's report, relayed by the AFX newswire, claims the iPhone will launch in the …

Phones 15 Nov 2006, 14:58