By the time JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released last year, it had already been pre-ordered by over 100,000 people on Amazon.co.uk. The question is — will the same happen with the much-hyped Blu-ray and HD DVD disc formats? Online retailers Amazon.co.uk, Play.com and HMV.co.uk have now started accepting pre-orders for …
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Exciting news. I heard today that Channel 4 will be launching a DVD download service this autumn, and will be offering thousands of films for download. This is great news for movie fans, who today have only a few options if they want to download DVDs. I like postal DVD services such as ScreenSelect, which send out rental films via …
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Depressed that you’re stuck watching the World Cup from home? Your luck could be about to change, because we’re running a competition, in conjunction with Toshiba, to win tickets to see England play against Trinidad and Tobago in Nuremberg on Thursday 15 June. Toshiba will fly three lucky winners to Nuremberg for the day, where they will be treated to luxury hospitality and …
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Crave’s beautiful 32-inch Sharp LCD is about to hijacked by a World Cup-obsessed partner so we are currently looking into alternatives. Sony’s new DVD Walkman caught our eye this morning — the timing was perfect. According to Sony, the D-VE7000S DVD Walkman has a 7-inch LCD widescreen, isn’t much bigger than a DVD case, and weighs about the same as …
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