Sony is moving to make its music management software compatible with Apple Computer’s audio file format in the latest evidence of Apple’s dominance in digital music. The behemoth Japanese conglomerate, which once controlled the portable music market, announced Tuesday that the company’s data compression technology would be compatible with a number of rival formats, including Apple’s format of choice, AAC. …

As the HD DVD versus Blu-ray format debacle bumbles along, our sister reviews site in the US, CNET.com, has an initial review of Toshiba’s first HD DVD player, the Toshiba HD-A1. The bottom line? It produces stunning high-definition images, but has a series of compromises that may deter all but the most hardcore of home-cinema fanatics. According to the review, …

Last week Toshiba filled a country house hotel with more televisions, DVD players and projectors than you’d find in the AV department of John Lewis, then threw open the doors to the best and the brightest of the UK press, or at any rate those journalists most interested in all things audiovisual. We ooh’d and aah’d, we left fingerprints on …