High Definition Content Protection (HDCP)—you can't live with it, but you practically can't buy an HD-capable device anymore without it. While HDCP is typically used in devices like Blu-ray players, HDTVs, HDMI-enabled notebooks, and even the Apple TV in order to keep DRMed content encrypted between points A and B, it appears that Apple's new aluminum MacBook (and presumably the MacBook Pro) are using it to protect iTunes Store...

How many times have you been out on the road and suddenly remembered you forgot to set up your DirecTV HR20-700 model DVR to record a Pay Per View event? Probably too many times to count, am I right?

Well, DirecTV hopes I am. Faithful Macenstein reader David Erlich tells us that DirecTV has launched a new mobile site which allows you to set up TV recordings and Pay Per View content on your home DVR from your mobile device,...

Those Chinese pirates are quite resourceful fellows, as they are now copying Blu-Ray movies onto regular DVD discs thanks to the AVC HD video format.

The pirated movies can only run up to 720p resolution, as opposed to the 1080p resolution true Blu-Ray discs offer, and are also missing a number of the special features, which cannot fit on a DVD disc due to size constraints. But the movies come packaged in the signature blue...

How would you like a Blu-ray player for $149? A 32-inch LCD HDTV for $399? Or an upconverting DVD player for $19.99?

Those are just a few of the "Black Friday" deals that you can expect at Meijer's, K-Mart and other retailers, according to BlackFriday.info, a web site that monitors the unofficial opening of the holiday shopping season.

On November 28, the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers across America will...

As for the Nov. 19 update, Kim said, “God willing, it will work.” He said it’ll be interesting that Netflix will be available on the Xbox 360, via the postal service, and through Netflix’s Roku set-top box.

“The lines are blurring tremendously,” he said. “It’s going to be a fascinating time as all of these different media evolve.”

Although the Microsoft-supported HD-DVD high-definition video format...

Movie studio executives on Friday presented the best-case scenario for a winter holiday surge in the purchase of high-definition Blu-ray players as their best hope to keep the U.S. home video market's decline from accelerating past 3 percent or 4 percent this year.

The executives hosted by The Digital Entertainment Group, a consortium of movie studios and electronics manufacturers, forecast that 10.5 million households would...