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Tech NewsLimited Harry Potter Archos 605 Raises Wands Everywhere
The Archos 605 Wi-Fi is a fine player when you want to watch movies on the go, but have you noticed that it’s not quite Harry Pottery enough? Archos hears your cries, and is introducing a special edition loaded with the first four Potter movies (with the fifth being downloadable from the Archos Content Portal). … Continued
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Harry Potter Blu-ray Includes Unintended HD DVD
The hi def DVD industry never fails to disappoint. Because now even the consumers who are versed in the differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD—those who can tell a blue box from a red one with ease—are also getting shat on by a mixed up industry. Numerous reports have surfaced that a new $100+ Harry … Continued
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The State of HD DVD
Where Blu-ray is a freight train of unrivaled weight and marketing might, backed by 13 of the world’s most well known electronics and computer makers, HD DVD is a Little Engine That Could, the product of a much smaller group of collaborators that has gotten over each obstacle by simply thinking it can. Judging from … Continued
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD’s Portable Video Copy Locked Down Like Die Hard
Both Fox’s Live Free or Die Hard and Warner’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix come with digital copies of the flicks for your computer and portable media device. PC World’s reporting that Order’s DRM will be very similar to Die Hard‘s except that it transfers to “your PC hard drive first and … Continued
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New Harry Potter DVD Comes Bundled With Portable Video
Warner Home Video announced today that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be the first DVD to come bundled with multiple video formats on a single disk. In addition to the regular DVD format, the disk will include versions for both home computer viewing and playback on portable media players. There has … Continued
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Voldemort Vs. Terminator, Who Wins?
Happy Harry Potter Day, techies. But in a fight between magic’s biggest badboy and technology’s most feared, who would win? Should Harry not fight, but travel through time and reprogram a robot to do his bidding? Will he?? There’s only one way to find out. Read the book? No way. Vote and then argue in … Continued
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Canon May Bust Harry Potter Hacker!
Late last week, the new Harry Potter book leaked onto the torrents in painstaking, photographic form. But instead of the uploader’s identity remaining anonymous, the pictures actually left a trail in their metadata [read: those meddling wizards were gossiping again]. In fact, Canon was able to clearly identify the model of camera used (Canon Rebel … Continued
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Use Harry Potter “Spells” To Control Your Computer
We don’t put much faith in magic around here, but with Harry Potter mania sweeping the nation we aren’t surprised to see that some techies are eager to incorporate the supernatural into their daily lives. Instructables user technick29 will help you tap into your inner supernerd with his tutorial on using Harry Potter’s trademark spells … Continued
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Harry Potter Hacked?
It’s very unlikely, but someone claims to have hacked into the publishing house that distributes the Harry Potter books (Bloomsbury) and obtained the final manuscript of the soon-to-arrive 7th book. This man (kid) supposedly got into the computers of the publisher by sending a link to a browser exploit through email and having the publisher … Continued
By Jason Chen