Wiring up a surround-sound system is no Saturday in the park; it’s more like a Saturday in the attic. Just ask the millions of consumers who bought surround-sound systems in 2007, and still haven’t hooked up the rear speakers. Radiient Technologies aims to cut the cord and free those speakers from [...]

Japanese entertainment software developer Pony/Canon will release the first movie title on a hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc in Japan in February, in an effort to accelerate the transition from the DVD to the Blu-ray format.  The Hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc is a combination of a traditional DVD with the new high-definition Blu-ray format. Originally developed by [...]

Kenwood on Friday introduced its I-K50 in-car head unit with support for Apple’s iPod players and the iPhone 3G via its front-mounted USB port. The I-K50’s CD drive will play back MP3, WMA and AAC-encoded files, while the USB port will allow users to plug in USB flash memory keys loaded with the same supported [...]

There’s a job listing for a user experience designer to work on the Zune Device UI, Zune PC Client and–hang on a second–Zune Xbox. Zune Xbox? Of course. Both Xbox Live and the Zune Marketplace use Microsoft’s own pseudo-currency, Microsoft Points. Xbox Live already lets you download video content and stream movies-on-demand from Netflix (if [...]