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  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

  • Australian DVD sales outrun VHS

    Sales of DVD titles are booming, starting to out sell VHS for the first time according to consumer monitor, GFK Marketing Services

  • VCR holds ground as Australian DVD explosion continues

    While the popularity of DVD players continues to explode, it appears that it hasn't been to the detriment of the conventional VCR.

  • Online pirates strike ARIA as record sales climb

    The Australian Record Industry Association has continued to complain about online piracy, despite reporting unit sales increases of 12.8 percent in 2001.

  • Philips Australia bullish about DVD recorders

    Philips Australia predicts that DVD recording technology will hold 50 percent of the DVD home entertainment market by the year 2004.

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  • Optical networking: The next generation

    Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?

  • Profile: Leading edge Australian companies

    Sometimes you just must have the latest technology, and swallow the associated risks of being the first to use it. We talk to Australian companies that couldn't wait.

  • Special report: Space-saving PCs

    Looking for PCs that will help you win back some desktop real estate? ZDNet Australia highlights the latest machines designed to do just that.

  • Tech strategy for 2003

    Web services, wireless and PC platforms, TechRepublic takes a punt on 2003's most influential technologies.

Reviews (35)

  • VCR holds ground as Australian DVD explosion continues

    While the popularity of DVD players continues to explode, it appears that it hasn't been to the detriment of the conventional VCR.

  • World's first DVD/HDD video recorder

    The days of video cassette tapes are gone. Digitised media has taken the scene by storm. Riding the gale this time is Toshiba with the world's first DVD-RAM video recorder that features a hard drive.

  • Philips Australia bullish about DVD recorders

    Philips Australia predicts that DVD recording technology will hold 50 percent of the DVD home entertainment market by the year 2004.

  • DVD-Audio versus SACD?

    The future of high-fidelity audio is here. The only questions are: which is better and which is here to stay? Two new digital audio formats, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, square off.

  • A shot in the arm for widescreen

    Sales of widescreen televisions have accelerated rapidly in Australia since January 2001, according to industry supported body Digital Broadcasting Australia (DBA).

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