In the firm's latest reversal, Sony has abandoned anti-copying technology on CD's. The corporate claim is that the anti-piracy message has been communicated, and such measures are not really necessary. Now - consider also that Sony recently announced that it will allow the playback of native MP3 in its digital music players, and a somewhat different message is communicated: Sony figures they can make more money selling music and hardware that allows consumers the freedom to do with their media as they please. Too bad it...took Sony however many years to come to this realization - personally I'm looking forward to seeing some viable iPod competitors at long last.

Yahoo! News: Sony abandons anti-copying technology.

DreamWorks will release the Tom Cruise / Jamie Foxx thriller Collateral on December 14th. This 2-disc set will be presented in a 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with English DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, & Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks. The “extras” information is a little sketchy at this time, but we do know that this disc will include at least three featurettes (“City Of Night: The Making of Collateral”, “Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx Rehearse” & “Visual FX: MTA Train”), as well as deleted scenes and t...ailers. We will post the remainder of the special features as they become available.

A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-size disc has been unveiled by researchers from London's Imperial College.

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