In a move that is sure to outrage Hollwood movie studios, Texas Instruments has announced its latest generation of chips will enable personal video players to record DVD discs and satellite box office movies, even when they are copy-protected…

Sony's first ever personal video player, the Giga Pocket PCVA-HVP20, is to go on sale in Japan later this month. The device lets users take view video files from their PC on the move. The good news is that…

Bad news for the personal video market. It appears microsoft has shelved the launch of its Media2Go devices (hard disk based personal video players) that was scheduled for later this year. It has now rechristend the devices Portable Media…

Archos has one, so has Thomson, Sony will have one soon and Apple and microsoft are both sizing up the market. We are referring to personal video players, handheld devices tipped to be the next big thing in consumer…

Here's one that seems to have slipped through the net. Orbit, of whom we know very little, is selling a personal DVD player through Amazon for £400. Nothing strange about that or the fact it features a 7inch TFT…

One of the biggest battles in consumer electronics next year will be in the personal video player market. Essentially these are small-ish devices that combine a three or four inch LCD screen with a hard disk and video play…