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By Times Staff Writer
Published January 15, 2008
HD DVD prices are slashed to combat Blu-ray Toshiba Corp. on Monday announced an aggressive campaign to bolster its HD DVD movie disc format against Sony-backed Blu-ray technology, cutting prices on players to as low as $149.99. The HD DVD camp suffered a serious blow Jan. 4, when Warner Bros. Entertainment said it would stop publishing movies on HD DVD in May to focus on Blu-ray and regular DVDs. That leaves only two major studios, Paramount and Universal, still supporting HD DVD, while five support Blu-ray. Toshiba slashed the suggested retail price of its cheapest player, the HD-A3, from $299.99 to $149.99. The price for the HD-A30 also was halved, from $399.99 to $199.99, while the price on the high-end HD-A35 went from $499.99 to $299.99. Netflix download restrictions lifted Netflix Inc began offering unlimited downloads of movies and television programs over the Internet to most of its customers on a monthly rental plan. Subscribers can download any of the 6,000 movies and TV shows available for no extra charge, Netflix said. Previously, customers had the hours they could download limited based on their monthly plans. The announcement comes one day before Apple Inc.'s anticipated move to let iTunes users rent movies as well as buy them. Apple's offering will allow ITunes users to rent new DVD releases, a feature that Netflix's service doesn't have. Subscribers of Netflix's unlimited rental plans, which cost $8.99 a month or more, now can download an unrestricted number of movies and TV shows. Las Vegas casinos ride cold streak Las Vegas Strip gambling revenue fell 19 percent in November, its largest monthly decline in 2007. Casinos on the strip, the biggest betting market in the U.S., took in $519.7-million, compared with $642.4-million in the year-earlier month, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said. Casino revenue for all of Clark County, which includes downtown Las Vegas, dropped 16 percent to $828.7-million in November. Atlantic City, the second-largest U.S. casino market, took in $4.92-billion in gambling revenue in 2007, a 5.7 percent decline, as it faced increased competition from Pennsylvania slot-machine parlors. Google home page adjusts for iPhone Google Inc. upgraded its home page for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, adding features to e-mail and calendar programs and allowing users to customize the site with their favorite applications. Gmail users will see new messages automatically without having to refresh their in-boxes, Google said Monday. The calendar software now shows a full month of appointments.
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