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Sony Electronics announced that it had begun to ship its single-layer blank Blu-ray optical media and that it would start delivering dual-layer discs at the beginning of June. The company also confirmed the rumor saying that the manufacturer plans to equip its computers with Blu-ray disc drives. Sony is shipping 25-GB BD media, which will retail for about $25 each disc. The 50-GB versions It seems that, later this year, Sony will also release the internal BWU-100A drive, which will be able to handle both 25-GB and 50-GB discs, burning a full 25 GB disc in about 30 minutes....

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. (business web hosting). Release: VLC media player 0.8.5 (2006-05-066 May 2006) This new Release features many improvements, including MacIntel support, a statistic system, the support of DV inputs on Linux, improvements in the Audio CD playback (CDDB), many new and improved video filters, a new AJAX HTTP interface, Winamp 2 Skins support, a Mozilla plugin on Mac OS X (PowerPC only), a new default skin....

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Seems to be a fixed build. Changelog: Build [309]: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 09069 ODS: “Run task if skipped” option sometimes work incorrectly 10000 ODS: Missing an alert “Active Threat Found” if the product started from a network share 10118 Crashes upon first product startup, on build 308 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 FS 06626 Trusted Proc: Proccesses added from a different computer are not properly trusted Build [308]: New: 1. Settings for ABS on all tasks for ODS (On Demand Scanner)...