New and Noteworthy: iTunes Music Store now has over 1 million songs; Dual-Layer DVD Burners Start to Catch On; more

iTunes Music Store now has over 1 million songs The iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs available for download in the US, with Apple claiming it as the first and only online digital music service to offer consumers a song catalog of this size. Apple's press release states "The iTunes Music Store features music from all five major record labels and over 600 leading independent labels from around the world." More.

Dual-Layer DVD Burners Start to Catch On The New York Times reports that after a shaky start, double-layer DVD burners are finally hitting the market in large numbers, but it may be a while before consumers choose to make use of their full talents. "Double-layer DVD's provide nearly twice the space for data and are already the industry standard for manufactured DVD movies. Invisible to the eye, the two layers are made possible by a DVD player's highly focused laser, which reads out to the edge of one layer, then refocuses to read back from the edge of the next layer." More.

'Apple ships Motion Apple has begun shipping Motion, which as the press release describes, delivers high-performance, real-time motion graphics design. It includes real-time previews, procedural behavior animation and integration with both Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio Pro 3, and is priced at US$299. More.

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