New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday July 19, 2006

– A look at how better, smaller and cheaper portable hard drives are shaping the player market (PC World)

– A YouTube trends report. (NoMan’s)

– Hollywood tries to avoid the music industry’s mistakes as it experiments with movie downloads that can be burned to DVD. (LA Times)

– The BBC shares more of its plans to spread programing over the net and mobile platforms. (BBC)

– Murdoch and Direct TV may be set to boost national Wi-Max which could change the entire media landscape. (Hollywood Reporter)