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NEC lifts lid on next-generation HD-DVD drive
News HD-DVD, DVD and CD systems each contain lasers that produce light of a different wavelength. The development of drive firmware technology, system LSI technology and HD DVD/DVD/CD-compatible optical head technology enables realisation of a compact...
[December 21, 2004, 13:30]
Blu-ray and HD DVD face-off in Vegas
News Groups representing the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD -- blue laser formats aiming to become the technology to replace DVD -- made their announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. DVD discs store about 4.7GB of data on a single side...
[January 7, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft and Intel join next-gen DVD fray
News Intel and Microsoft are combining their computing industry power in an attempt to make the HD DVD format the victor in a battle over a standard to succeed DVD. HD DVD, supported by a Toshiba-led consortium, is up against Blu-ray Disc, backed by...
[September 27, 2005, 9:10]
Future of DVD mired in confusion
News The future of DVD recording is up in the air, after Sony claimed that talks between rival factions pushing the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD factions have collapsed. Ken Kutaragi, president of Blu-ray backer Sony, said late last week that negotiations with...
[June 21, 2005, 17:20]
Microsoft spreads DVD-succession bets
News Panasonic's parent, Matsushita Electric, is one of the 13 companies behind the Blu-ray format, which is vying with the rival HD DVD format to replace today's DVDs for the coming era of high-definition programming.
[September 1, 2004, 10:05]
Panasonic readies Blu-ray DVD
News A rival technology called EVD has been developed in China, and the so-called HD DVD format is backed by Toshiba and NEC. HD DVD recently got a boost from the DVD Forum standards body. The Forum's steering committee approved version 1.0 of the...
[July 1, 2004, 10:40]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News HD DVD discs store up to 30GB on a dual-layer disc. Our decision to back Blu-ray was largely because of its capacity advantage [over HD DVD], as well as the interactive features being built into the specification," said Maureen Weber, general...
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Apple leaps onto the Blu-ray bandwagon
News Blu-ray Discs' ability to store such large amounts of data is one of its key advantages over the HD DVD specification. Proponents of HD DVD say players and discs will be cheaper to make than products based on the Blu-ray Disc specification.
[March 11, 2005, 8:35]
Blu-ray appears to have the DVD lead
News For more than a year now, a bitter public relations war has been waged between supporters of Blu-ray and a rival Toshiba-backed technology known as HD DVD. But in at least one early test, according to a top manufacturing executive who asked to...
[November 28, 2005, 16:40]
NEC sees blue and red in DVD future
News The format for HD-DVD, also known as high-definition and high-density DVD, specifies a 20GB rewritable disc and a read-only disc with 15GB on a single layer and 30GB on dual layers. In November, the DVD Forum's steering committee approved a...
[December 19, 2003, 9:20]
Pioneer launches first Blu-ray drive
News Blu-ray drives, backed by an alliance led by Sony, are set to compete with HD-DVD drives that are expected to arrive at roughly the same time. However, Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats are incompatible, leading to a bitter battle between the two factions...
[December 28, 2005, 10:50]
Blank Blu-ray disks shipping
News The Blu-ray group - which includes Sony, Philips, Dell and several film studios - says its technology will provide more storage than competing HD DVD. Toshiba, Microsoft, Intel and the other HD backers, however, say their format will be a lot cheaper.
[April 11, 2006, 10:40]
Teaching old dogs new DVD tricks?
News It's a little-known but equally intriguing subchapter in the year-long fight between Blu-ray and HD DVD, two incompatible hardware technologies for high-definition DVDs, backed, respectively, by consumer-electronics manufacturers Sony and Toshiba.
[November 29, 2005, 12:05]
Sony announces Blu-ray PC drive
News Blu-ray hardware from Sony and others will hit the market at roughly the same time as the rival HD DVD technology. Toshiba said on Wednesday its first HD DVD players will begin shipping to consumers in March 2006.
[January 5, 2006, 10:20]
Blu-ray mini-archive for small businesses unveiled
News Marcos said that it was to the storage industry's benefit that Blu-ray had won in the largely consumer-market-based format war with HD-DVD, which ended in February when HD-DVD backers Toshiba conceded defeat to Sony, the main company behind Blu-ray.
[March 7, 2008, 13:20]
Sony's Blu-ray notebook arriving next week
News While Blu-ray discs hold more than discs based on the rival HD DVD standard, Blu-ray equipment costs more than HD DVD equipment. Toshiba has already released an HD DVD player that sells for just under $500.
[June 13, 2006, 10:30]
HP dabbles with Voodoo
News The company is embracing high-definition video with a notebook and a Media Center PC with HD DVD drives, as well as an external HD DVD drive. Voodoo PC has agreed to be acquired by HP, Voodoo founder and chief technology officer Rahul Sood...
[September 29, 2006, 8:55]
Apple rolls out new visual effects software
News The software, available in May for $499, is a professional DVD creation tool that now includes Apple's encoding and decoding technology to transfer HD to MPEG-2, the compression standard for DVD. At the annual National Association of Broadcasters...
[April 19, 2004, 9:05]
LG unveils multi-format next-gen DVD player
News The Korean electronics maker unveiled the Super Multi Blue, the first player that can play discs from the competing Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
[January 8, 2007, 7:44]
HP backs both sides in DVD battle
News The computer maker had previously been a staunch supporter of Sony-backed Blu-ray technology, which is competing with HD DVD to be the high-definition disc format adopted by gear makers and movie studios.
[December 19, 2005, 15:05]
