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Format Wars Heat Up With Panasonic DVD Launch
News Format wars are all about winners and losers," he says. The struggle to establish a de-facto standard for recordable DVD players hotted up this week, with Panasonic announcing it would launch the world's second recordable player this summer which...
[January 14, 2000, 14:40]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback I think that its' absolutely disgusting that there is going to be another format war like Beta / VHS. It's about time that there was some sort of central governing body that decides on which format is going to be used to sell products to the public...
[January 16, 2006, 2:50]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback I've just bought one of their HD-DVD players.doh- So Hollywood - DVD for me please or I won't be buying your films. As with rootkits, Sony and their BluRay will be shunned by the techy community Can't see me installing a BluRay burner in my PC...
[January 12, 2006, 12:42]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback Nobody needs these new standards- DVD quality is 'good-enough' and few people look at all the extras anyway. So I cannot see anyone investing in the new standards unless multi-format compatility is guranteed and prices are similar to existing...
[January 10, 2006, 14:36]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback This is an ubelievably greedy ploy by Sony to try to introduce proprietary technology, which would force consumers to buy their standard. They have certainly lost me as a customer. It's no wonder that iPod, iRiver, and other MP3 players have made...
[January 10, 2006, 1:42]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback well all i can say is go blow it up your arse, im not going to be in computing for years, which means by the time i get back well all have tb storage and one format, i know so.
[January 9, 2006, 21:11]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback What's annoying is that Beta was far superior to VHS in many ways and, had it been developed as much as VHS had to be (to be as good! it would have been an excellent system. I fear that the successor out of the two current products might not be...
[January 9, 2006, 17:29]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback At present i wont be touching anything that Sony are involved in after their last circus performance!
[January 9, 2006, 14:15]
News Burst: Format Wars Heat Up With Panasonic DVD Launch
News The struggle to establish a de-facto standard for recordable DVD players hotted up this week, with Panasonic announcing that it would launch the world's second player in the US this summer. Panasonic's DVD-RAM player records onto DVD-RAM discs and...
[January 14, 2000, 14:14]
Multi-format DVD Writers Launch In The UK
News The first multi-format DVD recorders are set to arrive on retailers' shelves, potentially bridging a gap that has kept DVD recording from becoming a reality for most computer users. Sony's multi-format drives mark an exceptional turning-point in...
[October 16, 2002, 15:52]
China Developing 'super DVD' Format
News Chinese manufacturers will welcome the new format, which promises to lead them out of low-end price wars and into the higher-value end of the market, said Xinhua. Teams in China aim to release full specifications for a higher-end complement to the...
[October 28, 2003, 8:55]
Long Wait For Recordable DVD, Could Be A Blessing
News Experts blame unresolved format wars despite protestations from Panasonic that only one standard format for recordable players exists. An example of this is NEC's recently developed proprietary Multimedia Video Disc, which is not compatible with...
[November 29, 1999, 16:27]
News Burst: Long Wait For Recordable DVD
News Experts blame unresolved format wars despite protestations from Panasonic that only one standard format for recordable players exists. It will be at least another two years before recordable DVD players hit UK stores according to experts.
[November 29, 1999, 11:58]
Sony's Blu-ray Notebook Arriving Next Week
News The launch of the Blu-ray-enabled notebook will mark Sony's commercial push into the high-definition disc wars. Meanwhile, Vaio AR notebooks with a DVD burner instead of a Blu-ray player will start at $1,800.
[June 13, 2006, 10:30]
ISO Credibility
Talkback The document wars are just the tip of the iceberg. Consider for a moment the recent Blu-ray - HD DVD battle. Sony led a Blu-ray consortia of vendors against the opposing Toshiba led HD DVD consortia of vendors.
[March 3, 2008, 18:13]
JVC Trials Blu-ray/DVD Combo Disc
News It's the 21st-century format wars and until all this stuff shakes out, consumers aren't going to buy anything. A new Blu-ray and DVD hybrid disc could bring some relief to consumers weary of the format war, but will it be enough for the...
[December 30, 2004, 9:10]
Comdex: Pioneer Shows Off DVD-RW
News Say Star Wars is being shown on a digital channel, the potential is there to make a digital quality copy that could be replicated again and again. A prototype DVD-RW drive is being demonstrated at Comdex this week but Pioneer officials concede the...
[November 17, 1998, 8:06]
DVDs Marry Imperfectly With Drives
News The study's results will come as no surprise to followers of the DVD format wars. Recordable DVDs stand a substantial chance of being incompatible with DVD drives, but the situation is improving with new models, according to an ongoing government...
[December 5, 2003, 13:15]
Tape Heads Off
Leader The format wars -- in which Sony's Beta system was neatly outflanked by JVC's VHS -- were lost for Beta by Sony's insistence on keeping control, reluctance to license to other manufacturers, high prices for spare parts and its refusal to make it...
[November 22, 2004, 11:35]
AOL Deal Boosts Microsoft Media Technology
News The software giant has wooed customers using tried-and-true methods honed during the browser wars with Netscape, including bundling its technology with other products at no extra cost. In recent months, Microsoft's technology has increasingly found...
[May 30, 2003, 7:51]
