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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 it would launch the world's second recordable player this summer which could hamper development of the format.
[January 14, 2000, 14:40]
Toshiba, NEC snub Blu-ray DVD format
News Nine companies, including Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita, Pioneer, Royal Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Thomson, are working on their own DVD recordable format, known as Blu-ray. Toshiba and NEC are demonstrating a new DVD recording...
[May 13, 2003, 11:11]
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]
Dixons hobbling DVD format?
News DVDplus managing director Bryan Welsh believes Dixons is failing to give DVD the boost it needs by charging too much for titles: "The manufacturer and the retailer have a responsibility to stimulate the market and Dixons is not meeting that...
[December 2, 1998, 10:43]
Pioneer weighs in with rival DVD format
News The battle between manufacturers over rival DVD formats has stepped up a notch with the announcement of a brand new format from electronics giant Pioneer. The format, DVD-R/W, was unveiled at the Internationale Funkausstellung 99 show in Germany...
[September 7, 1999, 16:28]
Apple will support rival DVD format
News After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system. Apple, a longtime supporter of the DVD-R format, confirmed on Monday that it is adding...
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
China developing 'super DVD' format
News Teams in China aim to release full specifications for a higher-end complement to the DVD format next month. The new format, called EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc), will be playable only on EVD players and promises five times the image quality of DVD...
[October 28, 2003, 8:55]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News HP's involvement with Blu-ray recalls the rewritable DVD format battles in which PC makers HP and Dell helped swing momentum toward the DVD+RW format. Companies promoting the HD DVD format include Memory-Tech, NEC, Sanyo Electric and Toshiba.
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Sony unveils multi-format DVD recorder
News Most home DVD recorders, like Philip's DVDR 890, can only write to recordable discs in either the DVD-RW or DVD+RW format. The Sony RDR-GX7 will be the only home DVD recorder that supports the DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-R recording formats, the company...
[April 23, 2003, 13:57]
LG unveils multi-format next-gen DVD player
News Customers are not really sure which format player they want to buy and naturally seem reluctant to buy the player or DVD contents," said LG North America President and chief executive Michael Ahn. Many expected the format war to be decided by which...
[January 8, 2007, 7:44]
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]
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]
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]
China developing 'super DVD' format
Talkback America Atomic Holographic Storage - Patented. Why Rewritable Atomic Holographic Storage Using Reprogrammable Transparent Optical Atomic Switch's ? raw uncompressed TV hours on 10 Terabyte 3.5 in.removable disc DVR.will have highest NLO analog...
[November 19, 2003, 4:00]
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 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 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]
Sony unveils multi-format DVD recorder
Talkback Preferably dvd but just vhs would do if it did what I want. Can someone explain just what these different formats do? What I want is something that will record from a UK tv into both PAL and NTSC formats.
[January 25, 2004, 16:02]
DVD+RW format will offer DVD, rewritable media
News Called Phase-Change ReWritable, the 120mm disk format specifies a 3Gb single-sided capacity. The group
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