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HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment Sony's custodianship of formats it controls has rarely been perfect, and there are plenty of reasons why the whole idea of HD may not be what the consumers want anyway. I've got no plans to go HD any time in the future (but then, I listen to a...
[February 19, 2008, 13:58]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment Well done Sony but until I can buy 3 HD DVDs for £10 at Asda as I did at Christmas, you can keep it! I really cannot see myself buying something like 'The Terminator' for the third time just for HD quality!
[February 20, 2008, 14:47]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment Now that people will be confident that they won't get stung with an obsolete format (and that assumes that Sony won't do something spectacularly stupid, like announce an incompatible Blu-Ray Part Deux), they'll be happy buying a player and...
[February 20, 2008, 11:14]
NEC Lifts Lid On Next-generation HD-DVD Drive
Talkback Contributing to my support decision is my late experience of ALL my Sony devices dying. Lately, I'm backing NEC. With my NEC MultiSpin 8v drive still turning my discs, I'll vouch for them any day! I can't believe they just stopped working.not a...
[December 21, 2004, 14:28]
NEC Lifts Lid On Next-generation HD-DVD Drive
Talkback Everyone knows the cold reception you recieve at a Sony shop, I do hate Sony for that. I prefer Sony's offering, I think it'll be best. NEC or Sony, probrably neither. There product reputation still holds strong but I don't think people are fussing...
[December 22, 2004, 14:20]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment HD-DVD is dead. When, where, how and why doesn't really matter now: Sony's strategy paid off. But the battle is over. Toshiba is closing down production. It sold 1 million players in total. Blu-Ray has sold 10 million plus.
[February 19, 2008, 11:50]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment Big deal, Blu-Ray is still too expensive and my TV isn't HD-ready anyway. OK, so Sony "wins". Now upscaling an ordinary DVD; that would probably be enough for me until my existing hardware all dies a natural death.
[February 19, 2008, 12:26]
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]
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]
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. Moreover, component costs for Blu-ray can be nearly double HD DVD costs, because elements...
[November 28, 2005, 16:40]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment If HD-DVD cut price attracts enough buyers Sony knows that studios will be forced to start making movies for the HD-DVD format regardless of what deals they've made with Sony and HD-DVD would make a comeback and probably win.
[February 19, 2008, 11:36]
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]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Its all very well being in a race to the moon, but once the other guy's got there.and that's what's happened to HD-DVD. The sales figures show that while HD-DVD was talking a good fight, Blu-Ray was not only in orbit but landed.
[February 19, 2008, 10:45]
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]
Sony's Blu-ray Notebook Arriving Next Week
News Royalties matter here - Sony, Philips and some of the others that contributed intellectual property to the Blu-ray standard stand to earn millions in licensing fees and the same is true for the HD DVD camp.
[June 13, 2006, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With both HD-DVD and Blu-ray desperately gearing up to lock horns this Christmas — and the Sony PS3 completely dependent on the device — this is leaving a lot of people with looks of fear, doubt and apprehension.
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
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]
ISO Credibility
Talkback Sony led a Blu-ray consortia of vendors against the opposing Toshiba led HD DVD consortia of vendors. Consider for a moment the recent Blu-ray - HD DVD battle. Blu-ray triumphed because of the persuasive marketshare Sony Pictures Home Entertainment...
[March 3, 2008, 18:13]
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]
