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NEC Lifts Lid On Next-generation HD-DVD Drive
Talkback I can't believe they just stopped working.not a gradual, "oh, my disc is having trouble being read" or "my pendrive doesn't seem to hold data anymore"; just, stopped working! Lately, I'm backing NEC. With my NEC MultiSpin 8v drive still turning my...
[December 21, 2004, 14:28]
Okoker HD-DVD Burner
Downloads With this software, you can create and backup your data into HD-DVD disc. Okoker CD&DVD Burner supports ISO DVD, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW,DVD-RAM, CD-R, and CD-RW discs and has all the features of Okoker HD-DVD Burner.Version 3 fixed a bug...
[June 17, 2008, 14:16]
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]
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]
Apple Leaps Onto The Blu-ray Bandwagon
News Proponents of HD DVD say players and discs will be cheaper to make than products based on the Blu-ray Disc specification. Blu-ray Discs' ability to store such large amounts of data is one of its key advantages over the HD DVD specification.
[March 11, 2005, 8:35]
Microsoft And Intel Join Next-gen DVD Fray
News HD DVD starts at 15GB, but Toshiba announced a 30GB dual-layer disc last week. HD DVD, supported by a Toshiba-led consortium, is up against Blu-ray Disc, backed by Sony and allies including the two biggest personal computer manufacturers, HP and Dell.
[September 27, 2005, 9:10]
Teaching Old Dogs New DVD Tricks?
News Once the discs come out, it will be a matter of matching a Blu-ray disc with a Blu-ray player, or an HD DVD disc with an HD DVD player. It's a little-known but equally intriguing subchapter in the year-long fight between Blu-ray and HD DVD, two...
[November 29, 2005, 12:05]
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 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]
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]
Blu-ray Appears To Have The DVD Lead
News The format's backers at the Blu-ray Disc Association have repeatedly predicted that costs would come down quickly and be almost immediately competitive with those of HD DVD. The disc manufacturing executive critical of Blu-ray said his company's...
[November 28, 2005, 16:40]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment For this reason Sony and the other Blu-Ray backers have to release sales figures like this to try and make it sound like the battle is over and scare the consumer into waiting or buying blu-ray when the real power is still with the consumer as...
[February 19, 2008, 11:36]
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]
Microsoft Spreads DVD-succession Bets
News Both Blu-ray and HD DVD use blue lasers, which enable much more data to be put on a disc than with today's DVDs, which rely on red lasers. Panasonic's parent, Matsushita Electric, is one of the 13 companies behind the Blu-ray format, which is vying...
[September 1, 2004, 10:05]
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]
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]
Okoker Blu-Ray DVD Burner
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[June 28, 2008, 14:31]
First Blu-ray Spec Finished
Talkback Blu-ray Disc has one significant advantage over HD-DVD: it's put in a cartridge like FD. Ease of use is the key feature to make a success in digital home/car appliance market. If music CDs were delivered as cartridge-type media, they could get...
[August 12, 2004, 21:29]
Video Librarian Plus
Downloads The program allows you to catalog any video format such as DVD, VHS, VCD, Laser Disc, Blu-Ray and HD. The program includes an actor database in addition to the comprehensive video/movie database. It will keep track of not only your pre-recorded...
[June 4, 2008, 9:47]
JVC Trials Blu-ray/DVD Combo Disc
News But analysts warn that competing technologies like Blu-ray and High-Definition DVD (HD DVD) could do more short-term harm than good by prolonging confusion in the market. As for hardware, Thomson said this month it would enter the high-definition...
[December 30, 2004, 9:10]
