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HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment I have others without so much as a DVD player but thousands (and I mean thousands) of downloaded movies they watch on their laptop - and most of those are from interesting online communities dedicated to the obscure, the forgotten and the frankly...
[February 20, 2008, 11:14]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment In the mean time, i believe the studios will continue the archiac DVD format alongside blue-ray films; they just can't ignore a big chunk of the population who are yet to afford Blue-Ray. Chris, my advice to you is; unless you need a games console...
[February 19, 2008, 17:05]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Savage price cuts and bundling deals - Amazon was selling hundred quid HD-DVD players with seven discs - just made the format look desperate. Its all very well being in a race to the moon, but once the other guy's got there.and that's what's...
[February 19, 2008, 10:45]
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]
NEC Lifts Lid On Next-generation HD-DVD Drive
News The HD-DVD format -- proposed by NEC and Toshiba earlier this year -- can hold many times more data than a standard DVD, and is one two formats jostling to be the successor to DVD. HD-DVD, DVD and CD systems each contain lasers that produce light...
[December 21, 2004, 13:30]
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. We have a high expectation of having a single format, and that format is HD DVD," said...
[September 27, 2005, 9:10]
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]
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]
HP Backs Blu-ray DVD Format
News Companies promoting the HD DVD format include Memory-Tech, NEC, Sanyo Electric and Toshiba. 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...
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Blu-ray And HD DVD Face-off In Vegas
News Toshiba, NEC and Sanyo are among the leading electronics makers backing the HD DVD format. 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...
[January 7, 2005, 12:25]
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. Blu-ray's rival, the HD DVD format, relies on a reasonably well understood...
[November 28, 2005, 16:40]
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]
LG Unveils Multi-format Next-gen DVD Player
News Many expected the format war to be decided by which format could offer the most compelling content, and in another sign that the two camps could be forced to call a truce, Warner Bros is also expected to announce it will sell movies and TV shows...
[January 8, 2007, 7:44]
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]
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'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]
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]
ISO Credibility
Talkback 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. Think about why it is that both Ecma and OASIS sought to have their format proposals...
[March 3, 2008, 18:13]
