Blu-ray in 'stalemate' with HD DVD: Sony CEO

09 Nov, 2007, 6:56 pm IST AP Optical drives

Howard Stringer, head of Sony Corp., says his company's Blu-ray disc format is in a 'stalemate' with the competing HD DVD format. More

CES: Warner Announces New HD DVD Titles

08 Jan, 2007, 11:51 am IST Aalaap Ghag Blu-ray Players

Warner Home Video has just announced the best films of 2006 and 2007 ones on the HD DVD. More

CES: Verbatim to Ship 30GB HD DVD-R discs

08 Jan, 2007, 12:08 pm IST Aalaap Ghag Blu-ray Players

Verbatim Corporation will start shipping dual-layer HD DVD-R discs in North America. More

HD DVD Losing Ground in Japan

21 Jan, 2008, 5:46 pm IST Siddharth Bhatia Blu-ray Players

A survey has revealed that the majority of high-def owners in Japan have a Blu-ray player/recorder. More

Toshiba To Push HD DVD With its Laptops

08 Jun, 2007, 4:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Notebooks

Toshiba plans to equip all their laptops with HD DVD drives to increase its popularity More

CES: Envive E-Center A/V Vista Media PC

09 Jan, 2007, 5:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Desktops

Envive unveils a powerful new Vista-based home theater PC running on Intel's Viiv platform. More

3-layer Twin Format Disc Announced

12 Sep, 2006, 10:30 am IST Sharon Khare Desktops

Memory-Tech and Toshiba have announced a single-sided, three-layer ROM disc supporting playback of DVD and HD DVD formats. More

HD DVD Might Knock Out Blu-ray

28 Sep, 2007, 3:00 pm IST Siddharth Bhatia Desktops

Forrester research has come up with a report claiming that HD DVD might beat Blu-ray. More

Blockbuster Favors Blu-ray DVDs to HD DVD

19 Jun, 2007, 11:00 am IST Reuters Desktops

U.S. video rental chain Blockbuster said more customers prefer Sony's Blu-ray DVD format to its rival HD DVD. More

Toshiba Brings Slim HD DVD DVD-RW to Mobile PCs

04 Jun, 2007, 4:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani

Toshiba has announced the world's first slim HD DVD DVD-RW for laptops and mobile PCs. More

Blu-ray Site Hacked, Redirected to HD DVD Site

27 Dec, 2007, 2:42 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani

An enterprising fan hacks the Blu-Ray site and redirects it to HD DVD's site. More

Toshiba Unveils Second-gen HD DVD Players

16 Sep, 2006, 12:30 pm IST Sharon Khare

Toshiba has announced second generation HD DVD players for the U.S. market. More

HD DVD Format War To End In Draw?

14 Aug, 2006, 4:30 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan HD Media Players

Researchers have predicted that the ongoing High Definition (HD) DVD format war will end in a stalemate with neither format getting an upper hand in t... More

Slysoft Unveils AnyDVD HD

19 Feb, 2007, 11:13 am IST Jayesh Mansukhani

Slysoft offers a commercial program, that will allow users to backup HD DVD movies. More

Velocity Micro Offers Vista Powered Machines

04 Feb, 2007, 5:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani HTPCs

Velocity Micro offers HTPC that utilize both Intel and AMD CPUs and are Windows Vista premium ready. More

20th Century Fox Announces Blu-ray Titles

01 Sep, 2006, 11:58 pm IST Reuters Windows

Film studio Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., on Thursday announced its first eight movie titles that it will publish on the new DVD format called Blu-ray and which will be on sale by November. More

Toshiba Unveils Desktop HD DVD Drive

05 Jan, 2007, 1:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Windows

Toshiba will be displaying its newest HD DVD desktop writer that supports all known legacy formats at CES. More

High-Def DVDs Announced for Europe

03 Sep, 2006, 4:44 pm IST AP Windows

Several movie studios announced plans Thursday to release a handful of films on high-definition DVD in Europe, continuing the slow rollout of the new format worldwide. More

Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business

19 Feb, 2008, 6:40 pm IST AP Windows

It's official. Toshiba has pulled the plug on HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Sony's Blu-ray disc technology. More