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Just about everybody around the world has heard about the demise of HD DVD, the next-generation DVD format supported by Toshiba. However, there were certain major studios that were still legally bounded by contract to stick with the dead format, but it seems that those bounds have expired, as Universal seems to be pr... |
17 April 2008
09:51 GMT |
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Optical media specialist Plextor has just announced the introduction of two new optical media drives to its portfolio. The new drives are able to read and write Blu-Ray high-definition discs and even to read the now gone HD-DVD media.Both drives are internal units targeted at desktop PC owners who want to take advant... |
25 March 2008
05:15 GMT |
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Philips has just announced that the upcoming BDP7200 Blu-Ray player will no longer be the cheapest device of its kind on the market. Initially planned to hit the market with an estimative price tag of $350, $50 lower than the cheapest BDP-S300 from Sony, the BDP7200 will sell for a final $399.Back in January, the com... |
15 March 2008
06:19 GMT |
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Back in mid-December 2007, Microsoft made available Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator, with an one-time license of $2,999. Just three months later, the Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is a free download, accessible through the Xbox Live Marketplace, via token requests at the product's official webpage. Ironically enough, the em... |
5 March 2008
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Following Toshiba's raising the white flag on Tuesday, people aware of Apple's joining the Blu-ray Disc Association in 2005 are probably expecting the Cupertino giant to make a move, such as adding the winning format to its lineup of notebooks. That's not going to happen just yet, researchers believe. ... |
21 February 2008
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The official announcement made by Toshiba yesterday, within which it has acknowledged its defeat in the format war and has pulled the plug on the HD DVD format, has come as a surprise to relatively few people or organizations. However, although some companies had taken a bold step forward and had dropped HD DVD a lot... |
20 February 2008
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The moment everyone's been expecting for the past couple of weeks has finally arrived! Thus, after receiving a couple of decisive blows over the past few weeks, culminating with Wal-Mart's announcement, Toshiba has finally decided to acknowledge the fact that it has lost the next-gen format war and declared... |
19 February 2008
04:49 GMT |
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There can't be a war without casualties, without an ultimate victor and a loser. This applies to just about any type of conflict, including the one between the two next-generation DVD formats, namely Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD, which, in light of several announcements made over the past weeks,... |
18 February 2008
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The battle format is about to end with a double-knockout, as two famous LED technology developer companies are cooking a new successor to rule over high-definition formats. Just as we thought Blu-Ray is about to become the next stable standard, Kaai and Soraa are trying to develop lasers and LEDs that will change onc... |
13 February 2008
04:38 GMT |
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As you might recall from our previous articles on the matter, HD DVD, the Toshiba-backed next-generation DVD format, is all but officially declared dead, after Warned has painted itself in the war colors of Blu-ray a short while back. Actually, everyone's waiting for Toshiba to finally acknowledge its defeat and... |
22 January 2008
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Don't worry, there's no sudden shift of attitude from Sony, regarding their rivaling format, the HD DVD. It seems that an user who sure knows his way with PS3 consoles and code editing has managed to find a way to make any movie format playable on your PS3. Without further chatter we give you a neat tutori... |
22 January 2008
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The Sundance Film Festival proved to offer fertile soil for Microsoft to show yet another example of its commitment to the HD DVD format, by bringing HD DVD interactivity to filmmakers. The Redmond company, together with the Sundance Institute, delivered independent films with the possibility of leveraging advanced i... |
21 January 2008
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Some of them are funny like hell, others are plain stupid. All are illegal. Yes, we're talking about the ways found by criminals to steal stuff. For example, we now have the funny story of a 21 year-old Kmart employee who managed to steal electronics worth more than $7000 before being, eventually, caught.Accord... |
15 January 2008
04:48 GMT |
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As you might have heard from our previous articles on the subject, HD DVD has received some very bad news over the past few weeks, which turned it from a possible candidate to the title of "format-war victor" to a terminal patient waiting for the plugs to be disconnected. However, it would seem that Toshiba's no... |
14 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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These past couple of days have been absolutely catastrophic for HD DVD, the next-generation disc format backed by Toshiba, Microsoft and Intel. First of all, Warner announced that it would commit solely to Blu-ray from now on, then the rumor mill had Paramount going the same way fast, while the sales figures released... |
11 January 2008
14:26 GMT |
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Although nothing's absolutely sure for the time being, it would seem that the next-generation format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray might end a lot sooner than expected, with HD DVD about to suffer a bitter defeat. And in order to further emphasize their market dominance, the group supporting Sony's format ... |
10 January 2008
13:11 GMT |
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As you might recall, Warner dropped a Blu-ray-class bomb last week, when it announced that from there on, it would support solely Sony's next-generation DVD format. This has taken pretty much the whole industry by surprise, including the rather thin ranks of HD DVD supporters, but it would seem that in the afte... |
8 January 2008
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Toshiba went short of one important ally on the HD-DVD battlefield two days ago. Warner Bros, one of the movie studios that had previously released its titles on both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks, called it quits and completely switched to the latter. Although this is a significant loss for Toshiba, the HD-DVD supporter ... |
7 January 2008
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The HD DVD vs. Blu-ray war has taken another turn as Warner Bros Entertainment announced that they will exclusively release their high-definition DVD titles in Blu-ray format. The company officials claim that they have picked the Blu-Ray format as a strategic decision heavily influenced by the consumers themselves."T... |
5 January 2008
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Since the end result of the next-generation DVD format war is still very much unclear, it seems that the idea of releasing dual players, which can accommodate both formats, is becoming more and more attractive for consumer electronics manufacturers. And the latest announcement regarding such a product comes from an U... |
19 December 2007
07:41 GMT |
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As usual, not a day goes by without yet another piece of information being relayed to us from the deep trenches of the next-generation DVD format war, accompanied by some further speculation regarding which side will ultimately prevail. And this time, we're talking about a research carried out by a firm called T... |
12 December 2007
13:56 GMT |
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Although the war/race/competition (whatever you want to call it) between HD DVD and Blu-ray is nowhere near its bloody end, some of the most important names for the multimedia products industry are already coming up with players that can work just fine with both formats. After Samsung's announcement a while back... |
11 December 2007
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Everyone knows (or at least suspects) that huge amounts of money are involved in just about every move in the movie industry, and even more so when we're talking about content distribution media, Blu-ray and HD DVD, to be more precise. However, it would seem that things might be a lot worse than we had imagined,... |
5 December 2007
13:56 GMT |
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Although the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray battle has really heated up lately, we've mainly talked up until now about what's happening on the major markets, namely the North-American, European and Japanese ones. However, the two formats have, quite obviously, reached the other parts of the world as well. It seems that... |
5 December 2007
13:41 GMT |
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We've talked time and time again about the ongoing war between the two next-generation DVD formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray, and about what each of the two sides is doing in order to achieve victory in this conflict. However, there are some pretty strong chances that both Sony's and Toshiba's (the two devel... |
30 November 2007
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Black Friday, with its array of super-special discount offers, huge sales, scuffling in front of the cash register, etc. has come and gone, and both retailers and the companies carrying out various marketing studies are just now drawing a line. And according to the latest reports, it seems that Blu-ray's ascendi... |
30 November 2007
13:16 GMT |
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As we're reporting live from the battlefield of the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war, news are rather...confusing, to say the least. Thus, if we are to believe the statements issued by the two sides, their favored next-gen DVD format is the winner. However, the truth of the matter is that each of the two sides has recorde... |
28 November 2007
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Yes, folks, the ongoing battle between the two competing next-gen DVD formats is far from over and it seems that the scales are slowly tipping in favor of Sony's little Blu-rayed baby, as the latest figures released by the Blu-ray Disc Association show a huge gap between the two formats, although just in a speci... |
23 November 2007
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As the very important Christmas shopping frenzy approaches, the two sides involved in the next-generation format war are trying to come out with some sort of marketing strategy that will get them ahead of the competition. And while Sony has lowered the price of the PS3 (its main marketing machine), Toshiba's doi... |
26 October 2007
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The Christmas shopping frenzy is approaching fast and this has spurred yet another conflict between the two parties involved in the next-generation format war, namely the supporters of the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. This time, we're talking about the number of discs sold, which, as market research studies indic... |
25 October 2007
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As the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray rages on, each party is trying to come up with a certain marketing scheme, a certain edge that will make them gain some ground against the competition. And this seems to be exactly the case with a rumor that has hit the Web over the past few days, namely the Japanese compa... |
19 October 2007
14:51 GMT |
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The ongoing HD DVD vs. Blu-ray has taken a short break (at least as far as the media is concerned) over the past few weeks, but it seems that this relatively short period of "peace" is over. And that's because the HD DVD camp has just received an important morale boost from two independent market research groups... |
12 October 2007
12:16 GMT |
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There are two popular formats nowadays that battle for supremacy when it comes to optical discs and multimedia content. On one side we have the Blu-ray format and on the other side there is HV DVD, both offering similar capabilities and resolutions. As the two formats are each supported by groups made up of big playe... |
10 October 2007
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Microsoft has announced a new initiative designed to take HD DVD interactivity to the next level. The Redmond company and Toshiba will be advancing their partnership in order to lay the foundation for an Advanced Interactivity Consortium (AIC). Microsoft and Toshiba will be joined in the new venture by heavyweights o... |
4 October 2007
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What do "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," "Miami Vice" and "Mission: Impossible III" and Microsoft have in common? Technology of course, and to be even more specific, both movies, under the HD DVD format, made use of the Redmond company's implementation of the interactivity layer. And Microsoft announced ... |
20 September 2007
10:04 GMT |
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Although the final outcome of the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format war is still rather difficult to predict, there are certain movements going on that seem to favor the first format, coming both from China and the DVD forum.Thus, first of all, according to the people over at Screendigest, it would seem that DVD Forum, the i... |
10 September 2007
12:41 GMT |
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Although HD DVD and Blu-ray seem to dominate the market of next-gen DVD media, their "rule" might be over a lot sooner than we think, if the HD VMD from New Medium Enterprises really hits it big, that is. The reason? High disk capacity and very low prices (both for the players and the disks themselves). According to ... |
10 September 2007
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We've talked time and time again about the ongoing war between the two next-generation DVD formats, namely the HD DVD promoted by Toshiba and Blu-ray, backed by Sony. However, it would seem that the winner of this race for the consumers' cash might not be any of the aforementioned companies, but rather the ... |
6 September 2007
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Buffalo Japan announced the launch of an external optical drive that can play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs as well as other older formats. The external version of the multi format reader drive from Buffalo is connectible to a host computer system via a high speed USB version 2.0 port and the unit is able to burn BD-... |
27 August 2007
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I almost felt sorry for the supporters of HD DVD last week, when an independent report informed us that Blu-ray was twice as popular as its rival. Back then, I questioned the marketing tactics adopted by the HD DVD support group, but it would seem that said tactics (with a little extra "incentives" on the side) have ... |
21 August 2007
12:46 GMT |
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The fact that both Blu-ray and HD DVD supporters claim that their side is winning the next-gen format's war is already yesterday's news, but it's quite interesting to check from time to time on the latest developments in this ongoing race, battle, competition or whatever you might want to call it. And ... |
16 August 2007
11:16 GMT |
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As the next-generation DVD players become increasingly popular among consumers, more and more manufacturers of multimedia equipment are starting to develop their own products, targeting this important market segment. However, while most such companies are trying to keep prices at a relatively low level, Onkyo is doin... |
10 August 2007
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Although the new HD DVD technology has been around for a relatively limited period of time, the technological developments and breakthroughs achieved since then have already pushed it towards its third iteration. And the moment we've all been expecting for quite some time now has finally arrived, as Toshiba, the... |
7 August 2007
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Japan is known for many things, as for example for being the most technologically advanced country in the world and an economic super-power, among other things, but also for its very prolific (and quite honestly, very weird) pornographic industry. And since the question at hand (no pun intended) nowadays in any filme... |
31 July 2007
11:46 GMT |
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This is interesting: Microsoft has just announced today that they'll be lowering the price of the Xbox 360... HD DVD add-on player (gotcha!) from $199 to $179 ERP, but the offer is only available for the United States. Starting Aug. 1, 2007 the offer will also add five free HD DVD movies for anyone purchasing an... |
26 July 2007
09:18 GMT |
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Although the rumors regarding Samsung's hybrid HD DVD / Blu-ray player have been circulating on the web for quite a long time, the company decided to keep it all under wraps for the past few months (in order to increase the customer's interest, perhaps?). However, the long wait for the official announcement... |
26 July 2007
08:46 GMT |
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It seems that not a day goes by without the supporters of HD DVD and Blu-ray getting engaged in yet another media skirmish. After fighting over who's selling the highest number of players in Europe (with each party claiming the dominance of its own products), the two groups have suddenly changed the battlefield,... |
18 July 2007
03:14 GMT |
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The all-out war between the groups backing the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats seems to be getting even worse in Europe, each party relying on all sorts of more or less fair tactics in order to gain a certain advantage over their competitors. Thus, after the HD DVD promoters announced last week that their players are outs... |
17 July 2007
10:31 GMT |
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Could it be a great promotional offer? Or simply marketing desperation? Well, regardless of the real purpose behind this move, it seems that the people from Toshiba have decided to launch a great promotional offer for those people that will attend the Home Media Expo that starts today at the Venetian Resort from Las ... |
16 July 2007
11:36 GMT |
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As we all know, the ongoing format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is very, very far from over and it will take some time before the winner is decided. However, as part of their marketing campaigns, the group supporting each format makes all sorts of more or less realistic claims regarding who's actually leading ... |
13 July 2007
10:46 GMT |
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