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| STORIES ABOUT: HD-DVD |
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| Toshiba Loses 95% Profit, Launches Blu-Ray Player |  | The death of Toshiba's HD-DVD high-definition format triggered a series of losses in revenue that are reported to have reached alarming levels. According to Toshiba, the company's profit barely reached a faint 1.25 billion yen, much lower than the expected 26.17 billion yen achieved an year earlier.
The company estimates that it lost about $461 million in discontinuing the HD-DVD business, such as dealing with lefto ... [read more >>] | | 26 April 2008, 01:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blu-Ray's Dead, Flash-Based Storage is the New Mesiah! |  | The recent death of Toshiba's HD-DVD format propelled the rival Blu-Ray high-definition standard as the new industry's king. However, it seems that the Blu-Ray itself will be soon facing the same situation as its former rival.
According to THX, one of George Lucas' spin-off companies, the Blu-Ray format could be blooming later than necessary. "I think it's too late for Blu-ray. I think consumers will o ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 17:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba Posts $1 Billion Loss on HD-DVD Pull-Out |  | Japanese conglomerate Toshiba expects about $1 billion yearly loss as the result of having shut down its HD DVD business. Toshiba conceded defeat last month after a few months of continual battle against Sony's Blu-Ray high-definition format.
The news was broken by Japanese business daily Nikkey, that declined to name its sources. As expected, Toshiba refused to comment upon the estimations, as based on rumors. "The ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| No Blu-ray for the Xbox 360 |  | The Blu-ray – Xbox 360 saga is set for yet another twist. First Toshiba put up the white flag in the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray war and announced the HD-DVD will no longer be developed. Then Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics US, told the Financial Times that Sony was in "advanced talks" with Microsoft and Apple to integrate Blu-ray technology in their products. And what better product to get a Blu-ray add-on than the ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Gets Blu-ray for Xbox |  | A few weeks ago, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Live, Software and Services Division, John Schappert declared that, following Toshiba's decision not to pursue the HD-DVD standard anymore, Microsoft would also drop the standard and not release any new generations of its HD-DVD add-on for the ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Buffalo to Unveil 4x External Blu-Ray Recorder |  | Recent reports emerging from the movie industry claim that the Blu-Ray high-definition format is the new king, while Toshiba's HD DVD needs to be flushed out. Whether you like it or not, Blu-Ray is here to stay and you'd better gear up in order to be able to watch the upcoming movie titles available on Blu-Ray only.
Buffalo is paving the ground for their latest product, a new external Blu-ray burner with a 4x recordi ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Plextor to Introduce Internal Blu-Ray and HD DVD Drives |  | The format war has brought nothing but trouble in the movie industry. Partnerships dissolved while other alliances were formed. Despite the fact that the Blu-Ray format seems to have prevailed in the movie, audio and storage industry, the hardware manufacturers are not ready to call the HD DVD format dead yet. Many hardware developers are trying to include them both in their combo devices, in order to let users pick their preferr ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CES 2008: Blu-ray Xbox 360, a Possibility |  | One of Microsoft's executives recently claimed that the Xbox 360's producer would eventually support the Blu-ray format, in case it gets popular and enough and meets a high public demand, during a series of CES 2008 interviews. It all comes down to the fai ... [read more >>] | | 09 January 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Qosmio G40 – Toshiba's First Notebook to Include an HD-DVD Drive |  | Toshiba unveiled today their new Qosmio G40/F40 series of notebooks to come with an HD-DVD optical media writer. The company has managed once again to push the notebooks' limits until they have become a true replacement for desktop computers. The model is industry's first notebook to feature an HD-DVD recorder and can write HD camcorder video or digital terrestrial broadcasts on HD DVD-R and HD DVD-RW media at 2x speed.
[ADMA ... [read more >>] | | 18 December 2007, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Addonics Brings External HD DVD / Blu-Ray Combo Drive |  | Addonics has announced the Zebra Blu-ray / HD DVD Player. This type of optical media players is still young on the market and there are few such devices at hand.
Apart from the HD DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, the player can read standard DVDs and CDs in various file formats or burn DVD±R/RW and CDRW media. Its abilities make the combo one of the most flexible optical disk readers on the market. The external unit allows users to t ... [read more >>] | | 14 December 2007, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba Is About to Release PC HD-DVD Unit Next Year |  | Blu-Ray disk drives are already a common appearance in the PC distribution sector and Toshiba has announced that they are planning to release half-height HD DVD drives early next year. This would be the first PC enabled HD-DVD burner to see the market in a long time, since the last model has been unveiled by Toshiba in late 2006.
Toshiba's policy was oriented towards original equipment manufacturers rather than on the r ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 10:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Panasonic Promises: One in Ten PCs Will Feature HD Recorders |  | The coming year won't bring us the happiness of a new beginning, but will take us to further steps in home entertainment, or at least Panasonic executives think so. According to them, about 10% of personal computers (PCs) will incorporate either Blu-ray or HD DVD drive next year, as the technology becomes more and more accessible following the recent price drops of blue laser-based optical disk drives.
"The adoption ... [read more >>] | | 24 November 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The 1TB DVD Disk Is Here |  | Have you ever heard of Call/Recall? Well, me neither but in this case you should probably keep their name in your mind. Because if their product turns out to be more than a concept, you'll be hearing more about them in the near future. Yesterday, the unknown optical disk producer rolled out something called 2 photon disk. In essence this new approach to optical devices could expand the storage space above the 1TB mark.
Ac ... [read more >>] | | 28 June 2007, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blu-Ray Has a New Encryption System |  | Sooner or later. Because this is how things work in the encryption business. Take the DVD protection for example. It wasn't very complex so hackers managed to circumvent it really fast. And then Blu-Rays and HD-DVDs rushed in and with them came AACS. This one was pretty hard to crack but it too had a flaw related to the keys produced for a specific disk. As a result it was possible to decrypt all disks that contained a movie using a s ... [read more >>] | | 22 June 2007, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gamers Can Turn to God for Xbox 360's Scratching Discs |  | The Xbox 360 has had its ups and downs just like any other console out there, but when we say "downs" we mean the worst that could happen. Not only did Xboxers worldwide experience the three rings of death when it came to installing such a simple thing as a ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rich or Kitsch? The New Yuhan HTPC |  | You know what they say, that gold is the purest, eternal symbol of wealth. Now, it may be so indeed (let alone Paris Hilton and the Swarowski toilet sets and stuff) but there is real doubt that the world of technology is that much into gold. I mean there is much gold in circuitry and the inner workings of gear but on the outside there are mostly rims and stylish decorations.[admark=1]
Well, ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2007, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba Produces World's First Mobile HD-DVD Rewritable Drive |  | Although Computex 2007 won't start until tomorrow, Toshiba has already announced that they will be showcasing their newest HD-DVD Writer at the show held in Taipei (Taiwan, June 5-9, 2007). Codenamed "SD-L912A", the new drive is also present on their website so if you want to take a closer look at the specs and the drive itself, Toshiba's website is a good place to start.
Along with the drive itself, Toshiba issued a ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Fights Against The HD-DVD Key |  | The Mountain View based company sent a message to one of its users to remove the HD-DVD decryption key posted in his notebook. Because the content of a member's notebook might become available for other registered clients, the search giant sent a message to the user to demand him to delete the serial number. According to Wired Blogs, the company sustained the entire notebook will be removed if the illegal content is not dele ... [read more >>] | | 03 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The $299 Blu-Ray PC Drive from Pioneer |  | We found out that Wal-Mart refused to commercialize $299 HD-DVD players a couple of days ago, apparently trying to keep a balance between the rival high definition formats. A puzzling scheme, I'd say, but now Pioneer is ready to tip the balance in favor of the Blu-Ray format, with the introduction of their brand new and robust Blu-Ray Disc computer drive, which will be available to consumers beginning next month for a sugge ... [read more >>] | | 03 May 2007, 07:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Shows The HD-DVD Decryption Key! |  | The best search engine on the Internet, Google, has recently joined the fiasco and indexed a lot of webpages that contain the recently discovered HD-DVD decryption key. However, the search technology managed to filter the content pretty good but it seems like some results were ignored and appeared on the SERP for an ordinary search after the key. As you can see in the picture attached to the article, Google displays the HD-DVD de ... [read more >>] | | 03 May 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wal-Mart Will NOT Sell $299 HD-DVD Players |  | It seems that the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war is far from being over, and just as things started to look better, something had to happen to bring all of the happy consumers back to the ground. There was talk of a deal between Wal-Mart and Fuh Yuan Electronics Development, in which they said Wal-M ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2007, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 1 Million Blu-Ray Disks and 2 Million HD-DVD Players |  | The Blurry disk has rapidly become one of the best selling storage mediums for high-definition movies around the world. At least that’s what the numbers are showing according to the sales figures from the Home Media Research (HMR). This is the only high definition format to sell more than one million copies within a year, the exact numbers being: between the 1st of January and the 31st of March there were 832.530 Blu-ray units s ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2007, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wal-Mart, Your Friendly HD-DVD Supplier |  | I guess when you are the world’s largest retailer and also the world’s largest corporation (according to CNN) you do have some power when it comes to sales, and the prices you practice. I’ve been around the block a couple of times to know just how big companies deal with promotions and promotional prices. And one big promotion coming your way, with regards from Wal-Mart, is a HD-DVD player, for less than $300.
When it comes to ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2007, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 Elite – Not an Elite Gaming Console |  | Ever thought that an Xbox 360 Elite was one too many consoles? So, you think that my question is dumb, don’t you? Well here's proving you wrong. Although I don't fully agree with GamePro's list of eight reasons why the Elite isn't suc ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung and The Dual HD-DVD/Blu-ray Player |  | In the computer industry, the HD-DVD/Blu-ray wars have brought some good and some bad things to the consumers. I'll start off with the bad things, the bad thing is that these products cost enormous amount of money, and people are buying them, when in the same price range you could have more desirable alternatives. The good thing is more of a relative matter, it depends on where you look at it from, it's a good thing for manufactu ... [read more >>] | | 13 April 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Your Blu-ray Player Will Be Obsolete |  | One of the features that the entertainment industry had to abuse of was the adoption of the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats. Their introduction meant that movies could be played-back at a higher quality than by using normal DVD disks, and that was possible due to the very high capacity of these new formats. And the entertainment industry's top dogs, like some overgrown kids, had to play with their new toys, and make a fortune out ... [read more >>] | | 06 April 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Prices Drop on April 1st |  | Apparently, the Blu-ray – HD-DVD battle still continues, with no winner expected to show up out of the two any time soon. Obviously, this takes the same form as other “wars” we've encountered in the computer industry, but this is similar to the attempt of touching the line of the horizon, you can never do it and it's a never ending struggle.
Among the products that have had the attention of the public eye in the last ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2007, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mugged Black Xbox Elite Shots |  | Click to enlarge and look at the picture. What do you see? I'll tell you what you see: a not very realistic photo manipulation. What am I saying here? It's not even a manipulation, but an invention coming from someone dying to get the credit for unveiling the first “leaked” (so to speak) photos of the new ... [read more >>] | | 23 March 2007, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First HD-DVD/DVD Twin Disk |  | Since the release of the HD-DVD, there have been many arguments, both for and against it, and competition from rivaling Blu-ray technology hasn't exactly made things any easier. Sure, it's nice to watch a movie in HD format, the quality of the image and the sound are beyond the capabilities of normal DVDs due to the much larger capacity these HD-DVDs have.
Of course I've mentioned competition in the form of Blu-ray disks, ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2007, 07:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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