If current schedules hold, the battle will not begin at least until later this year, and won't start to impact most supermarket customers until hardware prices come down to mass market levels, which ...

Toshiba says HD DVD players should start hitting U.S. store shelves later this month; Sony has just announced that Blu-ray products will follow suit on May 23. But "who's really winning the next-gen ...

In an announcement this week that could lead to even further confusion in the ongoing DVD format wars, Paramount Home Entertainment said it will support the Sony Blu-ray DVD disc format for HD. At the ...

Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and ...

Three top Hollywood studios are throwing their considerable weight behind one of two competing formats for the next generation of DVDs, citing in part the need to stem piracy. Paramount Home ...

The two different camps behind two different next-generation DVD formats are at it again, this time feuding after the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced anti-piracy technology that mirrors the ...

LAS VEGAS--The battle over next-generation DVD formats heated up late Thursday as groups supporting two incompatible and competing technologies introduced new partners and revealed further details of ...

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