OK, the the title is a tad-bit deceiving. It's been almost a year now since I wrote my popular yet controversial diatribe on the demise of the competing high definition DVD formats. I wrote the ...

It may be more wishful thinking than anything else, but Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, whose highly successful DVD rental company has used both the Internet and snail-mail to maximum advantage to glean ...

Two new DVD formats are due out soon; one from Sony and one from Toshiba. The companies are battling for supremacy in the high-definition market. But what does it mean for the consumer? Is it time to ...

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 ...

In a city built on wagering, the smart money is staying on the sidelines when it comes to the battle between two high-definition DVD formats. The first shots between Blu-ray, backed by a Sony-led ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. So a year from now it's quite possible that consumers will be confronted by two HD disc formats ...

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 ...

The fuzzy future of high-definition DVD came into sharper focus Friday after Warner Bros. said it would release movies for the home video market exclusively on the Blu-ray disc format. The decision, ...

In a dramatic turn, Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation vowed exclusive support of HD DVD, a year after declaring they would release movies in both next-generation disc formats. By ...

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