Aw, shucks: the shooting has jut barely begun on the blustery format war for dominance of the next-generation DVD landscape, with Blu-ray still struggling to get out of the gates and HD DVD out ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Warner Brothers — a major proponent of the original DVD format — plans to announce at the CES ...

CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet.

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) just announced the finalization and release of the specifications for BDXL™, the new multi-layer recordable Blu-ray Disc™ format with up to 128GB of capacity. With ...

A Chinese industry consortium is moving forward with plans to launch its own high-definition disc format, and the group has announced the beginning of volume production by the end of the year, ...

Licensing to Begin for BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE Las Vegas– January 5, 2006 — The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that the format specification is complete and that licensing is ready to begin ...

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.

The Nintendo GameCube was the first console from Big N with disc-based media. Gone were the cartridges that were absurdly expensive to manufacture. In theory games could be cheaper (yeah, right), and ...

TAIPEI – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a research body backed by Taiwan’s government, plans next week to demonstrate a new optical disk format for storing high-definition video.

As if high-def DVDs weren’t already a consfusing enough sell to consumers. Starting in September, home media buffs in the U.S. and Europe — Denmark, Finland, France, Poland and Sweden, specifically — ...