It was 20 years ago this month that consumer electronics companies Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format called Digital Video Disc, or DVD. The format promised a four-fold increase in ...

TOKYO – – A format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the race to replace DVD looks increasingly inevitable as time quickly runs out for a compromise. Supporters of both formats agree that ...

With Hollywood forecasting DVD sales to start dropping in 2007 and increased competition from video-on-demand delivered over cable networks, the race is on to commercialize the next revenue-generating ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The format war around next generation DVDs may be over before it has begun, thanks to a breakthrough from a British media technology ...

PARIS — Opposing camps in the high-definition disk format battle are close to a compromise on key components of their competing standards based on blue laser technology. According to sources close to ...

Next year, the latest attempt to get us to upgrade our optical disc players arrives in the form of Ultra HD Blu-ray. The format promises four times the visual resolution of existing Blu-rays, and ...

Every now and then tech companies will launch a product that'll make you think, "Wait, why weren't we doing this all along?" Universal Studio's new "Flipper" disc is one of those: a two-in-one disc ...

Sony has unveiled today four new Multi-format DVD/CD rewritable drives based on its 12th generation optical storage technology. This line-up features three designs and four configurations. Hailing it ...

Despite the Apple hoopla from earlier today, Sony managed to unveil three ultra fast DVD/CD drives. The DRU-840A, DRX-840U and DRX-S70U certainly won’t make you the talk of the town, but they do boast ...

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