Category Archives: Blu-ray/HD DVD

Paramount Home Entertainment has hopped onto the fence, committing itself this weekend to releasing content on both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) when the next-generation optical disc formats launch. Yep, another story.

In the latest twist of a heated battle over next-generation DVD technology, Paramount Home Entertainment said it would release high-definition movies in the Blu-ray format backed by a group led by Sony. Another article on this… Reading this, and re-reading … Continue reading →

Microsoft and Intel last week tried to swing the computing, consumer electronics and entertainment industry toward HD DVD in a format war to establish a higher-capacity successor to today’s DVD. It didn’t work.

Toshiba yesterday confirmed its next-generation optical disc format, HD DVD, will not launch in the US until “February or March”. The technology had previously been expected to hit the market before the end of this year.

After quietly heating up over recent months, the battle over next-generation DVD formats boiled over Thursday, as Dell and Hewlett-Packard assailed Intel and Microsoft, which have lined up in the opposite camp. Looks like Dell and HP aren’t happy with … Continue reading →