Category Archives: Blu-ray/HD DVD

Microsoft has “no plans” to offer a version of its Xbox 360 console with an internal HD DVD drive, a company employee has stated in a bid to confound rumours to the contrary. Keeping it external allows them to hedge … Continue reading →

Plextor will ship its first Blu-ray Disc drive in September, the storage specialist has said. The PX-B900A is an internal unit for PCs and will support both single- and dual-layer recordable and rewriteable media.

Toshiba has once again said it’s open to the development of a single, unified next-generation optical disc format to end the battle between the HD DVD format it backs and the Sony-led Blu-ray Disc camp. I guess it is current. … Continue reading →

Toshiba said Tuesday it would still like to develop a unified format for advanced optical DVD discs, but two competing–and incompatible–products are likely to hit the market at first. Weird, this article sounds like it fell through a time warp … Continue reading →

Toshiba is subsidising its HD-A1 HD DVD player by at least $175 in a bid to buy the next-generation optical disc format success. So claims market watcher iSuppli, which took the machine to bits and totted up the cost of … Continue reading →