Category Archives: Blu-ray/HD DVD

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment said Tuesday that it will deliver its first seven titles in the high-definition Blu-ray format to retail stores on June 20. Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony, said the title rollout will coincide with the first … Continue reading →

Sony will release a notebook next week with a built-in Blu-ray Disc drive for playing movies and recording video in high definition.

Philips this week launched its first Blu-ray Disc drive, and was quickly followed by Lite-on and BenQ. Both the Philips and the Lite-on models are due to ship in the UK in August, the two companies said separately.

PCs are emerging as a battleground in the budding war between two technologies vying to be the standard for high-capacity DVDs–and take the lucrative mantle of next benchmark in optical storage.

HD DVD is to get region coding after all, if the DVD Forum, the industry organization that maintains the DVD format, has its way. This week, the Forum decided to put in place a team to create a region-coding scheme … Continue reading →