The contest between two rival high-definition DVD formats appeared wide open last week as manufacturers revealed they would hedge their bets and support both formats, Reuters reported. The Blu-ray ...

Toshiba says HD DVD players should start hitting U.S. store shelves later this month; Sony has just announced that Blu-ray products will follow suit on May 23. But "who's really winning the next-gen ...

If current schedules hold, the battle will not begin at least until later this year, and won't start to impact most supermarket customers until hardware prices come down to mass market levels, which ...

The two different camps behind two different next-generation DVD formats are at it again, this time feuding after the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced anti-piracy technology that mirrors the ...

Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and ...

In a dramatic turn, Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation vowed exclusive support of HD DVD, a year after declaring they would release movies in both next-generation disc formats. By ...

LAS VEGAS--The battle over next-generation DVD formats heated up late Thursday as groups supporting two incompatible and competing technologies introduced new partners and revealed further details of ...

Three top Hollywood studios are throwing their considerable weight behind one of two competing formats for the next generation of DVDs, citing in part the need to stem piracy. Paramount Home ...

Marketplace's Tess Vigeland talks about Paramount's decision to release its movies on the next generation of DVD technology. The formats are called BluRay Disc and HD-DVD, and Paramount is the first ...