Aw, shucks: the shooting has jut barely begun on the blustery format war for dominance of the next-generation DVD landscape, with Blu-ray still struggling to get out of the gates and HD DVD out ...

Stunning picture and audio quality is only part of what the HD DVD format has to offer. The combination of HD video, interactivity, connectivity, and dynamic content integration is what enables HD DVD ...

It was disclosed this week that a patent application has been filed for a single DVD disc that could accommodate the non-compatible Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, as well as standard DVD, although it's ...

The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

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 ...

Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

As if high-def DVDs weren’t already a consfusing enough sell to consumers. Starting in September, home media buffs in the U.S. and Europe — Denmark, Finland, France, Poland and Sweden, specifically — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warner Bros. has developed a new disc capable of playing programs in both rival high-definition DVD formats, hoping to break a year-long stalemate between the technologies. The announcement of the ...

Total HD, announced at CES this year, was supposed to appease next-gen DVD fence-sitters. Now Warner Bros. says the dual-format discs are going to be pushed back from mid-to-late 2007 until early next ...