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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warner's plans to straddle the fence on the HD disc format war have hit a snag, as the company has decided to shelve its vaunted Total HD hybrid format. Announced at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It was disclosed this week that a patent application has been filed for a single DVD disc that ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago the DVD Forum, the industry organization in charge of the DVD format, decided that Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 format would be one of the mandatory playback standards for ...

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 ...