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 ...

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 ...

China has developed a video compression spec, according to Chinese media reports, as the shopping season leading up to Chinese New Year, Jan. 21, looms.

Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation on Monday vowed exclusive support of HD DVD, a year after declaring they would release movies in both next-generation disc formats.The move ...

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 ...

It's one way to end a format war: make a single disc which includes Blu-ray, HD DVD, and standard DVD content.

If one format quickly becomes obsolete, casualties could include consumers who spend about $1,000 on the losing disc player.

HD DVD and its rival high-definition DVD format, Blu-ray, have been going head to head in a battle for supremacy in the next-generation DVD space, but a patent application filed by three Warner ...

DVD's official launch occurred 10 years ago, but its development spans two decades. Here's a look at some of the key events that led to disc dominance: <B>1986 </B><br>Believing that movies stored ...

In this Film Stories podcast, the format war battle that saw HD DVD defeated, and the tale behind the terrific Nightcrawler… In the 1970s and early 1980s, it was VHS vs Betamax. But in the 2000s ...

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.