Black Friday is still three weeks away, but Wal-Mart has decided to bring the hammer down on its HD DVD player prices a bit early. Last week, we covered the company's plans to begin selling ...

HD DVD might be a long-dead format, like Latin, but it lives on in our hearts, and on a Wikipedia page. We decided to re-animate its rotting corpse, and pit it against Blu-ray one more time.

The HD DVD Player is also able to play standard DVDs, but carries the same region coding as the built-in Xbox 360 DVD drive. For those who have already invested in an Xbox 360, ...

HD-A3 ($300, October 2007): With its output resolution limited to 1080i, the primary appeal of the entry-level model is its affordable price tag. Except for the slimmer case, this looks to be ...

From the HD DVD camp I tried Toshiba Corp.’s $499 HD-A2 player. In the other corner of the ring swaggered Sony Corp.’s BDP-S1 Blu-ray disc player, which lists for $999 but is available for less.

Hi-Def DVD: Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player and Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player Toshiba and Sony $499.99 and $999 www.toshiba.com, www.sony.com Two hi-def DVD formats are waging war, and it’s too soon to ...

The Best 4K HD Blu-Ray DVD Players: 5 Options to Complete Your Home Movie Theater. Streaming offers some fantastic picture quality, as well as litany of options for films.

We tested a player from both camps: Toshiba's HD-A20 HD DVD player and Samsung's BD-P1200 Blu-ray disc player. The HD-A20 runs for $330 on Amazon, and the BD-P1200 is $450, also on Amazon.

Click to viewWe got the LG BH100 in the mail yesterday. It does what claims to do — be the very first high definition disc player that is compatible with both Blu-ray and HD-DVD. But don’t ...

We tested the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player on our Westinghouse 37" LVM-37w3 LCD 1080p monitor and found that it could play HD DVD movies at 1080p over VGA, but downgraded the movie image to 1080i over ...

Such is the lack of interest in Toshiba’s HD DVD players these days that retailers are going to extreme lengths to shift stock. We noticed this morning that not only has Play.com cut HD DVD ...

The battle between the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats is the battle that simply doesn't want to end. Many, however, think that this Christmas season could be critical, a Gettysburg-style confrontation ...