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Take this with a grain of salt, but according to Blu-ray.com Wal-Mart has begun selling a $298 USD Blu-ray player in select stores, a price over $100 USD lower than current entry-level players.
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Date: 13 May 2008 22:05 | 24 comments
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The Criterion Collection, the leading distributor of classic cinema, has announced that it will begin its Blu-ray support this year with at least 13 confirmed titles.
The announcement, through ...
Date: 12 May 2008 06:05 | 8 comments
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After officially announcing its return to Blu-ray yesterday, Paramount has decided to re-issue 8 of its previously-discontinued Blu-ray tiles from before the studio went HD DVD exclusive in August 2007.
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Date: 1 May 2008 20:05 | 8 comments
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Coming up on their deadline to become a Blu-ray only production house, Universal has unveiled its plans for the audio it intends to use on the format. Ever since their defection from the HD-DVD ...
Date: 1 May 2008 17:05 | 35 comments
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Despite Blu-ray's victory over rival format HD DVD, it seems Blu-ray player sales are falling or seeing little to no growth in various markets.
The latest figures, according to the NPD Group, ...
Date: 30 Apr 2008 22:04 | 69 comments
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Paramount Pictures has mapped out its Blu-ray roadmap, marking its re-entry to the Blu-ray business a year after it signed exclusively to the now defunct HD DVD format.
The first three movies ...
Date: 30 Apr 2008 22:04 | 20 comments
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Universal has announced its roadmap for Blu-ray releases this summer and has added that its Blu-ray titles will see same day release dates as its standard definition counterparts.
The studio, ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 17:04 | 20 comments
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Driver Heaven has released an in-depth analysis on HD video playback by ATI's Avivo HD and nVidia's PureVideo HD. The main difference between this analysis and regular benchmarking software ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 12:04 | 1 comment
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Shuttle has announced the launch of its latest small form factor PC, the XPC G5 6801M Vista , which includes a dual format HD drive by LG allowing playback of bothHD DVD and Blu-ray films.
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Date: 12 Apr 2008 22:04 | 8 comments
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Blockbuster has announced that it will finally be expanding its Blu-ray offering. Despite Blu-ray's official launch in June 2006, the large rental service only began stocking the HD discs in ...
Date: 12 Apr 2008 22:04 | 3 comments
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The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA) has once again started a so called "proactive renewal", which would renew the protection system for the upcoming HD ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 09:04 | 28 comments
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Although Microsoft ended production on its Xbox 360 HD DVD addon it hasannounced that yesterday a software update was made available for the drive and its thousands of owners.
All the user ...
Date: 10 Apr 2008 19:04 | 12 comments
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To anyone who was upset at the demise of HD DVD, Amazon has announced a credit for any early adopter who bought an HD DVD player before February 23rd of this year.
Anyone who purchased the ...
Date: 9 Apr 2008 16:04 | 8 comments
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Following the fall of the HD DVD disc format, all eyes turned to Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, expecting a response to the news that could come in the form of a Blu-ray-equipped Xbox 360 unit ...
Date: 8 Apr 2008 00:04 | 25 comments
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WhyBuyGames.com,, the large European online rental company has announced that it will be adding Blu-ray movies to its current stock of video games.
The company secured external capital investment ...
Date: 7 Apr 2008 19:04 | 5 comments
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According to Reuters, the media research firm Interpret has revealed that just about 60 percent of American consumers are now aware of Blu-ray as a disc format and that the number of households ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 19:04 | 14 comments
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Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, Microsoft has once again denied that they are bringing a new generation of Xbox 360s with Blu-ray internal drives.
The rumor began again after DigiTimes ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:04 | 25 comments
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The giant personal computer manufacturer Dell has announced that it will begin offering its Inspiron 1525 notebooks with an option for an internal Blu-ray drive, and that configurations will ...
Date: 28 Mar 2008 22:03 | 16 comments
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Although the format has been technically dead for over a month, HD DVD is now officially dead, as the HD DVD Promotion Group has formally dissolved itself, marking a quiet end to the High Definition format.
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Date: 28 Mar 2008 22:03 | 49 comments
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It seems that Best Buy is completely dropping HD DVD, and is pulling all titles and players from its retail stores.
Instead of putting the remaining discs through a firesale, Best Buy managers ...
Date: 28 Mar 2008 18:03 | 27 comments
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BCI/Eclipse, an indie movie distributor, has announced they have canceled all HD DVD titles and will be moving onto Blu-ray for future releases.
In 2006 BCI became the first indie distributor ...
Date: 27 Mar 2008 20:03 | 17 comments
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Citing strong sales of 'No Country for Old Men,', the Blu-ray camp has now topped 9 million discs sold since its launch.
BD sales for the first 11 weeks of 2008 is about 3 million units, ...
Date: 27 Mar 2008 20:03 | 28 comments
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Buffalo Technology has introduced its first ever external optical disc drive, a dual format HD drive dubbed the BRHC-6316U2.
The drive can read and write single or dual layer Blu-ray discs ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 20:03 | 7 comments
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THX chief scientist Laurie Fincham has been quoted as saying that despite its victory over HD DVD, Blu-ray will not become the next standard in the home entertainment market.
"Personally, ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 22:03 | 72 comments
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Plextor made a surprising announcement today when it introduced two dual-format HD optical drives, the B920SA and B300SA, both of which can read Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.
Although the HD ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 01:03 | 7 comments
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Roxio has announced the release of Toast 9 Titanium, the latest update in its popular disc burning software for Macs. Among the notable updates are Blu-ray support and remote Streaming.
The ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 20:03
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SlySoft is once again offering discounts to new users buying their products. This time, the company is offering a 20% discount on all its products to celebrate Easter (do you even need a reason ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 14:03 | 3 comments
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Best Buy has announced that it will be giving any BB customer who purchased an HD DVD player or the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on before February 23, 2008 a $50 USD gift card as a way to make amends.
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Date: 19 Mar 2008 22:03 | 28 comments
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SlySoft has been known in the past years for breaking and then poking fun at layers of protection released on DVDs with the AnyDVD application. It was no surprise that SlySoft would be among ...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 17:03 | 37 comments
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Last week we reported that Nikkei Business Daily had estimated that Toshiba lost nearly billion dollars (100 billion yen) developing and promoting their high-definition format. Now Toshiba has ...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 12:03 | 11 comments
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Fox has announced that it will be the first major studio to have extensive price cuts on its HD movie catalog by discounting 22 of its best selling Blu-ray titles.
The price cut, which began ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 21:03 | 89 comments
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Toshiba's high-definition format HD DVD, which was put to sleep three weeks ago, cost the company a whopping one billion dollars, reports Japanese source. After huge marketing campaigns, handful ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 13:03 | 28 comments
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The large Canadian retailer FutureShop has announced that anyone who bought a now obsolete HD DVD player now has the option to trade it in for a $100 CAD discount on the purchase of one of ...
Date: 8 Mar 2008 22:03 | 17 comments
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According to the Financial Times, Sony is currently in talks with Microsoft about a having the company offer an internal Blu-ray drive model of the Xbox 360 console.
Microsoft had backed ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 21:03 | 58 comments
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Image Entertainment has announced that it has canceled its upcoming HD DVD releases and added that it was dropping HD DVD completely to focus on Blu-ray.
Image is one of the biggest suppliers ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 20:03 | 7 comments
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Circuit City has tripled the period in which a customer can return a HD DVD player from the previous and standard 30 days to 90 days. The move is made at a time when the industry is moving rapidly ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 21:03 | 8 comments
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Samsung has announced that it has canceled the upcoming BD-UP5500 Blu-ray/HD DVD hybrid player and attributed the decision directly to Toshiba's decision to drop the format.
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Date: 6 Mar 2008 19:03 | 4 comments
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Blue Underground, a giant distributor of cult and horror movies on DVD has announced that they will begin releasing their titles on Blu-ray later this year.
There was no word on which titles ...
Date: 5 Mar 2008 23:03 | 15 comments
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Sonic has announced that Global Digital Media Xchange (GDMX), an Authoring facility, will be using "Sonic's Scenarist HDMV and BD-J authoring and CineVision AVC video encoding systems" to ramp ...
Date: 5 Mar 2008 23:03 | 1 comment
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Things aren't looking too bad in the High Definition front for early HD DVD adopters or other HD enthusiasts. In the wake of Toshiba's announcement to drop HD DVD a number of lucrative deals have surfaced.
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Date: 5 Mar 2008 08:03 | 47 comments
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Toshiba CEO Atsutoshi Nishida has finally talked out about his company's decision to drop HD DVD and went as far as to say that the format did not "stand a chance" following Warner's decision ...
Date: 4 Mar 2008 22:03 | 44 comments
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The High Definition optical disc format war is over. You've read it here and elsewhere, and while some are upset that Blu-ray won, the overwhelming consensus is that a single format is best ...
Date: 3 Mar 2008 08:03 | 45 comments
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Although Blu-ray officially won the HD format war last week, in a pretty funny ironic twist, "American Gangster",an HD DVD-only Title was the top selling HD disc for the week, beating out new ...
Date: 2 Mar 2008 23:03 | 16 comments
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It seems Dreamworks has gotten the OK from Toshiba to drop HD DVD because they have cancelled all upcoming HD DVD titles including the anticipated "Bee Movie" that was set for release in North ...
Date: 2 Mar 2008 19:03 | 9 comments
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Dreamworks Studios has announced that they are still "locked" into an exclusivity deal with Toshiba to distribute their movies on HD DVD only and would continue to do so until Toshiba tells them differently.
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Date: 27 Feb 2008 23:02 | 96 comments
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Sony has announced that its first Profile 2.0 Blu-ray players will be debuting this summer.
The BDP-S350 will be Sony's first new player since the demise of HD DVD last week and will feature ...
Date: 26 Feb 2008 21:02 | 72 comments
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Microsoft has announced that will stop producing its HD DVD player add-on for the Xbox 360, citing Toshiba's end of support for the format as the key reason why.
The company said it would ...
Date: 24 Feb 2008 22:02 | 19 comments
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The high-end electronics maker Onkyo has also announced that it will be ending support for HD DVD and stopping all production of HD DVD players.
Although a couple of companies have recently ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 23:02 | 11 comments
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Contrary to other decisions by major companies, the manufacturer LG has announced it will not be dropping HD DVD and will instead remain format neutral.
"LG believes that at this present ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 23:02 | 13 comments
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Paramount has announced that it has become the final major studio to move to Blu-ray, after it had been HD DVD exclusive since last August.
"We are pleased that the industry is moving to ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 23:02 | 22 comments
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A new article by the GlobeandMail is saying that Sony paid Warner Bros. in excess of $400 million USD to drop HD DVD and move exclusively to Blu-ray.
Warner's decision, a week before this ...
Date: 22 Feb 2008 22:02 | 73 comments
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Toshiba has officially announced that the company will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. After many unofficial announcements by different sources, the company ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 10:02 | 118 comments
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Microsoft and Paramount have announced a new partnership in which the movie studio will offer films via the Live Video Store beginning on February 19th.
The first Title to hit the service ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 23:02 | 16 comments
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Despite rampant speculation and rumor, it seems that Toshiba is not dropping HD DVD, or at least not for the time being.
The corporation has released a brief press release this morning in ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 21:02 | 35 comments
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Reuters is reporting that a source within Toshiba is confirming the company is planning to drop HD DVD, and is currently in the final stages of working out their exit strategy, although the ...
Date: 17 Feb 2008 03:02 | 34 comments
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First reported by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK and later confirmed by Toshiba itself, the next-gen format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is finally over, with Toshiba planning on stopping ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 19:02 | 112 comments
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Earlier this month, Plextor Europe announced the upcoming availability of its new Blu-ray burning / HD DVD reading optical drive that uses the faster SATA interface. The Plextor PX-B920SA (pictured ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 01:02 | 12 comments
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Now that it seems that HD DVD's time is running short, Disney is running a rebate program on a good amount of its Blu-ray titles.
In a few titles, such as 'The Rock,' 'Crimson Tide' and 'Con ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 19:02 | 6 comments
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It seems that over the course of the last month, HD DVD has been taking loss after loss, but it seems the giant retailer Wal-Mart has finally put the final nail in the coffin.
The company ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 18:02 | 87 comments
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Media and analysts have speculated the future of HD DVD frequently since Warner turned Blu. During the last couple of weeks the emphasis of speculations has been on when HD DVD will lose, rather ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 12:02 | 54 comments
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Another week has gone by, and as I threatened last week I'm continuing to update the Glossary. Here are the highlights of my updates over the last week.
MPEG-4 Part 10 - MPEG-4 Part 10 ...
Date: 15 Feb 2008 02:02 | 1 comment
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In what can equate to an "I told you so", director Michael Bay has spoken out again about Blu-ray and its recent "victories" over the rival HD DVD format.
Earlier this week, both Netflix ...
Date: 14 Feb 2008 19:02 | 41 comments
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After recent announcements that Best Buy had snuffed HD DVD and that Netflix would be dropping all stock of HD DVD, the HD DVD Promotional Group took time to make a statement about the future ...
Date: 13 Feb 2008 23:02 | 35 comments
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The largest electronics chain the U.S. has announced that it will begin focusing its recommendations to customers toward Sony's Blu-ray technology, according to an article by Reuters.
"Because ...
Date: 12 Feb 2008 17:02 | 61 comments
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Apparently nobody has told companies backing HD DVD that the format war is over. According to sales figures leaked to This Week In Consumer Electronics from The NPD Group, Blu-ray standalone ...
Date: 12 Feb 2008 05:02 | 21 comments
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According to court papers filed late last week, the electronics manufacturing giant Samsung has had a class action lawsuit filed against it by early adopters of the BDP-1200 Blu-ray player which ...
Date: 11 Feb 2008 19:02 | 20 comments
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As Jamie (Dela) announced last month, the staff here at Afterdawn is working on updating some of our core content in the Glossary. Along with additions like our new Topics feature we're planning ...
Date: 7 Feb 2008 20:02 | 1 comment
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Microsoft has announced that it has cut the price of its Xbox 360 HD DVD addon by $50 USD. The price cut follows recent decisions by Toshiba to drop prices on their HD DVD players.
The new ...
Date: 6 Feb 2008 22:02 | 36 comments
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Despite a recent clearance on a wide array of HD DVD products Circuit City has said it is not going Blu-ray exclusive.
A representative did say however that the clearance price on the Toshiba ...
Date: 3 Feb 2008 23:02 | 10 comments
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In another round of price slashing, Amazon is offering over 50% off of over 100 HD DVD titles, including the ever popular 'Shaun of the Dead,' 'Elizabeth' and 'Inside Man'.
The promo was ...
Date: 3 Feb 2008 23:02 | 8 comments
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It seems that Warner's decision to go Blu-ray exclusive has swayed another one of its distribution partners to follow in its footsteps with National Geographic Presents confirming today that ...
Date: 2 Feb 2008 21:02 | 57 comments
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Sonic Solutions has announced that it will be ending all sales of its popular Scenarist authoring product for HD DVD in an effort to condense operations and put emphasis on Blu-ray and digital ...
Date: 30 Jan 2008 21:01 | 16 comments
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After the dissapointment of being outsold by Blu-ray players more than 10:1 a week earlier, HD DVD standalone player sales rebounded for the week ending January 19, 2008 to comprise around 1/3 ...
Date: 30 Jan 2008 03:01 | 61 comments
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In case there was any question of Toshiba's commitment to HD DVD technology, it should be put to rest now with the announcement that the company has bought a 30 second ad during the Super Bowl ...
Date: 29 Jan 2008 07:01 | 29 comments
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Woolworths has announced that beginning in March it will no longer sell HD DVD movies in its stores and will instead be Blu-ray exclusive.
The company cited Christmas sales as a main reason ...
Date: 29 Jan 2008 03:01 | 36 comments
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Ever since movie giant Warner Brothers defected and sided with the Blu-ray camp, its been an uphill battle for those involved with rival HD-DVD. Just weeks after the announcement of WB switching ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 20:01 | 58 comments
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Earlier this morning, at an event in Beijing, the video card maker ATI announced that they will be incorporating Blu-ray and HD DVD playback support into their upcoming low end video cards.
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Date: 23 Jan 2008 23:01 | 3 comments
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In an interview with BetaNews, Universal Studios executive vice president and co-president of the HD DVD Promotional Group Ken Graffeo has said that despite rampant rumors the struggling format ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 21:01 | 106 comments
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According to the NPD Group's latest report, Blu-ray players have taken a massive leap in market share. In december Blu-ray players held 60 percent of the high-definition player market, the week ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 11:01 | 70 comments
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So far, over six thousand HD DVD fans have signed an online petition that is urging, maybe pleading, for Warner Home Entertainment to reconsider its decision to drop the next gen format in favor of Blu-ray.
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Date: 21 Jan 2008 23:01 | 70 comments
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Mirroring their decision to cut prices in the US, Toshiba has announced they will be cutting prices for their HD DVD players in the UK as well. The company also talked about new marketing initiatives ...
Date: 19 Jan 2008 22:01 | 7 comments
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Toshiba Corp. has sent OEM orders for blank, re-writeable HD DVD media to one of Tawian's largest producers of blank optical discs, RITEK. DigiTimes cites Chinese-language publication Economic ...
Date: 16 Jan 2008 05:01 | 13 comments
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In response to several studios backing the Blu-ray format exclusively over the past couple of weeks, Toshiba Corp. has slashed the prices of its HD DVD player line-up by 40% - 50%, according ...
Date: 14 Jan 2008 21:01 | 57 comments
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In probably the largest next-gen disc sale to date, Amazon is offering up to 57 percent off on over 300 HD DVD and Blu-ray titles.
The promotions were both launched today by the e-tailer ...
Date: 13 Jan 2008 23:01 | 17 comments
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Despite the apparent coup for Blu-ray in convincing Warner Bros. to join their side shortly before this year's CES conference, Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins is confident it won't have ...
Date: 13 Jan 2008 05:01 | 20 comments
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RITEK was showing off several of its new innovative products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this week. Among the new products was a disc that contained BD-R on one ...
Date: 13 Jan 2008 01:01 | 5 comments
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Despite a widely spread rumor fueled by a quote in Variety, Universal Studios has officially dismissed the rumor that it will be dropping HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray.
"Contrary to unsubstantiated ...
Date: 10 Jan 2008 23:01 | 24 comments
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Maxell Corporation of America has unveiled a lens cleaner for HD DVD and Blu-ray hardware, aimed at prolonging the life and quality of HD DVD and Blu-ray products. The cleaner features a patented ...
Date: 10 Jan 2008 06:01 | 1 comment
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Paramount Pictures has publicly denied The Financial Times' report that it is following in the footsteps of Warner Bros. and abandoning HD DVD.
"Paramount's current plan is to continue to ...
Date: 9 Jan 2008 21:01 | 18 comments
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On Sunday, the electronics giant Toshiba revealed that sales of HD DVD standalone players had reached 1 million units sold in North America for 2007. Sales included all HD DVD branded drives ...
Date: 8 Jan 2008 20:01 | 21 comments
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According to BetaNews, after the Blu-ray press conference at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Warner Bros. President Ron Sanders answered a question everyone has been wondering, whether Warner ...
Date: 8 Jan 2008 14:01 | 15 comments
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According to a Financial Times report, Paramount and DreamWorks Animation may be ready to drop support for the HD DVD format following last week's shock announcement that Warner Bros. would ...
Date: 8 Jan 2008 06:01 | 47 comments
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Despite the fact that it canceled its CES press conference in light of recent news, Toshiba still went on ahead and announced the introduction of the first ever notebook with a HD DVD-R/RW drive.
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Date: 7 Jan 2008 22:01 | 12 comments
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Despite the apparent optimism from studios and the consumer electronics industry, U.S. retailers aren't satisified with the growth of either Blu-ray or HD DVD in 2007. While sales were up from ...
Date: 7 Jan 2008 16:01 | 16 comments
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In response to yesterday's news that Warner Bros. had decided to go Blu-ray exclusive, the HD DVD Promotional Group has announced they have canceled their upcoming CES press conference.
The ...
Date: 5 Jan 2008 22:01 | 75 comments
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With the increase in available Blu-ray and HD DVD titles both formats are seeing increased visibility in stores. Blu-ray with more releases and higher Title sales than HD DVD, is also gaining ...
Date: 5 Jan 2008 20:01 | 57 comments
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With CES 2008 set to begin next week, rumors have flared up again all over the internet that Bill Gates will be including an Xbox 360 announcement at the end of his keynote.
According to ...
Date: 1 Jan 2008 23:01 | 33 comments
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Venturer's SHD7001 standalone HD DVD player has finally become available in the UK on the shopping channel QVC for £169.62.
The SHD7001 offers 1080i output as well as Dolby TrueHD (5.1 channel) ...
Date: 29 Dec 2007 23:12 | 7 comments
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According to a company press release, Amazon had strong sales for next-gen disc players, helping the e-tailer to its best holiday shopping season ever.
Amazon even went as far as to say that ...
Date: 27 Dec 2007 23:12 | 20 comments
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Following the recent trends on HD DVD sales, Amazon is offering a "buy one, get one free" (BOGO) deal on HD DVD discs from Universal and Warner.
The promotion began today and lists 39 popular ...
Date: 26 Dec 2007 23:12 | 8 comments
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Best Buy has begun offering a year end "buy two get one free" deal on HD DVD discs.
The company is advertising over 200 eligible discs, meaning most, if not all, of the HD DVD movies the ...
Date: 23 Dec 2007 23:12 | 7 comments
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