Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and ...

In a city built on wagering, the smart money is staying on the sidelines when it comes to the battle between two high-definition DVD formats. The first shots between Blu-ray, backed by a Sony-led ...

The two groups striving to make their respective formats the standard for rewritable DVDs used this week's Consumer Electronics Show as an opportunity to demonstrate their progress. At separate, ...

Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended to make the storage devices as easy to use as current CD burners and ...

The fuzzy future of high-definition DVD came into sharper focus Friday after Warner Bros. said it would release movies for the home video market exclusively on the Blu-ray disc format. The decision, ...

People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching “Spider-Man 3” in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will be available only in the ...

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CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet.

Two decades after its splashy debut at CES, Blu-ray is still spinning in living rooms, even as streaming dominates the way ...

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. By ...