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Toshiba has announced that it will be joining the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) which is the final chapter to the format war of HD-DVD vs Blu-ray. Toshiba who was the largest heavy-hitter backing the...

Three years ago at E3 2006, Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, announced a Xbox 360 HD DVD player that was capable of playing HD-DVD's. After the bloody war between HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs was...

The next-generation format war has been quite the bitter battle, but it's obvious which format has come out on top. HD DVD is effectively dead, much to dismay of its major supporters. This must also...

Toshiba said on Tuesday it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony. The decision ends...

Shares in Toshiba have gained more than 5% as speculation intensified that the electronics giant is set to scrap its high definition DVD format, HD DVD. The firm said it was reviewing its business strategies,...

LG recently released its dual Blu-Ray / HD-DVD player (the BH200) better known as "Super Blu". Today at CES, we got a close look at it in action and we were impressed. Priced at...

Home Media Research, a division of Home Media Magazine, has found that from January 1 through September 30, total U.S. sales of Sony's Blu-ray discs amounted to 2.6 million units compared with Toshiba's 1.4 million...

In a surprising twist in the nex-gen format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, Paramount Studios and Dreamworks Animation have announced today that they will exclusively support the HD-DVD format on a worldwide basis. This exclusive...

Blu-ray high-definition movie discs outsold films on the rival HD-DVD format by 2-to-1 in the United States in the first half of 2007, Home Media Research said on Tuesday. The division of Home Media Magazine...

Toshiba are to cut the estimated year end estimated sales of HD-DVD players by 44% it has emerged, lowering sales expectations from 1.8million standalone devices to 1 million in the US. Speaking about the impact...

WalMart is known for being able to majorly cut its prices thanks to mass production for a wide range of products. Now that I think of it, my first DVD player was from WalMart, purchased...

In a shock move Toshiba have slashed the price of many of their HD-DVD players in the US, effective immediately. They labelled the move a "strategic action". The reduction sees its entry level player priced...

The high definition battle is starting to heat up. Completely ignoring the hybrid disc and player alternatives, Sony and Toshiba are stepping up their fire power with more high definition players (Toshiba just released a...

Buffalo will be launching the HDV-ROM2.4FB at the end of this month. Officially this HD-DVD drive (OEMed by Toshiba) will be the world's first HD-DVD drive for PCs. Some high-end PCs already shipped with HD-DVD...

Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a HD-DVD disc that will play on a conventional DVD player. It's a dual-layer disc that can store 15GB of high-resolution HD-DVD data on one layer and 4.7GB of standard...

As a result of the complexities of decoding HD DVD audio and video content, as well as providing a user interface and DRM, over 4.7 million lines of code went into the HD DVD software....

Microsoft has started designing a new-generation of Xbox 360's equipped with an internal HD-DVD drive and is selecting manufacturers in Taiwan to build the drive, according to sources in Taiwan's optical disc drive (ODD) industry....

Takashi Sensui, General Manager Xbox Japan, has suggested that Microsoft currently have no plans to incorporate the forthcoming HD-DVD drive internally within Xbox 360 units, but did suggest that this could be a possibility if...

Xbox 360, while powerful on its own, is also a foundation from which new technology and accessories can be added. Chief among these is the recently announced HD DVD add-on. This much anticipated accessory carries...

By now we all know that Toshiba has released its HD-DVD drive to the wild. Some people didn't care, while others had to be the first to own one. For Lorin Thwaits, being among the...

Confused? You should be. While many dedicated Neowin members may already be caught up on the facts regarding next generation high definition home movie disc formats, there are still many people on the outside looking...

Limited shipments of the first nextgen DVD player, Toshiba's HD-A1 HD-DVD player, have started to slowly hit store shelves. Most noteably, in the United States, Best Buy locations received small inital shipments, with BestBuy.com ...

Toshiba have announced the delay of their HD-DVD players in the US. They said that the players will now be released in April so that it can synchronise the release with film releases from Hollywood...

1UP.com is reporting that Microsoft's corporate VP Peter Moore announced at CES that the company will be releasing an external HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360. Using this drive, you will be able to watch...

Microsofthas cleared up speculation regarding possible HD-DVD functionality infuture versions of the Xbox 360, saying that it currently has no plansto release an Xbox 360 equipped with a next-generation DVD player. The unusually direct statement...

Paramount Home Entertainment has decided to offer its films in both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats, becoming the first major content provider to publicly support both next generation media types. With consumers being left to choose...

In the latest chapter of the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD saga, Microsoft and Intel have announced their backing of Toshiba's HD-DVD standard. Stephen Balogh, Intel's director of optical media standards and technologies, stated "We (Intel) wanted to...

The US launch of the HD-DVD format won't take place until early next year according to one Toshiba official, and a lack of coordination between hardware and software partners is to blame. The official...

Today at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, NAB2005, Warner Bros. Studios and Microsoft Corp. announced their plans to collaborate on the release of a broad range of next-generation HD DVD discs using Windows Media®...