Tag: HD-DVD

Blu-ray may be winning the publicity war, (and possibly the sales war, too), but when it comes to in-disc extras, HD-DVD is winning, at least as shown by some impressive demos from two of its lead proponents. At a presentation yesterday, Toshiba and Microsoft reps showed off some of these new features, along with some hot new movies, like '300,' which is hitting both HD-DVD and Blu-ray in the ...

HD-DVD or Blu-ray? It may have just gotten a little easier to decide between one of the two high-definition DVD formats: Today, Blockbuster announced it would offer only Blu-ray movies for rental, starting in July. (Apparently, 70 percent of users rented Blu-ray over HD-DVD in a recent trial at some of the Blockbuster stores.) This could be the end for HD-DVD, since Blockbuster has 1,450 stores ...

The battle between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD rages on, and at least one product just got a little cheaper. Pioneer just announced that it will be bringing its BDC-2202 Blu-ray drive to the U.S. in June, for a rather low price of $299 (most Blu-ray drives out there cost about twice as much, if not more). It can read BD-ROM discs at up to 5x, and dual-layer discs at 2x speeds. Now, you'll need to ...

You may remember our story about Digg users getting all in a tizzy and posting -- a few thousand times -- the key to crack HD-DVD copy protection. Well now the AACS, who provide the copy protection for HD-DVDs, has reacted by saying "a line has been crossed." AACS is prepping "legal and technical" steps to prevent people from circumventing the copy protection on HD-DVD discs. It is also worth ...

In case you're unfamiliar, Digg is social bookmarking website. Users submit stories and then vote to "digg" or "bury" them. The most popular stories end up on the front page. This puts the power at Digg firmly in the users' hands much like at YouTube and other "Web 2.0" sites. User power at Digg was put to the test when someone submitted a story that contained a magic little number, a ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that over one million Blu-ray discs have been sold, giving it a full 70% share of all high-definition disc sales. Since last year, Blu-ray and HD-DVD have gone head-to-head in a race to be the next High Definition digital video format. Each brings HD video and audio, but Blu-ray promises more storage space for high-def DVD extras, while HD DVD touts ...