One standard outlasted the other, but initially, the more unpopular one had a few neat advantages.

The format war that could have changed home entertainment forever.

OK, the the title is a tad-bit deceiving. It's been almost a year now since I wrote my popular yet controversial diatribe on the demise of the competing high definition DVD formats. I wrote the ...

We have been saying it for ages, but now it’s official. HD DVD has been pronounced dead on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, even before the press conference has started, according to our Ichiroo, from ...

With the release of the PlayStation 3 and other HD players some people have already made their choice, but it’s still too early to predict an outright winner. Not the least of all because Paramount ...

As many of you know I have been somewhat of a critic of the high definition DVD format war. I have never understood how apparent shortsightedness and desire for short-term corporate licensing profits ...

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.

Few were surprised when Microsoft (along with Intel) announced that they would back HD DVD over Blu-ray. While Microsoft’s stance on the next-generation of optical storage media was officially neutral ...

Next year, the latest attempt to get us to upgrade our optical disc players arrives in the form of Ultra HD Blu-ray. The format promises four times the visual resolution of existing Blu-rays, and ...

The next-generation DVD format war, or the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle as it has come to be known, has been taking place, privately and publically, for more than 5-years. The competing formats were the ...

The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player. Movies and VGA cable sold separately. With all the recent events and the pending system launches, it’s almost easy to forget that Microsoft is also shipping the Xbox 360 HD ...

HD DVD has a fundamental advantage in the high-def market. When people think of high definition, they think of the abbreviation 'HD', obviously. When people think of the newest and greatest disc ...