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In case you hadn’t heard, and you probably have, Blu-ray has come out on top over HD-DVD in the new age video consumer marketplace.
I thought that the higher prices for Blu-ray DVD players would work against it, but the superior technology and the always important “look-and-feel” quotient...
Read More | Mar 26th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Mar 27th, 2008
Who could forget DVD Jon, the Linux guru who was co-author of DeCSS? This Linux application 'unlocked' DVDs with content otherwise protected by Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption and landed DVD Jon in front of a judge. Which did not stop him from continuing his quest to free audiovisual...
Read More | Feb 19th, 2008
So it would appear that the long and bloody war between the next-generation of high definition DVD formats is coming to a close, with word on the grapevine suggesting that the HD DVD commander-in-chief Toshiba is ready to surrender. While there will be the inevitable continuation of small...
Read More | Feb 18th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Feb 20th, 2008
Warner Brothers certainly has a lot of weight to throw around the consumer technology - and their latest move landed squarely on increasingly frustrated HD-DVD providers.
In a move that signals a tectonic shift in the consumer video industry, Warner Bros. Entertainment announced last week that it...
Read More | Jan 7th, 2008
The DVD format war continues, with neither side determined to give up. So who seems to be winning now? Well, this article seems to claim that Blu-ray is winning, and will soon displace HD-DVD, as were a number of other articles I read in the last few days on the internet. This particular quote...
Read More | Mar 17th, 2007 | Comments: 6 | Last Comment: Mar 21st, 2007
If you didn't think that Sony was taking this bitter DVD format war seriously, you can be almost sure of it now. According to PC World, Sony is planning a new Blu-Ray player that would "cost $400 less than current models."
I laugh at the irony of it. Sony's already getting worried that they might...
Read More | Feb 26th, 2007
In response to this article, claiming that the DVD format war may soon be over, I highly doubt it. In the article:
They go on further to state that hybrid players coming from Warner Brothers and LG will bridge the gap between Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Well, it's just not going to happen. There's...
Read More | Jan 4th, 2007
