It was 20 years ago this month that consumer electronics companies Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format called Digital Video Disc, or DVD. The format promised a four-fold increase in ...

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, ...

While VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray were the dominant physical video formats of their eras, other lesser-known, experimental formats ...

Replay: It's long been a dream to have one home video format to rule them all. Unfortunately everybody has the same idea, and so format wars are inevitable. Phil Rhodes takes a further look at the ...

With the release of the ="https: www.cnet.com="" tech="" gaming="" "="">PlayStation 3 and other HD players some people have already made their choice, but it's still too early to predict an outright ...

For creation, playback, and storage of high-quality educational content, from video and audio to graphics and animation, nothing beats the DVD-Video format. The latest buzzword in disc technology is ...

A Chinese industry consortium is moving forward with plans to launch its own high-definition disc format, and the group has announced the beginning of volume production by the end of the year, ...

Physical media is dead. Well, at least that's the saying. Tens of millions of units of physical music titles still move each year, with even CDs selling respectably despite more vinyl records being ...

Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. said Friday that the DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, has approved the two Japanese companies' standard for next-generation ...

Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation on Monday vowed exclusive support of HD DVD, a year after declaring they would release movies in both next-generation disc formats.The move will ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association has released its final specifications for BDXL, the new multilayer recordable Blu-ray disc format that offers up to 128GB of capacity. Manufacturers can now obtain ...