When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It may be more wishful thinking than anything else, but Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, whose highly ...

Two new DVD formats are due out soon; one from Sony and one from Toshiba. The companies are battling for supremacy in the high-definition market. But what does it mean for the consumer? Is it time to ...

Discover the surprising reasons why HD-DVD was technically superior to Blu-Ray and how Sony's strategic moves ultimately led ...

Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and ...

Marketplace's Tess Vigeland talks about Paramount's decision to release its movies on the next generation of DVD technology. The formats are called BluRay Disc and HD-DVD, and Paramount is the first ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The peace talks failed. Toshiba made it clear last week that no unified format for a ...

LAS VEGAS--The battle over next-generation DVD formats heated up late Thursday as groups supporting two incompatible and competing technologies introduced new partners and revealed further details of ...

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, ...

[Nota bene: What follows in an opinion piece, offered in the spirit of discussion and debate. It represents the opinion of one author, and not necessarily Ars Technica or any Ars staff member. Ars has ...

In a dramatic turn, Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation vowed exclusive support of HD DVD, a year after declaring they would release movies in both next-generation disc formats. By ...

With thousands of DVD recorders and DVD recordable computer drives set to be given as gifts this holiday season, one of the most confusing things has to be the multiple formats under which these ...