As I mentioned in the magazine a few weeks back, HD DVD is here. I’m not just taking the word of the people at Toshiba, NBC Universal and Warner Home Video, either. I have experienced it first-hand, ...

When a trio of new HD DVD players popped up on Amazon.com last week, the question wasn't so much, "Are they real?" as "How are they different from the existing models?" Toshiba clarified the issue ...

Berlin, Germany, IFA — Toshiba has announced the launch of Europe's firstcommercially available stand-alone HD DVD players, launching a new era of high definition home entertainment and marking the ...

HD DVD is undoubtedly suffering from a lack of support, both from movie studios and hardware manufacturers not called Toshiba. Tosh is totally committed to its format, however, and intends to release ...

In a not-so-surprising turn, standalone HD DVD players have regained their lead on Blu-ray sales in September, giving the overall year-to-date figures (in which HD DVD has always been ahead) as 53% HD ...

Toshiba, pioneer of the High Definition DVD format, says it will join the Blu-Ray brigade. PC Magazine editor Lance Ulanoff makes a bid for your attention. Sponsor Message Unidentified Announcer: The ...

Analysts aren't surprised that Toshiba abandoned HD DVD just one month after vowing to fight on and cut player prices in the wake of Warner Bros.' surprising early January defection to the Blu-ray ...

Toshiba Corp. plans to launch its first two HD-DVD players in the U.S. market in March of this year, the company said Wednesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show show in Las Vegas. The ...

Toshiba became the first company to ship a high-definition DVD player, the HD-XA1, an HD-DVD player that’s now available in Japanese stores for $940. Even though content for the player is nearly ...

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.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. DVD players first entered the scene in 1996 in Japan. The capacity of the original DVD (Digital Video Disc), single-sided, single-layer DVD-1, ...