Film studios on Wednesday will release slates of next-generation DVDs due later this year in a move to jump start a multibillion-dollar industry that risks being bogged down by a standards war.

Sixty companies took part in the forum's technical working group to develop the high-definition (HD-DVD) format, and some of them are also members of the opposing Blu-ray Disc ROM (BD-ROM) camp.

This adage is particularly appropriate in the market for consumer video formats and players. Consistently, manufacturers have been unwilling or unable to develop formats compatible over a broad range ...

Whether or not Microsoft can mount a serious challenge to Sony's market share in the console market may be almost entirely down to the outcome of the battle between the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD ...

The first movie titles delivered on next-generation high-density (HD) DVDs are due to hit the store shelves in the fourth quarter of 2005, followed closely by titles on the rival Blu-ray format.

A new DVD processor is expected to speed up the design of next-generation, Internet-enabled DVD player. Dubbed the Crystal CS98000 (98K), the device provides both the audio and video core processors ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In the battle over next generation DVDs, pornography could prove to be the XXX factor that helps determine a winner. Sign up here. Thirty years ago, VHS toppled Betamax in ...

TOKYO - The war over the next-generation DVD standard is playing out full force at a sprawling electronics exhibition opening near Tokyo Tuesday with Japanese electronics companies on both sides ...

<p>Ready for high-definition DVD? The DVD Forum has approved the new DVD HD standard developed by Toshiba and NEC. DVD HD will offer five times the storage capacity as current DVDs and its approval ...

TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Toshiba Corp. (6501.TO) formally announced Tuesday that it will discontinue its next-generation DVD business, a move that will likely close the books on what had become one of ...

Sept. 22, 2006 &#151; -- Warner Bros. recently filed a patent application for a new type of DVD that could end the next generation DVD format war before it begins. Blending aspects of the new HD DVD ...

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 ...