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Bought HD DVD? You May Get A Refund

ABC News | Ashley Phillips | Posted 03.09.2008 | Business


If you bought an HD DVD player before the technology became outdated last month, you won't be stuck with a technological dinosaur -- at least if you b...

Microsoft Pulls Plug on HD DVD Players

AP | Posted 02.24.2008 | Business


SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definiti...

DVDs: Long Live Blu-Ray!

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.24.2008 | Entertainment


Michael Giltz

If the studios think we're all going to happily replace our library of movies and TV shows on DVD with Blu-Ray, they are in for a rude awakening.

Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 02.19.2008 | Business


TOKYO — Toshiba's decision to no longer develop, make or market high-definition HD DVD players and recorders will mean consumers can start feeli...

Toshiba May Pull Plug on HD DVD Format

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 02.17.2008 | Business


TOKYO — Toshiba may pull the plug on its HD DVD business, the Japanese electronics maker said Monday, in what would signal the almost certain de...

Report: Toshiba May End HD DVD Format

AP | Posted 02.17.2008 | Business


TOKYO — Japanese electronics maker Toshiba might withdraw its HD DVD next-generation video format, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday. The rep...

Blu-Ray Squeezing Out HD DVD

TG Daily | Mark Raby | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business


Last week, Blu-ray had its best week ever with 85% of the high-def disc market share, according to trade publication Home Media Magazine. Since the b...

Toshiba Refuses To Surrender After Setbacks In HD-DVD Versus Blu-Ray War

Information Week | Antone Gonsalves | Posted 01.14.2008 | Business


Toshiba, which recently suffered a major setback in its fight to dominate the high-definition movie format for DVDs, on Monday dropped the prices of i...

CES: The Final Roundup

SeekingAlpha | Eric Savitz | Posted 01.13.2008 | Business


So that's it. The Consumer Electronics Show ended Thursday in Las Vegas. Not much happens Thursday; it's the day for exhibitors to cruise each other's...

Blu-Ray's Big Triumph At Gadget Show

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business


The International Consumer Electronics Show is turning out to be a celebration party for Blu-ray, the high-definition format that Sony Corp. backed, a...

Walloped Toshiba Whimpers About Saving HD DVD

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business


Still reeling from Warner Bros.'s decision to abandon its its HD DVD format for Sony's Blu-ray, Toshiba did its best to put on a brave face at a CES p...

WB To Use Blu-Ray Exclusively For DVDs

AP | Alex Veiga | Posted 01.04.2008 | Business


Warner Bros. Entertainment said Friday it will release high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format, becoming the latest studio to reje...

Do Apple's Macs Need Blu-ray?

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 01.04.2008 | Business


Will Steve Jobs jump into the silly hi-def DVD format war? Some analysts -- most recently AmTech's Shaw Wu -- expect Jobs to spend some of his Macworl...

Wal-Mart Decides HD Format Wars

Ron Galloway | Posted 11.05.2007 | Business


Ron Galloway

In technical terms, Blu-Ray is probably superior to HD-DVD. Then again, so was Betamax. Sony is doomed to repeat the past.