If current schedules hold, the battle will not begin at least until later this year, and won't start to impact most supermarket customers until hardware prices come down to mass market levels, which ...

With the major studios more equally divided than ever between Blu-ray and HD DVD camps, will it be independent suppliers who determine the outcome of the format war? A small number of indie distribs ...

LAS VEGAS — It was supposed to be the grand unveiling of a new generation in home entertainment when Kevin Collins of Microsoft Corp. popped an HD DVD disc into a Toshiba production model and hit ...

For Blu-ray, the format war has turned into one of those epic quests you see in badly dubbed martial arts movies. Sure, its kung fu was too good for rival HD DVD to overcome. But hold on to those ...

TOKYO -- A format war is brewing between two competing successors to DVD. In late November, four major studios -- Universal, Paramount, Warner and New Line -- said they would endorse the HD DVD format ...

BERLIN--Chances looked slim that consumers will be spared a DVD format war, as the backers of one standard said on Friday there was no common ground for a unified format and it was on track for a ...

Sony 360 Reality Audio vs. Dolby Atmos Music may seem like a kinder, gentler format war. But it's part of a broader competition involving MPEG-H 3D Audio for the music & digital broadcast TV markets.| ...

There’s no question that the next-generation DVD, high-definition format war has been a detriment to consumers. Ever since Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD movies and hardware came to market in 2006, the cloud ...

An industry group has approved a standard for the next generation of DVD players, but the move could be just the first skirmish in a future format war. The Tokyo-based DVD Forum has given its nod to a ...

After posters have resorted to physical threats from Blu-ray and HD DVD zealots, the popular AVS Forum community site has had to completely shut down the Blu-ray and HD DVD section of its site for the ...