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HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter
Just when Blu-ray thought it had clear sailing, a tempest has risen in the East: China Blue Hi-definition Disk (CBHD). Toshiba has licensed its HD DVD to them and it will be the unit world leader...
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News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good...
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Research firm challenges supposed popularity of HD-DVD format
The recent survey by Harris Interactive, which suggested that HD-DVD continues to be roughly as popular as Blu-ray, has met with some controversy over its methodology. In fact, I received a...
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Holy Betamax, Batman! Blu-ray is still barely beating out HD-DVD
It appears Blu-ray being the "winner" of the high-def DVD wars early last year hasn't led to mass adoption—or even delivered a knockout blow to the "loser," HD-DVD. According to a study just...
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Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucks
t's a Friday (again!) so that means time for another Friday Rant! Today a cautionary tale for those of you buying HD DVD players and discs.
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The strange journey of HD disc formats
THe battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is firmly in the category of "old news." With the shift of Warner Brothers to the Blu-ray camp and the domino effect in terms of industry support that...
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Best Buy gives poor HD-DVD buyers some gift card balm
Best Buy said Wednesday that it will send a $50 gift card to any poor soul that bought a HD-DVD player. The tally will run about $10 million in gift cards, says Best Buy in a statement. So if you...
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Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?
As everyone already knows, the HD disc format war is over, resolved in true domino fashion by Warner Brothers' decision to back Blu-ray exclusively. Most of the studios in the HD DVD camp have now...
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Of DVDs and documents
In their marketing claims around getting OOXML anointed as an International Standard, Microsoft says that more standards mean greater consumer choice. But sometimes less is more. We only have to...
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Is Toshiba's HD-DVD laptop feeling blue?
Now that HD-DVD has imploded, I've been wondering what will happen to the company's highly-rated Qosmio G45, the first laptop in the U.S. to offer an HD-DVD player and recorder. Now comes word...
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What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-ray
Our friends over at Wired have started a how-to wiki, explaining how to convert one's HD DVDs to Blu-ray - provided you have a Blu-ray burner on hand, and don't mind breaking a law or two (since...
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16.3 mln DVDs sold 2 years after DVD was introduced, 8.3 mln HD-DVD and BluRay discs sold 2 years after introduction
According to Nielsen Media Research and Adams Media Research, the total high-def software sales for the first 2 years are only half of what standard DVD sales were for their first 2 years. There...
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News to know: Vista SP1 benchmarks; HP; Wireless price wars; Apple; Yahoo
Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here AT&T matches Verizon: Welcome to the wireless price wars Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...
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HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?
On the face of it Toshiba's HD DVD format had a lot going for it. What went wrong? They had parity - or better - with Blu-ray: First to market with a high-def player by 3-6 months A great...
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Ding, dong, HD DVD is dead
Wow, that didn't take long. In just over six weeks HD DVD went from underdog to dead dog, with Toshiba making it official today - it will no longer "develop, manufacture and market HD DVD...
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HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on top
The high-definition DVD wars are over and Blu-ray is the winner. While it doesn't happen very often, in this case the technically superior choice won out over the cheaper and first-to-market...
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Gallery: Cracking open a Toshiba HD DVD player
Since the Toshiba HD-A30 is the pinnacle of HD DVD set-top boxes and might be the last production HD DVD drive ever, I thought I’d crack it open and take a look inside.
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Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player
Updated 3:00AM - By now the news is out that the end of HD DVD might be near since Toshiba is considering its options that may include the possibility of stopped production on HD DVD products is...
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Toshiba delivers its Betamax address
Toshiba officially dropped its plans for HD DVD Tuesday after Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Netflix and a parade of others abandoned the high-definition video format for Sony's Blu-ray. The statement...
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Toshiba drops HD DVD
So, Toshiba has finally given up on HD DVD, leaving the field open to Blu-ray.
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