Japan’s Toshiba and NEC received the support of the DVD Forum in October, but it was only over the weekend that the news spread into the public domain. Last year, the two companies pitched their ...

OK, the the title is a tad-bit deceiving. It's been almost a year now since I wrote my popular yet controversial diatribe on the demise of the competing high definition DVD formats. I wrote the ...

Intel announced on Tuesday its official backing for Toshiba’s next-generation HD DVD format, which is set to go head-to-head with Sony’s Blu-ray in a replay of the rivalry a generation ago between VHS ...

At its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft plans to demonstrate software and to provide technical documentation for incorporating the DVD+RW format into its Windows ...

Back in 1997, a few years after video game consoles and computers had fully embraced CD-ROM technology, a new optical format standard known as DVD-RAM was finalized. By 1998, the drives and discs were ...

The battle over the next generation of DVD players just got another entrant: the virtual multilayer disc (VMD). VMD is a high quality format with built-in copyright protection designed for ...

It could be déjà vu (or better yet, Betamax vs. VHS again), but two competing formats for HD-quality DVDs are about to start confusing American consumers in earnest. One format, known simply as ...