SHANGHAI -- The Blu-ray/HD-DVD war is over, right? Maybe not in China. Shanghai United Optical Disc said Tuesday that it has completed the first production line for China Blue High-definition Disc. By ...

Port Washington, N.Y. — Among those who currently own HDTVs, 52 percent are familiar with the availability of high-definition DVD players, but only 11 percent expressed strong intentions to buy one in ...

— -- The end of the high-definition disc war seems in sight, say industry observers, with major studio Warner Bros. jumping to the Blu-ray Disc camp and leaving the competing HD DVD format with a ...

Warner Bros. gave its dual-format high-definition disc, called Total Hi Def (THD), a formal sendoff at International CES. Several days prior to the show, Warner Bros. announced plans to begin ...

LAS VEGAS -- The Blu-ray disc, the high-definition successor to the DVD, was one of the few products that did well in the just-ended holiday season, with sales tripling from the previous year. The ...

A bust in 2006, the big showdown between two competing high-definition disc standards finally started to look like the “format war” it was billed as. At the Consumer Electronics Show last month, for ...

In early 2006, two new high-definition videodisc formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, are expected to begin vying for the attention of consumers in an effort to replace current DVD as the future standard ...

The next-generation DVD format war looks to be one of attrition, with ground gained one day and lost the next for both sides. Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD technologies both offer dramatically ...

A majority of U.S. households now know what a Blu-ray Disc is, while the number of households with a high-definition disc player has crossed the 10 million threshold, a new study shows. The study, ...

Next-generation high-definition (HD) optical disc players will differ in many ways from the functionality and performance of today’s standard-definition DVD-Video players. The good news is that ...

When Toshiba announced its new XDE DVD player promising it could convert the picture quality of standard DVDs up to the high definition, industry watchers took note. The company has been a champion of ...

Consumers will have access to the first 50GB Blu-ray disc, which boasts twice the capacity of a regular disc, when Sony Pictures releases the Adam Sandler comedy "Click" on Tuesday. "Click" is one of ...