March 10 — Blu-ray Disc-supporter LG Electronics surprises the industry with news that it’s developing an HD DVD drive. March 31 — Toshiba launches the world’s first HD DVD player, the HD-XA1.

The difference in storage space is huge: regular DVDs can hold 4.7GB of music, movies, and other data, while Blu-ray can carry 25GB of data and HD-DVD, 15GB.

Parsons says that HD-DVD’s cost advantage will amount to only “pennies” per disc over the Blu-Ray format). (add hard return here as well) “Unlike Blu-Ray discs, HD-DVD discs can be manufactured with ...

Here's another punch thrown in the ongoing Blu-ray vs HD-DVD format war. Tomorrow at 8 am, Wal-Mart is offering a "secret sale" of a Toshiba HD A2 HD-DVD player for a rock-bottom price of $98.87 ...

We don't know for sure when Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burners are coming to the UK (though the clever money is on Q4 or perhaps earlier for HD DVD), and we don't know how much they'll cost either.

Sept. 21 — Sony announces the PlayStation 3 will use Blu-ray Disc. Nov. 29 — Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO and New Line Cinema announce support for HD DVD.

Blu-ray Disc Association The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced the Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K) specification is now complete and has also revealed the next-gen format's official logo.

HD-DVD players for movies are likely to be on the market before the end of 2005 before comparable Blu-ray Disc movie players, according to current commercialization plans.

Last winter, a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive would have set you back a thousand dollars or more. The new LG drive I looked at costs $399, and because it supports both formats it's future-proof.

The image quality of early BD disk releases have been beaten up badly, but it's difficult to place blame on the machine. Blu-ray is having problems perfecting dual layering so the largest commercial ...

Just a month ago, home theater enthusiasts were clamoring Samsung's soon-to-be released BD-UP5000 HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player, which promised high-end features like HQV processing and the ability ...

One of the main backers of the Blu-ray Disc format, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics plans to release an optical disc player this year that will play both Blu-ray Disc and the rival HD DVD ...