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Home Theater
July 27, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Blu-ray Up, DVD Down The numbers for home entertainment spending are in from the Digital Entertainment Group. Blu-ray and downloads are up, DVD is down, and when you add it all together, overall spending is slightly down.   |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Battle For DVD Format Unfolds Film studio Paramount Home Entertainment said it would embrace the Blu-ray format backed by a group led by Sony. |
Home Theater
June 8, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Redbox Gets the Blus The wizards behind the red kiosks will charge $1.50 per movie. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Double Dose Of Bad News For HD DVD Best Buy and Netflix have turned their back on HD DVD. |
InternetNews
June 19, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Blockbuster Picks Blu-Ray Over HD DVD Finally, someone picks a side in the format war. Can HD DVD recover? |
Home Theater
August 20, 2007 |
Paramount, DreamWorks Dump BD for HD DVD Two major studios have announced that they're dumping Sony's Blu-ray format for Toshiba's HD DVD. It looks as though both formats are likely to be around for the foreseeable future. |
Home Theater
January 4, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Warner Goes Blu Warner Bros., which until now has released titles on both Blu-ray and HD DVD, will release Blu-ray-only from now on. |
Home Theater
December 14, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Disney Has Another Way To Blu DVD owners can get BDs for a small fee and get to keep their DVDs. |
Home Theater
June 29, 2009 |
Will Toshiba Support Blu-ray? Toshiba may be contemplating a move into Blu-ray. If it happens, the move would be quite a turnaround for the company that developed Blu-ray's superb competitor HD DVD. |
Home Theater
February 21, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Paramount Returns to Blu-ray This week's long round of goodbyes continues with Paramount's announcement that it will resume releasing in Blu-ray after a brief hiatus of HD DVD exclusivity. |
Home Theater
February 11, 2008 |
Netflix Vows to Be True Blu Netflix will drop HD DVD and stock its virtual shelves exclusively with Blu-ray discs. |
Home Theater
November 13, 2007 |
Stringer: Format War Stalemated The format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD is stalled in a stalemate. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2008 |
Game Over? Warner Bros To Back Blu-ray Exclusively The latest development in the DVD format war is a big win for Blu-ray over rival HD DVD technology. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix Follows Blockbuster's Blu-ray Lead Netflix decides that it will no longer buy HD-DVD discs for its DVD rental service. |
Home Theater
August 2, 2007 |
Who's Going Blu? Is the end near for HD DVD? A recent spate of bad news suggests that the format is running out of retail friends. But the situation may not be as bad as it first appears. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Target, BJ's Wholesale Go Blu-ray After staying neutral, retailers start picking sides in the HD DVD/Blu-ray format war. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Green Ogre Disses Blu-ray Paramount and DreamWorks Animation take a side in the next-generation disc platform war, both choosing to support HD-DVD, and not Blu-ray. |
Home Theater
July 20, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
It's Official: Toshiba to Go Blu Japanese newspaper says Toshiba Blu-ray player will emerge... somewhere. |
Home Theater
January 14, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Blu Shines A year after the end of the format war with HD DVD, the Blu-ray format is doing well. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2008 |
Toshiba Cuts HD Player Prices in Blu-ray Fight Toshiba is slashing prices of its HD DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp's Blu-ray format high definition DVDs. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2005
John R. Quain |
The High-Def DVD War In the seesaw battle over which high-definition DVD technology will become the next standard, two companies have finally made a commitment. |
Home Theater
April 30, 2008 |
Paramount Resumes Blu Releases "Bee Movie" will make its high-def debut on Blu-ray on May 20, one of several titles in Paramount's interrupted but now resumed Blu program. |
Home Theater
August 23, 2007 |
HD DVD Victory Dissected Tuesday's surprise announcement that Paramount and DreamWorks would drop Blu-ray for HD DVD caused quite a flutter in the home theater community. Following are a few notes in the aftermath of the PR explosion. |
Home Theater
November 1, 2007 |
Will Warner Dump HD DVD? Warner currently releases high-def DVDs in both Blu-ray and HD DVD. But the studio may be about to concentrate on Blu-ray only, an executive recently hinted. |
InternetNews
February 20, 2008 |
Amazon, Universal to Support Blu-ray Format Retailers, film studios switch allegiances following demise of HD DVD. |
Home Theater
December 21, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Warner Goes for BD and DVD Combos All new titles will be released with both Blu-ray and DVD in one package. |
Home Theater
January 31, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Blu-ray Prospers It took only a week after Warner defected to the Blu-ray camp for the latter to establish a more commanding position in the market. |
InternetNews
December 13, 2006
Erin Joyce |
Now Playing: Dell's Blu-ray Support Dell launches a high end system with Blu-ray DVD support. |
Home Theater
September 25, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Blu-ray Keeps Getting More Affordable Disc pricing down 12 percent for new titles, one-third for catalogue. |
Home Theater
April 28, 2009 |
China Develops Blu Competitor Look out, Blu-ray. You've got a new competitor in the Chinese domestic market. And it's based, in part, on your old rival HD DVD. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Intel, Microsoft Back HD DVD Intel and Microsoft opt for the HD DVD format over Sony's Blu-Ray. |
Home Theater
June 18, 2007 |
Blockbuster Says No to HD DVD Blockbuster Entertainment has picked a winner in the in the struggle of the high-def discs, choosing Blu-ray over HD DVD. Could this be the decisive moment in the format war? |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
Fool on Call: Disney's Magical Distribution Model From DVDs to iTunes, the media and entertainment group drives growth from multiple platforms. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Thank Warner Bros For Blu-ray Sales Spike? NPD cautions not to start dancing on HD DVD's grave. |
Home Theater
August 10, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Toshiba Blu-ray Coming This Year This will be the year when Toshiba introduces its first Blu-ray products. |
Home Theater
December 13, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
O High-Def DVD Format, Where Art Thou? Here are some of the latest developments in the march toward a higher definition DVD. |
Home Theater
May 11, 2009 |
Blu-ray Bucks Weak Economy Despite consumer insecurity over the dodgy economy, Blu-ray players are flying off the shelves. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Blockbuster: Hooray for Blu-ray The video rental chain gives one high-def platform a needed boost. |
Home Theater
March 17, 2009 |
Fox to Movie Renters: Drop Dead In an attempt to shift the current balance between rental and sale, Fox is beginning to strip bonus materials out of rental discs, reports CinemaBlend.com. |
Home Theater
April 20, 2009 |
Blu-ray Rental Discs Cracking Some Blu-ray rental discs sent through the mail by Netflix are arriving with cracks. |
Home Theater
January 22, 2008 |
Did Fox Flip Warner? Warner's decision to drop HD DVD and concentrate on Blu-ray releases may have been the climax of an epic bout of flipflopping. Or so says the rumor mill. |
InternetNews
October 21, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Warner The Latest on Blu-ray Bandwagon Warner becomes the fifth of the six major movies studios to back the Blu-ray DVD format, casting a pall on HD-DVD. |
InternetNews
January 7, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
HD DVD Down, But Still Not Out The loss of Warner Bros. struck a blow for Blu-ray's supporters, but analysts say the high-definition format battle is far from over. |
Home Theater
December 12, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
Is 3-Layer HD DVD Backward Compatible? The DVD Forum has approved a new triple-layer HD DVD with capacity of 51 gigabytes, but it remains uncertain whether the new disc will play on existing HD DVD hardware. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Quick Take: HD-DVD, the Headless Chicken Blu-ray now commands about 70% of the high-definition DVD market, and it's only a matter of time before Viacom's Paramount and General Electric's NBC Universal leave the HD-DVD camp, too. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Blu-ray Building Arsenal Major film companies brace for the release of Blu-ray devices, announcing movies based on the format. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2005
John C. Dvorak |
HD DVD, Now What? The final arbiter in the high-definition DVD conflict might be Blockbuster Video or Costco. |
Home Theater
December 9, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal to Sell BD/DVD Combo Discs Universal Studios Home Entertainment will begin selling double-sided discs, with Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Microsoft Says Streaming Digital Content Will Kill Blu-Ray Is there still going to be a place for Blu-ray as streaming video gets more popular? |
Home Theater
August 12, 2003 |
No Stopping DVD The DVD format continues to gain momentum. Earlier this year, DVD rentals exceeded VHS in units and dollar business for the first time, sure signs that videotape is headed for extinction. |
