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LONDON – The battle between two hyped formats for high-definition DVD will confuse shoppers and turn many of them off the whole technology, a London-based research firm predicted on Friday. "The net ...

Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended to make the storage devices as easy to use as current CD burners and ...

DVD players are far superior to VCRs by every measure but one: recording. VCRs do it, DVD players don’t. As a result, DVD players might be great for watching a rented movie, but they’re no help when ...

After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system. Apple, a longtime supporter of the DVD-R ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Toshiba says HD DVD players should start hitting U.S. store shelves later this month; Sony has ...

Movie buffs, brace yourselves for another round of Betamax versus VHS. Two decades after the competing video formats battled for space in American living rooms, a new war is looming between two ...

Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation on Monday vowed exclusive support of HD DVD, a year after declaring they would release movies in both next-generation disc formats.The move will ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the wake of Toshiba's formal surrender in the next-generation DVD format war, Universal Studios Home Entertainment said Tuesday that it will begin releasing ...

If current schedules hold, the battle will not begin at least until later this year, and won't start to impact most supermarket customers until hardware prices come down to mass market levels, which ...