It may be more wishful thinking than anything else, but Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, whose highly successful DVD rental company has used both the Internet and snail-mail to maximum advantage to glean ...

Your DVD player's days might be numbered.

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 ...

The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and discs, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month. At the same time, Sony is continuing to support ...

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 ...

Click to viewThe Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD battle seems as old as time itself. Being tech savvy consumers, we’ve heard the two formats are, to the end user, pretty identical. Both are capable of equal ...

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LAS VEGAS--The battle over next-generation DVD formats heated up late Thursday as groups supporting two incompatible and competing technologies introduced new partners and revealed further details of ...