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- HD DVD
- High Definition DVD A relatively short-lived high-capacity optical disc that holds four hours of high-definition video on a single-sided, single-layer 15GB disk. Sanctioned by the DVD Forum in...
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- NVIDIA helping to bring PhysX to the Radeon GPU
- Here's an interesting development. Remember last week I blogged about a third-party project that was attempting to bring PhysX support (NVIDIA-owned technology) to the Radeon GPU? Well, it now appears that the project has the support of NVIDIA. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Project, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Radeon, GPU, Hd Dvd, Public Relations, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Whither Blu-ray?
- Blu-ray hasn't been setting any sales records, in no small part due to its higher price. That, however, doesn't alter the fact that Sony absolutely had to win the format war, even if media downloads end up supplanting video disc formats. by John Carroll
- Tags: Blockbuster Inc., Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Games, Video On Demand (VoD), Game Players, Hd Dvd, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucks
- It's a Friday (again!) so that means time for another Friday Rant! Today a cautionary tale for those of you buying HD DVD players and discs. If you've been looking at the slew of cheap HD DVD discs and players on the market and feel that this...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, HD-DVD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- The strange journey of HD disc formats
- THe battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is firmly in the category of "old news." With the shift of Warner Brothers to the Blu-ray camp and the domino effect in terms of industry support that caused, Toshiba quickly decided to cease its backing of the format it developed and...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Disc, Blu-ray, HD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Sony PS3 getting BD-Live sooner rather than later
- When I referred to potential Blu-ray player shoppers having an easy choice to make last week - Sony PS3 or, ummm, a Sony PS3 - I mentioned it was the only Blu-ray player currently on the market that could be upgraded to the format's Profile 2 functionality. Profile 2, or...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- News to know: HTC Shift; Airport firmware; Microsoft mesh; Novell; VoIP
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Apple's security update breaks printer drivers, Instant Hijack component Airport firmware update enables AirDisk backups Mary Jo Foley: Whatever happened to Microsoft's 'other' mesh projects? Paula Rooney: Novell's SUSE Linux 11 to come in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Novell Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Firmware, E-mail, Telephony, Hd Dvd, Printers, Productivity, VOIP, Open Source, Online Communications, Networking, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- SlySoft cracks Blu-ray BD+ encryption
- [UPDATE 03/26/08 - Exercising its "Right to Reply" I have the following to share from Macrovision Corp, the company who currently owns the rights to BD+ technology: "Macrovision does not comment on specific techniques or procedures that may directly impact the BD+ security technology. BD+ is a...
- Tags: Blu-ray Disc, Macrovision Corp., Crack, Encryption, SlySoft, Blu-ray BD+, Blu-Ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Best Buy gives poor HD-DVD buyers some gift card balm
- Best Buy said Wednesday that it will send a $50 gift card to any poor soul that bought a HD-DVD player. The tally will run about $10 million in gift cards, says Best Buy in a statement. So if you bought an HD-DVD player before Feb. 23--the...
- Tags: Card, HD-DVD Player, Best Buy Co. Inc., HD-DVD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Two more Microsoft execs fly the coop
- A couple more execs from Microsoft's list of who's who at the company have moved to allegedly greener pastures. Joanne Bradford, corporate vice president and chief media officer of MSN, is leaving Microsoft to join Internet-based ad agency Spot Runner Inc, as initially reported by Todd Bishop...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Joanne Bradford, Majidimehr, Hd Dvd, Advertising & Promotion, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Blu-ray player prices spike - wow, who could have seen that one coming?
- I had put myself on a self-imposed exile of sorts on writing about high-def DVDs , but a post over at Tom's Hardware got me all riled up, so I'm lifting the ban. Turns out that since January 1 (right before the pre-CES announcement that Warner Brothers was leaving HD...
- Tags: Player, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Ethernet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Recession buster: The perfect $25,000 consumer electronics device
- My initial reaction to hearing about SE2 Labs' ITC One all-in-one media room device was to think about that Robin Williams line about cocaine being god's way of telling you that you have too much money. If you actually have $25,000 to plop down for an all-in-one unit that incorporates...
- Tags: Electronics, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Hd Dvd, Blu-Ray, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Digital downloads linked to HD disc format war?
- As everyone already knows, the HD disc format war is over, resolved in true domino fashion by Warner Brothers' decision to back Blu-ray exclusively. Most of the studios in the HD DVD camp have now agreed to back Blu-ray, particularly now that Toshiba has announced it will cease pushing the...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Internet, HD-DVD, Movie, Disc, Blu-ray, Studio, HD, DVD Business, Sales Strategy, Hd Dvd, Sales Force Management, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Is Toshiba's HD-DVD laptop feeling blue?
- Now that HD-DVD has imploded, I've been wondering what will happen to the company's highly-rated Qosmio G45, the first laptop in the U.S. to offer an HD-DVD player and recorder. HD-DVD may be a perfectly good storage format, but let's face it, not many will plunk...
- Tags: Toshiba Qosmio, Retail Version, HD-DVD, Memory, Intel Core 2 Duo, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, G45 Series, Hd Dvd, Notebooks, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Processors, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-ray
- Our friends over at Wired have started a how-to wiki, explaining how to convert one's HD DVDs to Blu-ray - provided you have a Blu-ray burner on hand, and don't mind breaking a law or two (since you'll need to remove the DRM from your HD DVDs before you can...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Option, Hd Dvd, DVD, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- 16.3 mln DVDs sold 2 years after DVD was introduced, 8.3 mln HD-DVD and BluRay discs sold 2 years after introduction
- According to Nielsen Media Research and Adams Media Research, the total high-def software sales for the first 2 years are only half of what standard DVD sales were for their first 2 years. There were 16.3 mln standard DVDs sold in the first two years (1997-1998) and there have been...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Disc, Sales Strategy, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- News to know: Vista SP1 benchmarks; HP; Wireless price wars; Apple; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here AT&T matches Verizon: Welcome to the wireless price wars Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., HD-DVD, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Toshiba Corp., Wireless, Hd Dvd, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Viruses And Worms, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?
- On the face of it Toshiba's HD DVD format had a lot going for it. What went wrong? They had parity - or better - with Blu-ray: First to market with a high-def player by 3-6 months A great movie experience with plenty...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Mempile, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Ding, dong, HD DVD is dead
- Wow, that didn't take long. In just over six weeks HD DVD went from underdog to dead dog, with Toshiba making it official today - it will no longer "develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders." The announcement means that Universal, Paramount and DreamWorks Animation...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, Player, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Gallery: Cracking open a Toshiba HD DVD player
- Since the Toshiba HD-A30 is the pinnacle of HD DVD set-top boxes and might be the last production HD DVD drive ever, I thought I’d crack it open and take a look inside. by George Ou
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou
- Image galleries 2008-02-19
- Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player
- Updated 3:00AM - By now the news is out that the end of HD DVD might be near since Toshiba is considering its options that may include the possibility of stopped production on HD DVD products is confirmed dead. There are more than a million HD DVD owners, two exclusive HD...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, HD-DVD, Consensus, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba HD-A30, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
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