Tag Archives: HD DVD

Blu-ray Player Feature Matrix And Retail Turning Blu

EngadgetHD called my attention to this Blu-ray player feature matrix. I wouldn’t count on it being 100% accurate, since they have to compile the matrix from publicly available information, and vendors do release updates periodically. If you’re certain there is … Continue reading

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Germany’s Senator Entertainment AG Drops HD DVD, Turns Blu – And More Hits To HD DVD

Following in the footsteps of Constantin Film AG, Germany’s Senator Entertainment AG has also decided to drop HD DVD support and release Blu-ray exclusively. They plan to release previously announced titles on HD DVD, but after March 1, 2008 all … Continue reading

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Home Media Magazine To HD DVD Camp: “Knock It Off.”

In a column for Home Media Magazine, Thomas Arnold calls upon Toshiba, Universal, and Paramount to ‘knock it off’ and cede the format war to Blu-ray to unify the market. With Warner Home Video dumping HD DVD, the format has … Continue reading

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Amazon Blu-ray & HD DVD Grand Giveaways

Amazon is running two sweepstakes – one for Blu-ray and one for HD DVD. With each sweepstakes you can enter to win a player an an ‘instant library’ of 100 titles in that format. Via High-Def Digest.

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Brave Or Pitiful? Toshiba Fights On With HD DVD

Personally this just seems sad to me in light of all the recent news. I think the decent thing for Toshiba to do is to admit defeat, join the BDA, and get on with devoting their not inconsiderable engineering talents … Continue reading

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