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Perhaps not wanting to be the last off a sinking ship, Toshiba could soon be abandoning the HD DVD format it helped bring to market, if the Hollywood Reporter is to be believed.
According to the report’s sources, Toshiba will be pulling the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks. The official […]

Despite Sony Corp.’s CEO Howard Stinger calling the high-definition battle a simple matter of prestige, the Blu-ray Disc Association wasted little time in announcing yet another sales milestone.
Thanks the frenzy of buyers during the Black Friday shopping period, total Blu-ray Disc player sales have reached 2.7 million units in North America. The number, of course, […]

Home Media Magazine’s research branch, Home Media Research, announced that the between January 1 and September 30 Blu-ray sold 2.6 million units versus a total sales of 1.4 million HD-DVD discs.
This announcement, which indicates an almost 2 to 1 ratio of Blu-ray sales to HD DVD, was a bit of a killjoy for the […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - HD DVD video players have outsold rival standard Blu-ray players by a three-to-one margin in Europe’s main markets so far this year, according to a lobby group.
The European HD DVD Promotional Group claimed it had 74 percent market share in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland for stand-alone players, citing sales […]

Just in time for Father’s Day, Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. (”Toshiba”) announces two new HD DVD promotions to help make shopping for dad easy. Working to ensure dads get the high definition set up they crave, Toshiba is offering a variety of rebates on HD DVD players to help create an incredible high […]

Hewlett-Packard has long stated its intention to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD–the two next-gen formats vying to succeed DVD. Today, the company has unveiled plans to ship PCs that can both read and write to Blu-ray, and can read HD DVD discs. The PCs are the first announced to feature LG’s much-anticipated Super […]

In a bid to win the war against the Blu-ray disc (BD) format, Toshiba has started to license its HD DVD technology to manufacturers of very affordable players in China. The first of such products were demonstrated at CeBIT, but there are more coming, as Wal-Mart has reportedly ordered two million of players at $150 […]

As part of what appears to be a continuing trend since the beginning of 2007, sales of Blu-ray Disc titles have once again been ahead of those of HD DVD for the month of March. Sony Pictures’ Casino Royale held on to the top spot again for the month, selling more than 59,000 units. In […]

Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s leading producers of consumer electronics as well as microchips, on Friday said it would release the Duo HD player capable of Blu-ray disk (BD) and HD DVD playback this summer. Originally promised almost two years ago, Samsung’s BD-UP5000 will enable consumers to watch high definition movies regardless the disk […]