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1. Pricewatch: HD DVD in free fall, Blu-ray continues upward trend
(Business and Law/Business and Law Features)
...act of the HD DVD shutdown, with prices remaining stable and trending lightly upward. Sharp’s BD-HP20U, Sony’s BDP-S300, Panasonic’s DMP-BD30K as well as Samsung’s BD-P1000, which is not listed in thi...
Monday, March 03, 2008 13:24

...firmed to chair the Steering Committee from February 2008 to February 2010. The vice chairs are held by Sony as representative for the consumer electronics industry, Intel from the IT industry and War...
Friday, February 29, 2008 12:38

3. Sony details next-gen Blu-ray players
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
With its position all but sealed up as the king of high definition home media, Sony has shed some light on its next wave of Blu-ray Disc players, including new features like Internet connectivity. Cu
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:16

4. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline
(Hardware/Hardware Features)
...t our reports since the beginning of the format war to provide an overview of the events that led up to Sony’s success and Toshiba’s loss. On the following pages, we are listing all important HD forma...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:21

5. HD DVD defeated: Toshiba halts production of players
(Business and Law/Business and Law Features)
...ld be embarrassing for the software giant at the very least, as it will force the company to concede to Sony’s HD strategy and its competing Playstation 3 console. On the content side, movie studios...
Saturday, February 16, 2008 13:20

6. HD DVD: Time to quit?
(Opinion/Opinion Features)
... So it probably did not really matter whether such a player was priced at $600 or $1000. Turns out that Sony in fact may have won the war with what many of us considered a failure – the Playstation 3....
Monday, February 11, 2008 21:00

7. Netflix drops HD DVD
(Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)
...d by the decision of four out of the six major movie studios to publish high-def DVD titles only in the Sony-developed Blu-ray format. The online movie rental company intends to phase out HD DVDs by t...
Monday, February 11, 2008 08:53

8. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified
(Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)
...lieved to outpace what Blu-ray can do, and it has been that way since both formats officially launched. Sony is just now beginning to match HD DVD's enhanced navigation and video control features....
Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:30

9. Don't say goodbye to HD DVD, yet
(Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)
...us push to Blu-ray's existing lead and dominance with studio support. "This was a big win for Sony and Blu-ray will certainly increase its share of the market," says Gloria Barczak, an ...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:45

10. Digital Playground drops HD DVD
(Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)
...t that HD DVD had the adult film industry on its side was seen as a big plus for it, especially because Sony was purposefully not allowing any such titles to be printed on Blu-ray Discs. However, Son...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 06:58

11. Consumers beginning to drive the HD market
(Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)
...et into Blu-ray because of the cost factor. There are certain costs which will never come down, such as Sony’s AACS encryption. You have to pay Sony the flat fee regardless.” He added that...
Thursday, December 20, 2007 15:33

12. Wal-Mart puts "cheap" Chinese HD DVD player on sale
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...nt for HD DVD players.  It has an HDMI output. Wal-Mart's cheapest Blu-ray Disc player is the Sony BDP-S300, which it it selling for around $350, well below the $500 list price....
Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:51

13. Resident Evil Blu-ray to have Resident Evil PS3 demo
(Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)
... The movie is slated for a Blu-ray Disc release in the US on January 2, 2008.  As such, it will be Sony's first title to be compatible with the new standard for BD films.  This means it ...
Monday, November 19, 2007 09:00

14. Sony details first BD Profile 1.1 Blu-ray movie
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
Sony will be the first to release a Blu-ray Disc movie title using new technical specifications, including a feature that memorizes all the content that has already been accessed on the disc. Culve
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 08:59

15. Toshiba sells nearly 100,000 HD DVD players last weekend
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...mbers.  For example, Video Business reports the three-day sales of HD DVD players was greater than Sony's BDP-S300 Blu-ray player over the past several months.  The S300 is the top-selli...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:12

16. Sharp develops Blu-ray recorder with terabyte hard drive
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...n virtually no standalone recorder devices for either HD DVD or Blu-ray. Blu-ray backer and co-creator Sony announced earlier this month it is going to stop production of all DVD-based digital video ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:22

17. Target reportedly doubles Blu-ray shelf space
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...ith the masses and pick titles from the one that is likely to win." Earlier this year, Target and Sony announced that the retailer would sell Blu-ray hardware exclusively and would pass on stock...
Monday, September 17, 2007 11:50

18. Integra announces HD DVD player
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...anufacturers.  Even though several big-name companies have come forward with Blu-ray Disc players, Sony branded devices account for more than 90% of the standalone Blu-ray players that have been ...
Thursday, September 06, 2007 09:57

...ision have the potential to turn the market? When you go back and look at the number of media formats Sony has tried to bring to market exclusively, the failures are daunting. They included BetaMax,...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 17:39

20. Blu-ray, HD DVD topple VHS sales
(Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)
...high-def competitors were still behind. With the highly contentious battle between Blu-ray, fronted by Sony, and HD DVD, backed mainly by Toshiba and Universal, there was mounting concern that wary c...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 13:14

...almost impossible to tell the difference anyway).   Is this the death blow to Blu-ray?  No. Sony has deep pockets too and they aren’t likely to give up without a fight (plus, they no...
Friday, July 27, 2007 10:28

22. Sony: Target says yes to Blu-ray, no to HD DVD
(Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)
...ers, passing on rival format HD DVD.   HD DVD players for 2007 ... Blu-ray players for 2007 ... Sony issued a statement today confirming that standalone high definition disc players at retail ...
Thursday, July 26, 2007 14:45

23. Toshiba cuts price for entry-level HD DVD player to $299
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
... expensive (if we leave refurbished and open-box items out of consideration). Online shops are offering Sony’s BDP-S300 or Samsung’s BD-P1000 players in the $450 – $550 range. On th...
Monday, July 02, 2007 16:56

24. Buy a Blu-ray player, get five free movies
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...y any Blu-ray player from July 1st to September 30th will get five movies from various labels including Sony (of course), Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Lionsgate and Warner Brothers. The movies aren&r...
Thursday, June 28, 2007 08:06

25. Blu-ray, HD DVD no shows at pro A/V event
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
Though Sony and Toshiba were both at InfoComm, the country's biggest trade show for professional audio/video equipment, neither of them had their hi-def players on the front lines. Anaheim (CA)
Thursday, June 21, 2007 18:58

26. Blu-ray Pirates defeats HD DVD Matrix
(Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)
...sney, however, has no plans to bring any of the Pirates movies to HD DVD, due to a strong commitment to Sony's Blu-ray format....
Friday, June 01, 2007 13:49

...tands now, there is no end in sight.  A climb in Blu-ray movie sales may lead consumers to believe Sony has already beaten HD DVD, but nothing could be further from the truth.   HD DVD play...
Friday, April 20, 2007 17:31

28. Blu-ray edges out HD DVD yet again
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
... to as low as $300. Blu-ray's dominance last month comes with the release of Casino Royale on the Sony-backed format.  It became the first high definition video to sell more than 100,000 co...
Friday, April 20, 2007 11:51

...ncoding times with an encoding engine built on the Cell Broadband Engine, the same chip that is used in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console. Las Vegas (NV) - Video professionals know that high-definit...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 15:54

30. 100,000 HD DVD CE players sold in the U.S.
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...o include the overwhelming sales numbers of the PS3’s Blu-ray drive: According to Nexgenwars.com, Sony has sold about 2.8 million PS3s and Blu-ray drives so far. The battle between the HD DVD a...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 15:07

31. HD video playback and recording added to Nero
(Software/Software Features)
... the most interesting feature will be the support of the AVCHD codec which is used in some of the newer Sony and Panasonic camcorders.  Nero will now be able to capture the MPEG-4 AVC stream from...
Monday, April 16, 2007 14:13

32. Samsung announces plans for Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...lying trend of companies covering all their bases in the format war. On the same note, Blu-ray fronter Sony is in a partnership with NEC, which has pledged support for HD DVD.  Also, Buena Vista...
Friday, April 13, 2007 10:15

33. Toshiba officially releases entry-level 1080p HD DVD player
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...rsquo;s high-end HD DVD player with an MSRP of $800. The cheapest way to get a Blu-ray player is still Sony’s Playstation 3, which is available from about $500. Samsung’s BD-P 1000 player...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 14:03

34. Will HD DVD be dead in one year?
(Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)
... with HD DVD promoters touting the formats advantages and almost claiming victory over Blu-ray, while a Sony executive told TG Daily that he expects the format war to be over within one year. Hannover...
Friday, March 16, 2007 09:47

35. Numbers are mixed for 2006 format wars
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...he hardware competition leaves some uncertainty, the movie part of the equation belongs to Blu-ray. The Sony-led format accounted for three of every four high-def movies sold in the first couple weeks...
Monday, February 05, 2007 10:52

36. Scalers beat HD DVD and Blu-ray at CES 2007 - analysis
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...ds. Toshiba is penetration pricing - you could think that they actually want to win this battle against Sony and they are foregoing the healthy margins to get there. Toshiba knows that Blu-ray has a s...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 20:26

...his week's announcements as frustration of the consumer electronics and entertainment industry over Sony's and Toshiba's inability to agree on a common high-definition video standard. Ther...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 04:20

38. CES 2007: HD DVD slams Blu-ray, talks innovation
(Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)
Strategically scheduled right after the Sony press conference, which for all intents and purposes was the main Blu-ray event, the HD DVD conference wrapped up a long day of major press events. Talk a
Monday, January 08, 2007 15:40

...ayers. Toshiba's new HD-A20 HD DVD player is the most affordable way yet to watch 1080p movies, besides Sony's (Blu-ray) player that comes with the Playstation 3. The new device, scheduled to be avail...
Sunday, January 07, 2007 20:28

... the company said. If you just don't want to end up in the middle of the high-definition battle between Sony (Blu-ray) and Toshiba (HD DVD), then LG's new Super Multi Blue BH100 is your first opportun...
Sunday, January 07, 2007 18:16

41. Consumer Electronics Show 2007
(Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)
...on or a valuable accessory? Aliph's Jawbone headset and Noise Shield sound too good to be true Sony shows OLED TV prototypes Toshiba offering four embedded NAND flash solutions Eat th...
Sunday, December 31, 2006 23:00

...ges of both formats, does underline one point that most critics are rightfully questioning: It harks on Sony's past. Sony has a history of starting media format wars that ultimately end in failure for...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 18:31

43. More than 1.5 million HD DVDs shipped
(Business and Law/Business and Law Features)
... on April 18, 2006. One day before the launch of the Playstation 3, which not marks the introduction of Sony's new game console, but also Sony's formal entry into the Blu-ray market, the HD DVD Promot...
Thursday, November 16, 2006 18:40

44. Stream uncompressed HD video with new wireless specification
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...HD group composed of several consumer electronic manufacturers that include LG, Matsushita, Samsung and Sony. While the spec isn't finalized yet, it will probably function in the 60 GHz band which can...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 20:13

45. NEC ships hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD chip
(Business and Law/Business and Law Features)
...em. LG even cancelled their hybrid plans and went ahead with making only Blu-ray players and recorders. Sony's Blu-ray license apparently prohibits drive makers from manufacturing a hybrid drive. The ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 20:21

46. High-def media to dominate home video market by 2012
(Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)
...at or a combination HD DVD/Blu-ray player being introduced to the market," Kagan said. Related article: Sony to ship 50 GB Blu-ray movie discs this week ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 15:30

47. Blu-ray and HD-DVD to freeze competition until 2007 due to laser diode shortage
(Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Weblinks)
...cturers. Although several vendors, including Royal Philips Electronics, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Sony, Matsushita Electric, Lite-On IT and BenQ, already announced BD or HD-DVD drives, only Pion...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 14:08

48. HD DVD goes interactive, Microsoft rallies support for format
(Archived/Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)
...official launch of the Blu-ray format in late June, the HD DVD camp continues to build its case against Sony & Co. Warner Home Video (WHV) continues to increase the HD DVD movie portfolio - and ju...
Thursday, May 25, 2006 19:46

49. Update: Microsoft to offer HD DVD drive for Xbox 360 in Q4
(Archived/Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)
...n external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 gaming console in the fourth quarter of this year. Compared to Sony's Blu-ray, HD DVD will offer similar functionality, but will be available for substantially...
Monday, May 08, 2006 20:42

50. Toshiba announces first HD DVD notebook
(Archived/Mobility/Mobility Features)
Toshiba today responded to Sony's recent announcement of upcoming Blu-ray PC drives with a promise to ship the first notebook equipped with a HD DVD ROM drive in mid-May. The model G30/697HS will be
Monday, April 10, 2006 19:40

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