items tagged with HD DVD
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2006-10-31 08:00:51
With Microsoft’s next-gen console firmly a now-gen reality thanks to an impending one year birthday, Microsoft have made dozens of improvements, including 1080p HD output, available free of charge. Is it enough to fend off the competition?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2006-10-30 11:02:53
With HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players available in top-of-the-line laptops from Toshiba and Sony, and with Samsung and Panasonic launching their Blu-Ray players in the past couple of weeks, Toshiba’s standalone consumer HD DVD player has launched in Australia at last.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2006-10-18 05:40:53
Apple may be preparing to support not only Blu-ray Disc but also HD DVD, it has emerged. The next major relase of the Mac OS X operating system, 'Leopard' may allow users to play and burn both types of high-definition media - making it a sort of Hi-Def Leppard, we suppose... oh well... - it has be claimed.
Read More About Mac OS X 10.5 To Support HD DVD And Blu-Ray Disc?...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2006-10-16 09:10:15
Last week the Laser TV launched on the world stage, and although only a prototype, showed an amazing ability to deliver such a rich range of colours that a plasma TV next to it looked dull in comparison. Our follow up article asked some questions about the viability of Laser TVs, and now we have some answers. Read on for more!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2006-10-11 11:34:23
The Laser TV is coming, but some existing TV manufacturers seem to have some doubts. Naturally, this should come as no surprise, especially as the Laser TV seems set to knock competing technologies off their perch, and the all important Christmas season is nearing. So what are the doubters saying?
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2006-10-11 08:32:36
Sony Ericsson is preparing a handheld web-friendly tablet phone equipped with the ability to pick up DVB-H digital television broadcast if a heap of realistic-looking photos and concept paintings posted on the web. Or is it?
Read More About Bloggers Bamboozled By 'Sony Ericsson DVB-H Phone'...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-10-10 23:20:04
The high definition video format duel between Sony and Toshiba and their respective backers may be solved by dual-format technology from another Japanese technology giant NEC.
Read More About Blu-Ray, HD DVD Duel A Dual-Format Draw Says NEC...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2006-10-10 10:53:03
I've read somewhere online that the next twenty to thirty years are supposed to herald more technological advancements than the last two thousand years put together. While that looks like coming true (as long as we don't blow ourselves up first in some kind of nuclear or environmental catastrophe first), new laser technology is threatening to dethrone plasma and LCD TVs from the top of the TV heap.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-10-09 07:06:02
The Adam Sandler movie Click will be the first 50GB salvo fired by the Blu-ray high definition video camp, when Sony Pictures releases the comedy fantasy to video stores in the US on October 10. Sony Pictures will follow up with two further 50GB releases in November and December.
Read More About Three 50GB Blu-Ray Titles, Courtesy Sony Pictures...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2006-10-04 07:30:52
Japanese add-in maker IO Data will this month ship an graphics card based on Nvidia's GeForce 7600 GS, this time with support for the HDCP anti-piracy technology. Alas, there's no HDMI connector to go with it. The
Read More About IO Data Reveals Second Nvidia GPU With HDCP...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2006-10-03 06:49:17
CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Sony Corp. said on Tuesday it will launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in Japan in December, in time for the peak of the year-end shopping season but about a month behind rival Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2006-10-02 06:41:53
Toshiba has launched a slimline HD DVD drive for notebook computers in a bid to boost support for the next-generation optical disc format. The drawer-mechanism unit not only reads and writes all ther usual DVD and CD formats, but also HD DVD recordable and rewriteable media.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2006-09-29 08:33:55
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and dot-com veteran Mark Cuban had harsh words on Thursday for YouTube, the online site that lets people share video clips, saying only a "moron" would purchase the wildly popular start-up.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-09-20 08:23:15
Microsoft plans to release a plug-in HD DVD player for its Xbox 360 console before the end of November in Japan for considerably less than US$200.
Read More About Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Set For November Japan Launch...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-09-20 06:17:41
The news that a patent has been filed for three layered discs that can store three different video formats borders on the ludicrous. No doubt the technological feasibility is there. The questions are at what cost and to what purpose.
Read More About Multi-Format Discs An Exercise In Frivolity...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-09-16 23:28:53
In what could be a telling moment in the high definition format war, a high level executive from a major movie studio has publicly come out in favour of the HD DVD format, developed by Toshiba and backed by Microsoft.
Read More About Universal Studios Boss Deals Blu-Ray Death Blow...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-09-11 10:27:13
Toshiba and Memory-Tech have jointly announced a new single-sided three-layer disc that is compatible with both DVD and high definition HD DVD players.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-09-04 19:22:46
After beating Blu-ray to the market in the US and Japan by months, Toshiba looks determined to make it accessible to European consumers in November ahead of the release of Sony's PlayStation 3, which will also be released in November. However, Samsung looks set to beat the pair to the starting line in Europe, when it launches its Blu-ray player on the Continent in October.
Read More About Toshiba To Draw First Blood In Europe With HD DVD...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-08-30 06:33:54
Hollywood studios are getting behind Blu-ray in a big way, announcing 75 movie releases on the Blu-ray high definition video format for Japan before the end of the year.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-08-11 20:13:26
Two weeks ago we conducted a reader poll which ran for a full week posing the question: Who will win the high definition video war? As we wrote on August 9, the hundreds of respondents were almost exactly evenly divided in their opinions between Blu-ray and HD DVD. A new report vindicates that result.
Read More About DVD High Definition Format Battle A Dead Heat...
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