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Third-gen HD DVD players unveiled by Toshiba

By Chris on Monday, Aug 6th 2007 1 Comment

If you’re a supporter of the HD DVD camp and you’re thinking about purchasing a new player to show your devotion, you might want to hold off another month or two. Toshiba has just unveiled their new third-gen line of HD DVD players.

second-gen Toshiba HD DVD player

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Target to carry Blu-ray for holiday season, no mention of HD DVD

By Chris on Thursday, Jul 26th 2007 No Comments

It looks like Target is going to try and put a nail in HD DVDs coffin by carrying a Blu-ray player and Blu-ray discs for the holiday season.

Sony BDP-S300

Target will begin carrying the Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player sometime in October for $499. At that price, I can’t really see a point in buying it. If you’re thinking about buying someone a Blu-ray player for Christmas would you rather spend 500 bucks on something that just plays Blu-ray and DVDs, or something that does the same thing, and just happens to be a powerful gaming console for the same price? Though for all we know the 60GB PS3s could be gone by then and the Blu-ray player could drop in price.

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Who is winning the format war in Europe? No one really knows

By Chris on Monday, Jul 16th 2007 No Comments

I really love numbers, they are so great to use when persuading people to believe something that may or may not actually be true. Remember when we told you that HD DVD was kicking ass and taking names over in Europe? According to that study, HD DVD players were outselling their Blu-ray competition 3:1. Now the Blu-ray Disc Association has their say on the matter.

Blu-ray

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Pie charts spell impending doom for HD-DVD

By Chris on Friday, Jul 6th 2007 6 Comments

I love pie charts. They can be very informative, but also misleading. I mean think about it, you can be convinced of just about anything as long as there are a series of pie charts to back it up.

Pie chart

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Microsoft and Amazon team up to release independent films on HD DVD

By Chris on Monday, Jul 2nd 2007 No Comments

So Blockbuster decided to select Blu-ray as their choice of which HD format to carry in their stores. The HD DVD group isn’t worried, as they have inked a deal with Amazon that will likely bolster the sales of their own HD format.

HD DVD

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Warner Total HD discs delayed

By Chris on Thursday, Jun 28th 2007 1 Comment

If you were hoping to a sort of truce between the two Hi-Def disc formats in the form of Warner’s Total HD disc, you’ll have to wait a little while.

Total HD

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Add-on for Xbox 360 outsells standalone HD-DVD players

By Chris on Monday, Jun 25th 2007 4 Comments

We haven’t had any good news on the battle for the next great disk format in a while, so here’s your fix. The HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 has sold more units than standalone players.

Xbox 360 HD-DVD player

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Rumor – Blu-ray titles affected by disk rot

By Chris on Sunday, Jun 17th 2007 5 Comments

According to some members over at the AVS forums there may be an issue of disk rot with certain Blu-ray disks.

Blu-ray disk rot

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Microsoft settles HD-DVD vs Blu-ray debate

By Chris on Thursday, Jun 14th 2007 10 Comments

Well, that’s it folks, Microsoft has finally stepped up and settled the Hi-Def disk war once and for all. And the winner is: no one.

Bill Gates HD war

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Toshiba announces first HD-DVD burner for notebooks

By Chris on Monday, Jun 4th 2007 No Comments

Toshiba has just announced its first re-writable HD-DVD drive for notebooks. Here I thought it would be a couple of days before we got any new HD-DVD vs Blu-ray stories.

Toshiba SD-L912A HD-DVD burner