It was 20 years ago this month that consumer electronics companies Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format called Digital Video Disc, or DVD. The format promised a four-fold increase in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The current battle between the HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats for tomorrow's next-gen DVD consumers ...

Movie buffs, brace yourselves for another round of Betamax versus VHS. Two decades after the competing video formats battled for space in American living rooms, a new war is looming between two ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the wake of Toshiba's formal surrender in the next-generation DVD format war, Universal Studios Home Entertainment said Tuesday that it will begin releasing ...

Forget about high-def DVDs. Standard-definition DVDs are losing ground in the U.S., thanks to the Internet and studio complacency. If movies on disc will remain relevant, the film industry needs to ...

Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended to make the storage devices as easy to use as current CD burners and ...

Rearrange the identical 1080p content only readable on an HD-DVD player and convert it into 1080p content readable on a Blu-ray player. It is bad enough that a transition from SD/480i prerecorded ...

It's a dirty little secret that's not all that dirty (or secretive) for those who follow technology trends. The porn, or "adult industry" — to use today's preferred nomenclature — tends to serve as ...

I recently purchased a DVD drive and I've been playing around with ripping and encoding my DVDs. I'm trying to determine the best format, bitrate, etc. for storing the files. So far I've tried ...

Nero InfoTool can give us a quick reference screen showing the various reading and writing capabilities of CD and DVD drives. We've taken screenshots that show the various disc formats that are ...