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The Motley Fool
March 27, 2006
Seth Jayson |
DVD Wars: The Waiting Game Delays and confusion in the DVD wars may snag both consumers and investors.   |
InternetNews
October 21, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Warner The Latest on Blu-ray Bandwagon Warner becomes the fifth of the six major movies studios to back the Blu-ray DVD format, casting a pall on HD-DVD. |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2007
Dan Bloom |
Blu-ray Takes the Lead Things may be changing for the better for Sony on at least one front this year: Sales of Blu-ray movies are now outpacing HD-DVD. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
September 1, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
High Definition DVD Format Turns Competitive HD-DVD is hardly ready to concede the formats war to Blu-ray. |
BusinessWeek
October 30, 2006
Andrew Park |
Video Players: HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray The next-generation video formats, Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD, have 5 to 10 times the capacity of old DVDs. Here's the catch: Blu-ray won't work in HD-DVD players and vice versa. Manufacturers have hinted that future players could show both, but for now you'll have to choose sides. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Time Warner Is Happy to Be Blu In a blow to the HD-DVD fan base, Time Warner announces it will be releasing its high-def DVDs exclusively on the Blu-ray format. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2005
Dan Bloom |
HD-DVD Gets a Boost Microsoft and Intel announce their intention to support HD-DVD over Blu-ray. The situation is looking more and more like an elementary-school playground scuffle. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Blu-ray Building Arsenal Major film companies brace for the release of Blu-ray devices, announcing movies based on the format. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Quick Take: HD-DVD, the Headless Chicken Blu-ray now commands about 70% of the high-definition DVD market, and it's only a matter of time before Viacom's Paramount and General Electric's NBC Universal leave the HD-DVD camp, too. |
InternetNews
December 19, 2005
Clint Boulton |
HP Blesses Rival HD-DVD Formats Hewlett Packard goes the route of most of the major film studios, supporting both Blu-ray and HD-DVD. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Tekla Perry |
One Format War Is Over. Is Another Beginning? The battle of the blue disks seems, finally, to be over. |
InternetNews
January 7, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
HD DVD Down, But Still Not Out The loss of Warner Bros. struck a blow for Blu-ray's supporters, but analysts say the high-definition format battle is far from over. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2005
Clint Boulton |
More Skirmishes in DVD Format Battle The battle between two next-generation DVD formats is creating such a stir that some companies are threatening to support both technologies if they don't get their way. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2005
Rich Duprey |
A Blu-ray Compromise? Is Sony really ready to give in on the next generation of DVD formats? |
InternetNews
December 13, 2006
Erin Joyce |
Now Playing: Dell's Blu-ray Support Dell launches a high end system with Blu-ray DVD support. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2005
David Needle |
Pioneer Set for Blu-ray Delivery Pioneer Electronics announced today it expects to ship one of the first Blu-ray drives in the first quarter of 2006. |
Home Theater
August 10, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Toshiba Blu-ray Coming This Year This will be the year when Toshiba introduces its first Blu-ray products. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Can Blu-ray, HD-DVD Meet in The Middle? Blu-ray supporter Hewlett Packard asks the Blu-ray Disc Association to support technologies that underpin competing HD-DVD format. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Erik Sofge |
Hi-Def DVD Format War Report: Blu-Ray Takes the Lead Chances are, the only thing you want to hear about the Blu-ray/HD-DVD format war is that it's over. No such luck. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix Follows Blockbuster's Blu-ray Lead Netflix decides that it will no longer buy HD-DVD discs for its DVD rental service. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Jeremy A. Kaplan |
High-Definition DVD Blu-Ray and HD-DVD go head to head. |
Home Theater
January 25, 2008 |
Petitioners Beg for HD DVD's Life In a surprising show of support for HD DVD, 20,000 people have signed an online petition begging for the underdog high-def disc format's life. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Will Blu-ray Prove Red-Hot? Sony's rival format enters the high-definition home video battle. Investors may want to rethink their priorities before they pay up for a player that will likely drop precipitously in price, the way high-def television sets have in recent years. |
InternetNews
February 20, 2008 |
Amazon, Universal to Support Blu-ray Format Retailers, film studios switch allegiances following demise of HD DVD. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Hybrids Are Where It's At In the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, increasing moves towards hybrid technologies should help consumers become adopters. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Viacom, Blu-ray, and Michael Bay The format wars continue. Backlash from Viacom's recent decision to produce its Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation movies only in HD-DVD format. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2008 |
Toshiba Cuts HD Player Prices in Blu-ray Fight Toshiba is slashing prices of its HD DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp's Blu-ray format high definition DVDs. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Hollywood Batters Blu-Ray Can the movie studios kill the most promising new DVD format? |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Battle For DVD Format Unfolds Film studio Paramount Home Entertainment said it would embrace the Blu-ray format backed by a group led by Sony. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hooray for Blu-Ray! Disney validates the next generation DVD technology by promising to support Sony's Blu-Ray platform. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Goodbye to DVDs DVDs will be replaced by HD-DVD or Blu-ray discs. While you may find yourself making a decision as a consumer later this year, you probably want to know whether there's anything in it for you as an investor. |
InternetNews
February 19, 2008 |
Toshiba to Quit HD DVDs, Ends Format War Toshiba surrendered in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Intel, Microsoft Back HD DVD Intel and Microsoft opt for the HD DVD format over Sony's Blu-Ray. |
InternetNews
January 7, 2008 |
Toshiba: HD DVD is no Loser to Blu-ray Toshiba Corp said on Sunday its HD DVD high-definition video format is not dead despite being dealt a big setback by Warner Bros studio's decision to exclusively back Sony Corp's rival Blu-ray technology. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2006
Rich Duprey |
A Hi-Def DVD Hybrid Whether we'll actually ever see mass production of either HD-DVD or Blu-ray, or whether one of the formats becomes this generation's Betamax, some companies will still earn a profit from it all. They're the ones at which investors should probably look more closely. |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
HD-DVD Meets Betamax Blu-ray triumphs in the hi-def war. Did you choose wisely? |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Blu-Ray on the Horizon Blu-ray technology may one day supplant VHS and DVD. |
Home Theater
January 14, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Blu Shines A year after the end of the format war with HD DVD, the Blu-ray format is doing well. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Toshiba Tosses 'Hail Mary' With Super Bowl Ad Toshiba might be wasting $2.7 million and 30 seconds of everyone's time Sunday afternoon. |
Home Theater
October 4, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
Them's High Definition Fightin' Words Next-generation high-resolution disc formats HD DVD and Blu-ray, along with their affiliated corporate backers, continue the offensive to win the hearts and minds of anyone who'll listen. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2008 |
Game Over? Warner Bros To Back Blu-ray Exclusively The latest development in the DVD format war is a big win for Blu-ray over rival HD DVD technology. |
Home Toys
April 2006
Wayde Robson |
Blu-Ray Disc vs. HD DVD, Battle Lines Blur The story between the lines seems to be which manufacturers aren't taking sides at all. Conditions indicate a great possibility of a unified product sooner than we might have first suspected. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Green Ogre Disses Blu-ray Paramount and DreamWorks Animation take a side in the next-generation disc platform war, both choosing to support HD-DVD, and not Blu-ray. |
PC Magazine
January 12, 2005
John C. Dvorak |
The Practical Superiority of HD-DVD When new technologies emerge, there are always competitors, and the current battle raging between the Blu-ray DVD standard (HP, Panasonic, Sony, etc.) and the newer HD-DVD technology (NEC, Sanyo, Toshiba) is no exception. |
InternetNews
June 19, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Blockbuster Picks Blu-Ray Over HD DVD Finally, someone picks a side in the format war. Can HD DVD recover? |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2011
Tierney Plumb |
I Was Wrong About HD-DVDs Blu-ray won the battle, even as regular old DVDs hang around. |
Home Theater
August 20, 2007 |
Paramount, DreamWorks Dump BD for HD DVD Two major studios have announced that they're dumping Sony's Blu-ray format for Toshiba's HD DVD. It looks as though both formats are likely to be around for the foreseeable future. |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2006
Seth Jayson |
More Delay for Blu-ray Blu-ray discs are due out soon. Will there be any hardware that runs them? Investors, tread carefully. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Double Dose Of Bad News For HD DVD Best Buy and Netflix have turned their back on HD DVD. |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
Edwards & Burrows |
Daggers Drawn Over DVDs How Sony gained an edge in its fierce battle with Microsoft over video formats. |
