Walt Disney is adding steam to Sony's Blu-ray Disc push with its plan to release nine films in that format. Beginning Sept. 19, Buena Vista Home Entertainment will start releasing select titles, including Walt Disney Pictures' "Dinosaur" and "Eight Below," on Blu-ray. Those two movies will feature e...
Of all the weeks for me to pick to take a vacation, last week was probably the worst. There was so much going on that my "vacation" became busier than a normal work week. Microsoft, for one, was the subject of some positive buzz as news bubbled up around its so-called "iPod killer." On the negative ...
Sony CEO Howard Stringer is adding fuel to the to fire in the battle over next-generation DVD formats. Stringer said movie studios are taking a liking to his firm's Blu-ray next-generation DVD, favoring the format over rival HD DVD technology. Sony is going toe to toe with Toshiba for share of the h...
For months, the so-called DVD format wars have been mostly theoretical -- but now, the real, marketplace battle is finally getting underway. Sony and Toshiba, two of the frontrunners in the race, will face off with competing technologies, with Samsung being the first to make Sony's Blu-ray strike ag...
The fight for DVD viewer hearts and minds is getting underway as Samsung readies the first high-definition Blu-ray DVD player, the BD-P1000, to go on sale in the U.S. next week. The other high-definition DVD format, HD DVD, is available from Toshiba in the recently released HD-A1 player. The latest ...
Toshiba on Monday announced a 2.5-inch hard disk drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording technology to boost the industry's largest 200 GB capacity with only two platters. Perpendicular recording technology is capable of delivering up to 10 times the storage density of traditional longitudi...
Boy, the hits just keep on coming. Last week was no exception, with moves that further put to rest the idea that the tech market is dull and boring. Dell released four products in Los Angeles, two of which are some of the most aggressive ever to come from that company. Hewlett-Packard launched anoth...
Sony on Tuesday took the wraps off the world's first Blu-ray Disc-enabled notebook computer -- the Vaio AR. It will be available this summer. Toshiba plans to release a notebook supporting the rival HD DVD standard this month. These moves indicate a new twist in the battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD...
The battle for market supremacy between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 has entered the next phase, one where high definition features will play a key role in determining the winner. "Console and software vendors are working to take advantage of the new capabilities that high-definitio...
Sony on Thursday announced it would delay the release of the first Blu-ray discs until June 20, giving rival DVD standard HD DVD time to gain traction. Sony said the discs are ready, but retail and hardware partners asked for the month-long delay so the product launch would coincide with the availab...
Amazon has developed an elegant solution -- albeit a temporary one -- to a problem that has been nagging electronics goods retailers: what to do until the high-definition DVD format struggle reaches its conclusion. For retailers, the unresolved war between Blu-ray and HD DVD formats means they will ...
At the National Association of Broadcasters 2006 convention in Las Vegas on Monday, Microsoft and Universal Pictures announced a collaboration on the release of next-generation HD DVD discs. The discs use VC-1, the video compression standard recently approved by the Society of Motion Picture and Tel...
The arrival of new high-definition DVD players in the U.S. market this week means the fight between HD-DVD and the competing Blu-ray format is officially underway. Both look to improve image quality with high-definition video and broaden the capacity of DVDs for the next generation of movie and vide...
IBM and Power.org member Rapport unveiled a new energy-efficient processor dubbed Kilocore that features more than 1,000 processing elements around a Power chip architecture. Kilocore -- with parallel processing similar to that of the new Cell processor, Sun's Niagara, and Azul's multi-core chip -- ...
Hardware and electronics makers are carrying on what has become a heated format fight as they ready new, high-definition DVD players for the market, choosing to build hardware for either the Sony-backed Blu-ray discs or rival Toshiba-supported HD DVD format. While there have been some demonstrations...
Yes, communities and infrastructure can't keep up
Some projects are moving too fast
No, expansion is needed to meet demand
The pace seems about right
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