Aw, shucks: the shooting has jut barely begun on the blustery format war for dominance of the next-generation DVD landscape, with Blu-ray still struggling to get out of the gates and HD DVD out ...

A new disc format is being beta tested by Microsoft in a new dashboard upgrade that is set to increase the storage of an Xbox 360 game disc by 1GB. Currently the maximum available space allocated to ...

Warner Brothers — a major proponent of the original DVD format — plans to announce at the CES convention this week a new single-disc format that can play HD video in both the Blu-ray and HD-DVD ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) just announced the finalization and release of the specifications for BDXL™, the new multi-layer recordable Blu-ray Disc™ format with up to 128GB of capacity. With ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association has announced a new Blu-ray disc format that will more than double the storage of current Blu-ray discs, called BDXL. The new BDXL format adds third and fourth layers to ...

Update: Microsoft just sent us an email to clear up that the disc read issue is tied to a change in the disc reading algorithms in a previous software update – NOT the upcoming update that has been in ...

As if high-def DVDs weren’t already a consfusing enough sell to consumers. Starting in September, home media buffs in the U.S. and Europe — Denmark, Finland, France, Poland and Sweden, specifically — ...

Microsoft is now accepting applications from US Xbox 360 owners to join in a System Update Preview program. The goal of the program is to test a new disc format which is rumored to increase the ...

TAIPEI – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a research body backed by Taiwan’s government, plans next week to demonstrate a new optical disk format for storing high-definition video.