Thomson Hedges Next-Gen DVD Bet
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Thomson said Friday that it will support both the Blu-Ray and HD DVD standards with players, apparenty hedging its bets until the content wars are settled.
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Toshiba Ltd. and Memory-Tech said this week that they plan to bring to market a hybrid DVD disc that can be used both for standard-definition and HD content.
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Aiming to promote the development of inter-operable digital rights management (DRM) systems, Paris-based Thomson has become a strategic investor in ContentGuard, a developer of DRM intellectual property, making it a partner with current investors
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Sony Corp. is increasing its bet on Blu-ray Disc and plans to ditch DVD and use the high-definition video disc format in all future digital video recorders in Japan, the company said Wednesday.
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The electronics giant is betting that consumers are ready to spend a couple grand to up the quality of their home movies.
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A cable giant looks to the future of digital video.
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Some 75 movie titles, including "The Da Vinci Code" and "Chicken Little," will go on sale in Japan later this year using the next-generation Blu-ray DVD format.
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A patent application has been filed for  a disc that would play two competing high-definition DVD  formats which, if successful, could help appease a battle that  has divided Hollywood and confounded consumers.
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Thomson joined Microsoft and Time Warner on Monday in trying to take control of U.S. digital rights management (DRM) company ContentGuard Holdings.
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Deal with ESS Technology will add support for Ahead's variant of the MPEG-4 video format on DVD players.
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The format war around next generation  DVDs may be over before it has begun, thanks to a breakthrough  from a British media technology company.
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The HD DVD Promotional Group is expected to release a statement this afternoon refuting claims that Universal is jumping ship to Blu-ray.
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Punches continue to be thrown in the fight over which next-generation DVD format will be established as the industry standard. (And there will be an industry standard, right corporate bigwigs?
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Thomson&#39;s Technicolor subsidiary will provide duplication services for both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats, based on customer preference, the company says.
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A patent application has been filed for   a disc that would play two competing high-definition DVD   formats which, if successful, could help appease a battle that   has divided Hollywood and confounded consumers.
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Thomson, the world&#39;s largest supplier of television set-top boxes, said Monday that it would buy a stake in ContentGuard, a US maker of anti-piracy software, in a deal that would make it a partner with Microsoft and Time Warner.
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PC buyers can look forward to DVDs with up to 10 times the storage they now have when Hewlett-Packard rolls out machines supporting next-generation DVD technologies next year.