Pioneer to ship combo Blu-ray/HD DVD burner next year
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Rolling out dual-layer BD support first, though IFA 06 Pioneer will follow up the release of its... er... pioneering Blu-ray Disc recorder with an updated model that supports dual-layer media, it has emerged. And the company said it is planning to offer a version that can also handle HD DVD.â¦
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Sony and blue-laser diode maker Nichia have developed a component that they say is vital to realizing support for Blu-ray Disc and DVD discs in portable devices, they announced this week.
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Sony plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc player this year that will cost $400 less than many current models.
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Toshiba announced this week that it is aiming to sell laptop computers loaded with its next generation DVD drive by next year. Toshiba&#39;s next generation standard, called HD DVD, is in competition with the
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Hard-drive based multimedia player will be available later this year.
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KAWASAKI, JAPAN - Engineers at NECÂ have developed a prototype optical disc drive that supports the new HD-DVD format and is also compatible with CD and DVD formats, they said Wednesday.
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Integrated video engine to offer DVD quality on a handheld
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HD DVD drive for Xbox 360 coming to U.S., Europe in November.
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Sony has finally posted a patch for the CyberLink PowerDVD playback software it bundles with its internal Blu-ray Disc burner, the BWU-100A, to allow the drive to play pre-recorded BD media. Sony announced the drive in Europe in September. A month later it promised a BD playback update.â¦
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Sony Corp. is planning to launch a Blu-ray Disc player in the middle of this year that's significantly cheaper than many current models on the market.
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Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division.
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Sharp Corp  said it would launch  a Blu-ray high-definition DVD recorder with a 1-terabyte hard  disk drive (HDD), the world's largest storage capacity on any  Blu-ray recorder, as it competes with the HD DVD camp. Sharp,  along with Sony Corp  and Panasonic maker Matsushita  Electric Industrial Co , promotes Blu-ray optical disc  technology, while Toshiba Corp  and Microsoft Corp   back the rival HD DVD format.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Sony Corp. and blue-laser diode maker Nichia Corp. have developed a component that they say is vital to realizing support for Blu-ray Disc and DVD discs in portable devices, they announced on Tuesday.
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One-off opportunity, says cheeky vendor Sony's BWU-100A Blu-ray Disc burner will this month gain the ability to play pre-recorded BD discs, the consumer electronics giant has revealed. The fix will come courtesy of an update to the copy of CyberLink PowerDVD bundled with the internal drive.â¦
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Hard-drive based digital audio player will be available by the end of the year.
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Another Blu-ray player price cut is on the way.
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Blog: Total HD, announced at CES this year, was supposed to appease next-gen DVD fence-sitters. Now Warner Bros. says the dual-format discs are going to be pushed back from mid-to-late 2007 until early next year.